links for 2007-03-23

opt-in vs opt-out. The flipside of “user” generated content.

Sign up to G8 petition on climate change, if you care about, or believe, we have a problem on our hands.

PRs should blog, as per Alex’s suggestion. But delivering press releases via RSS leaves me cold. The value of blogging, to me, is in humanising news.

I had not realised Google appliances was a enterprise channel sales-based approach. interesting.

I think WADL might have some value, as long as people don’t start trying to come up with a central server in the sky approach to storing these descriptions like UDDI. Standardised descriptions can be very helpful in enabling contracts, but REST really do

cool

“I’ve discovered at IBM, mainframes are not a dying technology, in fact the longer I’m in IBM watching what customers are doing, the more I’m realizing that mainframes are actually a window into the future of where other platforms (x86/RISC) are hea

Thoughts on setting up an a policy for Enterprise use of open source, including contribution as well as adoption

Optaros policy on open source. Point one confuses me – because if the software is developed as FOSS, then Optaros *doesn’t* “own” it, thus points 1 and 2 contradict each other.

African music MP3s

Sorry Merrill Lynch but you just can’t fight this. Information really does want to be free. Get open- its the only way to live. Research should be open source. Take a lesson from the music industry – which tried to put the drawbridges up… and is now in

Fantastic brave. smart article on Design, and why designers suck He even calls out Jonathan Ive for not designing sustainability into Apple’s packaging and manufacturing processes. Love this: “‘ve redesigned my job at Business Week from the Voice Of Autho

only in England. site tracking milk bottle of the week…