Came across this cartoon by Eric Devericks yesterday, too good not share: ( Update: In case you missed it, the cartoon relates to this news .)

I've previously mentioned the Acid2 test designed for browser developers to test against. Chris Wilson, who leads the web platform at Microsoft, provides an update on the progress IE7 is making with respect to standards (I'm quoting the whole...

Todd Bishop at seattlepi.com quotes Bill Gates: "Bill Gates, speaking at Microsoft's meeting with financial analysts today, explained that the company believes the hardware specifications of its Xbox 360 and those of Sony's PlayStation 3 are both...

Kim Cameron responds to some of the Slashdot comments on the Seven Laws of Identity .

John Batelle : "Apparently Google has filed for a patent in "Incorporating targeted ads into information in a syndicated, e.g., RSS, presentation format in an automated manner." Uh Oh. TechDirt reports on this disturbing idea. After all, many...

Joel Spolky's article 'Hitting the High Notes' asks whether it makes sense to talk about having the 'best programmers?'. He provides some interesting data showing how some programmers can crank the code out 70% to 250% faster than others for the same...

Inside Microsoft : "‘ctrl-alt-del’ will now be known as : ‘hasta la vista’" hehehehe...

I can't talk about this right now . Update , (11:24pm PT) - embargo lifted .

Joe Gratz, a recent law school graduate has done a thorough job of disecting John Dvorak's opinion of the Creative Commons . From Dvorak's opening paragraph: "Dubbed the Creative Commons this system is some sort of secondary copyright license...

Molly E. Holzschlag provides an update on the progress made between Microsoft and the Web Standards Project (WaSP): " Since the announcement of the WaSP / Microsoft Corporation Task Force we’ve had two face to face meetings. ... We used our time...

Further to yesterday's rant regarding the potential of RSS for investors, Feed For All blog, describes how RSS is moving from its early application of blog to wider domains in the corporate space . "Even now, businesses that were initially reluctantly...

Blogspotting quotes Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati: "Sifry: I think RSS needs to be completely transparent. It’s like asking people to understand HTML in order to read a web site. That entirely limits your audience. Longhorn announced RSS being built...

Upon hearing the announcement of the $100m RSS Investements Fund one might react to the news that the fund is too narrowly focused (on RSS) to be successful. One example of of this view is Paul Ketrosky's comment : "While there are few hard and...

According to News.com : "A Pakistani girl has qualified as a Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of 9. Arfa Karim of Multan has officially become the youngest MCP in Pakistan, and one of the youngest in the world. Karim, now 10, met...

Adverblog : "The BBC is not immune from the money attraction, and is about to start selling advertising spaces on its website, but only to overseas visitors. In an interview published today on The Guardian Ashley Highfield, director of new media...

This Spartan Life has been doing its thing for a while - recordings of Halo2 action with stereo sound effects, voice, soundtrack music and a few frags thrown in for good measure. An interesting way of sharing an interview....! ( Via Minh at Channel...

I realise this is mundane, but sorry Robert Scoble, I feel duty bound to disagree with you as to whether video content delivered via RSS should be called a 'podcast': "Some groups call what they do "screencasts" (cause they are doing Flash videos...

My wife asked me what the word 'geek' meant. I wanted to be sure I gave the proper definition, so looked it up. One thing I didn't know was the origin of the word 'geek'. I'm not sure how credible to following is, but thought I'd share with you this...

I woke up, checked my BBC headline news feeds, 10 of which reporting the horrors of the bomb explosions in London today . This is Madrid all over again. I called my family in London, they are all ok. One of the bombs, at Edgware Road tube station,...

Robert Scoble interviews Microsoft's cheif identity architect Kim Cameron over at Channel 9 : "Kim Cameron has caused quite a stir with his Identity Blog . He came out with a whitepaper called "the Laws of Identity" which has caused quite a bit...

You'll have to pardon me, as I'm having one of those occasional 'wow, the www is amazing!' moments... Mike Rundle writes about his amazement with technology and reels off some of the things are enabled through technology. But for me, it is the Internet...

Brian Livingston at Datamation looks at some data provided by Feedburner based on the 70,000 RSS feeds they manage (via Dan Gillmore ). The data tells quite a story regarding the distribution of the RSS aggregator market. There are two tables of data...

Apparently the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) is hiring . I heard this via Church of the Customer ....does that count as WOMM?

From the press release at the Web Standards Project (WaSP): "Today Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0, currently in beta, create XHTML 1.0 transitional markup by default and provide real-time standards and browser markup validation. Developers...

Family is away...gives me chance to indulge in a bit of guilt-free Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow this weekend...if you are playing too add me to your friends list. My Xbox Live gamertag: alex101