Programming's two cultures Joel Spolsky is one of the great writers on programming today, and his essay on the differences between Unix programming culture and Windows programming culture — built around a review of Eric Raymond's new book, “The Art of Unix Programming — offers a slew of useful insights. (You don't need to be […]

Buck 65. A couple of months ago, I got a plain brown envelope at the office. It contained CD by something called Buck 65 along with a poorly-photocopied promo blurb from Warner Brothers. It got lost in the papers in a corner of the desk but just fell out so I stuck it in the […]

On Bulleted Lists and Evil. The recent polemic against PowerPoint by Edward Tufte (there‰¥ús a nice prÌ©cis over at Wired) has been echoing around the ideasphere, with coverage in the Times and in many blogs and mailing lists. I‰¥úm a frequent public speaker and care a lot about this; herewith some thoughts and advice, along […]

Copyright Doesn't Cover This Site. As debate over the legality of online file trading rages on, a University of Maine department takes a contrarian approach to copyright protection, creating a network where content is open to all. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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Are RFID Tags A Privacy Threat We Should be Concerned About?. As some of you may have been able to read from the news of the last few days officials participating at the World Information Society Forum in Geneva were provided with RFID badges (radio-frequency identification chips) having the ability to monitor the wondering and […]

In defense of proprietary software.. Having followed the debates at last week's World Summit on the Information Society, John Carroll has written an editorial special for ZDNET entitled In defense of proprietary software. [ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog]

Half the Things That Worry Me Most About WSIS Summarized in Two Paragraphs. Belarus KGB chief: Internet should be brought under control (10/12/2003): KGB should exert control over Internet, because international terrorism and organized crime more and more often use WWW. “We are trying to provide all the possibilities, and legal – fist of all, […]

Money and Power. John Blau in InfoWorld: “If the run-up talks to the world's first global Net summit in Geneva last week were tough, those to take place over the next two years ahead of the 2005 follow-up summit in Tunis,Tunisia, could be a whole lot tougher. Plenty of money and power are at stake.” […]