del.icio.us links for September 08, 2007

Archive of del.icio.us links

1. We are an encyclopedia project, and more. – Citizendium.Org

   We aim at credibility and quality, not just quantity. * We offer gentle expert oversight, and public participation. * We use our real names, not pseudonyms. * We’re collegial. Over 2,700 articles since November 2006.

2. Web rivals plot the answer to Wikipedia – TimesOnline.Co.UK

   It was proposed that the new project will begin life by “mirroring” – or reproducing – Wikipedia’s content, a process allowed under the site’s copyright conditions. Citizendium’s expert editors will then “bless” articles as “approved

3. Spam up, PDF spam down – TechWorld.Com

   Symantec’s take is that spammers have backed off from sending PDF spam to tweak the technique or have decided this form of spam isn’t working and have gone back to the drawing board.

4. Talks under way to put Intel inside OLPC’s $100 laptop – InfoWorld.Com

   The design, which Intel plans to submit for OLPC’s consideration, will be based on either existing mobile chips, such as modified versions of the Celeron M called A100 and A110, or Silverthorne, an upcoming processor designed for small, mobile computers.

10 more articles after the Jump

1. MySpace’s Tila Tequila Gets MTV Show – MethodShop.Com

   MTV’s latest reality show – A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila – is built around the dishy, scantily clad singer/model who is reputed to have the most friends in the history of MySpace (2,009,335 at last count).

2. BlackBerry service shuts down for second time in five months – Sep. 7, 2007 – CNN.Com

   Even after e-mail service was restored, slowdowns persisted into Friday night as message backlogs were being cleared out. The company did not provide an estimate of when service would return to normal and did not specify the software problem.

3. Britain faces the broadband test – Telegraph.Co.UK

   The authors of the BSG report, are looking beyond this to speeds of 50Mbps and higher, already available in Germany via VDSL (very high speed DSL) or via fibre deployments in Japan and South Korea with up to 1Gbps (1,000 Mbps)

4. Europe to rule on whether police can keep DNA of innocent people – Independent .Co.UK

   The Court of Appeal ruled in 2002 that you cannot ask for your DNA and fingerprint evidence to be destroyed. One of the judges hearing the appeal was Sir Stephen Sedley, who this week called for a national database of DNA samples.

5. San Diego church in 198 mln dlr payout to sex abuse victims – AFP.Com

   Each victim will receive an average of 1.3 million dollars, lawyers said in announcing the deal, which comes just two months after the Los Angeles diocese agreed to a record 660-million-dollar settlement to people who suffered abuse.

6. “Net neutrality” rules are opposed by Justice – SeattleTimes.NWSource.Com

   Phone companies including AT&T and Verizon Communications and cable operators such as Comcast oppose efforts to bar such fees, which may help them recoup billions of dollars spent on building high-capacity networks.

7. Music videos embrace YouTube aesthetic – Houston Chronicle – Chron.Com

   What Goes Around cost approximately $1 million, but Bayer thinks it could be one of the last big-budget videos. “A comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs are dying,” says Bayer. “There’s a new age coming. I think those days are over with.”

8. After Long Dispute, a Russian Starbucks – New York Times – NYTimes.Com

   The opening sealed a victory for the company in a fight with a trademark squatter who had kept Starbucks from coming to Russia for more than three years, just as a coffeehouse culture was emerging there.

9. Hewlett Harbor man racks up $4,800 iPhone bill – ChicagoTribune.Com

   Herbert Kliegerman, 68, said he incurred $2,000 on one visit to Mexico. He filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status in New York State Supreme Court last week, alleging that Apple did not properly disclose the international roaming charges.

10. To all iPhone customers – Apple.Com

    Every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. More details will be posted on Apple’s website next week.