Does Open License Mean Open Season?

The unattributed verbatim appearance of a Wikipedia article in a book from a major publisher sparked accusations of plagiarism, and raises more serious issues of ethics as well as the perils of publishing under open licenses.

Google Asks About Gmail Problems

For the record, there’s still a “beta” tag on Gmail, and so users may not be entitled to complain too loudly.  Nonetheless, issues including empty inboxes have been reported, and an official “Gmail Guide” has inquired about another matter.

U.S. Control Of Internet Still A Concern

The U.N. sponsored Internet Governance Forum wrapped up yesterday with little progress on the issue of U.S. control over how people around the globe access email and Web sites.

An Internet Company with No Server

I’m sure this isn’t the only one, after all, SmugMug’s CEO told me that they had moved pretty much everything over to Amazon’s S3 a while back. But I always assumed that companies would have at least one server keeping things up, just in case Amazon went down. Or just because. I was wrong.