More cphack madness. A better review of the legal questions surrounding it... and just to show how tangled things get in the real world, this case is threatening the foundation of the Free Software movement as embodied by Linux.

Broadcasters fight double fees for Net radio: "The National Association of Broadcasters said it has sued the Recording Industry Association of America to prevent it from charging special royalties to radio stations that stream their signals to the Web." No comment.

Then I'm going to get really innovative.

I've been playing around a bit lately with Mozilla... I've been a big supporter of IE so far, not because I like Microsoft but because IE4 is quite clearly superior to Netscape 4. I'll tell you this though: Mozilla does have a chance. There are things that websites can do relatively easily with Mozilla that IE4 or 5 would require lengthy and difficult development of ActiveX components for, and these Mozilla things will work for ALL platforms... I'm hoping to develop a few of these. Hopefully by the end of this week the first one will be out!

later... Whoops! Here's a bug. You're not supposed to have links to your own site show up. So I when I check all the links on your site, if it links to yourself (or isn't a fully-qualified URL), I just discard it. Well, Serious Instructional Technology inadvertantly got around that when he created fully-qualified links to some stories on his site, except he linked to instructionalTechnology with a capital T. Whoops. That should now correct itself on the next scan in 20 minutes. (Thanks David.)

Weblogs.com's XML seem to stall sometimes though... I'm going to have start dealing with that soon.

The LinkBack program is surviving OK... still got a couple of minor bugs that don't really affect anything. You can join anytime, and it's open to anyone... (just a reminder )

"This Orwellian phobia (who do we turn in next?: 'dangerous' parents, neighbors and sibs?) has been a staple of the most venal political systems in the 20th Century, from Nazism to fascism to Communism."

It's a start anyhow... but I see no sign that the Education Institution (such as could be said to exist) even recognizes there's a problem here.