2003 July 12

“The “blogosphere” may never be the same after America Online releases free blog-publishing software to its 34 million members this summer.”

” A new open-source effort dubbed OpenGroupware.org has been launched with the explicit intent to create applications that compete with Microsoft Exchange server products.”

The Associated Press (via CTV) reports:
The Web site that accepted a personal ad from convicted child killer Susan Smith seeking pen pals from her prison cell asked her Friday to withdraw the ad because the result has been “kind of a freak show.
The Smoking Gun has the original (and very creepy!) ad here.

“…does not like the police. He expresses his views about what he calls police corruption in Washington state on his Web site, www.justicefiles.org , where he also posts lists of police officers’ addresses, home phone numbers and Social Security numbers.”

“…Thousands of people serving in the military and Americans living abroad will have that option next year in the nation’s most extensive Internet voting experiment, viewed by some as a step toward elections in cyberspace.”
No chads in cyberspace…

“Bill Gates isn’t only the richest man in the world - he’s also the subject of more email chain letters, virus hoaxes and scams than any other person or subject on the planet.”
This is a result of a study by Sophos, an anti-virus vendor.
Wonder if Billy boy too gets these emails forwarded to him.

“Computer scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, wanted to make it easier for staff to log onto networked computers. So they came up with SoundHunters, a program that recognises someone’s voice or laughter and works out which computer is nearest to them. It could then be used to automatically log them on to the [...]