[Reader-list] bite-sized info

[Monica Narula]

from adbusters magazine, sept-oct 2003

"On June 30, the highest appeals court in the US decided that editors 
of one of the few remaining DIY outlets - web logs, or blogs - cant 
be held responsible for libel for information they post. For a medium 
that, to borrow from Marx's lexicon, seizes the means of information 
production, such production will keep a small portion of the internet 
from corporate oversight. A 2001 study by Jupiter Media Metrix showed 
that there's not much independence left on the net: 14 companies 
controlled 60 percent of online users' time, down from 110 companies 
in 1999."