“kids.us” domain coming in September: Children will soon have an Internet neighborhood of their own, designed to be free of pornography, hate speech, gambling, discount tobacco sales and other content deemed inappropriate for young audiences. ….Starting in September, Web site operators who want to run sites for children will be …

mi2g, the digital security researchers report hacks are up, but the number ofhackers is down: the number of hacker groups active worldwide post September 11th has dropped sharply and is currently at a three year low. Draconian measures enforced in the US, UK and other countries fighting the war on …

Kick the heinous RAVE Act in the jimmies this Saturday.

Sprint first to replace switching technology that is 100 years old: Sprint Corp. has begun converting its circuit-switched telephone network to packet-switched technology like that used on the Internet. By beginning the conversion, which Sprint disclosed this week, it becomes the first big telecom carrier to revamp the systems used …

CodePink, United for Peace and Justice, and other organizations are rallying today to protest the apparent loosening of media ownership rules by the FCC. We have been covering this action extensively, of course. Dawn Olsen womped on the state of commercial radio a couple days ago, conservative NY Times columnist …

If you are in the Cleveland area tonight, check this out – I’ll be speaking (as I so often do): Techies, Scribes, & Citizens Join AIP and the Society of Professional Journalists as they bring you a community panel discussion on how the new do-it-yourself Web publishing tools are spurring …

Very sorry about the outage for most of yesterday – the whole hosting company was down with some kind of fire situation, evacuation, cleanup, etc, many sites were down including Instapundit, so it was probably the slowest day in the blogosphere in about three years. Welcome back and please let …

Moody’s reviews Bowie’s bond rating: Moody’s Investors Service says it may downgrade about $55 million of bonds backed by music royalties of rock music icon David Bowie in light of the sales slump in the recording industry. In 1997, Bowie was the first musician to sell bonds supported by future …

Liza Minnelli spazzes, breaks kneecap in Italy, but THE SHOW MUST GO ON: Singer Liza Minnelli broke her right kneecap in a fall in Italy but still plans to sing at a charity concert for Iraqi refugees with tenor Luciano Pavarotti, a spokeswoman said on Monday. Minnelli tripped on a …

We mentioned yesterday that some states are working on copyright laws even more restrictive the the DMCA. Fortunately, Colorado’s was vetoed by the governor: “Governor Owens, in vetoing the Colorado super-DMCA bill, recognized that these bills are bad for innovation, bad for competition, and bad for consumers,” said Fred von …