Archives for 2001

Just notes

September 11, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Some readers will know that my brother works downtown in Manhattan near the World Trade Center. I’ve heard from him, he’s OK. My sister-in-law is a flight attendant, and she’s OK too.
CNN.com has put up an extremely simple site, presumably to host a higher load of traffic. The CBC has done the same.
I’ve been getting my best breaking news from the virtual community at Cafe Utne. Lots of first hand accounts, and luckily just about everyone I know from the Cafe is OK. Haven’t heard from everyone yet.
MetaFilter has also been a good source of info.
Canadians with friends or family in New York can call 800-387-3124 for information.

More on the

September 11, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Security Systems Standards and Certification Act from Wired News’ Declan McCullagh: Hollywood Loves Hollings’ Bill.

“If this would go forward, it would be a huge gift for the fair-use community. It would be right up there with Sklyarov,” says Jaszi, talking about the outcry the DMCA prosecution of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov has caused. “It would be an amazing mobilizing tool.”

, it seems that someone slagged Meg Hourihan about her totally reasonable entry the other day. It boggles the mind. The “contentious” entry was nothing but a nicely-worded observation by someone who has more perspective about this stuff than most. She was nice enough to grant that she was “sorry for the confusion.” Uh, that was gracious as hell, but if anyone was confused, they were looking for it.

Sadly enough

September 10, 2001 by Michael Boyle

I missed yet another fray day in San Francisco – this time it was the fifth edition, aka fray day 5. Be sure to browse the main fray day site though – it looks like it was a wonderful, multi-center event.

OK, I’ve read this story

September 10, 2001 by Michael Boyle

at Wired News about the New Copyright Bill Heading to DC a couple of times now, and my jaw drops every time. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the hubris of some parts of the tech/entertainment industry, but still, I am. This stuff isn’t that hard, is it?