Larry Dignan and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.
Andrew Nusca is a writer-editor for ZDNet, contributor to CNET and the editor of SmartPlanet, ZDNet's sister site about innovation. In 2013, his coverage will focus on enterprise startups. He is based in New York.
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This past Friday, before signing off for the weekend, I took Microsoft's Robert Scoble to task for what, in my opinion, was a grossly unjust review of the services provided by Technorati. Robert Scoble is the publisher of the very popular blog Scobleizer and I felt his coverage was unjust for two reasons.
Although I try to stay away from issues concerning the blogo-journosphere here on Between the Lines (it's just not very IT-related), I've decided to come out for a whirl of it today since someone else's coverage of the "blojosphere" draws some unfairly levied criticism at a company that I've been studying closely as well as some attention to the blogging/journalism rub.
A recent report by the NGA (National Governor's Association) Center for Best Practices reiterated the need for Governors to have strong, effective CIOs to manage their IT infrastructure. You might think this is a foregone conclusion, but some states still wonder, and each new wave of Governors struggles with the right mix anew.
Joe Kraus of Jotspot came by my office today and we chatted for about 30 minutes about how his wiki-based platform and applications are evolving. Joe has ample Web 1.
Two recent posts of mine -- one about the Apache/OASIS snafu and another that uses that snafu as an example of how commercial software vendors' long-time dalliance with open standards may turn out to be deals with open source devils (for them) -- have drawn heated debate regarding the confict over differences in open source licenses and those of so-called open-standards.
Yesterday's e-mail included an announcement from the folks at Creative Commons who were bragging about PBS's assignment of a Creative Commons deed to its NerdTV downloadable series of videos. NerdTV will feature interviews of industry luminaries by Robert X.
News.com's Elinor Mills looks at the underbelly of Google, as well as other sites or platforms that collect billions of user bits.
In the "what sand was my head in" department, by way of Bob Sutor's blog comes a reminder that the Apache Software Foundation's Geronimo J2EE server project has cleared the biggest hurdle towards earning its official J2EE 1.4 wings.
Today at Catalyst, Sun EVP John Loiacono announced that they are going to put their single sign-on solution under an open source license. The code won't be available until Q4 2005, but the Web site is up.