esp. if you use your atm….

On opportunities for innovation. Clément Laberge: “Les innovateurs ne sont pas rares… ce sont les conditions propices à
l'innovation qui le sont. C'est cette rareté qu'il faut combattre.”

(”Innovators are not in short supply… the proper conditions for innovation are. It is that scarcity that must be fought.”)
[Seb's Open Research]

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but by maintaining artificial scarcity, and limiting the opportunity for innovation, you then have the ability to profit immensely off of minor innovations.

Fear less.

Jeff finds Julie Hilden's pull-quote of the year at Findlaw:

Only speech without fear is truly free.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

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i would say only speech made in fear is free too, if you still make the speech.

IETF to lead anti-spam crusade.

The Internet's premier standards-setting body is making its first attempt to develop messaging technology aimed at reducing the amount of spam flooding corporate e-mail servers.

Having researched spam for more than a year, the IETF this month formed a working group that will develop a standard mechanism to eliminate spam that uses a spoofed sender address.

The IETF's new working group plans to develop a DNS-based mechanism for storing and distributing information that authorizes an e-mail server to send messages from a particular domain or network. The group is dubbed MARID because it will create message transfer agent (MTA) authorization records in DNS.

By targeting spam, MARID has set its sights on one of the biggest headaches facing corporate network managers. In March, 68% of all Internet e-mail was spam, according to anti-spam vendor Brightmail. Brightmail says it filtered 2.93 billion fraudulent e-mails in March, up 25% from the previous month. [via NetworkWorldFusion]

[ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog]

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interesting issue, we'll see if they actually come up with a solution.

Citizens Rights Management. Spent a delightful few hours this afternoon in Toronto at the International Workshop on Inverse Surveillance: Cameraphones, Cyborglogs, and Computational… [Blog de Halavais]

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i think this terminology actually transforms the debate in interesting ways. It is a very useful idea. but it is likely not citizen rights management as much as consumer rights management, because there are more consumers than citizens.