http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/07/24/editing/ A wordy piece on editing and editors. There are many strong images and life lessons presented in order to praise editors.

http://gigaom.com/2007/07/16/the-immediate-media-age-of-b Nanopublishing is happening and this is what it looks like.

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21584&hed=Linux+Ready+fo “We’ve seen core demand in India and China,” Mr. Small said, citing an increase in requests for Linux-related customized deals. For example, he said one Chinese company recently signed a contract for 30,000 Linux laptops.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/_Microsoft_s_antiviru Microsoft is testing new ground with virus protection. I wonder how they missed the point of protecting their own products. Unfortunately, this reinforces a negative stereotype for the software monopoly. 

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/814 Look at Linux go. If you ever wanted to amuse yourself into thinking progressively, then think about this. Does your progressive strategies include windows?

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/56043.html More than 45,000 users over a three-day period agreed with a suggestion that Dell should "preinstall Linux" to cut the price of new PCs. A related suggestion that Dell offer new-computer buyers an option to have the open source suite OpenOffice preinstall

http://www.microsoft.com/business/momentum/content/article.aspx? The best way to guarantee that you are making good IT investments is to make sure that you have a clear and accurate budget to begin with. This article provides invaluable insight to the issue and the solution.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72752-0.html How do we leverage the power of solar in a lending economy? There is a real need for distributed power management in this changing market. People are able to maintain and manage their own power supplies.

http://www.tomdeluca.com/power_napping.htm# Power napping for team productivity.

http://news.com.com/5208-1030_3-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=2 Someone left an excellent comment on a story about the DMCA report for the copyright holder of the Electric Slide. I am curious to see how this all turns out. It would be interesting to defend a case that places something into the public domain.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/microsoft-slapped-with-1-52- Those federal juries in San Diego do seem to frown on MP3 patent infringement. They just ordered Microsoft to fork over $1.52 billion (yes, with a "b") to Alcatel-Lucent for infringing on two MP3 audio patents with its Windows Media Player, the largest pa

http://blogs.sun.com/lskrocki/entry/does_the_pope_surf_the According to Scoble's interview with Sister Judith, Director who runs the Vatican's website, she's not sure, but at about 11 minutes into the interview she confirms that Pope Benedict is interested in the web and her budget is increasing. She went on to s

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129202-c,tabletpcs/article.h Motion Computing created a tablet computer for medicine. A Mobile Clinical Assistant. (MCA)

http://www.jti.co.jp/sstyle/manners/ad/change/gallery/index0 Great use of graphic design. Japanese humor is just a little - different

Walt Mossberg on gmail 

Gmail has re-defined email experience. Google has utilized cutting edge framework tools in order to create an application that changes the way that we communicate. 

http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20050922.html 

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/apple-calls-music-firms-drop Steve Jobs writes an open letter to the music business. He is making a strong case for removing DRM. This places Apple on the side of open standards. As the market leader, Apple is in a good position to make a stand.

I hope that this guy learns how to breathe soon. I don't think that he takes one single complete breath in this entire presentation. 

http://valleywag.com/tech/google/25-things-to-see-at-the-goo How to design a blog post. There are few things as interesting as a map and story and images to go along with the invitation to learn more. This is how it all should be done.

This is officially the first post of my first blog.  I think it is fitting that it should be on Groundhog Day, since my high school played the Punxatawney Chucks (as in woodchucks) in football.  Plus it keeps with the rodent theme I seem to be developing.

Good news!  Looks like Phil predicts an early Spring!  My daffodils will be happy to hear that! 

 http://www.groundhog.org/prediction/