Will offline (physical) distribution become CHEAPER than bandwidth?

Congratulations! It�s a book! After what seems like a long and difficult pregnancy, the MySQL Reference Manual, the first book in the new O�Reilly Community Press series, has been born. Oops -- I mean released.

Related link: http://www.wolframscience.com Stephen Wolfram's long-awaited magnum opus, A New Kind of Science, was published last month. As recent href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/11/arts/11WOLF.html">coverage of the book in the New York Times noted, "...his claims surpass the most extravagant speculation. He has, he argues, discovered underlying principles that affect the development of everything from the human brain to the workings of the universe, requiring...

This story was sent to the Perl Advocacy mailing list and I thought I'd share it with you. The Template Generator is a Perl script that creates Web pages using an XML-based site description.

Instead of complaining how digital video recorders are allowing users to skip commercials, advertisers and television broadcasters need to adapt to the new age of innovation.

Based on the Recommendation of the Register of Copyrights (Marybeth Peters), the Librarian of Congress (James H. Billington) has formally rejected the CARP Panel's determinations for webcasting rates. The Librarian of Congress now has until June 20, 2002 to issue his final determination.

This story came from Jay Lawrence, writing in to the mod_perl mailing list. TERMIUMplus is a trilingual application that allows translators and terminologists to search a collection of 1.5 million entries in English, French and Spanish.

"Copyright is dead" is the worst possible message to send to Congress and the public, especially since the Supreme Court will soon consider overturning the Sonny Bono copyright extension act, which added 20 years to copyright terms.

At the Emerging Tech conference, Tim O'Reilly announced that O'Reilly & Assoc. would adopt the Founders' Copyright of 14 years (with the proviso of authors' agreement). Under current law, copyright is lifetime of the author plus 70 years.

Marc Stiegler's presentation on the E Development platform and "capability secure" browsers and desktops caught the attention of many an E-Tech conference goer. (Paul Prescod, Wes Felten, Aaron Swartz and myself, just to name just a few...)