Ken Bereskin, Apple VP, lists the contents of his Dock and wants to know what's on mine. I have:

• Finder, Mail, Sherlock, System Prefs, ThermoInDock, BBEdit Lite, Eudora, Mozilla, iTunes, iPhoto, Fire, Terminal, Palm Desktop, Radio, Manila Envelope, and OmniOutliner; plus a selection of Apps, Utilities, Development Apps, Manila Envelope.pbproj, and my folder for this semester's course files.

Slashdot points to this ZDNET article: Microsoft Guru: Stamp Out HTTP. Interesting: the "guru" in question is Don Box, co-author of SOAP and founder of DevelopMentor. He joined MS last month. I wonder what some of the other people with input into SOAP think?

Dave wants a tool that can show you how connected two weblogs are to each other, and indicates what the traffic looks like between them. I think he's right that the second is impossible for a centralized search engine... but what about a distributed referral collection app?

As for the first, the Netscan project at Microsoft Research does something similar for newsgroups by tracing cross-postings and provides visualization. Blogdex traces links from blog to blog. It should be possible to apply the visualization and connectability capabilities from Netscan to the data that Blogdex collects.

If someone does this, I want credit on the thesis. :)

CNET: Site reads Web surfers their rights. This sounds a bit like the "Your Rights On-Line" section of Slashdot writ large:

ChillingEffects.org serves as an educational hub where Internet surfers can learn about their legal rights related to cease-and-desists letters....

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and law school clinics at Stanford University, Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of San Francisco said they created the Web site as part of a project called Chilling Effects, referring to the way legal threats can freeze out free expression. The coalition said the project aims to provide basic legal information about ongoing issues related to copyright, trademark and domain names, defamation, anonymous speech, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).