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march, 2002 | salon.com. Mozilla's revenge. "Free software, it appears, doesn't need to follow a time line, if there is enough energy behind its development. To a company obsessed with quarterly earnings reports, a four-year time scale is unimaginably long -- but for geeks who like to hack, what's a year here or a year there? Progress can accrete -- it doesn't matter if the software improves at a glacial pace, if it never stops improving. Eventually it will get really, really good."

march 2002 | techreview. Wal-Mart Trumps Moore's Law. the true corporate leader driving productivity improvement over the past decade has been Wal-Mart.

january, 2002 | bbc. Paul Rusesabagina. There were few heroes during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Churchmen, statesmen, the United Nations all turned their backs as almost a million Tutsis were hacked to death in the streets and fields.

january, 2002 | guarduan. Free software survives downturn. While it is true that, almost without exception, the new free software businesses are having a tough time, this does not mean that open source is fading from the commercial computer scene. If anything, its profile there is higher now than ever before.

November, 2001 | the register. Do-it-yourself Internet anonymity.

September, 2001 | Arundhati Roy. The algebra of infinite justice. Operation Enduring Freedom is ostensibly being fought to uphold the American Way of Life. It'll probably end up undermining it completely.

August, 2001 | NYTimes. Greenspan Stands Alone. It's a dismal picture: a combination of intellectual confusion, narrow-minded officials and sheer fiscal folly has removed most of the tools that the world's major economies might be able to use to help us get through these troubled times.

July, 2001 | salon. Revenge of the file-sharing masses!. By smashing Napster, the music industry has pushed its customers to seek alternatives that won't be so easy to shut down.

july, 2001 | joel on software Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To It.. getting good software over the course of 10 years assumes that for at least 8 of those years, you're getting good feedback from your customers, and good innovations from your competitors that you can copy, and good ideas from all the people that come to work for you because they believe that your version 1.0 is promising. You have to release early, incomplete versions -- but don't overhype them or advertise them on the Super Bowl, because they're just not that good, no matter how smart you are.

july, 2001 | wired. ISPs' Free Ride Over in Sweden?. The idea behind Lövbrand's company TRIC, which stands for "true revenue for Internet content," is this: Online media band together in a united front to force ISPs to pay for distributing their material. Using proprietary software, TRIC will filter out ISPs that refuse to pay up.

June, 2001 | ojr. Content Management for the Masses. As CMS technology progresses, journalists and small publishers stand to benefit enormously. And it's likely that no single solution will emerge as the way to go. Do-it-yourself software will likely adopt functions of turnkey systems, and turnkey systems will almost certainly add some form of Web logging. Hybridization is underway that blurs the line between high-end publishing systems and what can be had for cheap to nothing.

May 2001 | jon udell. Telling A Story : The Weblog As A Project-Management Tool. I'm convinced, more than ever, of the value of weblogging as an important new form of business communication

May, 2001 | zdnet. Windows NT a high risk system administrators working on open source systems tend to be better trained and stay with their employers longer than those at firms using Windows software

April, 2001 | Economist. Time to rebuild Ironically, it now looks as though the greatest beneficiaries of B2B will be large old-economy firms such as GE, which will use online purchasing to squeeze their suppliers; and established software firms, which will sell them the software to do it. Most independent public exchanges are dead already, and things are not looking good for fledgling B2B software firms either. So much for the dream of friction-free capitalism levelling the playing field between large and small firms. Contrary to expectations, the lesson of B2B seems to be that big is beautiful.

April, 2001 | BBC. BBC News | SCI/TECH | Scientists threaten journal protest In September this year, many scientists could stop sending in papers to journals and refuse to renew subscriptions to them in support of a plan to create a huge Public Library of Science (Plos) on the internet.

April, 2001 | Philip Greenspun. ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up "like watching a group of nursery school children who've stolen a Boeing 747 and are now flipping all the switches trying to get it to take off"

April, 2001 | Boston Globe. Web entrepreneur, financiers battle Philip Greenspun is learning the bitter lesson that's become familiar to many high-tech entrepreneurs: Venture capital funding can be a quick way out of a job.

April, 2001 | Business Week. The Davids of E-Commerce A recent study from Alexa Research suggests that Internet traffic is gradually diffusing from the biggest sites toward the smaller ones. That's contrary to the conventional wisdom that activity is concentrating at the biggest e-tailers.

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