Patrick Carmichael, a lecturer at the University of Reading in the UK, sent me this story. In addition to teaching teachers to use new technologies, he carries out research into how low-cost network technologies can be used to support civil-society projects, effect social change, and aid in conflict resolution around the world.

A lawyer writing on behalf of Rep. Howard ("P2P Anti Piracy Bill") Berman (D-Calif.) wrote in to the Politech list with some "clarifications" of the bill.

Lawrence Lessig kicked off this year's O'Reilly Open Source Conference with a question for technologists everywhere. As we quickly hand over our rights and freedoms under the guise of Copyright Law, "what have you done?"

FlashForward NYC 2002 brings designers and coders together on common ground

Who says snail mail is a push technology?

James McGowan, a consultant for Barclays Bank at their technology center in Cheshire, England, sent me this story about an internal ordering system eSL(electronic Service Point) he designed and developed.

Finally, someone's getting on the ball with independent live P2P streaming. Also seen on Slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/30/0235207

Here is another Perl success story from Jay Lawrence, writing in to the mod_perl mailing list. EDDS is a customized document management system.

Macromedia Releases Flash Search Engine SDK

Here is a Perl success story that was originally posted by Chris Benson to the Perl advocacy mailing list.