By all accounts, Linux is doggedly continuing its march toward respectability and, perhaps, even boredom. Like a motorcycle-riding, leathers-wearing, tattooed CPA, Linux has a whiff of youthful danger and rebelliousness about it, despite being, in its daily work, rather dull.

Robert X. Cringely has an intriguing idea for a music business he calls “Son of Napster,” or Snapster for short.

Twelve years into the communications revolution sparked by the World Wide Web, companies are still searching for a product that will make it truly simple to create Web pages. The latest option, Bloki, is a useful tool for ad hoc page creation and collaboration, but it is not suitable for creating co

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday that the Children

According to Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library, “the world produces 1-2 exabytes (i.e. 1-2 billion gigabytes) of unique information per year, of which only 0.003 per cent is in printed form.” This article talks about efforts (by DSpace and other initiatives) to store up some of

THE SQL SLAMMER WORM began its rampage shortly after midnight on Jan. 25, 2003. Within days, the insidious piece of code had infected more than 120,000 computers, slowed Internet traffic, crashed sites and even disabled ATMs, costing companies an estimated $1 billion in lost productivity worldwide,

Kazaa and Altnet are creating a secure P2P network [http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-1011827.html] 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 [http://info.org.il/english/books_on_the_floor.html] 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 [http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml] from Michael Fagan. For a more technical introduction to RSS, see Mark Pilgrim’s explanation [http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html].

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.