Archive for March, 2004

EU finds MSFT guilty

Posted: 24 March 2004 by Kathy E. Gill in Legal

After a five year investigation, the European Commission announced today that Microsoft broke European Union (EU) laws “by leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems (OS) onto the markets for work group server operating systems and for media players.” Part of the remedy requires Microsoft to disclose iinformation that other servers [...]

Data mining, take 2

Posted: 18 March 2004 by Kathy E. Gill in Convergence, Current Affairs, Electronic Democracy

Proving that where there’s a will there’s a way, Eyebeam as created an easy-to-use tool that shows which of our neighbors have contributed (and how much) to presidential candidates. These data are current as of 31 December 2003; they are publicly available from the Federal Election Commission (which presents “just the facts” thank you very [...]

PR pros, take note

Posted: 18 March 2004 by Kathy E. Gill in Current Affairs, Web/Tech

While reading the draft of Dan Gillmor’s new book, I found this set of tips for corporate bloggers. If you close your eyes, you could confuse it with basic advice for crisis communication. But that doesn’t make it any less important.