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...ruling may even be good news for the tiny-pocketed Matt Drudge, whose entire operation is run from his apartment: ?With AOL out of the suit, there?s very little for Blumenthal to go after,? says Netly News and TIME Daily editor Josh Quittner. ?What?s he going to get -- Drudge?s fedora...
Wouldn't it be cool if there were an electronic diary that you could write to and it would write back?" asked my brilliant eight-year-old, Zoe. Thus began another Mr. Peabody Night in the Quittner household, with me, Zoe and Ella, 6, cruising the Web in search of infotainment. We piled into the Mac, slipped out onto the Infobahn and, faster than you can say, "Open the pod doors, Hal," found ourselves in the company of Julia...
When we start enjoying the violation of our personal boundaries, as Joshua Quittner seems to be doing, it becomes terrifying for the future of freedom. We champion "human rights" all over the globe, we celebrate American individuality, and yet we no longer have that most fundamental right, to be as anonymous as we want to be. ALAN SCHWARTZ Warren, Conn...
...Quittner states that somebody ran up a $3,000 bill on a duplicate of his credit card, that "the nice lady from the fraud division of the credit-card company took care of it..." and that he never lost a cent. It may be constructive to take the situation a bit further and figure out who did lose. My husband and I own a small business, and more than once we have had to deal with that "nice lady from the credit-card company" who tells us we have to absorb the loss. Even when insurance covers part...
...Joshua Quittner's column on a group of journalists who are considering a rating system for Internet content [THE NETLY NEWS, Aug. 11] included the Newspaper Association of America as one of the industry representatives that had formed a "self-appointed council" to look at whether it should "decide what's news and what's not." For the record, the N.A.A. has not participated in this group, although some of our member newspapers may choose to take part in its discussions. The N.A.A. does not advocate the development of a rating system that would allow any arbitrary body to decide...