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- The importance of open source in a legal process
- The open source process does not just apply to software. It can also apply to the law. This is especially true in the area of patent law, where open source has an ideological difference with the proprietary world. This difference is often sorted out...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Journalism, Idea, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Slashdot the Apache of open source journalism
- How far down the road to true open source journalism has Slashdot really gone?Pretty far, but not all the way. While blogs like this may mean ZDNet is in a Shared Source mode, Slashdot co-founder Jeff Bates says his site is more like Apache. Staffers taking "DaddyPants" duty are like...
- Tags: journalism, Slashdot, open source journalism
- Blog posts 2006-08-11
- Free and Open Source Journalism
- My post last week on Jay Rosen and his somewhat miffed reply reminded me of a career-long obsession, and what makes open source so fascinating. The obsession is business models. I have studied them for 30 years. I have made a special study of journalism business models, and had...
- Tags: business model
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- Open source journalism
- No field has been transformed by open source as much as journalism.I'm referring both to open source as in free, and open source as in see the source code. The free Web challenges journalism business models as nothing has before. The industry is still reeling. Even when magazines were given...
- Tags: open source, journalism, business model
- Blog posts 2005-04-13
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- Top US social networking sites
- Rank Name Domain May-08 Apr-08 May-07 Growth, % 1 MySpace www.myspace.com 72.73% 73.82% 77.72% -6% 2 Facebook www.facebook.com 16.24% 14.80% 11.47% 42% 3 myYearbook www.myyearbook.com 1.40% 1.33% 0.29% 384% 4 Bebo www.bebo.com 1.00% 1.09% 1.38% -28% 5 BlackPlanet.com www.blackplanet.com 0.90%...
- Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-26
- Worldwide PC vendor unit shipment estimates for Q2 2008
- Company Q2 2008Shipments Q2 2008Market Share (%) Q2 2007Shipments Q2 2007Market Share (%) Q2 2008-Q2 2007Growth (%) HP 13,028 18.1 11,129 18.0 17.1 Dell 11,204 15.6 9,190 14.8 21.9 Acer 6,749 9.4 5,676 9.2 18.9 Lenovo 5,580 7.8 4,888 7.9 14.2 ...
- Tags: PC, Desktops, Hardware, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-26
- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP
- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPMy takeI don't count security patches, but I regularly have to clean malware from our XP machines but have yet to find anything on our Vista systems.RE: 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPFile this in the "no...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Patches, Microsoft Windows Vista, secure, Microsoft Windows XP, VISTA IS
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP
- Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, I did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. My data source was the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search page, where I tallied...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Foxconn snubs Linux users
- Foxconn snubs Linux usersWho needs Foxconn anyway.There are plenty of good MB makers that do support Linux.It's a good idea to look at hardware compatibility at the distro's website anyway. I use Asus. But I have had to update the BIOS on every Asus MB I've bought to get...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Foxconn, Linux, BIOS, ASUS, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptopsjust thinknow instead of being stuck in a little puddle they can go out there and swim in the ocean of windows applications like the rest of us - a zillion kids just smiledlinuxhelp.net:~# apt-get install mozilla-firefoxReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneThe following...
- Tags: Operating systems, Vista-64, Microsoft Windows XP, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., OLPC Laptop, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarityBingo! ntnt"insanely profitable"Yes, IBM retained those parts of its business in which it was possible to obtain a huge markup and not worry as much about performance compared to alternatives.Microsoft already has part of that approach, as witness the markup on software. ...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awardsRE:Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards"their motivation is to take money out of the system,..."is this a good thing?Hmmm...kinda wrong..."...their motivation is to take money out of the system, to take down the old Microsoft monopoly. They lack compelling business models of their own."If the only biz...
- Tags: Leadership, Web browsers, OpenOffice, motivation, old-Microsoft monopoly, old-Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., SourceForge
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08
- Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 089800 GTX?At $200 dollars, I think that the 9800 GTX is finally able to be considered for the mid-range level card. I was surprised by nVidia and their recent price drops, but after purchasing two of these cards, I have been pleased.Linux...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware 2.0, SoundBlaster X-Fi, Linux, Lol, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Is there an open source jobs boom?
- Is there an open source jobs boom?...can't be too bad.My phone is ringing off the hook because I left a profile out on the job boards and I'm not even looking. I haven't even touched the thing in MONTHS so I know I have floated to the bottom of the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, What-If, tool, Microsoft Corp., development schedule, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards
- The big winner? Open Office. It swept the awards for top project, top enterprise project, and top project in education. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: SourceForge, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-TWHAT???So they let the app slide for two years until they launch their own competing version that proves to be a fraction as popular, THEN they go after these guys cuz their own app can't cut it?I call bullspit!If it was a rights infringement, they should have...
- Tags: Games, Scrabble-Scrabulous, Facebook, patent, game
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
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