is running an editorial on yesterday’s ruling by the Supreme Court in the US on material that looks like, but is not, child pornography: Free Speech in Cyberspace. “These are critical times for establishing the scope of our freedoms on the Internet.” For better or worse, by default the US Court will be establishing those freedoms for many of us, not just Americans.
Via Boing Boing
: Wallace and Gromit return online. “Oscar-winning animated duo Wallace and Gromit will return for the first time in six years in a series of short films available on the internet.”
CyberLaw Journal
at the New York Times: The Year in Internet Law. Several experts discuss the most important stories of 2001 in the domain where the web and the law intersect.
Now this is what
I want from a computer OS: BlogScript, a script that allows me to post anything to my Blogger site from a menu that’s always available. To me, this is what it’s all about. An OS that lets anyone plug into it. An OS that is built from the ground up understanding that the internet is there, and that it will often be part of it. And always-on networking at a reasonable rate to make that true.
It may seem that I’m going overboard here, but I don’t think so. I’m not saying, “Wow. So wacky, who knew [boggle]?!?!” I just feel happy that finally something is going as far as I need it in the direction I want. They’ve made an OS that, with other elements easily put together, allows me to express myself as I choose, with no encumbrances.
Fifteen years
ago next week, in September, 1986, I started my university career at McGill University. That was when I first moved to the city I’ve made my home, and became, eventually, one of the most important turning points in my life. Coincidentally, next week I return to McGill, this time to teach a class in the graduate certificate program in e-commerce. I’m teaching one section of the Internet Design and Analysis course (with Ed Bilodeau, who founded the initial version of the course). That means two things: first, it’s kind of cool to be associating myself with McGill in a formal manner again, and second, I’ve been incredibly busy preparing, and falling slightly behind schedule… so this space may be a little sparse in the next while.
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