Here comes the Attention Recorder! Introduced today by AttentionTrust.org is a Firefox extension that allows users to save their attention data and to share it with services that are als0 members of the Attention Trust. It doesn’t look like that there is anybody to share it with yet, I presume that the entry for “Acme…
Author: Kevin A. Thompson
Battle Lines being Drawn – Law Enforcement v. Internet Freedoms
I was referred to a nice article by Declan McCullagh outlining the implications of a new “Policy Document” released by the FCC late last Friday, Sept. 23rd. The FCC has come up with the following four pronged set of principles that will govern any new Internet policy it develops: Moreover, to ensure that broadband networks…
New Case: Google Print Snafu
The recent filing of a lawsuit over Google’s new planned Google Print program has raised the bar from an academic discussion of whether the program violates copyright into a full-fledged dispute. There has been some interesting and well-reasoned discussion about it. Fred Von Lohmann of the EFF analyzed it from a fair-use point of view….
Case Summary: Davidson v. Internet Gateway
An interesting decision from the 8th Circuit, Davidson involves an appeal from the grant of summary judgment to the plaintiffs. Davidson does business as Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., creator of popular online cooperative games like Warcraft II. In order to play a game like Warcraft II online, Blizzard’s game connects to its Battle.net servers with a…
Microsoft: Damned if you do.
The patches that Microsoft released for a security flaw are partly to blame for the recent Zotob virus outbreak. As noted in many places, among them being This Week in Tech, hackers reverse engineered the patches to determine exactly where the security flaw was and released the Zotob virus within *THREE DAYS*. Microsoft is damned…
Archives
Well, I’ve sort of fixed the archives problem I mentioned previously. The monthly archives are still unavailable ( except for August, which is fine), but I found a great plugin that lists the underlying posts in each month, so the same effect is reached. I’ll keep working on the problem, I’ve learned a lot while…
Faking it! – Blawg Review #20
My posts on Attention made it into Blawg Review #20, hosted this week over at The Mommy Blawg. The theme? Reality TV shows. My posts fall into her “Faking it” category since she didn’t know where to fit them into the other themes. Nice theme idea, I suggest reviewing all the submissions this week. When…
Attention – Part Two
Since the first post, I found an excellent summary of Attention from a practical point of view by Dare Obasanjo. Nick Bradbury has another good post. From an IP attorney’s point of view, Attention is interesting because it is an attempt to create a new property right in the aggregate of data. It’s different from…
Attention – Part One
My Attention was drawn by the recent Gillmor Gang on Attention, forcing me to listen to the whole thing three times in order to get a handle on where the Gang was coming from. Steve Gillmor is now the president of Attention Trust, a new non-profit group interested in advocating for the “basic rights of…
Spyware part of ID Theft Ring
This is very, very disturbing. An article over at Eweek claims that the spyware called CoolWebSearch is actually a keylogger. A test by a spyware removal company found that the program is sending passwords, user names and bank account information to a server in Texas. The FBI has been notified, but the article does not…