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It appears that Scott McNealy has stepped down from the CEO position at Sun Microsystems after over two decades of service. The most famous of Sun bloggers, Johnathan Schwartz, will be taking over at the helm.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday Jonathan Schwartz will replace Scott McNealy as chief executive of [...]

Steve Rubel, whom I had a chance to meet this week and really enjoyed my time(Jeremiah’s write up), has blogged about wanting to have an RSS appreciation day. The only problem is that maybe it shouldn’t be an “RSS” day, maybe it should be a “feed” day. What are we appreciating here? I think [...]

Lately it seems that the MySpace economy has overshadowed the iPod economy. But there are still these stories that make you think, “Wow, that totally works.”
From iLounge:
IPac today announced that it has shipped the first 12 iPods to Senatorial campaign committees as part of the group’s “Your Senator Needs an iPod” campaign, which [...]

Luke Metcalfe of Rapint technologies, a good friend of mine, has just announced the release of StateMaster which allows you to compare and contrast statistics on a state to state basis. This is a further compliment to Luke’s very successful NationMaster.
From the press release:
Following the resounding success of NationMaster, the world’s largest collection of country-based [...]

Rebecca Lieb of Clickz wrote an article today entitled, “RSS Means Change Your E-Mail Opt-In Model”
In the article Rebecca describes some positives of RSS…..
Now, thanks to the miracle of RSS, a bunch of early adopters (myself included) are migrating their e-mail subscriptions to their RSS readers
But then she goes on to talk about how RSS [...]

You know it is going to be a good conference when you have Neil Young on the cover of the preview mag.
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people, says [...]