State monitored war protesters

Oakland Tribune: Intelligence agency does not distinguish between terrorism and peace activism.

Guru.com is sold

Looks like Guru.com, which I used a few times both to find freelance talent and market my own services, has a new owner: eMoonlighter.

Dan on publishing's future

Dan is at NetMedia 2003 and notes that publishers -- including audio and video news distributors -- must now create content for a variety of devices and customers. He points to a digital printing press, which will allow personalized versions of print publications, and adds: "Soon, we'll be printing books to order. I wonder if newspapers will ever go this way, because Web publishing is so much more timely."

Buzz on the radio

A friend and colleague, Buzz Bruggeman, will be on the radio tonight at 10:30 pm EDT for 14 minutes talking about ActiveWords.

Those elusive weapons

So that's where those weapons of mass destruction were hiding.

Meantime, from PBS:

During the year-long prelude to the Iraq war, the Bush administration repeatedly declared the Iraqi regime and its reported weapon stockpile a menace to national and international security. That perceived threat helped boost American popular support for military action against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Three months since Saddam's fall from power, no illegal weapons of mass destruction have been found. Consequently, questions are being raised about whether the Bush administration deliberately exaggerated Iraq's security threat.

But the issue appears to have little resonance with an American public. According to one poll conducted by the University of Maryland, a third of respondents believed the banned weapons have already been located.

Tonight on the NewsHour, Media Correspondent Terence Smith discusses the public's apparent lack of interest in the weapons search and its potential as a campaign issue with four newspaper editorial page editors. Visit their media page for details later tonight.

New in Wired News

New in Wired News:

Listen.com says its recent price cut -- from 99 cents to 79 cents per song -- has almost doubled the number of tracks burned by subscribers to its Rhapsody online music service.

Gary Wolf's new book -- Wired: A Romance -- is due out July 8. It's about the torrid history of Wired magazine and its founders.

File-swapping Harry Potter

CNET News.com:

People who want to read the latest Harry Potter book but donít want to wait in line or pay for it can download a free copy.

As a result of the increasing ease and speed with which a book can be scanned and repackaged into an e-book format with common technology, the latest installment of the Harry Potter series--along with its four predecessors, movies based on the books and audio versions of the texts--can be obtained as easily as an audio file on file-swapping services such as Kazaa.

That, some predict, could be a harbinger of a nascent Napsterization of the book publishing industry. ...