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A new initiative from the EFF:

April 19, 2004 by Michael Boyle

The Patent Busting Project. “The new EFF initiative seeks to document these threats [to small organizations targeted by holders of bad patents] and fight back against them. EFF has pledged to file “re-examination” requests with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), asking the agency to revoke patents that are having negative effects on Internet innovation and free expression.”

Tags: EFF, Internet, Patents

Laughingmeme:

April 19, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Page 23, sentence 5: an autopsy. “The key inflection point for the blog community seems to be the April 11th posting on caterina.net; the highly connected nature of an ‘A-list’ blogger pushing the population of exposed individual over the density threshold from isolated cases to epidemic.”

Tags: Blogging

In response to (silly) criticism,

April 15, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Google has clarified its policies surrounding GMail. Matthew Haughey sums the whole situation up very well: “it boggles my mind that they even have to go to such great lengths to explain how their subtle ads aren’t the new red menace.”

Tags: Advertising, Google

In odd Canadian news today,

April 15, 2004 by Michael Boyle

BC MP Svend Robinson is stepping down and taking a “medical leave from politics.” It seems that Mr Robinson has had some stress issues that have bled over into behaviour issues.

Tags: Canadian Politics

New

April 14, 2004 by Michael Boyle

They suggest that “Search inside the book” results are presented under the “Books” tab on the standard results page, but I tried it and it didn’t work. That’s a pretty tough test so I tried again with a more precise search and it got the book right but not the page that my name appears on.

Tags: Amazon, Books, Search

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