

Tom Clifton has an interesting idea - a "Verb of the Day" newsfeed
Stop! Look before you click. Mark Hochhauser, a psychologist who specializes in the readability of online documents, explains why Web surfers mindlessly click on contracts that could hijack their computers or make them targets of aggressive advertisers. [CNET News.com]
It seems ad-supported software preys on people's urge to try to get something for nothing. Do these adware companies appeal to our lowest urges?Well said...
Yes. Anything that says "free," people want. But eventually people will realize there's not really such thing as "free" software. It comes with a price--in this case the annoyance of advertising, or possibly privacy violations.
My friend Clive Murray has just released another killer guitar instrumental...
Feud brews over Web Services interoperability. All aboard - except Sun [The Register]