Monday, May 9th, 2005
Among the occasional emails that drop into my inbox are ones from Tony Mobily who edits the Free Software Magazine. However, the one that I got today was not the usual one in the business of journalism - rather it was a pointer to an editorial (or a pill as ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
O'Reilly's XML.com just published my article describing the track2rss project.
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2004
Two newsites (RIA and Lenta.ru) reported today that Russia has asked Interpol to declare Yulia Timoshenko, a very popular member of the Ukraine's opposition, a fugitive. It is well known that Russia opposses the Ukraine opposition since it is pro-Western. But to resort to such dirty tricks in public by ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
An interesting NewsForge article makes a very good point about web standards and browser wars:
In my 2002 book, The Online Rules of Successful Companies, I said it was stupid to design Web sites that would work correctly only with the most popular Web browser. Yes, I told readers, over 90% ...
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
Newforge is carrying an interesting interview with Larry Rosen, general counsel for OSI. Among some of the more interesting tidbits:
And the second point: I don't have any basis for making the statement that the patent itself is valid or invalid. First, no one has seen the patent, because it is ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2003
This is written in response to a recent column by Walter Mossberg that was printed in the Wall Street Journal. In this column, Walter calls challenge/response technology "the only truly effective method for fighting spam". The following response from myself was sent to Walter.
It is hardly possible to call C/R ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2003
A recent CNET article (http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5077530.html) slightly misquoted me but that has been fixed.
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