Issue no. 362 - 11 June 2006

• QuickLinks Daily Update (QuickLinks)
  The QuickLinks Daily Update is now sent out using FeedBlitz. All updates will come from FeedBlitz@mail.feedblitz.com and will be easily recognizable because subject lines always start with [FeedBlitz]. Existing subscribers who received the update from bloglet@bloglet.com should update their filters.

Issue no. 348 - 13 November 2005

• QuickLinks tops quarter of a million page views (Usage Statistics for qlinks.net)
  In October 2005, the number of page views recorded for the QuickLinks Web site exceeded 250,000 in a month for the first time.

Issue no. 332 - 22 February 2005

• QuickLinks enabled for Live Bookmarks in Firefox (QL)
  Users of the Firefox browser can add QuickLinks to their Live Bookmarks. Go to the QuickLinks home page and click on the icon at the lower right-hand coner of your browser. If you cannot see the icon, click on Status Bar in the View menu so that a tick mark appears. Clicking on the icon and selecting an RSS feed will bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select 'OK' and you will see Live Bookmarks with the rest of your bookmarks.

Issue no. 326 - 5 December 2004

• QuickLinks - Status of EU initiatives (QuickLinks)
  An unofficial compilation from publicly available sources - updated.

• QuickLinks a new spam victim (QuickLinks)
  The majority of recent e-mail messages asking to subscribe to QuickLinks seem not to be genuine - they are sent by someone other than the owner of the e-mail address, or "spoofed". All membership requests now therefore need to be approved by the moderator. New subscribers will receive a confirmation email when their membership has been approved. The preferred method of signing up is Web-based. To be included on the mailing list, click on HTML or text and fill in your email address.

Issue no. 325 - 28 November 2004

• QuickLinks adopts Creative Commons Licence (QuickLinks)
  QuickLinks is now published under a Creative Commons Licence. You are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work; to make derivative works; to make commercial use of the work; under the following conditions: by Attribution. You must give the original author credit. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full licence). Disclaimer.

Issue no. 283 - 14 September 2003

• Daily digest (QuickLinks)
  After a long hiatus, Bloglet is back in operation. This allows you to receive an e-mail with a daily digest of new items posted to QuickLinks. There is a link to the subscription form on the QuickLinks home page. To subscribe, enter your e-mail address and submit the form. This is in addition to the possibility of receiving RSS feeds using your news aggregator, mentioned in issue 278.

Issue no. 278 - 10 August 2003

• QuickLinks RSS feed now available (QuickLinks)
  QuickLinks is now available as an RSS feed. . see also Awasu a free Windows news-reader recommended by PC Magazine, News Readers (Google Directory) and list of aggregators and newsreaders (Harvard Law School). Using these is quite straightforward. Available documentation tends to be written for publishers or programmers rather than the non-technical user and so makes it sound much more difficult than it is. For the technically minded, see What is RSS? and RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters.

Issue no. 259 - 9 February 2003

• New QuickLinks service - daily digest (QuickLinks)
  News items are posted to the QuickLinks web site as soon as they have been identified by the eagle-eyed QuickLinks team. Thanks to Bloglet, you can now receive these as a daily digest. Just enter your e-mail address in the form on the home page. The existing Yahoo! QuickLinks Update service continues, which sends an e-mail as soon as each individual item is posted, as well as the classic weekly-ish QuickLinks newsletter in text and HTML flavours.

Issue no. 250 - 17 November 2002

• Status of EU initiatives (QuickLinks)
  Further updated. Links checked.

Issue no. 249 - 10 November 2002

• Status of EU initiatives (QuickLinks)
  Updated.

Issue no. 225 - 24 February 2002

• QuickLinks Weblog (QuickLinks)
  In between issues of the newsletter, items selected for publication are posted on the QuickLinks Web site using Blogger. The 15 most recent items can be seen on the front page, and other items can be found by clicking on the link to the archive.

Issue no. 212 - 27 October 2001

• Pausing (QuickLinks)
  Owing to pressure of work, the QuickLinks newsletter will be appearing irregularly, if at all, until Christmas. I recommend the BNA's Internet Law News compiled by Michael Geist , the UNESCO Observatory of the Information Society and the other QuickLinks sources.

Issue no. 208 - 24 September 2001

• English translation of items (QuickLinks)
  As an experiment, startin g with the present issue, readers can call up a SYSTRAN machine translation of items written in languages other than English. In the HTML version, click on the check box. Readers of the text version can go to the item in question (e.g. http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem11835.htm) and click on the "Translate" link.

Issue no. 205 - 3 August 2001

• Summer break (QuickLinks)
  Next issue around 1 September.

Issue no. 150 - 2 April 2000

• QuickLinks 150th issue retrospective

  Top stories

  • NSI - ICANN Deal
  • Judge declares Microsoft a monopoly that stifles industry
  • Prodi launches "eEurope"
  • AOL and Time Warner to merge

  Statistics

  • First issue: 14 Oct 1997 Issue 100: 11 Dec 1998
  • Number of items published sinced issue 100: 3239 Total number of items: 6032
  • Contributors: Gerhard Heine, David Goldstein, Ola-Kristian Hoff, Alan Reekie, Rupert Selzer, John Rabun, Patrizio Menchetti, Stephen Balkam, David Hughes, Gordon Lennox, Meryem Marzouki, Angela Mills, Günter Wilms, Yaman Akdeniz, Alan Reekie, Stefaan Verhulst, Patricia Benda
  • Aggregators: NewsNow UK, MediaGrok, EPIC, TKRnews, EPIC, Slashdot, ACM, Europemedia, CPSR Cyber Rights
  • Most cited news sources: New York Times, Reuters, ZDNet, CNET News.com, FT, BBC, Newsbytes, Wired, RAPID
  • Most obscure news source: Louisville Courier-Journal

Issue no. 135 - 5 December 1999

• Full text search for QuickLinks items (Quicklinks)
  All items are indexed except those on the current QuickLinks Update - for the latter, use your browser's menu Find option.

• QuickLinks now available in text and HTML versions (QuickLinks)
  To be included on the mailing list, either fill out the form at http://www.qlinks.net or send a blank e-mail to quicklinkshtml-subscribe@eGroups.com (HTML) or quicklinks-subscribe@eGroups.com (text).

• QuickLinks Update (QuickLinks)
  Items selected for possible inclusion in the next QuickLinks are now put online immediately.

Issue no. 112 - 12 March 1999

• QuickLinks search facility now available A full-text search of the news items is now available. Keywords can be entered into a form on the QuickLinks home page, with options to match all words or match any words.

Issue no. 108 - 16 February 1999

• New events page (QuickLinks)
  A new page lists major seminars and conferences dealing with legal and policy issues covered by QuickLinks. Past events (such as the Bonn and Ottawa Conferences) are also listed.

Issue no. 100 - 11 December 1998

• QuickLinks 100th issue retrospective (QuickLinks)
  

  Internet highlights

  • IANA chief Jon Postel dies
  • DOJ, States File Suit Against Microsoft
  • Compuserve case
  • AOL buys Netscape for $4.2 billion
  • Private Sector Group Submits Internet Name Plan

  European Commission highlights

  • Commission proposes e-commerce Directive
  • Europe Launches Plan To Clean Up Net
  • Recommendation on the protection of minors and human dignity in the audiovisual and information services

  Statistics

  • First issue: 14 Oct 1997
  • Number of items published: 2798
  • Contributors: Gerhard Heine, Alan Reekie, Pierre Bischoff, Ola-Kristian Hoff, Gunnar Bender, Andreas Grünwald, Yaman Akdeniz, Stephen Balkam, Christa Bernert, Dimitri Corpakis, Yann Dietrich, Daniel Duthil, David Herson, Nathalie Labourdette, Gerhard Laga, Caroline Leboucher, Pedro Marin, Erich Moechel, Angela Mills, Ian Pigott, Rudi Roth, Peter Sandler, Theodor Schlickmann, Jerome Thorel, Günter Wilms, Christopher Wilkinson
  • Most quoted news source: Reuters
  • Most obscure news source: The Hartford Courant - Connecticut News

QuickLinks consists of

• a free newsletter appearing approximately once a week. The newsletter is distributed by electronic mail through an "announcement only" mailing list.
• a Web site with frequent updates, an events page, news items organised by category as well as chronologically by issue and full text search.