Sunday, February 29, 2004

Pew Internet: "44% of Internet users have created content for the online world through building or posting to Web sites, creating blogs, and sharing files." 

Yeah, you kill all the competition and then the talent pool dries up. People were choosing computer science as a career because they hoped to be the next Bill Gates, not because they wanted to work for Bill Gates. 

Howard Kurtz explains how internal politics helped bring down the Dean campaign, via Ed Cone. 

Howard Dean: "The quotes attributed to me by others in Howard Kurtz's gossipy rendition of the divisions in the Dean for America campaign are entirely false." 

Diego Doval raises some interesting questions about RSS validators. 

Doc Searls sums up the news of Clear Channel's cancellation of Howard Stern. According to Jeff Jarvis, Stern is moving to satellite radio. 

At first I thought I was looking at a horrible bug in my software, but it turns out the software was right and I was the one with the bug, 

Steve Outing: "A Times reporter wanting to write a personal blog on bee-keeping might be allowed to do it, but the paper's policy is that even such an innocuous blog must be approved by newsroom management." 

Slate: "Meet BitTorrent, the file-sharing network that makes trading movies a breeze."