Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 155

Tim Berners-Lee, writing in the Wall Street Journal , worries about the wholesale commercialization of the Web , which could lead to a conceptually vague model that won't fit within the technology framework in another decade. In addition, he reports that (history does not know the subjunctive mood, heh) he would change little in the WWW, except that he would exclude the double slash from URLs, which takes a long time to pronounce when dictating the address. All this can be read in the original only if you are a subscriber to the online version of the Wall Street Journal ; I, unfortunately, have to be content with secondary sources .

RosNIIROS has completed the process of modernizing the Moscow Internet Exchange .

The Committee on Energy, Transport and Communications of the State Duma proposes to hold parliamentary hearings in February on the introduction of time-based work - in anticipation of a new version of the law " On Communications ".

yourDictionary.com has selected the top words, acronyms and clichés of the year .

" Computerra " opened the " Compulenta " for technology news - and immediately (not without gloating, I say) distorted the story in it with the latest events in the Yahoo! and French fighters against Nazism.

An employee of Edgewater Technology , a consulting and systems integration services company, came to work, thought for a couple of hours, and then walked through the building where the company's offices are located and shot seven people . What work in the field of system integration does to people is scary to think about.

They are going to restore the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, collecting funds online for this endeavor.

Official representatives of the Sony corporation state that they cannot influence in any way the fact that some particularly progressive states (more precisely, for now only Iraq , but that is quite enough) are going to use microprocessors from the PlayStation 2 to strengthen their military potential . They themselves realized that they had released it to the market - was this a hydrogen bomb in an hour?

While the judges are thinking , Napster has updated its software by releasing Napster 2.0 beta 8 .

" Zametki.Ru " calculated some of their ratings of projects and personalities of the Russian Network.

Scientists from iLab , a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are studying the psychological impact of bouncing the NASDAQ up and down on investors, comparing the reactions of experimental subjects to what is happening with stocks and their reactions to physical pain .

A website has opened telling that people are divided into people and Santa Clauses .

Analysts cannot decide what the situation is with e-books: in their current form, they are unlikely to be in demand , their time has simply not come yet , or, in fact, they are growing and developing according to plan .

roving_reporter опубликовал " Оду к ICANN " Беррихилла и Рейда. Вот цитата: "O little town of cyberspace, // dot org, dot com, dot net; // Between our short and fitful sleeps, // we rant and rave and fret. // While in thy packet headers, // are IP addresses; // And they'll go where they're meant to go, // despite what ICANN says" .