Month: July 2005
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Google’s War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders
This article – Google’s War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders – talks about the issue of organizing filesystems for human interfaces, specifically it talks about the difference between Microsoft’s desktop and Google’s search paradigms. It seems to me that the search paradigm, especially when used in this context to replace hierarchy, is…
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a glimpse of the future?
Since the Supreme Court ruled ambiguously on Monday in the MGM v Grokster case the motives of software designers and programmers are now probative in pursuing civil and criminal actions involving copyright law. This story – Wired News: BitTorrent Whiz Extolled Piracy? [ archive.org ] – is about a manifesto once published on the web…
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O’Connor’s retirement inopportune for moderates
The LA Times is reporting that Justice O’Connor, Supreme Court’s First Woman, Is Retiring. At a time when most eyes were on the Chief Justice, this is a bit of a surprise. It is also a blow to moderates as O’Connor has been a swing vote on many divisive issues during her term. She was…
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Nationalism in Cyberspace
In a story titled “Bush administration annexes internet,” The Register talks about how the U. S. Department of Commerce intends to “retain control over the Internet’s root servers indefinitely.” This is a reversal of previous U. S. and may in some way be a response to U. N. attempts to control the internet. What is…