Gnomedex 5.0 kicks off in Seattle this morning (June 24) at the Bell Harbor Conference Center. The topics being blogged about include Blogging (self-referential and otherwise), RSS, Podcasting, etc.

At Gnomedex in Seattle Friday/Saturday, check in for conference info.

FlashForward Conference July 6-8th in NYC - not to be missed

My first in a regular series of open source geospatial articles garnered some interesting comments/discussion. It was a general "Benefits of Open Source" article - particularly geared toward the geospatial industry. Unfortunately the initial comment that sparked the reactions was removed today, but you still get the idea.

While I don't usually upgrade, in this case it worked flawlessly.

"Information wants to be free" strikes me as basically a religious proposition. In the day-to-day world, I think we always decide what's private property and what isn't, and the information/object dichotomy is not the main point.

Not everyone believes the numbers in the widely reported NPD study that claims iTunes is the 2nd-most popular digital music service.

CornerScreen Networks leverages the emergence of three trends -- user-defined RSS feeds, enhanced tools for organizing online content and Google-style advertising networks -- and unifies them within a slide viewer application that runs in a corner of your computer screen.

For paid music services to succeed, free doesn't have to be impossible, just inconvenient. iTunes is super-convenient and so feels like a better value than free for its users. But does the value proposition work across generations?