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.

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?

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.

Apparantly my book was published in China. Or was it?

The US Supreme Court has decided to hear the Grokster case. My interest in the case, and obviously the decision, lies in its effects on entertainment production companies, specifically television production and distribution.

How can you go wrong with a single-CD install that just works?

Love of your homeland does not require hatred of foreign lands. The Beanshell interpreter plus XML makes Java much more LISPy

First venture in blog land, so I figured I'd answer the questions I get asked most: which DVD-R media is the best and where is it the cheapest?

Why aren't the people who claim to need faster XML processing talking to chip-makers?