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.

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

Here is another Perl success story from Jay Lawrence, writing in to the mod_perl mailing list. EDDS is a customized document management system.

Macromedia Releases Flash Search Engine SDK

Here is a Perl success story that was originally posted by Chris Benson to the Perl advocacy mailing list.

Will offline (physical) distribution become CHEAPER than bandwidth?

Congratulations! It�s a book! After what seems like a long and difficult pregnancy, the MySQL Reference Manual, the first book in the new O�Reilly Community Press series, has been born. Oops -- I mean released.