Lawrence Lessig kicked off this year's O'Reilly Open Source Conference with a question for technologists everywhere. As we quickly hand over our rights and freedoms under the guise of Copyright Law, "what have you done?"

FlashForward NYC 2002 brings designers and coders together on common ground

Who says snail mail is a push technology?

James McGowan, a consultant for Barclays Bank at their technology center in Cheshire, England, sent me this story about an internal ordering system eSL(electronic Service Point) he designed and developed.

I'm a bit sad to learn that my pear shaped friend is out of commission. Thank goodness that spirits are immortal. Unfortunately, they do not know how to use irc or instant messaging clients yet. If you know Gene, you know that he can be somewhat sarcastic. The frustrating thing is that sarcasm that deep is difficult to comprehend, especially...

Finally, someone's getting on the ball with independent live P2P streaming. Also seen on Slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/30/0235207