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CNN.com: Rob Lowe to leave West Wing over salary dispute. Bummer.

Forgot to mention this last week when it ran in Internet World: Five Questions with Rick Klau.

No More JPEGs – ISO to Withdraw Image Standard, The Register – “The ISO standards body will take the unprecedented step of withdrawing the JPEG image format as a formal standard if Forgent Networks, a small Texan company, continues to demand royalties on a seventeen-year old patent.” [LLRX Newstand] Josh – looks like you’re not…

The BlogRoots authors are publishing their book on the Web, in its entirety. Chapter 8, Using Blogs in Business, is online now. Excellent. [Scripting News] The birth of a meme. I’ve now counted at least five separate sources of info on the blogs and business topic. And I got my copy of Information Week today…

Today’s Legal Headlines – here again, in outline format (with yesterday’s headlines collapsed). [Ernie the Attorney] Ernie’s doing good things with the Radio outliner and activeRenderer. See also his Copyright Outline. Like Ernie, I’m finding that the Outliner is a fantastic way to organize thoughts. I’m now using it in lieu of my Outlook Tasks…

Here’s a gem from former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold: “Software sucks because users demand it to.” [“Why Software is So Bad”, July/August Technology Review.] The article is a good read. But the ultimate conclusion is troubling: the author suggests that bad software is systemic in the industry, and that regulation is sure to follow. (To…

From the July/August issue of Technology Review: You’ve probably heard the Ford adage that a customer could have any color Model T he wanted as long as it was black. But have you ever wondered why the only choice was black? Because black was the fastest-drying paint.Great editorial by Michael Schrage about the nexus between…

EE Times: MIT prof critiques Europe’s wireless efforts. The “big deal” Negroponte was keen to stress was that the emerging world of ad-hoc, peer-to-peer wireless networks will lead to a world of intelligent devices that will in fact serve as a network. “For years, we have been saying we can get the intelligence from the…

Played with activeRenderer last night to make the blogroll behave. Check out the results – I’m pretty happy with the end result. (If you’re reading this in a news aggregator, just visit the home page. If you aren’t sure what a news aggregator is, it’s safe to assume you’re reading this on the web site…

Whoa, Will: Casting Pearls Among Swine. Listen closely because this is very simple. Call your CATV provider. Ask for the Internet access without television package. Buy this Buy this or this Buy this The problem now becomes>off the computer and on to your television, which sits in the same room as your couch. By which…