Dan Gillmor continues his blow-by-blow coverage of the copyright wars, and the consumer is still losing. “If you or I asked Congress for permission to legally hack other people’s computers, we’d be laughed off Capitol Hill. Then again, you and I aren’t part of a cartel that boasts enough money and public-relations talent to turn Congress into a marionette.”

Microsoft behaving badly, in Peru this time. An interesting, if frightening, look at the global economy in action.

The Web didn’t kill libraries. It’s the new draw.“Rather than lead to the demise of libraries, the World Wide Web may have turned out to be a their saving grace. Last year, $686 million was spent on library construction — the second-highest dollar total ever spent.”In fact, would you believe we now have a national librarian shortage? To think how close I came to taking advantage of my own college’s excellent library science program. As I just recently realized, I would have been returning to school for my senior year this fall.