RSS: Gateway to News and Blog Content, Part 1
This column examines how content from blogs, news sites, and other sources is distributed via RSS feeds. Feeds are a great way for anyone to receive customized new information from a growing number of sources.
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Daily Archives: April 16, 2003
AllTheWeb Adds Dictionary Lookup Feature
“AlltheWeb now links each query term and phrase to a dictionary lookup on dictionary.com.” See their news update page for additional information. Continue Reading
Australian Internet Liability Case Resurfaces
On December 11, 2002, I posted on the High Court of Australia’s ruling in the Internet defamation case Dow Jones and Company v. Gutnick. Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Barron’s (owned by Dow Jones) news bureau editor/reporter Bill Alpert (the author of the article at issue in the case) filed a complaint with the… Continue Reading
Law Firm Website Design and Content
Business lawyer Bruce MacEwen’s article, Planning a Web Site With Some Punch, reviews the best practices that now comprise standard content areas on most law firm websites. Continue Reading
New Report on the Digital Divide
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a new report today: The Ever-Shifting Internet Population: A new look at Internet access and the digital divide. Use this link to download the full-text report in PDF or to access each section of the table of contents. Amanda Lenhart, the Research Specialist who authored this report,… Continue Reading
Ask the White House
The White House has launched Ask the White House, “a live online interactive forum where you can communicate with White House and administration officials.” The forum is for one hour, 7pm – 7:30pm (ET), and questions may be submitted in advance. Guests are announced on the website. Continue Reading
Iraqi Libraries Destroyed
Via AP, this story from April 15: “Looters and arsonists ransacked and gutted Iraq’s National Library, leaving a smoldering shell Tuesday of precious books turned to ash and a nation’s intellectual legacy gone up in smoke. They also looted and burned Iraq’s principal Islamic library nearby, home to priceless old Qurans…” See also this first… Continue Reading
File Sharing and Copyright
Fred von Lohmann, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), contributed an opinion column to The Daily Princetonian on the relentless music industry campaign against students who engage in file sharing on campuses across the country. He suggests, “We need to collect a pool of money from Internet users, and agree on… Continue Reading
