Monday, June 17, 2002
Everybody Blogs It
Paolo, Jenny, and Dane have set up a multi author weblog called Dave Winer's get well card.
Battle Over Access to Online Books
David D. Kirkpatrick
Librarians have seized on the potential of digital technology and offered users free online access to the contents of books from their homes, and they are squaring off with publishers who fear that free remote access costs them book sales.
Strategy Letter V
Joel Spolsky
Most of the companies spending big money to develop open source software are doing it because it's a good business strategy for them, not because they suddenly stopped believing in capitalism and fell in love with freedom-as-in-speech.
Discussion at Slashdot.
Wolframania
The New York Times has had a couple of articles about Stephen Wolfram in the last couple of weeks. Is he self-aggrandizing or brilliant? Or both? And is God a software engineer?
Slashdot review of A New Kind of Science.
I Want My File-Served TV!
Stewart Alsop
I first heard Hendricks say those words two months ago, and they've been bugging me ever since. Last week I figured out why--it's because file-served television seems the only sensible future for television. If I'm right, that's good news for TiVo, and for consumers as well.
Get Well Soon, Dave!
I was wondering when the "Monday Morning Coffee Notes" would appear in my news aggregator. I hope that some time in bed is the cure for whatever ails you. Get well soon!
