SomaFM: Listener Supported, Commercial Free Internet Radio

One take on the version of HR5469, a bill that helps small webcasters (or does it).

US press ignores Australia’s pain – theage.com.au Too true.

Reuters | That Flaming Hair Could Mean Flaming Pain – StudyHmmmmm.

News: Microsoft spying? Linux is looking better

China thinks Microsoft software contains secretly embedded code that the United States government can manipulate at will. So, in case of war between the two countries, a Pentagon official can hit a switch and–presto!–cripple China’s computing infrastructure.

This might seem absurd, why, after all, would Microsoft consent to such a thing, especially if it hurts them in a market with a billion nubile young consumers they lust for?

Its hard to imagine, but as a little exercise for the imagination, try and imagine what leverage the US government might have over them.

The Register

Alsop only needs to travel across either pond to realize that there’s a parallel communications network – a parallel Internet, if you like – based around phones. They’re already the world’s most popular communications device, despite the complexity of using numerical keypads for the user interface…

Amusingly, the author seems to have forgotten what people used to use phones for, namely, as a voice communications device, focused as he is, on Text messaging.