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O'Connor, First Woman on High Court, Resigns After 24 Years. Her departure is likely to ignite a passionate ideological battle throughout the summer. By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and LINDA GREENHOUSE. [NYT > Home Page]

Dell misses chance to make influential happy. Jeff Jarvis learns that Dell is not watching blogs and gives them hell for it. I agree. If you aren't listening to the new word-of-mouth network you'll miss opportunities like this to make influentials happy.  [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

The FCC Loses its Memory. One non-Supernova event signficant enough to note here. Bob Pepper, Chief of Policy Development at the FCC and my former boss and mentor, is leaving the Commission. (He just told me the internal email went around announcing his farewell party, so that makes it official!) Pepper is irreplaceable. He's the… Continue reading The FCC Loses its Memory

TextDrive seeks to sweeten control with Rails application. TextPanel is the name of TextDrive’s effort to modernize Webmin and the whole of branch of control panel software. They’re hard at work on it. And it’s going to be a Rails application, of course. Like all the other management software they’re building over there. The first… Continue reading TextDrive seeks to sweeten control with Rails application

Taking Ajax higher with next Rails release. Thomas Fuchs has been doing awesome work building on top of Prototype (the Javascript engine driving Ajax in Rails) to bring us script.aculo.us: Better effects and drag’n’drop capabilities. Together with the upload progress enhancements from Sean Treadway, we’re going to have a big upgrade to the Ajax capabilities… Continue reading Taking Ajax higher with next Rails release

Asterisk. By nat Asterisk is amazing. I remember PBX systems being the mainframes of the business telephony world: huge expensive systems that trapped you with a vendor. Now you can bring up a Linux box to manage your company's voice systems in a matter of days, with more features than you could afford in hardware.… Continue reading Asterisk

Tacit knowledge and cortical algorithms. When I had dinner recently with InfoWorld Contributing Editor Phil Windley, he put his finger on something I've been trying to nail down for years. Like me, Phil works mainly in a home office, is married to a nongeek, and is often called on to deliver spousal tech support. From… Continue reading Tacit knowledge and cortical algorithms

microformats.org Launched. Officially announced at Supernova2005 earlier this week, a new community-based site has been launched to be the official home for microformats — with a logo and simple site design from SimpleBits. microformats.org contains anything and everything you'd want to know about microformats, how to implement them, who's involved, and how to join the… Continue reading microformats.org Launched

NeoOffice/J 1.1 Finally Released. After five years of development, NeoOffice/J is finally released. From the announcement (found in a NeoWiki cache): The goal of NeoOffice/J is to provide an entirely free and complete Mac OS X office suite based on the international OpenOffice.org project — only with the look-and-feel you'd expect from any Macintosh application.… Continue reading NeoOffice/J 1.1 Finally Released

OPML.   Tinderbox 2.5 imports OPML — an XML interchange format for outlines. If you've got an OPML file that would be nice to import into Tinderbox, send it along and we'll test it.  [Mark Bernstein]