I hate office politics. I hate walking on eggshells for people. I don’t try to intentionally offend people, but if not making their email high priority wrinkles their panties, tough. I’ll send a memo about the pity party I’m throwing.
Spam filter a career killer?
By Rachel Konrad
"A meeting reminder from the boss, a lascivious letter from a lover, or the daily tally from a fantasy football league: Which e-mail would you read first?"
!@#$% DMCA….!@#$% RIAA….
Web Radio Fights for Survival
Webcasters rally against royalty ruling they say will yank many off the Net.
Stuart J. Johnston
The 1970s classic hit “The Day the Music Died” referred to the death of rocker Buddy Holly, but for many Internet radio stations and their listeners, doomsday is October 20.
By then, tens of thousands of Webcasters must pay millions of dollars in back royalties for the songs they stream to listeners online. Already, hundreds of Webcasters are shutting down operations, complaining that the fees exceed their annual revenues. The rates, set by the Librarian of Congress and the Copyright Office, are higher than those assessed to standard broadcast radio. The music labels’ trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), is unsympathetic.
Once again, the New Evil (to be distinguished from the Old Evil, Microsoft), refuses to play nice.
AOL reduces IM compatibility efforts
Critics accuse company of dragging its feet
“NEW YORK (AP) — America Online is scaling back efforts to make its popular instant messaging system work with rivals, calling the task too difficult and expensive. “
Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
THE Internet has reminded Camberley Crick that there are disadvantages to having a distinctive name. In June, Ms. Crick, 24, who works part time as a computer tutor, went to a Manhattan apartment to help a 40-something man learn Windows XP. After their session, the man pulled out a half-inch stack of printouts of Web pages he said he had found by typing Ms. Crick’s name into Google, the popular search engine.
“You’ve been a busy bee,” she says he joked. Among the things he had found were her family Web site, a computer game she had designed for a freshman college class, a program from a concert she had performed in and a short story she wrote in elementary school called “Timmy the Turtle.”
“He seemed to know an awful lot about me,” Ms. Crick said, including the names of her siblings. “In the back of my mind, I was thinking I should leave soon.”
When she got home, she immediately removed some information from the family Web site, including the turtle story, which her father had posted in 1995, “when the Web was more innocent,” she said. But then she discovered that a copy of the story remains available through Google’s database of archived Web pages. “You can’t remove pieces of yourself from the Web,” Ms. Crick said.
I don’t like having my privacy invaded any more than the next guy, but people have to realize that if you post something on the web, it’s published for the world to see. Don’t be so shocked when people know all your intimate details. It’s your own fault for positing a “dear diary” weblog. Also, why does Google have to be implicated in this? They don’t deserve bad press just for being the best search engine on the web.
College gets speed demon Net hookup
“CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — If going online with your home computer is like turning on the tap for a glass of water, getting on the Internet this fall at Case Western Reserve University is going to be like opening a fire hydrant.”