1blog: March 2002

Saturday, March 23, 2002

Disturbing:BBC article mentioning CIA project to send anthrax through the mail. CNN article detailing CIA's response.

Friday, March 22, 2002

Dave says they reinstated Xenu.net, so it must be true.

Another article about blogging. What I'd like to see is a way to see every single new blog post on one page. Blogger could do it. All you are doing is posting text on a database... why not go one step further and allow all public posts to be streamed by post date and time to a master blog page where authors are credited. Templates could be chosen by the reader.

Yes, I found this at the top of blogdex. It is scary, very scary, in its implications. If the Church of Scientology can threaten lawsuits to remove links from Google, then where can reasonable people go to search the Web? Possible implications include laws on Web searching-- what can be included in a search and what cannot; where bots can roam to discover links and where they cannot.

For the record, anti-Scientology links can be found at:

I don't know what the official Scientology link is... perhaps you can find it on Google.

Thursday, March 21, 2002

Spam Radio makes me think of a future where we can interact more vocally with computers. Imagine a computer reading the morning paper to you. Imaging asking it to read the headlines and telling it to stop and read the articles that interest you. Imagine blogradio, where currently updated blogs are read to you in various computer voices. Imagine plugging your cell phone into your car stereo to surf the net while you drive. Imagine listening to Shoutcast and having access to a wider variety of programs than FM radio at a cheaper rate than satellite radio...