Two items carried over from yesterday --

State of the Blogosphere August 2005 Part 4: Spam and Fake Blogs
http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000335.html
>>>Today I will write about some of the darker sides of the blogosphere, including the increase in spam and fake blogs, comment and trackback spam. Along with the growth in the blogosphere (as reported in parts 1, 2 and 3 last week), Technorati has also been tracking an increase in the number of people who are trying to manipulate the blogosphere. First off, some defintions:
-- he doesn't use my prefered term: roboblogs.

Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly In Two Minutes
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/a...obile-friendly
>>>After checking out B. Adam Howell’s excellent IYHY.com site a couple of weeks ago, I thought it might be a good idea to write a little tutorial about how to make your entire site more mobile-friendly without even touching your pages. You may think that since you write valid code and separate structure from presentation at all times, your site already works great on mobile devices. You may also think bad things don’t happen to good people. In both cases, you’d be wrong.
-- this has some very nice and convincing examples. Would 770 owners prefer to go to a mobile-friendly version of a site even with the 770 having almost the viewing power of a desktop PC?

-- and now today --

Unhappiness drives open source adoption
http://www.cbronline.com/article_new...3-758193AE36BF
>>>A common reason why more governments and enterprises around the world are moving to open source software is unhappiness, it was revealed during a panel discussion at the LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco yesterday.
-- in my own case, I have been very unhappy with PalmOS, and PPC just sucks (and yes, I've used PPC; I own a dead GENIO).

ibiblio torrents
http://torrent.ibiblio.org/
>>>Providing BitTorrent access to ibiblio content
-- legal stuff; with Project Gutenberg ebooks too! Now all we need is a 770 BT client...

Take Your Pick of the Debian Litter
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplane...le.php/3526396
>>>Since Knoppix burst dramatically into the Linux scene there has been an explosion of Debian-based distributions. This is welcome news to us lonely souls who have long been preaching that Red Hat is not Linux. Linux covers a far wider spectrum, as a quick peek at DistroWatch demonstrates. You'll find everything from tiny specialized Linuxes that fit on embedded devices, USB keys, floppy diskettes, or miniature CDs, to full-blown "kitchen sink" distributions that fill a DVD. Red Hat deserves a substantial amount of credit for supporting Linux development, popularizing Linux, and spawning a host of other Linux distributions. Just don't think that Red Hat is all there is to the Linux world.
-- repeating: Maemo is based on Debian.

HTC 'to build' Palm's Windows-based Treo
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08...palm_treo_670/
-- cue "Taps" for PalmOS.

Open-source allies go on patent offensive
http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-5827...=st.util.print
>>>Two Linux allies are taking a leaf out of their opponents' book as they try to prevent software patents from putting a crimp in open source.

Linux licence revamp in the offing
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/...ge=1&pagePos=3
>>>The basic open-source licence covering software such as the Linux OS will be revamped and ready by 2007, according to an industry official involved with the project.

Slime Update:

Rupert Murdoch the New Barry Diller?
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2040
>>>Paid Content listened to Rupert Murdoch’s earnings call (bless them) and had this to report about Murdoch’s local musings (which are full of hubris of course): Murdoch sent a wake-up call to local online players, ticking off the lengthy list of local properties in the U.S.—35 o-and-o TV stations, 21 regionl sports nets, print, existing web sites. “We already have the assets to be a dominant player” in online local. “We go deeper with more resources than virtually anyone else … We plan to exploit that advantage.”
-- OK, if Crudmeister Murdoch, who is no slouch to exploiting things (and even wasting them, witness Delphi), says local search will be big, then you can count on it. I expect he has seen the 770 and that got him going.