Rough Drafts

Kazaa and Altnet are creating a secure P2P network that will operate in parallel with the public Kazaa network — and will pay users to host files on the new network.

The Internet is like a huge library with all the books dumped on the floor. What’s the origin of this once-useful phrase? This page has an interesting discussion.

Technology companies are waking up to the opportunities opened by the music industry’s steadfast refusal to embrace online distribution of music files.

Here’s a nontechnical introduction to RSS from Michael Fagan. For a more technical introduction to RSS, see Mark Pilgrim’s explanation.

On a whim, I decided to pit MSN’s online version of the Encarta “encyclopedia” (part of MSN Learning and Research) against the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia available through Bartleby. The differences couldn’t be more stark.

Jonathan Rentzsch wrote a little JavaScript utility to help recover from 404:Page Not Found errors. It takes the current URL

A press release by Unix publisher SCO Group claims that “Linux is an unauthorized derivative of UNIX and that legal

A survey by Microdoc News shows that the most successful (and prolific) users of Google take an “experimental” approach to searching, first trying simple one-word or multi-word queries, then trying other, more complicated queries until they find what they’re looking for.

I edited the Spring 2003 issue of RLG News, which was recently published.