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Online censorship: Avoiding the Gray Area Problem; A good tool to manage e-mail

Opinion
Dec 13, 20052 mins
Enterprise Applications

* Backspin: Online censorship: Avoiding the Gray Area Problem * Gearhead: A good tool to manage e-mail * The past 7 days on Gibbsblog

Backspin: Online censorship: Avoiding the Gray Area Problem 

Last week I looked at a proposal called the CP80 Internet Channel Initiative that is intended to “clean up” the ‘Net. As I discussed, this proposal is, at best, a complete waste of time. At worst, I see CP80 as a dangerous political tool.

To read this week’s Backspin in full, please go to:

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/121205backspin.html?nl

Gearhead: A good tool to manage e-mail 

A few weeks ago I wrote about the free, Web-based, open source image gallery called Coppermine. Many of you wrote asking to see the gallery we put online using this software (if you want to see it, drop us a note with the subject “Photos”), and we’ve had many favorable comments.

To read this week’s Backspin in full, please go to:

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/121205backspin.html?nl

The past 7 days on Gibbsblog:

The insanely great VMware Player

Reaction to my 12/5 column on VMware Player.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=gibbsblog/

Latest Browser Market Stats

Every month NetApplications (“a provider of Web-based applications that measure, monitor and market Web sites for Small to Medium Enterprises (SME)”) announces its analysis of Web site traffic for North America …

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3808

Putting lipstick on a porno-pig

In Backspin this week, I discuss a proposal for port-based content filtering as a way of protecting children from porn – and why I think it’s a dumb idea. What do you think?

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=gibbsblog/

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Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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