McLaws is right on Windows Vista ship date
I'm sad to agree with Robert McLaws about Windows Vista's ship schedule. This sucker is just not ready. Too many things are too slow and/or don't work. I've been on the betas of every Windows OS si...
Bloglines wants to block private feeds from search
"Everything you blog goes on your permanent record!" How many times have we heard that lately? From employment to family situations, many people have been frustrated to find out that things they int...
eMusic - My Only Online Music Store
As I struggle to figure out how to properly de-authorize my old thinkpad and auhtorize my new MacBook Pro (argh), I came across an article in USA Today about the only online music store I have used in...
Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Gets Blocked from Site
odd-news, humor, wikipedia, citizen-journalism, comedy-central, stephen-colbert, vandalism, wikiality — On Monday night's episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert addressed the online resource...
Cingular to charge $5 for older phones
NEW YORK - About 4.7 million Cingular Wireless subscribers with older phones will have to pay $5 extra each month as the company tries to prod them to get new handsets so it can devote its entire netw...
YouTube overtakes MySpace
The rise and rise of YouTube — MediaGuardian.co.uk — YouTube has established itself at the top of the league of the new generation of community websites by becoming even more popular than MySpace,...
Measuring Success
Before I started the new weblog(s), I told a friend that I was going to avoid saying anything even remotely critical about BlogHer. It does no good to do so, I told him. — I'm sure he knew that I c...
The latest news & announcements about Linux on the desktop ...
Four countries commit to buying 4 million Linux-powered OLPC laptops — A spokesperson for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program revealed July 31 that the countries of Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina …
AMATEUR HOUR
On the Internet, everybody is a millenarian. Internet journalism, according to those who produce manifestos on its behalf, represents a world-historical development—not so much because of the express...
Open Source Licenses are Obsolete
Last week at OSCON, I made the seemingly controversial statement "Open Source Licenses Are Obsolete. During the Q&A period, Michael Tiemann of Red Hat and the Open Source Initiative took issue with m...
Cafeterias: Big Mother Is Watching
Darin Jones, 15, liked to buy three slices of pizza, a Gatorade and a cookie for lunch at his Vero Beach, Fla., high school. But that stopped once his school started using MealpayPlus.com, which allo...
Outside of Search, Google Doesn't Matter
Andrew Schmitt submits: There was an interesting column in the New York Times last week, outlining the different design approaches taken by Google (GOOG) and Yahoo! (YHOO). It also provided quantitat...
One of these six companies will buy YouTube
All the buzz around video site YouTube indicates that the closely-held company could have a market value of around $1 billion. — Given those numbers, it is only natural to crystal-ball YouTube's fut...
IBM researchers predicted PC disruption
It is the 25 year anniversary of the PC and I have long wondered if the industry standard technologies that resulted from the PC revolution were accidental because the computer industry always favored...
AOL to Launch New Video Portal
AOL, a leader in live and on-demand entertainment video programming and video search, today announced that it will preview a beta version of its new AOL Video portal later this week. Available for fr...
NEARLY 100 BRAND ICONS AVAILABLE WITH DIGITAL MAPS
Brand Icons Bring Restaurant, Hotel, Gas Station and Recreation Locations To Life With At-A-Glance Name Brand Recognition — Tele Atlas, a leading global geographic content provider, announced today ...
Illegal downloads create unlikely defendants
Music industry seeks to protect copyrights — Kathy Hartness is a 47-year-old grandmother, churchgoer and gardener who had never been in trouble with the law — until she was served with papers in Jun...
Billy Bragg's MySpace Protest Movement
When he is not writing or performing protest songs, the British folk-rocker Billy Bragg is apparently reading the fine print. — In May, Mr. Bragg removed his songs from the MySpace.com Web site, com...