Posts from — April 2004

KAT! causing trouble for the BBC….

'Net ninjas' take on web censorship <-- i.e. KAT!

A small group of 'net commandos' at the University of Toronto are looking to help people get around government controls on the internet, as technology correspondent Clark Boyd reports.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3632757.stm

Michelle Levesque, a computer science student who works for The Citizen Lab, says they also have to tap into human networks and knowledge to get their job done.

“If you have a website that's being blocked, and it's all in Persian, you've no idea why it's being blocked,” she said. “It could be some political website, or a gay rights website,” she said.

Jeremy suggested the title 'toronto ideologues seek to take over information control worldwide'

[Team Polysynchronous - Just Differently Intelligent - - Just Differently Intelligent -]

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well yes, i suggested that title, and i think it is pretty true, well it depends on what you mean by ideologue i guess, but doesn't everything depend on what you mean by ideologue?

InfoWorld: Can e-mail be saved? Paul Boutin. Instead of tinkering with ever more complex anti-spam filters and gateways, it's time to rethink the way e-mail works in the enterprise. With that in mind, we rounded up a half dozen successful software entrepreneurs — plus one unrepentant spammer — and asked them how they would change the system to remove mass-marketers' incentives to flood your workplace with ads. [Tomalak's Realm]

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the way to save email, and this is very clear, block all subnetwork port 25 activity not going through your mail server. do this on all networks, and manage those networks appropriately. this will more or less stop most spam, and then you can prosecute those others via paper trail.

Lyceum – The Open Source Blogsphere. Lyceum – The Open Source Blogsphere
http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/

Lyceum is the blogging inititative of ibiblio.org, the public's library. Revolution is born of enabling technologies; this is their experience with the Internet. Technologies that facilitate the sharing of information, in ways both remarkable and intuitive, enables users fundamentally. For this reason, they embrace weblogging technology conceptually, for they see its potential as a revolutionary tool and enabler of information share. It is in this spirit they take on the Lyceum project. [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant]

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interesting bit of tech underway.

Works for me

Ralph Nader says “Join the call for an impeachment inquiry of Bush and Cheney”

Here's why.

[Politics in the Zeros]

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I've been promoting the impeachment of bush almost two years now, but not for these reasons, more of the lying to congress and the american people reasons, which inarguably contributed to this.

Digging Up Low Web Fares. Web sites that find bargain airfares on the dates you want, with fewer clicks. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Technology] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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this could be handy.

what is your library doing on 'patriot day'? hmm? the september project is proposal for citizens to get involved and define sept. 11 using libraries and other public arenas to represent the citizens interests. it is an excellent project, i encourage you to get involved.

woo hooo.

it has been a wierd few days for books in my office. So far I've pulled down the 'book of ammon' which is part of the autobiography of ammon hennessy who was a catholic workers organizer in the 40's-70's, quite a radical person. yesterday i reached up and grabbed Modern Arms and Freemen and read some of that and today i nabbed Teacher in America. which btw has a nice little section on the Ph.D. Octopus.

eh? are ya? are ya? Mcsweeney's is looking for you, and it isn't for any of the usual reasons.

The New Union.

My instincts have been screaming loud that unions are back en vogue. A consequence perhaps of Bush's 19th century economics? Have yet to find any hard evidence of a trend, but with MTV News' Gideon Yago saying things like: “all my friends are doing freelance labor that is not collectivized and they're being denied certain benefits because there's this cult of executives . . . ” it looks a lot like a trend about to be realized.

Now of course its the 21st century so the first that happens is people sampling the graphics… The logo above is for the Boston Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 26, looks pretty good doesn't it? But issues like employment and exploitation hit at levels far more visceral then the visual. Which means labor in the streets, picket lines and scabs. For better or for worse, look out for it, or maybe make it happen.

[Abstract Dynamics]