Tim O'Reilly's keynote speech examines the history of commodity hardware and draws parallels with current happenings in the open source community. In his speech Tim calls on the community to built customizable commodity software that will enable a wide range of service based business models.

People are using RSS more and more to guide them to interesting HTML pages. Because readers are changing the way they relate to websites, website owners need to change they way they relate to their readers. Find out how one website, Artima.com, has attempted to catch and ride the RSS wave. And if you have a weblog, find out how you can "Join the Buzz."

The RIAA follows up on promises to use harsher and harsher measures with a plan to sue thousands by the end of summer.

Flashforward 2003 in NYC offers ideas for designers, hardcore technical information for developers, and insights into future multimedia products.

Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Rick Boucher issued a press release yesterday calling on Congress to fix DMCA, in light of information that doing so would not put the US in treaty violation.

News.com reports that Apple mistakenly posted details of the G5 Macs on the Apple Store recently. How does a dual 2GHz machine with 8 GB of memory, 1GHz bus, USB 2.0, and Firewire 800 and 400 sound?

File under People in Glass Houses: It seems Sen. Hatch's website uses JavaScript lifted from a company that charges for such code, c|net's Declan McCullagh reports.

University of Twente in the Netherlands has a 300+ acre wireless hotspot, using 802.11b and a.

Madonna might want to know what the f- you think you're doing with you hands on her, uh, music, but Orrin Hatch is ready to deal. Call it Three Strikes, You're Crashed - Forever.

An economist who had previously argued that there was no evidence of filesharing hurting the CD business now says there is evidence.