Wired News story by Katie Dean.

Report on advertisements within e-books. [Wired News]

Dismissive article by Gary Wolf on Ted Nelson and the history of Xanadu project. [Wired]

Katie Hafner's overview in Wired, with an interview of Vint Cerf by Steve Cisler.

H.R. 3113, which would fine spammers $500 for each piece of unsolicited junk email they send, would have passed unanimously were it not for the representative known throughout the House as "Dr. No." [Wired]

Bidding to get in front of Microsoft in the race to create a ubiquitous computing platform, the firm announces it signed up some big players to implement its new technology. [Wired News]

"Toy giant Mattel is insisting that Benson turn over her domain name, BarbieBenson.com, claiming that the name infringes on the Barbie trademark." [Wired]

Wired News story by Lynn Burke.

A Colorado legislative committee has passed a bill that would require spammers to tag unsolicited email with a special subject line. [Wired]

ReverseAuction has agreed to pay $1.2 million and to quit harvesting emails from eBay's site as part of a settlement agreement. [Wired]