"Blogs are also powerful knowledge management tools. Two new business blogging products from Trellix and Traction Software show how that might work."

Business 2.0 - Web Article - Blogging for Dollars

There is no easy way to search for blogs by content or popularity. But a bevy of new sites offer interesting ways, if somewhat esoteric ones, to browse the blog universe.

A Nation of Bloggers and Googling by E-Mail

"At this juncture in the history of the software industry, more so than ever before, 10 years doesn't amount to a hill of JavaBeans--not when you're attempting to build up brand, distribution and customer loyalty in an increasingly fragmented and competitive market. "

This is a silly editorial. I can't think of anyone who is running 10 year old software outside of corporate legacy systems, and those are already paid for. But this guy gets reced for calling out Lessig in public.... :)

Why Larry Lessig gets an F

"Real estate agent Tara Sue Grubb is fed up with what she calls "individual rights sacrificed for big corporate politics." Grubb, 26, is running as a Libertarian candidate against North Carolina's Howard Coble, the 71-year-old Republican congressman whose public opposition to P2P file-sharing networks has made him the target of an online backlash. "

It begins. Wired is running a story on Grubb. A few arrogant comments from Coble are thrown in for good measure. A call for donations is made. I love Wired. They don't even pretend to be objective.

She Wants P2P for the People

I'd love to hear from IP readers who have adopted OS X. Were you switching from OS 9, Windows, Linux, or Unix? Are you still using your old system as well, or fully switched?

Read the results...Most people I know is all saying the same thing. /me licks Mac OS X. :)

O'Reilly Network: Mac OS X Switcher Stories [Aug. 21, 2002]

This is an interesting story. As previously memed, Grubb is running against Coble in North Carolina. Coble co-sponsored the P2P hacking legislation. Grubb is understaffed and underclued, but she is opposed to the P2P law, she has started a weblog, and she is talking to people in a few of the forums on Radio Userland. She needs serious assistance.

There is some amount of excitement starting to build about this in the weblog community. The weblog community wants to flex its muscles in front of Congress. This could coalesce into an effort to throw Coble out. If the internet gets behind Grubb they may be able to muster the resources to mount a serious campaign, but time is extremely limited, and this is a district which is gerrymandered for Coble. The Dems haven't run a candidate against him in years. He won the last election with 91% of the vote.

Its going to be interesting to see what happens with this over the next few days. If this spreads like warchalking it could be the biggest political upset of all time. Or it could be a complete dud.

I'm hopefull...

Tara Sue Grubb for Congress

More e-sheep comics. E-sheep rules.

Barracuda: The Scotty Zaccharine Story

"a journal for people
who love science fiction
as a literature of ideas "

This is interesting. A number of science fiction short stories and a short weblog by Bruce Sterling. For when you get sick of my political rantings...

The Infinite Matrix

"Declan McCullagh misses the boat at least twice in his August 19th column concerning the potential impact on computer science research of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."

Ed Felton slams McCullagh on DMCA...

Freedom To Tinker: Response to Declan's DMCA Piece

How? Here's the simplest thing we could do: identify 2 luddite members of Congress -- one Republican and one Democrat. Organize and defeat them in November. If Congress saw bad ideas cost seats, they'd begin to do something about their bad ideas."

I was complaining a few days ago that Lessig's fund raising wasn't the right answer and that we needed to organize computer people and actually throw someone out of Congress. And here he is planning exactly that! At this URL two people are IDed. Opposing candidates are IDed. This is good stuff. Whats important to understand is that its not important who wins or looses these campaigns, but the SIZE and VISIBILITY of the geek contingent. If we can demonstrate actual political muscle people will include us as parts of coallitions in preparing campaigns. That will get us the legislation we want.

Please make sure that everyone you know in the respective districts (10th IL, 6th NC) is aware of this. I presume that more organized information will be forthcoming.

Throw bad Congress people out this fall!