I have great news, and I can't talk about it
Don't try guessing, because I won't tell. I can't and I won't. When the time comes I might. You will just have to wait and see!
Bob Scoble In the news
Never one to shy away from a little controversy, Bob Scoble is in the Seattle Post-Intellegencer. The story is about Bob's weblog and its relation to his work at Microsoft.
I still think what Bob, and many others do with their blogs, is in fact an evolution of open-source. It is open-source journalism based upon publicly supported mediums and open standards for dissemination (like http.) Contributors put their content out there without compensation (usually) and this content is read, linked to and reused throughout the Internet cloud.
About all it lacks is a benevolent dictator (like Linus Torvalds) maintaining order.
Assuming there is a relatively finite amount of time a person has to digest content, the blogs are becoming an information source as much in competition with conventional media as GNU/Linux is in competition with Microsoft. Every minute I read a blog is a minute I am not tuned into a non-open source media outlet, like CNN.
Much of the open source community has been opposed to Microsoft and what they see as the company's history of extending and co-opting open protocols and in effect making them proprietary standards. It is ironic that in the world of weblogging Bob has been a defender of open weblogging standards and argued about the need to keep them clean, pure and free of proprietary changes.
I think the arguments used to keep the protocols related to web logging open and free of proprietary revision is similar to the arguments made against revision of open standards based networking and web protocols and even the desire of individuals and companies, like Sun Microsystems to maintain the purity of Java, and resulting animosity towards Microsoft.
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