Dave Winer: Mind Bombs

We're in leak-mode on a new version of Frontier for an operating system that more people are starting to use.

Just for fun: Hyakugojyuuichi. Flash. [Scripting News]

James Hong: From Hot Concept to Hot Site in Eight Days.

Open-source firm reverses strategy. CNET Apr 5 2001 7:57PM ET [CNET]

Wired: The Hot New Medium is Paper. Really?

Benjamin Franklin: "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worthy reading, or do things worth the writing."

A candidate for a new Scripting News motto: "There's no such thing as a winnable war, it's a lie we don't believe anymore."

Dylan Tweney on the P2P conf: "So, what's the business model for this thing? Who knows? Who cares! This is cool!"

Josh Allen: "Well, chips are just software that has been compiled into silicon, and strangely, when you compile your code into silicon, you don't have the same crowd yelling at you to GPL it."

Forbes: Linking Like Minds. There is no shortage of people willing to freely give their time to their favorite sites, and certainly, companies are quick to reap the benefits. Mindful of the legal pitfalls, executives are hiring consultants to show them new ways to involve volunteers online without incurring liability.

Reuters: "Pope John Paul is considering naming Saint Isidore of Seville the patron saint of Internet users and computer programmers, Vatican sources said on Tuesday."

Looking for the next Web phenom? You just found it.

Pfieffer Report: "In a funny way, we are back to where publishing was before DTP came around: content creation and management is once again the playground of larger players, and requires heavy investment, just as publishing technology did before XPress arrived." Amen.

Inside.Com: "Jobs is quoted as saying: ''If enough people see the machine you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen.'''

MSNBC: Sony's Digital Dilemma. But now Sony has become the first top-tier consumer electronics company to make mainstream devices that play MP3s. It's an about-face as abrupt as record label BMG's recent embrace of Napster. When asked to describe Sony Music's reaction, one person at Sony Electronics said sheepishly, "They were pissed."

Fast Company: From June 1996; Ten Commandments for Success on the Net

New word: revelationary. Think about it.

Radio is the first Web server to do upstreaming, a necessary feature for servers running on users' desktops.

DW: Lest I forget to give credit, the seed of the idea for Desktop Websites came from the Cobalt Qube. They showed that the browser is a great way to configure a local server. The difference is that the computers we program have screens and keyboards, so we can view and edit the database on the same machine.

Earth at Night. Visible global warming?

Listening to an NPR interview with Wolfgang Puck. He's certainly a businessperson, a restauranteur, but he's also a cook and a teacher. It's generally assumed in the software business that you need a CEO who knows little about the product and users to run your company. I've always thought this was wrong. Software is more like a restaurant. Puck serves hamburgers at Spago in Orlando (kids like them). And macaroni and cheese. But it's Puck-style, not mass-produced, with fresh ingredients and a few weird spices.