Author: Dave

This is an update to this post .

Britannica’s now taking out ads 

There is a good article about how RIAA launches, pursues people in file-sharing lawsuits.

Gotta love a good public dust-up. Here’s the background, in December 2005, Nature published an article and editorial that showed Wikipedia was better than Encyclopaedia Britannica and encouraged scientists to contribute to Wikipedia. Britannica struck back by publishing a response questioning the methodology and results of the original Nature article. This whole sequence of events is documented here and here . I even like the part about the Britannica calling Wikipedia a "Faith-based Encyclopedia" and comparing it to followers of Intelligent Design. 

Well, if you’ve used the .CA address to get here, this is interesting. As you might know, I currently own kabal.net , kabal.org and Canadian domain kabal.ca . 

Many folks (here , here ) have been protesting ICANN ‘s unwaivering support of Verisign for the administration of the top-level .com domains. Finally a national registry, traditionally quite cozy with ICANN , has pulled out of ICANN in protest of the February 28th announcement by ICANN.

This is one of those open-market things for me. I don’t believe that the internet spun out of control when InterNic turned Network Solutions lost exclusive TLD control for .net, .org, etc. 

DVR’s are now becoming common, as evidenced by this KFC commercial, complete with a single frame with a coupon:

Article in WSJ , subscription required. 

I like both the victim and perpetrator sites mentioned in the article.