DYLAN TWENEY
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Build It Free

Open-source development tools offer low-cost, high-quality options. BY DYLAN TWENEY ANDRIG MILLER first got excited about Java’s possibilities in March 1998, when Sun Microsystems released the initial version of the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification. But it was more than four years before Mil
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World Poetry Day on tinywords.

On March 21, more than 60 poets from around the world (India, Ireland, Trinidad, Australia, the U.S., Mexico, and more) submitted their haiku online, and I read them all aloud at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, thanks to a solid WiFi connection.
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CA web site scandal.

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.
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High-Tech Haiku.

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.
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Now They’re After You: Music Cops Target Users

From the April 2003 issue of PC World magazine Millions of people download copyrighted songs and even movies from the Internet with little fear of being caught. That’s about to change. “[The music industry is] starting to move down the food chain,” says Lawrence Hertz, a partner at New York law firm
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Internet fixes

by Kim Zetter and Dylan F. TweneyFrom the April 2003 issue of PC World magazine [author’s note: Kim wrote the main story; I wrote the six sidebars, the text of which is reproduced below. Be sure to get the magazine to see the excellent illustrations by Hal Mayforth!] Internet Fixes   E-Mail Programs
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MSN: Bork bork bork.

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.
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Blogs and fame.

Clay Shirky observes that the popularity of weblogs follows a power law: A few popular blogs get the most links and the most traffic; most blogs get very little of either. Jason Kottke makes the same argument, with better graphics. Dave Winer, typically, misreads Shirky’s essay (probably because it
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