Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Loose links

Mark Pilgrim has A History of DVD Copy Protection. [Later...] J.P. runs with it.

David Weinberger, Jake Shapiro and Ethan Zuckerman have great coverage of the Berkman/Sunlight event, which it pains me to have missed.

Bruce Sterling: Spime Watch: Fabbed Housing.

Nuweb, a Web 3.0 project with a goal to build a new Web that is for the user, by the user, and of the user. From Taiwan.

Head Lemur: The Only Internet Marketing Advice You will Ever Need.

NYTimes: At some airports, cellphones can check in passengers. Which reminds me: there are still openings for the Mobile Identity Workshop. Sign up here.

The Jabber Software Foundation is now the XMPP Foundation. More here. Jabber is to XMPP as the Web is to HTTP.

William F. Buckley: Yes or No to Bush? I will vote against supplementary American involvement in Iraq.

Virginia Postrel: Up, up and away. ...bringing the glamour back to air travel is much harder than adding amenities.

Gal Beckerman: The New Arab Conversation. To hear the bloggers themselves describe it, blogging has taken off in the Arab world because it presents an opportunity to reclaim individuality...The dynamism of the blog posts, as well as the string of comments that usually follow each of them, can best be appreciated when viewed against a backdrop of the mainstream Arab media.

Carl Savitch on all the kids killed by re-enacting the hanging of Saddam Hussein, and on cruel and unusual punishment. Bonus observation: These hangings, which are nothing more than lynchings, will further undermine the integrity of international and domestic law and of the legal process itself.

Peter Saint-Andre: Who's afraid of the public domain?

Getting smaller: How MicroID works.