Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

Mercury News: VeriSign to suspend Site Finder service. VeriSign said Friday that it will suspend its controversial new Internet address search service after the regulatory body overseeing the Net’s domain name system threatened a courtroom showdown. The service had been … Continue reading →

Heading to Boston for the BloggerCon gathering, where I’m on a panel on Sunday. Updates much later today. Comments

ICANN, the domain-name governance organization, has demanded that Verisign stop hijacking mis-typed domain names to its own search site. Verisign’s action has harmed fundamental Internet infrastructure, and so far the company’s response to the community’s widespread outrage has been a … Continue reading →

I’m back in California, following the Frank Quattrone trial from afar after peeking in Tuesday in New York to catch the opening arguments. Here’s today’s story from the Mercury News. (Lots more here.) Chris Nolan, covering the Frank Quattrone trial … Continue reading →

Washington Post: Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry. At CIA Director George J. Tenet’s request, the Justice Department is looking into an allegation that administration officials leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer to a journalist, government sources said … Continue reading →

With the help of a public radio station in Boston, KQED, the excellent NPR station in the San Francisco Bay Area, has put up this useful Web page containing an online “quiz” that helps voters compare candidates’ positions in the … Continue reading →

Wow, it looks as though Apple really blew it with the latest OS X update. Check out MacFixIt and Macintouch, for example, for blow-by-blow descriptions of the mess Apple has made with some of its customers’ computers, as well as … Continue reading →

AP: Court Rules Against Do-Not Call Registry. A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission overstepped its authority in creating a national do-not-call list against telemarketers. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by telemarketers who challenged the … Continue reading →

So it’s back to the races, with the federal appeals court reinstating the Oct. 7 election (AP). What a mess. Everywhere I go, people joke about California. No wonder. Comments Posted by: Some random humanoid on September 23, 2003 11:03 … Continue reading →

Cory points to an unintentionally hilarious page of instructions from Sun Microsystems, in which it explains how all humanity may use Sun’s trademarks. All I can say is that I don’t know much about the Sun Fire’s features, and won’t … Continue reading →