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EU finds MSFT guilty

Posted by: kegill on: 24 March 2004

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 [...]

Data mining, take 2

Posted by: kegill on: 18 March 2004

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 [...]

PR pros, take note

Posted by: kegill on: 18 March 2004

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.

Remember Lott?

Posted by: kegill on: 18 March 2004

It seems like ancient history, but it wasn’t that long ago that the Blogosphere forced traditional media to re-think a story — that of a senior Congressional politician starting a speech with a yearn for the pre-civil rights era.
The politican was US Rep. Trent Lott. The occasion was (Sen.) Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party. The [...]

Side-by-side

Posted by: kegill on: 18 March 2004

The marvels of modern technology allow us to read blogs from the two major presidential candidates on the same page. Probably the only time these two men are on the same page.
No, I don’t remember how I stumbled on it the first time. But daypop reminded me.

Primary arm-twisting

Posted by: kegill on: 18 March 2004

A California state elections official implies that the Secretary of State was coerced into verifying electronic voting machines that “caused polls to open late and voters to be turned away March 2.”
Preliminary research suggests that 36 percent of the San Diego County’s 1,611 polls were unable to open on time for the primary; it is [...]

Blog censorship

Posted by: kegill on: 18 March 2004

Reuters reports that China has shut down two blog websites because content has been deemed “objectionable.”
Unlike the US Federal Communications Commission — which has been cracking down on objectionable “indecency” since the Jackson/Superbowl fiasco — the Chinese government objects to political free speech.

Data mining

Posted by: kegill on: 17 March 2004

One of the issues in the privacy debate is how easy it is to find public information that was once known only to insiders and how easy it is to combine data bits to create new information.
That same principle applies to a database developed by U.S. Representative Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), ranking member on the [...]

Perils of meta-data

Posted by: kegill on: 17 March 2004

Most techie folk, when they talk about meta-data, are deep into a discussion of how to best search Web sites. But lots of things have meta-data: the information about when a file was created and modified as well as its file size are also meta-data.
This week, meta-data disclosures are nipping at the heels of the [...]

Paperless voting hits snag

Posted by: kegill on: 14 March 2004

Wired has reported that two ranking California legislators have asked the Secretary of State to decertify all paperless touch-screen voting terminals before the fall election.

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