Turn on, tune in, log on. Need proof that computers were once a part of the counterculture? Check out this Creative Computing ad from 1976 drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, part of an online reprint of Best of Creative Computing Volume 1. From the text:

Creative Computing is the last outspoken bastion of TRUTH in America today. Read it and you shall be free! Contained within these pages are glimpses of mind-blowing REALITY as it REALLY is!

Two examples of reality as it really is: Hunt the Wumpus by Gregory Yob and ASCII art of Mister Spock. [Workbench] 
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Transcripts of WBS 2003 conference. Heath Row is really fast with the keyboard. So there are almost complete transcripts of the panels available (there are also some alternative transcripts from Denise Howell). They haven't provided an overview of the transcripts, so I add that here:

Postlude

XVII: Live Blogging

XVI: Using Weblogs in Large IT Organizations

XV: The Open Source Media Movement

XIV: The Law of the Blog

XIII: Weblogs -- New Syndication Models Or Uncontrolled Platforms?

XII: Where Weblogs Matter

XI: Digital Self-Fashioning

X: Blogging Technologies And Platforms -- Today And Tomorrow (alternative transcript)

IX: Blogs and/as Content Management (alternative transcript)

VIII: Strategies and Tips for Business Blogging Success (alternative transcript)

VII: Why Weblogs Matter (alternative transcript)

VI: Managing A Business Blog (alternative transcript)

V: Are Weblogs A Threat Or Opportunity For Enterprises? (alternative transcript)

IV: What Are Weblogs? (alternative transcript)

III: Business Weblogs -- Blogging For Fun And Profit

Kickoff [owrede_log] 
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Paul Boutin: Wi-Fi for Dummies. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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RSS buzzing at Yahoo. Yahoo has added several RSS feeds for its Buzz Index, a feature that tracks the most popular current search terms overall and for several entertainment categories. [Workbench] 
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BusinessWeek on Blogs: The Wild World of "Open-Source Media". [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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Watch java.net. Sun is doing something big with java.net.  If Sun is a hornet's nest, they have peeled back much of the skin around the nest with java.net, exposing a wild variety of interesting activities that invite the Java developer community at large to join them through a mixture of weblogs, wiki, directories, repositories, and pseudo-magazines.

End result is, well, confusing.  But, it is an enjoyable kind of confusion, not unlike being dropped into a new city being built.  If it was a city, I would say the city center is the Java Today page.  Drop in and check it out.  Unless I misread between the lines, I think there is a new bold attitude at work here. [Don Park's Blog]

 
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