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Beijing photos online (14 September 2004)
We're back in the USA and -- importantly -- back on broadband connectivity. I've uploaded an unedited dump of our Beijing . . .
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RSS steps into mainstream (15 September 2004)
Three new technology previews demonstrate that RSS, the syndication format that's supported by most weblog platforms and increasingly by media sites, is . . .
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Registration: Dvorak steps it (17 September 2004)
In yet another case of a columnist not bothering to do his homework before writing, PC Magazine's John Dvorak spouts misinformation while . . .
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Value chain disruption in the media space (17 September 2004)
Fascinating discussions from Tim Oren and Jeff Jarvis on the declining value of media brands in an age of "Rathergate." From Oren: Rathergate . . .
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The stuff I've been working on
As mentioned recently, I've been cranking on a couple of big Web projects lately. At last, I can show them off a little:
  • At Belo Interactive, we recently launched a new Web site for Quick. That's the fast-read, free-distribution tabloid newspaper put out here in Dallas/Fort Worth by The Dallas Morning News. Though it's been public for a few days now, the Web site remains...
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    Eyetrack III: Lessons and questions for Web designers
    The Poynter Institute just released reports on the Eyetrack III user research on news Web sites. Simply put, this research method involves tracking users' actual eye movements and mapping them against other users' eye tracks. The method, combined with questioning and other forms of user experience research, can provide insights into Web consumer behavior. It can also lead to more questions...
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    Buzzing around Eyetrack III
    I've been watching the blog and list server reactions to Poynter's Eyetrack III research report. My take on it is already out there, but I'm a little concerned that maybe some corners of the Web design biz will try to shape it into something more than it is:
  • Anne Holland, in...
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    When design patterns become design standards
    Jakob Nielsen says "much of the Web is like an anthill built by ants on LSD." In his latest Alertbox, Nielsen restates the call for Web design standards -- meaning that certain design patterns and corresponding user behaviors become so common that they should be considered defaults. (That's not the same rally cry as the one for...
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    Challenge me on blog trend observations
    I observe, but can't prove, the following trends in the Weblog environment (I refuse to call it the "blogosphere") in recent months. Am I right or wrong?
  • Subject-matter-expert bloggers (designers, technologists, tradespeople, academics etc.) seem to be slowing down, in terms of frequency and depth of posts.
  • Political bloggers seem to be accelerating, logically, during the U.S. presidential campaign season. More posts,...
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    Integrating CSS with content systems
    From Digital Web Magazine, here's a tidy little article that lays out the case for wrapping Content Management Systems with Presentation Management Systems. Hear, hear!
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    Citizen reportage, digital photography and Flickr
    Photographic citizen reportage is on the rise at photo sharing site Flickr: With examples from the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta, Hurricane Frances and the Republican National Convention.
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    The End of 'Network News'
    Tom Rosenstiel on The End of 'Network News': "What happened this summer, and particularly last week, is likely to be recalled as the end of the era of network news. At the very least, mark this as the moment when the networks abdicated their authority with the American public."
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    No Disputing It: Blogs Are Major Players
    The last 4-5 days have been a wild ride with the bloggers, Dan Rather, 60 Minutes, CBS, Bush memo debacle. The issue touches all the key elements that have influenced the rise of participatory journalism. Here's our favorite quotes from a seemingly endless supply of reflection and commentary about this experience:
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    Pew: How Americans Use Instant Messaging
    A study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project reveals that 31% of IM users (about 16.5 million users) report using IM to send links to friends and colleagues about articles or web sites.
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    Jon Stewart: "Anybody with a Web site is part of the real media."
    Is Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's "Daily Show," comfortable as a member of the "real media"? asks the Sept. 17 issue of Entertainment Weekly (Pg. 11).
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    Rushkoff: The Real Threat of Blogs
    On his weblog, Douglas Rushkoff ponders the real threat of blogs: "I believe that the most dangerous thing about blogs to the status quo is that so many of them exist for reasons other than to make money."
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    Four new First Monday papers
    From the September and October installments of FirstMonday, a peer-reviewed journal on the Internet, comes four research papers that have importance to participatory media.
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    You Call That News? I Don't
    via Jeff Jarvis and Bertrand Pecquerie: "The ever-impressive Bryan Keefer of Spinsanity writes a smart, direct, and insightful open letter to big media about how it should be changing for newer, younger audiences in the Washington Post."
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    Memogate, Rathergate: Round 2
    On Monday, we posted our favorite quotes from all the articles about particpatory journalism's impact on Memo/Rathergate. And it just keeps on coming. Here's a few more from the last three days.
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    Which side is winning? Democracy.
    From an economic sense, Big Media is winning, and probably always will. And yes, Big Media are going through some growing pains in this new emerging media ecosystem. However, from an information perspective, participatory journalism benefits us all. And in that respect, democracy is winning.
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    Wiki finds mind space
    Wikis have been discussed in this blog. John Naughton, columnist for The Guardian goes on to describe the key characteristics of Wikipedia, the open source encyclopaedia in his Wicki's whacky. Mainly the amazing fact that a non-hierarchical approach is starting to out-class other renowned players in the knowledge field, such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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    Live hurricane coverage up now
    Both WWL and WDSU in New Orleans have posted live streams of Ivan coverage. And now, WPMI in Mobile. For more links, go to Lost Remote's hurricane page....
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    Hurricane live shot of the night
    CNN's Anderson Cooper and Rob Marciano can barely stand up during a perilous live shot from Mobile, Alabama. Marciano says, "I've spent my entire career as a meteorologist telling people not to go out in this things, and this knucklehead...
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    Best overnight coverage goes to CNN
    After watching CNN, Fox News and MSNBC into the night, CNN clearly provided the best live coverage of Hurricane Ivan (with Fox News in a close second.) MSNBC, meanwhile, wins the tacky graphic award. While running a great clip of...
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    Yet another Fontgate update
    Because you simply can't get enough of the Bush memo brouhaha... Washington Post: "If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story," admits Dan Rather. CBS News: Congressional Republicans turn up the...
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    MTV2 goes local with Cox
    MTV2 announced a while back it intended to launch local versions of its music channels, and now Cox is one of the first cable operators to step up to the plate. The localized MTV2 channels will feature regional concert calendars...
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    Microsoft flip-flop may signal blog clog
    Citing a bandwidth crunch, Microsoft stopping sending out RSS feeds of its Microsoft Developer Network blog -- then reversed itself after a flood of criticism. "RSS is broken," says Robert Scoble, a Microsoft techie who runs his own blog....
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    Listen to Mobile police scanner
    These guys are a little busy today. Great resource from AL.com....
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    Top broadband cities in America
    The cities with the highest home broadband penetration are San Diego, Phoenix, Detroit, New York and Sacramento. More stats in this story....
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    Fontgate Friday: What's the font type, Kenneth?
    NYT: Dan Rather vs. the conservatives - a history. AZ Republic: Reader calls for Dan to be fired. See above. Boston Globe editorial: Documents distracting from campaign issues. USA Today opinion: What bloggers are saying about Fontgate. Get your tinfoil...
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    lost&found 09.17.04
    Ever take something out of your school's lost and found just because you liked it? The first John Kerry on a Swift Boat videogame is out. You can download it for free, then pay $9.99 a month. NYT checks out...
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    Smart strategy or web confusion?
    The web tease at the end of last night's Apprentice read:Want to try tonight's winning flavors? Go to Yahoo and search for Apprentice ice cream. For even more Apprentice, go to NBC.com.It's part of a new split web strategy between...
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    The Weather Channel sets one-day record
    The cable channel pulled a 1.9 average on Wednesday, peaking at 3.6 when Hurricane Ivan first slammed into the Gulf Coast. (Thanks, CNNBlog!)...
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    That IS a dangerous intersection
    KWCH reporter Matt Mauro was in the middle of a live shot on a story on a dangerous intersection when two cars collided just feet behind him (incredible video here). Firefighters and paramedics saw the accident on TV and responded...
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    GM: 'Thanks, Oprah!'
    Now, here's how to do product placement. GM gives away 276 new Pontiacs to audience members during Oprah's season-opener. Not only does the press cover the story en masse, but traffic to oprah.com and Pontiac.com jumped more than 600% each....
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    Piracy forced Tuesday's "Star Wars"
    George Lucas hadn't planned on releasing the trilogy for three years -- but piracy forced him to bring it out now or "there wouldn't be a market left." Next stop for the official Star Wars franchise: a television series. Let...
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    Skype Continues to Amaze
    I'm in Copenhagen, and just got off the "phone" with someone who's in Beijing. We were both using Skype, and the connection was just fine. The communications revolution continues.
    From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 19, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..
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    Assault Weapons for All
  • E.J. Dionne (Washington Post): Staring Down the Barrel of The NRA. Sure, Bush says, he would sign a renewal of the (assault weapons) ban, which theoretically puts him on the side of the majority. But a president who was happy to bring excruciating pressure on Congress to pass his tax measures lifted not a finger to get Republican leaders in Congress to put the assault weapons bill on his desk.
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    IT University Talk, Video Demo
    Click on the image to the left (or click -->
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    Understanding the New Political/Media Sphere
    In a column on Forbes.com entitled "Bloggers and Blinders," Steve McGookin looks at We the Media in the political context. He raises, among other issues, a key question about the echo-chamber effect: our tendency to visit the sites we agree with, rather than seeking out information and opinion that might change our outlook.
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    The Comment Spam Arms Race
  • Mark Glaser (Online Journalism Review): Bloggers Declare War on Comment Spam, but Can They Win? Spammers find a way to game Google search results by posting links in comments sections of popular blogs. Now the makers of Movable Type and bloggers are banding together to try to keep real-time interactivity alive in the blogosphere.
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    Meg Follows Her Heart...
    ...From Geek to Chef, with all good wishes from here.
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    Iranian Blog Crackdown
    The latest from Hoder on Iranian weblogs is not good news. However, he does point out that Iranians trust the Net more than any other medium at this point. No wonder.
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    Media, Blogs, Truth and Consequences
    (This is also my column today in the San Jose Mercury News.) I still don't know whether Dan Rather and his colleagues at CBS News' ``60 Minutes'' show got snookered by a memorandum-faking con artist when they reported on documents that raised new questions about President Bush's National Guard duty. As a journalist I hope they didn't, though I suspect they did. And while doubts about the memo's authenticity were first raised on the Int
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    Open Thread
    I'm on the road for the next 18 hours or so. Your thoughts go below. Please behave.
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    Earthlink Says Keep the Net Open
    Earthlink, the big Internet service provider, has released Sipshare, which it calls "a simple, SIP-based proof-of-concept content sharing application, demonstrates the viability of SIP as a protocol over which peer-to-peer (P2P) applications other th
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    Firefox and RSS; Question about Closing Tabs
    The new version of Mozilla Firefox is out and supports RSS. Don Park calls the RSS support "crappy and useless." Question: One of my favorite features in Safari for OS X is the little circled X in each tab, so you can close it by clicking on the actual tab instead of having to go all the way to the right side of the window in Firefox to click the close-the-tab X there. Is there any Firefox add-on that makes it do the same thing
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    Book Notes
  • Jay Rosen and I had a long conversation at a journalism conference.
  • Bill Moyers commends the book in this speech at a recent journalism conference. (Read the whole speech; it's extraordinary.)
  • CNN's Christine Boese asks, Will cyber journalists turn the tables on big media?
  • Ed Brill has a -->
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    The CBS Implosion
  • Tim Ruten (LA Times; reg req): Rather went on faith, not facts. CBS' initial report on President Bush's National Guard service was an embarrassment to Murrow's legacy. But the implications of that mistake pale alongside the potential consequences of the network's continuing refusal to do what the situation now demands: to forthrightly admit error, to undertake an independent inquiry and, then, to give a clear public accounting of how this ha
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    News with a Human Filter
    CNet's "News.com Extra" is "The Web filtered by humans, not bots," and I've been watching it develop since its July launch. It's getting quite useful for my daily work in watching the tech world. Give it a try.
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    Some Instructions in Online Participation
    Little Billy learns how to post in this animation. Funny.
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    KQED's 'You Decide' wins $10,000 award for innovative journalism
    'You Decide,' KQED's original monthly Web series that created a novel way to present multiple sides of a news story, today won the $10,000 Grand Prize in the Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism....
    From CyberJournalist.net on September 19, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..
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    Athens NBCOlympics.com traffic more than doubles Sydney games
    NBCOlympics.com attracted 12.2 million visitors, a 230% increase over Internet traffic for the Sydney games....
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    Remembering the Darkest Day
    An incredibly deep, integrated multimedia package from MSNBC.com, with maps, animation, photos and audio. (Disclaimer) Here's a look back at some of the best coverage from Sept. 11. And some of the best coverage from the one-year anniversary....
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    Bloggers drive Bush memo probe
    From Cnet: The Bush memo story has shown the Internet's broader power of linking thousands of readers together, as much as it has demonstrated the intrinsic power of blogs themselves.......
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    New Yorker posts Monkey Bowl's humorous 'Al Gore' tune, but buries it
    This is hilarious. The latest political humor making the rounds online -- and the best since JibJab's "This Land!" -- is the song "Al Gore" by Monkey Bowl, from The New Yorker. Fantastic use of the Web. Well, kinda. Here's...
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    International Video Reporting Award
    For the first time, there is an international award for films made by independent video reporters who work on small digital video cameras and powerful laptops. The International Video Reporting Award is an international competition for short, innovative, non-fiction digital...
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    The real threat of blogs
    "I believe that the most dangerous thing about blogs to the status quo is that so many of them exist for reasons other than to make money," says author Douglas Rushkoff. "A thriving community of people who are engaged for...
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    Football salaries database
    USA TODAY's football salaries database contains year-by-year listings of salaries for National Football League players, from the 2000 season through the most recently-completed season. You can search the salaries and bonuses for specific players, plus median and total salaries for...
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    Online Iraq Media Survey
    What do you think about your organization's coverage of Iraq? Does American media coverage REALLY differ from European coverage? Help American University School of Communication find out. Fill out a short (under five minutes) survey about your organization's coverage for...
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    APTN to create world's largest commercial digital video library
    APTN is launching a major digitization and e-commerce project that aims to become the world's largest digital commercial library, with thousands of hours of footage available for viewing. APTN Library clients will be able to view all digitized material and...
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    New money & politics resources
    The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication have launched a good new resource on money and politics -- The Money and Politics Blog, tracking the latest campaign finance coverage, story...
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    CNNenEspanol.com shuts down
    CNN has shut down its Spanish-language new site, CNNenEspanol.com, because it wasn't making money, replacing it with a TV promotional site. "Like many companies, business conditions have forced us to rethink our interactive strategy, resulting in the streamlining or closing...
    From CyberJournalist.net on September 19, 2004 at 9:14 a.m..
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    Top news sites for August
    Here are the Top 20 Online Current Events & Global News Destinations for August from Nielsen//NetRatings....
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    NewsOK.com's redesign
    NewsOK.com, the impressive converged Web site of The Oklahoman and NEWS9, has launched an extensive redesign. Kelly Dyer, NewsOK.com's general manager, tells CyberJournalist.net, "We were due for a redesign. We took info from Mori's Power User study and incorporated many...
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    Registration? For What?
    Some mainstream people are now arguing against newspaper website registration policies, people who even get mentioned in Poynter's E-Media Tidbits when they make the case. "Exactly what is the point of requiring registration? Is it to prove that the person exists? Is it to stop bots from scanning the sites, and so make sure that none of the content is properly indexed for everyone to find? Or is it to irritate people and keep them away? I think that in the case of American newspapers, it's done to keep people away." By John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine, October 5, 2004 [-->
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    Back to School Means Back to Advergames
    Bonnie Bracey in WWWEDU raiuses the question of whether advertising ought to be allowed inside educational games directed toward children. "This is flying under the radar screen of most parents and teachers," said Jeff Chester, executive director at the Center for Digital Democracy. Although some may argue that such advertising is innocuous, online games have, as I observed a few months back, the capacity to sensitize or desensitize their players. By Sue Zeidler, Reuters, September 15, 2004 [
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    Online Adversaries
    Via MANE IT Network: "The creators of TheFaceBook, a very successful college student social software system, are being sued by a group of students who allege they came up with the idea first." I had never heard of it, but "Thefacebook has 284,000 users at 99 colleges, and on many campuses it has become the primary tool to get someone's phone number, form a study group, or scope out inte
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    RSS Wave: Good Examples Of Newsmaster Sites
    Sometimes the best way to make your point is with a few examples, and Robin Good steps up with a series of examples of what he calls 'NewsMasters'. Yes, this site is included among those examples, but the range of cases cited include a Harry Potter update site, Game Blogs, and some health and alternative medicine sites. By Luigi Canali De Rossi, Robin Good, September 17, 2004 [Refer][Researc
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    A Weblog For Every Student
    People doubted my claim a month or so ago that there would be tens of thousands of teachers using weblogs this academic year. I have no real stats on this (and no way to get any) but the University of Warwick seems bent on making the prediction come true all by itself as it offers a weblog for every student. As David Davies says, "It'll be interesting to see what the take-up is once the new university term gets underway." By David Davies, Edtech, September 16, 2004 [Refer][
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    Searching for Creative Commons on Yahoo!
    This is something we've needed for some time - a way to search and find only that content we can use. Google, meanwhile, doesn't reliably let searchers know whether the link they're following is free, registration or even pay. Bad Google, bad. By Neeru Paharia, Creative Commons, September 17, 2004 [Refer][Research][-->
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    E-Learning Business Models in the Web Services Era?
    I'm not big on web services - I have yet to see a fast one - but the concept of web services, allowing third party applications exchange data with yours, is a good one. And it's interesting to observe the slow lurch toward that sort of interoperability in the education technology field. Derek Morrisoin has an insightful point here - perhaps it's the emergence of free and open source software pushing the way forward. Perhaps it's causing more of a ripple in our community than we think. By Derek Morrison, Auricle, September 17, 2004 [-->
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