MyFreePress.com has a great tag line.  “Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one” [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

I find this weblog intriguing. Centerbeam is a famous company, started by Sheldon Laube, from Novell and US Web. I wonder who the blog is for?   [Scripting News]

Vintage Tourist Poster Stamps “The USPS is issuing these great retro tourist-poster stamps, one for each state, tomorrow (wish they'd do a matching line of luggage-stickers!). The USPS site is down as of this writing, but here's a mirror of the sheet.” [bOing bOing] This is totally cool! I used to collect stamps when I was… Continue reading Vintage Tourist Poster Stamps

Managing Einsteins:Leading High-Tech Workers in the Digital Age “In many workplaces, especially high-tech ones, managers and those they manage are operating on parallel tracks, with different sets of motivations, expectations and rewards. How to keep tech workers happy, given that they likely don't want the same things as their bosses, and certainly would choose different… Continue reading Managing Einsteins:Leading High-Tech Workers in the Digital Age

Wired News: Judges Blast Library Filtering. The U.S. Congress' third assault on Internet pornography appears likely to meet the same ignoble end as the previous two. A two-week trial over library filtering ended Thursday with a trio of judges criticizing the CIPA as an unreasonable intrusion into the rights of Americans to view legal material… Continue reading Judges Blast Library Filtering

Boxes and Arrows: The story behind Usability.gov. Today, Usability.gov has earned a following among technology professionals. For the uninitiated, Usability.gov is a one-stop source for government web designers to learn how to make websites more usable, useful, and accessible. [Tomalak's Realm]

Law Is Free “After following the initial progress of the Radio community, I've come to believe that this type of web publishing will have a widespread and drastic effect on the development of the law. By changing the way court opinions are published, I believe the law itself can be transformed in the same way… Continue reading Law Is Free

“7. Librarians: A Keystone SpeciesIn this chapter, we recount our anthropological studies of reference librarians, some of our favorite people. We discuss the hidden work they do, and we show how they are a “keystone species” in many of today's information ecologies. We feel librarians are more needed than ever as the volume and diversity… Continue reading

“7. Librarians: A Keystone Species
In this chapter, we recount our anthropological studies of reference librarians, some of our favorite people. We discuss the hidden work they do, and we show how they are a “keystone species” in many of today's information ecologies. We feel librarians are more needed than ever as the volume and diversity of information on the Internet grows.”

The above is from a book called Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart

Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL. Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL offers web developers a mixture of theoretical and practical information on creating web database applications. Using PHP and MySQL, two open source technologies that are often combined to develop web applications, the book offers detailed information on designing relational databases and… Continue reading Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL

Joel on Software. “Whenever somebody gives you a spec for some new technology, if you can't understand the spec, don't worry too much. Nobody else is going to understand it, either, and it's probably not going to be important. This is the lesson of SGML, which hardly anyone used, until Tim Berners-Lee dumbed it down… Continue reading Joel on Software