Tom Poe asks “Will you still want to buy a computer in 2004” and, after looking at how restricted their use will be and how much privacy you’ll be giving up, answers no.

I went to Pop!Tech a couple of years ago and had an excellent time. It brings together social-minded, humanistic technologists (generalizing rather broadly) for a couple of days of presentations in the lovely Opera House in the lovely Camden, Maine. I’m going again this year as a participant, not a speaker. There are still some seats available.

I’ll blog from it, of course, but I think a semi-official blogsite is being created for it by other blogging attendees. And so blogs, inevitably, become topic- and event-based as well as based around individuals.

Because I am in a rural area where the corn is high and the bandwidth is low, I am pointing you to this site without actually having been there myself.

I heard from Steven Akstakalnis in response to the Miami Herald op-ed I wrote with W. David Stephenson about the suckitude of the Homeland Defense web site. Steven’s group (company?) administers the National Homeland Security Knowledgebase. According to this msg to me, it sounds great. There’s a free “knowledgebase” of information about “homeland security” that Steven claims is the largest anywhere. There’s a free “Terror Alert Mailing List” of warnings. There’s a free weekly newsletter.

If this site turns out to be an online casino, an offer to lengthen your penis, or ads for cameras that will let you spy on your neighbor’s hot 18-yr-old, you only have yourself to blame for following a recommendation from a guy who told you he hasn’t visited the site himself…

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