If this goes even close to the way my summer went, EditThisPage.com better not be running on the edge of capacity... traffic will sky-rocket if this gets into the press and the debate resumes. I'm more ready for it then I was this summer though...

This is timely, now I hope I can write my updated purpose piece, Why Should You Care About This Site? soon. . . and I better link to this site on my Third Voice essay site... done.

I've got to use the program, but the first question I have to ask it, what benefit does this provide when users could already put links into the notes? *shrug* I'm sure they'll get in the press for this. Lesson to uTOK: the press seems to prefer bombastic statements of revolution, not polite statements of user empowerment.

Third Voice Lives! A recent product announcement describes the latest feature: Third Voice, Inc. - the company that gained worldwide attention when it introduced "sticky notes" to the Web - today unveiled Third Voice 2000, a new, free next-generation portal that gives people the power to turn any word or phrase on any Web page into active words. Active words are launch pads for instant, relevant online research, commerce and communication.

Sheesh.

Hello! Internet companies, wake up! If you don't want people doing it to you, you can't do it to others. In other words, if you claim people's content as your own, so can I.

Update on yesterday's Alexa story: FTC Investigates Amazon's Alexa Using a packet sniffer to monitor the data travelling between his computer and Alexa's servers, Smith discovered that his full home address had been sent to Alexa while he was using AltaVista's yellow-page service. He also learned that Alexa's servers had received detailed information from an airline ticket purchase he made on Travelocity, and a personal phone call he made to a relative in Florida. Wow!

But the machine is not opaque; the rules today need not be the rules of tomorrow.

Every day, in our increasingly networked world, our freedoms and privacy are being stolen from us. And most of us just let it happen -- most of us tend to accept our computer's workings as immutable, that we are chained to an irrational, vindictive, uncontrollable machine destined to rule over our 9-to-5 days.

I hate linking to stories after they've made the rounds on the other weblogs, but this one is just so perfect, it could replace my Purpose page. Well, pieces of it anyhow. Criminal Code?