He notes that the decisions AOL makes about how to implement weblogging will be critical to the future path of the medium. Jeff Jarvis has more details about how the product currently looks, but the reaction of a team of seasoned webloggers who were allowed a sneak peak was that it “doesn’t suck”.

Shirky suggests in passing that the kind of interconnection between people’s weblogs that software like LiveJournal encourages makes LJ more popular but also more insular. There might be something to that – if because of the tools available you are more aware of your audience of close contacts you may write more for them and less for the wider public…

Anyway, AOL Journal is due to “ship” in the fall.

Months after I finished writing it, a pair of copies of my new book – Dealing with E-mail arrived at my door. The rest of you will have to wait until the end of August to get one but why not order now? It costs just £4.79 from Amazon in the UK ($7 in the US) and is designed to be a simple and practical guide showing not just how to use email software but also how to use it effectively and sensitively within an organization and as a business tool.

I’m hoping that businesses will hand it out alongside other training materials when they do their new employee inductions to discourage new hires from registering their work email addresses on websites that could sell them on to spammers, emailing everyone in the company to tell them about a missing earring and other email crimes.

Sometime in the next few weeks I will be adding a link from my home page to a resource of email related links and further advice about email use which I couldn’t squeeze into the book.

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Ben Edelman at the excellent Berkman Center for the Internet and Society has done a quick and dirty Empirical Analysis of Google SafeSearch which indicates (not surprisingly) that using “Safe Search” to prevent unwanted porn links coming up on your kids’ searches also accidentally (I have to assume) hides pages by the US Congress, NASA’s shuttle programme and numerous entries from Grolier Encyclopedia. It also lets through “numerous sites with sexually-explicit content in response to searches that unambiguously seek such materials, even as the majority of sexually-explicit content does seem to be blocked.”

As Edelman points out, if you use SafeSearch you will never know what was blocked or even how much was blocked so you can’t judge how much is missing. There is also no formal mechanism for warning organizations they have been blocked and no appeals process if they have been improperly blocked.

Yet more evidence (if more were needed) for my concern that search engines have a lot of tacit and even unintended power without a great deal of scrutiny.

At least this report from Veritest seems to suggest so. Mind you it was commissioned by Inktomi. Yahoo bought Inktomi recently so if they switch back to Inktomi for their search engine (as opposed to directory) results it could provide Google with serious competition.2 movie erotica sapphicsecretary movies sexmovies sexualmovies spycammovie squirtsquirting movies pussyboy teen moviesteen girl moviemovies tgp teenmovies masturbating teens

Wired News reports an appeal court ruling in the US that ruled a person forwarding an email containing libellous statements to a mailing list is not themselves guilty of libel. It was suggested that this protection may also extend to webloggers who report stuff that is sent to them.

Of course the truly litigious will simply choose a court jurisdiction that is more favourable to them – the UK for example…

Thanks to Boing Boing for the link.wachovia accept creditcardamex bank cards credit of canadaonline lpn accredited degreeinquiry credit allowedunion education credit amarilloexpress monitoring credit program americantax eligibility new credits 2007high test equivalency accredited school Map