Some brief items on the Web, technology, blogging and what-have-you:
Sony uses a "root kit" to embed hidden code on computers of customers who buy their CDs. Can you spell boycott? And Sony flounders in its PR response - items by Jim Horton
Canadian statistics on kids who blog (it’s common, but not as much as in the U.S.A.) - by Fine Young Journalist
Steve Rubel suggests 10 ways to put Technorati to use. Some excellent suggestions. I get very few hits from Technorati these days.
An e-mail time capsule by Forbes lets you send yourself a note a year from now (or 20 years, if they’re still in business). Interesting gimmick. Do you think you’ll still have the same e-mail address 20 years from now? Only if you can’t keep spam under control for that long. (Sorry, I didn’t note the blog that put me on to this.)