Promotional video on the East vs. West cell phone technology gap and Earthlink's new partnership with SK. You can also Google Earthlink + SK

My rough calcuations suggest you might have trouble with a string larger than 500,000,000 characters inside Java, or reading in a text file larger than 167 Mbyte, no matter how much RAM you have.

A year in jail for advertising P2P software?

A few days ago I posted a blog called "Are Blogs the New Journalism?" which garnered some lengthy rebuttals both here and on my blog. I learned something from that conversation and some other reading and started thinking about it in terms of open source.

"Aid workers at ground zero and around the globe can have free access to this spatial data and the resulting mapping functionality via the Internet. In addition, these same workers can contribute their specialized data for use by other agencies."

I'm quite bullish about W3C's "Binary XML Infoset" project, after looking at Fast Infoset, an Open Source library at java.net. The thing I like is that it reminds me of XML's development: respect-based standards are a win all around.

IBM's patent commons announcement is the most significant developments for the Open Source community in quite some time. But will this patent commons have a reach far greater than 500 patents?

At the CES show I tried out these eyeglasses with a small QVGA monitor overlay in the right eye. Still a bit big, but getting there - they even had another unit with onboard camera on the left eye, so you can do mobile recordings. For telepresence (letting others use you as a physical proxy) the technology is getting closer and closer. Just a few more years...

The way TIME magazine saw it in December, 2004 was the start of a "golden age" of blogging -- the rapid-fire web publishing scheme where anyone can publish their rants, photos or detailed reporting on the web in a matter of seconds. While blogging has been around for four or five years, the combination of the hotly contested election and the growth in popularity of blogging tools meant that blogging had hit critical mass.