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  • Google snubs press in privacy fury

    Google has thrown a hissy fit and blacklisted tech news site CNET’s News.com – vowing not to provide quotes or statements to the site for a year. “Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues raised by a previous story,” noted reporter…

  • Bulwer-Lytton

    A Microsoft employee has won the Oscar of bad prose – and no, he isn’t even a weblogger. Every year the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest honors the best attempts to parody bad fiction. It’s judged by Professor Scott Rice at San Jose State University in California, and is now in its 22nd year. It’s an impressive…

  • After Grokster: why (almost) everything we’re told about P2P is wrong

    Grokster! Is it the end of the world as we know it? No, it isn’t. But before we examine how the two lobbies, the technology lobby and the recording industry lobby, have let us down so badly, let’s pause for a moment to consider how the press has let us down this week, too. The…

  • Tag me stupid, baby!

    This postbag contains small pieces of irony or humor which may choke small children or law professors Perhaps we should call them The New Literalists. Or is Nitpickers a better word? Or how about Pixel Pedants? The Road to Hell looks like it’s going to be Tagged With Good Intentions, if you pardon the twisted…