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Shelley Powers and Mark Pilgrim debate the politics and technology of XML and RDF. 

News.Com: "Roxio, which makes CD-burning software, is acquiring virtually all the assets of Napster, the former file-swapping company, for about $5 million in cash and stock." 

Dan Bricklin's first impressions of the Tablet PC. 

Comments on the dot-blog top-level domain. 

A picture named smokes.gifYesterday it was five months since I stopped smoking. I didn't notice. Lucas Gonze sent an email saying it's time for an update. He sure is right about that. It's funny that today I had really serious cravings for a smoke. Lesson learned. No matter how long I stay quit, I remain a smoker who doesn't smoke. Here's another funny fact about smoking. In my dreams I am still a smoker. Yet I know I've told everyone that I quit. I think of myself as dishonest in my dreams. When I wake I remind myself that it was only a dream. Oh yes, one other thing. Smokers smell terrible. I had heard it but never understood it. When I was a kid, before I started smoking, I thought smoke smelled good. Now it smells like a combination of chemicals and feces. But I still love to look at that pack. Every time I see it I want one. It's a way of teasing myself. Hey, what the heck. 

I've been looping back around to Instant Outlining. It needs a discovery mode, a way to find other people who are I/Oing. Postscript: Kevin Marks sent an email saying that's what Rendezvous is for. I sent an email back asking where the BDG is for Rendezvous.  

ExtremeTech: Sharman Announces Expanded KaZaA 2.0

Wired: "Warner Bros fears that a pirated copy of the new Harry Potter flick would surface online appear to be understated. In the days leading up to the film's release, and less than two weeks after its London premiere, file traders posted dozens of copies of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second installment in the popular series, on peer-to-peer networks. The film debuts Friday at theaters in the United States and Great Britain." 

Must-read Fortune article on venture capital in 2002. 

     

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