Prentice Hall to Publish Bruce Perens 'Open Source' Books. Innovative content licensing seems to be catching on — even beyond the efforts of Creative Commons. Prentince Hall PTR recently announced that they'll publish a series of technical books under open-content licenses. Read the Slashdot story. Kudos to Bruce Perens for brokering the move, and to […]

US ads miss mark, Muslims say. America's image in the Muslim world slides, despite US campaign. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] it's an us themworld, even when them is us…

Tech doctorates decline 7 percent. The number of science and engineering doctorate degrees awarded in the United States dropped by 7 percent from 1998 to 2001, according to a new survey. [CNET News.com] why is this unsurprising?

iteration. White House Silent on Racial Controversy. Bill Back, the California Republican party's vice chairman running for the top job, sent out an e-mail newsletter in 1999 that reproduced an essay that said “history might have taken a better turn” if the South had won the Civil War and that “the real damage to race […]

Bookrolling. Just got pointed to a James Fallows endorsement of David Weinberger's Small Pieces Loosely Joined. Nice. (Thanks to Jed Miller for that link.) Bonus: Dr. Weinberger has hacked some handy DMCA disobedience ribbons. [The Doc Searls Weblog] rolling a book, i wonder about rolling a dissertation…. hmmm…

If It's Not On The Net, It Doesn't Exist. Plastic::SciTech::Internet: A report shows that a majority of Americans expect info to be on the net. But can we trust a survey that says only 25 percent of Internet users have Googled their own name? [Plastic: Most Recent] i think this speaks more toward the functions […]

Coffee Shops and Libraries. Check It Out: Coffee Shops Perking in Libraries what I've always imagined is a coffeeshop/bar/bookstore/library construction where the walls are lined with books that people could read library style, but there would be an area where one could buy certain books, but not really a full service bookstore. the coffeeshop section […]

Essential System Administration Pocket Reference. 6 Jan 2003: Daemon News reviews the bookEssential System Administration Pocket Reference.”Recently published, a companion to Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition (reviewed this month) is a quick pocket reference for the command, tools and important topics that can be found in the full book. Since it was done after the […]