Monthly Archives: March 2003

The nearly total question mark surrounding Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is starting to get more than a little alarming. The world’s top medical people have a scary mystery on their hands. May they solve it, fast. UPDATE: The Washington Post … Continue reading →

Bruce Chizen, the chief executive of Adobe, and several of his top folks stopped by the Mercury News last week for a lunch with the publisher and some editors and reporters. He gave a good account of Adobe’s marketplace and … Continue reading →

Steve Kirsch: The five lessons of 911. The terrorists have won. They have successfully convinced America to attack itself. Comments

I didn’t blog the event yesterday, but Derek Slater did in “A Copyfighter’s Musings: Harvard JOLT Copyright and Fair Use Symposium”. Comments

I’m in Cambridge, Mass., today to visit various folks at MIT’s Media Lab. More on this later… Tomorrow I’m speaking on a panel at Harvard Law School, at a symposium on Copyright and Fair Use sponsored by the Harvard Journal … Continue reading →

New York Observer: Bush Eats the Press. The press corps seemed mainly to serve as a prop, providing Mr. Bush with an opportunity to deliver another pro-war speech while appearing to bravely face the music. The White House sprung it … Continue reading →

New York Times: Software Pioneer Quits Board of Groove. Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties activist, has resigned from the board of Groove Networks after learning that the company’s software was being used … Continue reading →

Dave Winer: Like MacArthur. And today I’m heading east, and in many ways it feels like a return to home. We have had our agreements, differences and everything in between. Through it all, my respect for Dave’s achievements and intellectual … Continue reading →

Economist: Terrorism and civil liberties. Far from establishing new checks and balances, the government has moved repeatedly to quash those that exist. Comments

Is there a more arrogant corporate chief in American than SBC Communication’s Ed Whitacre? Not if this interview in today’s San Francisco Chronicle is any indication. Example: Whitacre says SBC’s shareholders paid for the copper-line infrastructure. Bull. The customers paid … Continue reading →