One of the oldest universities in the US has hopped on the Internet's hottest new trend, hiring software developer Dave Winer to help get students and faculty blogging.
As commercial interests have increasingly dominated the Internet, Web logs have come to represent a bastion of individual expression and pure democracy for millions of bloggers.
The example of a Baghdad blogger, typing away as the bombs fell, testifies both to the specific value of Weblogging as well as to the broader impact the Internet may yet have around the world.
Software developer Dave Winer disabled roughly 3,000 Web logs from his former company this weekend, a move that drew sharp criticism from some people in the publishing community.
In an attempt to lasso support from Google, a key proponent of the syndication format RSS has proposed that it merge with its challenger under the auspices of an Internet standards body.
A U-turn by Microsoft on abbreviating Web logs may portend a looming bandwidth crunch.
A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
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