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 Monday, December 25, 2000
Salt Lake Tribune: Web Had Humble Beginnings. It is amazing to think today, with the World Wide Web now spanning some 7 million sites, that its creator could barely get his colleagues interested at first. Ten years later, Tim Berners-Lee has different worries: keeping the Web from growing out of control as commercial developers pile layer after layer of software on top of the Web's foundation.
1:00:18 PM 
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Salt Lake Tribune: Web Inventor Envisions Next Wave of Innovations. Ten years after he created the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee is nurturing it into a gigantic brain, where databases get smarter and work together to solve problems. Berners-Lee terms it "the Semantic Web." To him, it's the second half of the information revolution.
1:00:18 PM
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NY Times: Will Bricks-and-Mortar Merchants Grow Complacent. It meant they had at least a little more time to construct their own Internet strategies. But now that the consumer e-commerce landscape looks like it has been struck by a neutron bomb, industry analysts say bricks-and-mortar merchants are breathing a bit too easily.
1:00:18 PM
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 Robert Scoble: "Merry Christmas to all three people who read this blog." Ditto!
11:00:05 AM
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Listening to an NPR interview with Wolfgang Puck. He's certainly a businessperson, a restauranteur, but he's also a cook and a teacher. It's generally assumed in the software business that you need a CEO who knows little about the product and users to run your company. I've always thought this was wrong. Software is more like a restaurant. Puck serves hamburgers at Spago in Orlando (kids like them). And macaroni and cheese. But it's Puck-style, not mass-produced, with fresh ingredients and a few weird spices.
11:00:05 AM
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The Sock Puppet Tells His Story. Despite the recent demise of Pets.com, its spokesperson appears to be here to stay. This is one sock that won't get lost in the laundry. By Farhad Manjoo.
4:00:23 AM
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