Wired posts an interesting story today about an innovative move reported at the Shmoo Con hacker conference in Washington D.C. The story says, "Websites get looked at by two different kinds of visitors: the human ones who peer around, look at the graphics, think about the links and click slowly; and the spiders, those automated scanners that come in from ...

A new report from the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars calls for a new approach to nanotechnology oversight. The report comes from one of the country’s foremost authorities on environmental research and policy, which examines the strengths and weaknesses of the current regulatory framework for nanotechnology. Considering the implications nanotechnology has for cancer ...

This Wired article has some interesting vignettes on this year’s tech stories. From Wired: "It was the year corporate and university data spills just kept coming, and the Supreme Court decided technology companies can be held responsible for the bad behavior of their users. Big firms lined up to help repressive governments; governments helped themselves to private phone calls and ...

This Search Engine Journal article focuses on the most successful in the industry with news of its 2005 winners. Editor Loren Baker says, "We are all members of a vibrant and cutting edge industry which happens to also be quite entertaining and full of enjoyment, there are not very many people who cherish the work that they do as much ...