Lawrence Lessig on US Presidential candidate Howard Dean's blogging efforts: "Neutrality aside, though, Governor Dean has earned a special respect. Of course there are issues on which I would disagree

The problem with blogging is it's easy to get distracted by ideas you can't do anything about. My previous post illustrates this. In it I railed against Microsoft for wanting to build its own proprietory

Robert Scoble has written a couple of posts recently about Microsoft products being a platform: 1. Robert quoting Kevin Warbach: "The Internet companies that have thrived while AOL faltered --

A lot of people are getting pretty excited about "social software". Bloggers like Joi Ito and Marc Canter are writing with gusto about social software. I'm hearing lots of trendy new acronyms

Tim O'Reilly writes in Dan Gillmor's comments: "Simplicity and extensibility should not be orthogonal. And any technology that sets them up as opposed, instead of complements, has clearly done something wrong." Note: orthogonal

I'm not usually one to quote long passages of other people's writing, but I can't resist quoting Scoble's post today about ants. In Robert's vision, the ants represent Microsoft employees

The subject of topics for weblogs is getting some traction in the blogosphere. There are some promising apps for topics, including k-collector and Topic Exchange. Recently I wrote a post, in

Don Park reckons that weblogs and websites will converge within the next 2 years time: "People [will] take it for granted that webpages can be edited using their browser. People

Robert Scoble: "...at Microsoft we call Internet apps that aren't in the browser 'Smart Clients'". The web browser is at a crossroads. Microsoft announced in 2003 that it would not release

News today that Userland CEO John Robb has left the company. Dave Winer says about Userland's future direction: "We're going to try to do something fun, unique, and powerful with UserLand's position