Monthly Archives: July 2003

Letter to Romanesko: Want to be a real sportswriter? Got a photo? Got a hundred bucks? Okay, you’re in. Foxsports.com, which recently canned its entire writing staff, isauctioning off, on Ebay, the chance to be Foxsports.com’s NASCAR columnist and actually … Continue reading →

Just installed a security update from Apple, and now iChat AV crashes every time I start it up. Oh, well, I wasn’t having much luck getting the video working very well, anyway. Got some good advice and restored iChat 1.0, … Continue reading →

OpenOffice.org 1.1 is already available in the Release Candidate stage, but not on the Mac. For reasons that continue to elude me, the OS X version is grossly out of step with the other versions. It’s apparent that Apple and … Continue reading →

My older, wiser brother Steve has posted this item, “The Sound of Silence,” about how his RSS (Really Simple Syndication) newsreader alerted him to the reappearance of Ray Ozzie’s blog writings after a long absence. It helps you understand why … Continue reading →

Californians are fond of using the politicial initiative process, sometimes for good and sometimes not. But this exercise in direct democracy can, at times, be a useful check on an incompetent or corrupt government. So it’s time for Californians to … Continue reading →

Several folks have sent me e-mail saying they’re unable to post comments on this site. If this happens to you, please send me e-mail describing what happened when you tried, and I’ll forward to the tech folks who are working … Continue reading →

NYT: Pentagon , Justice Dept. evade 9/11 probe. In what they acknowledged was an effort to bring public pressure on the White House to meet the panel’s demands for classified information, the commission’s Republican chairman and Democratic vice chairman released … Continue reading →

Microsoft’s move to end stock options in favor of direct stock grants is a good one. Contrary to the hysteria you’re hearing from some quarters, it’s not a disaster for innovation in Silicon Valley, as the Mercury News’ Mark Schwanhausser … Continue reading →

John Lawlor is looking for lawyers who are willing to be interviewed for articles he’s writing about, guess what, law blogging. Contact him (not me) if you’re interested. Comments

I’m at the Supernova conference. Here’s the semi-official conference weblog. For some of the best real-time blogging (as usual), check out Cory Doctorow and David Weinberger. Former Federal Communications Chairman Reed Hundt just gave a powerful pitch for a national … Continue reading →