CFP 2002 Wrapup

Roger Clarke is an computer scientist who attends many of the CFP conferences, and more importantly for our purposes, takes notes. His notes for this year's conference make good reading and cover a wide variety of issues that Slashdot touches upon. Privacy, biometrics, domain names, the digital divide, intellectual property, it's all here. NTK this week has a nice quip on the conference: "And the more the CFPers confer, the more they seemed to realise that Hollywood is going for the hat-trick: taking away freedom, privacy *and* computers. Pretty impressive. But only if they manage it."

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Orwell Awards

[bmw]

Some of you may find this amusing. I discovered it at the bottom of the CFP 2002 notes. My personal favorite is John Ashcroft for Worst Public Official.

In other news, the Department of Redundancy Department has found Roger Clarke guilty of abusing title tags.

Bruce Sterling's speech from CFP 2002

[jonkl]

Sterling's speech is posted on the Viridian Design web site, specifically here.