Rough Drafts

In its online portal project, the state of California paid one vendor $3.2 million and another $8.4 million without comparing prices or analyzing other factors, as called for in state guidelines.

Tomorrow, which is the first day of spring and also World Poetry Day, tinywords will be hosting the first ever world-wide, WiFi, ad-hoc, open-mike haiku reading.

I’ve got not one, but two articles in the April issue of PC World.

The Bork edition of the Opera Web browser behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. When you visit that site, the browser translates it into the language of the Muppet Show’s Swedish Chef.

I finally figured out how to override those nasty, tiny, fixed-point size fonts in Internet Explorer.

Clay Shirky observes that the popularity of weblogs follows a power law: A few popular blogs get the most links

Posting an unedited transcript, as I just did, is a disconcerting experience. It feels a little like taking off my journalistic clothes in public. But there’s a deeper reason why I don’t usually post transcripts like this.

Cory Doctorow fans and others might be interested in the full, unedited transcript of my interview with Cory Doctorow. The edited version of this interview was published on 1/23/2003 by SFGate.

Washington Post book columnist Michael Dirda indulges a fantasy that afflicts nearly every book lover at some time or another — the desire to run a literary magazine.

RLG is trying to take some of the library world’s background technology and bring it to the fore with a new Web application (still in development) dubbed RedLightGreen. If it works, it could do for the library stacks what Google did for the Web.