Lead Story: Blogging
Weblogging or blogging is a relatively new phenomenon, and an interesting
decentralized social commentary and information propagation network. It has
earned itself both accolades and criticism.
Blogging grew out of online journals and diaries, of people simply documenting
their day, or covering interesting things they had read on the web. Wikipedia
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogging) offers the following definition:
“A weblog, or simply a blog, is a web application which contains periodic,
reverse chronologically-ordered posts on a common web page. Such a web site
would typically be accessible to any Internet user. Part of the reason ‘blog’
was coined and commonly accepted into use is the fact that in saying ‘blog’,
confusion with server ‘log’ is avoided. Blogs run from individual diaries to
arms of political campaigns, media programs and corporations, and from one
occasional author to having large communities of writers. The totality of
weblogs or blog-related webs is usually called the blogosphere”.
Big Gun: Don Marti
Don Marti, a graduate of Indiana University, is Editor-in-Chief of Linux
Journal. He is responsible for directing the editorial content of the magazine
and its web site, LinuxJournal.com. He is best known for his outstanding
support of the Linux community as a whole, and his community activism. Don
helped organize Windows Refund Day and Burn All GIFs Day. He co-founded
Electric Lichen, LLC, and joined VA Software (formerly VA Research) when
it acquired his firm in 1999.
Doing it:Workrave
Open Source Means Business: Brett Strydom, Systems Engineer
What is hot: Drive By Internet
Geek of the Week:Alastair Otter
