Monthly Archives: June 2005

Suck​.com was a pio­neer­ing web­site from the ear­li­est days of the web. The Big Fish tells the story. Tags: suck​.com history

More search engine new­ness: Yahoo!‘s My Web 2.0 a col­lab­o­ra­tive web search engine that uses your con­tact list to check for sites your friends may have vis­ited. You have to sign up for a num­ber of other Yahoo! ser­vices to … Read More →

Grokker claims to be a new way to search, pre­sent­ing your search results in a graph­i­cal net­work for­mat. Tags: Grokker search

A fed­eral judge dis­missed Novell’s attempt to have SCO’s claims thrown out of court, so the Nov­ell vs. SCO trial over who owns the Unix copy­rights moves back into the dis­cov­ery phase. This thing has been going on since 2003, … Read More →

Some­what over­looked in the hoopla over the SCOTUS Grokster rul­ing was the so-called “BrandX” deci­sion that relieved cable car­ri­ers from hav­ing to allow third-party ISPs access to their sys­tems. Susan Craw­ford believes BrandX is far more impor­tant than Grokster because … Read More →

Another Inde­pen­dent Media Cen­ter server has been seized by UK police and a vol­un­teer arrested. This one seems timed to the G8 Sum­mit in Scot­land. Tags: indy­media server seizure