O'Reilly's Digital Democracy Teach-In -- Attendees at the
Digital Democracy Teach-In spent the day learning how to take back control
of a different sort of operating system. Daniel Steinberg reports on
keynotes from Joe Trippi, former campaign manager for Howard Dean; Wes
Boyd, co-founder of MoveOn.org; Scott Heiferman, co-founder and CEO
of Meetup.com; and many others. The power of the Internet is at the forefront of discussions all this
week at the Emerging Technology Conference.
Safari Gets Bigger and Better -- There are now more than 2,000 books from the industry's leading technical publishers available on Safari Bookshelf. As the library grows, so does its functionality: searches are powerfully precise and as broad or specific as you wish; and now, with a Safari Max subscription, you can download chapters to read offline. Safari will help you save time, reduce errors, keep current, and save more money than ever with up to 35% off print copies of your favorite books. If you haven't
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Listen to MP3s from ETech -- IT Conversations is hosting audio and transcripts of the keynote presentations from the Digital Democracy Teach-In and the Emerging Technology Conference. You'll find links to the MP3s, as well as the conference wiki, weblogs, news coverage, photos, and more, on O'Reilly Network's ETech 2004 Conference Coverage page.
OSCON Survey: Participate to Win -- Help us refine our program for the 2004 O'Reilly Open Source Convention by answering our OSCON survey. It'll take only five minutes, and participation makes you eligible to win one of two free passes to OSCON.
Brian Behlendorf: Open Source Luminary -- Writing for The Mercury News, Dan Gillmor profiles some of Silicon Valley's lesser-known business leaders and innovative technologists. Among them is Brian Behlendorf, the man who brought us Apache and the Apache Software Foundation, and the CTO of CollabNet.
The Electric Sheep Distributed Screen Saver -- Scott
Draves explains Electric Sheep, a distributed screen saver that harnesses
idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and
evolving artificial life forms. If this article intrigues you, meet up with
us at ETech for Scott's session
on Electric Sheep.
Did Amazon Listen? After all the controversy over Amazon's 1-Click patent, what's this about them receiving a patent for new features on their ordering forms? Tim O'Reilly explains that Jeff Bezos never said he'd stop filing for patents, but that he'd think twice before enforcing them in a potentially offensive way. Read about it in December's Ask Tim.
Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves -- In an article on ONLamp, chromatic looks at the myths and the realities of open source development and asks: are open source developers learning the right lessons from the successes and failures of other projects? chromatic is the author of Extreme Programming Pocket Guide.
Beyond Hacking the Xbox -- In this OpenP2P.com interview, Andrew "bunnie" Huang discusses flaws with the DMCA, the current states of reverse engineering and Moore's Law, what he's hacking now, and the talks he'll be giving at February's Emerging Technology Conference.
Wil Wheaton: Dancing
Barefoot -- Wil Wheaton--blogger, geek, and Star
Trek: The Next Generation's Wesley Crusher--gives us five true tales of
life, love, and the absurdities of Hollywood with unflinching honesty in
Dancing Barefoot, due to release as an O'Reilly publication in
December. Read Wil's blog announcement at wilwheaton.net.
Open Source at COMDEX Contest Winners -- We nominated 21 projects as
potential participants in the
Open Source Innovation Area at COMDEX, and you voted for the six that will
attend. Find out which open source projects will go where only commercial
software vendors have gone before.
