If you want to know who to blame for this conference, look no further. I set it up. I hope we can get some traffic and stir up some discussion. I miss the old EFF meetings at La Madelaine and look forward to getting connected to the new organization. I split my time between Austin and Cedar Creek, Texas (I can almost throw a rock and hit Gene Cricks house). Another conference that I created that may be of interest is the CFP conference (Computers for Freedom and Privacy).

I am formally introducing myself but shall refrain from further comment as I have just left the screwed topic and fear my own stream of conscious thought. Amen.

What, kind of like the id trying to break through the 50' steel door in 'Forbidden Planet'?

Funny reading Stacey's post from Sep 6 about fearing her own stream of consciousness. Let 'er rip, baybee.

The soundtrack to that could be "Rip Chord" from that Radiohead album, was it 'Pablo Honey'?

Guess I'd better hunt up some infoprmation on what this conference is all about. However, rather than risk thwarting y'all's Stacey-worship, perhaps I should take it off my hot list and stay where I belong...wherever that might be. I am still wandering around looking for a home.

It's a one topic conference. Not much going on.

This is true... Suggestions? Not even sure what eff stands for, anymore.

Electronic Frontier Foundation. EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a non-profit, non-partisan organization working in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, in the arena of computers and the Internet. EFF was founded in 1990, and is based in San Francisco, California, with offices in Washington, DC, and New York City. The vast web of electronic media that connects us is heralding a new age of communications. New digital networks offer a tremendous potential to empower individuals in an ever-overpowering world. However, these communications networks are also the subject of significant debate concerning governance and jurisdiction. For, while the free flow of information is generally a positive thing, serious problems arise when information flows free--problems such as how to protect children and undesiring adults from exposure to sexually explicit or potentially offensive materials; how to protect intellectual property rights; how to determine which country's laws have jurisdiction over a medium that is nowhere and everywhere at the same time; how best to protect privacy while still permitting recovery for harm; how to ensure that legislators, access providers, intellectual property holders and disgruntled network users do not stifle disagreeable or controversial speech. While well-established legal principles and cultural norms give structure and coherence to uses of conventional media, the new digital media do not fit so easily into existing frameworks. Founded in July of 1990, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is dedicated to finding ways to resolve these and other conflicts while ensuring that essential civil liberties are protected.

This appears to be important enough that it deserves a wider audience than can be afforded by a single topic in a conference no one knows exists. Could this be linked to news or porch? It is way too important to languish here unread but by the few who enter here (which, in this case might be just you and I...)

Sure, I'll link up a topic that you start, ok? How about starting a new topic and then we can link it?

It doesn't work that way...it creates it image in the conference to which you link it! At least it has for the ones in Geo which are linked elsewhere.

Sure, set it up!

Porch??? I'll do it!

Great! I see it's there. I just posted in it.

Are they one and the same? Going to see.