Nobel winner blames cultural decline on “blogging and blugging”
Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing recently used her time on the nobel stage to state that “blogging and blugging”, in addition to the increase in the use of the internet and television is causing the cultural decline. In the first sense, I completely agree with her, people [...]

Hey, Mike here. You may have seen me on the forums or in the chat (fishstickz), I’m taking the reins from Mark to get the Daily Links more… daily. I’ll try to post some stories and blog articles about Zenoss, as well as stuff from around the internets regarding open source, technology, [...]

IBM Wants SMBs to Buy i

This one made me take notice, in part since I was suprised a bit that IBM would pick System i, which runs OS/400, to go up against Microsoft in the SMB space, and not one of it’s Linux Systems, like p. This aside, I also found the last sentence [...]

MIT Gets It
I’m going to piss some geeks off with the following statement, and part of this is because way too many people in the technology industry wrongly equate Marketing with Spin, but alas, this is a topic for another time and place.  Here’s the statement:  Open Source has as much to do with marketing [...]

the free download isn’t a frivolous act
Tim O’Reilly points to an essay by Harvey Danger on why they are releasing their latest album on the net, additional commentary on the free download as well
Users that know to much (and the CIOs who fear them)
The battle continues to wane between the user and the corporate [...]