Business 2.0 on The New Startup. I saw this article in Business 2.0 pass by the other day, but just noticed it again via Dave and realized that as I'm actually a Business 2.0 subscriber I all I had to do was type in my name and address to get the whole story. Nice! Written [...]

The minefield of hiring a hacker. If you haven't heard lately Sven Jaschen, the author of many variants of the Netsky and Sasser worms was hired by the German security company Securepoint to be a developer on their security software, including things like their corporate firewall suite. In recent worms, hackers have been so bold [...]

ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN (JetBlue Airways). “Over the past 30 years in this country, there have been only two successfully sustained airline startups. The first was Southwest Airlines, which has been flying high since the 1970s by offering everyday low fares and is now the highest-valued airline in the world by market capitalization. The [...]

What the CEO Wants You to Know. “'What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works' should go into your carry-on next time you fly. It's the 'Don't Make Me Think' for business, one of those wonderful thin books that you can read on a cross-country flight (twice, I suspect) and leaves [...]

Earth to Bill: Please return immediately. The Linux/Mozilla/Firefox people couldn't dream up a better scenario. Microsoft recently decided to stop issuing security updates for Internet Explorer on anything other than Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server. Every Windows 98 and Windows 2000 system out there now becomes a giant security hole! For many of these [...]

SpamAssassin 3.0. SpamAssassin 3.0 is out! Notable in this release is the inclusion of a check against the Spam URI realtime blocklists (a huge help in the fight against spam), use of Sender Policy Framework tests (a huge help in the fight against fraudulent return address information), better integration with databases for storage of preferences [...]

WP. Government siezes airline traveller data. Moving towards a world of “verified” people. It's only a matter of time before this system is applied to control entry into almost all “areas of interest.” At that point, if you are arrested in an illegal protest or write something questionable online, you could become an non-person. [John [...]

Lind. Destroying the National Guard. The real scope of the damage of Mr. Rumsfeld’s decision to send the Guard to Iraq – 40% of the American troops in Iraq are now reservists or Guardsmen – will probably not be revealed until units return. One of the few already back saw 70% of its members leave [...]

MarsEdit And NetNewsWire Icons. Here’s Bryan Bell on designing the MarsEdit And NetNewsWire icons. His post includes some versions of the app icons that I myself never saw. Also see Jon Hicks on designing icons for NetNewsWire (including a hack I mentioned previously for switching to the all-Jon-Hicks set). [inessential.com]

Information Managers, Librarians, it's all the same–right?. An article in the Detroit News discusses the rising demand for corporate librarians, but the article really applies to all librarians. A nice short article that helps educate the public about what we really do: Gone are the days of shushing and the Dewey decimal system, of linoleum [...]