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Drupal: open-source publishing from JD Lasica on Vimeo. In my continuing tradition of publishing video interviews after everybody on the East Coast has gone to bed: I hung out Monday night with Dries Buytaert, founder and creator of Drupal, the open source content management system that is now

Much to my bemusement, I see that James Maguire has listed this blog as one of the top 200 technology blogs, in the GNU/Linux/ Free and Open Source category. James is my editor at Datamation, who shows amazing toleration for my inability to edit my own work, so I already know him for a decent sort.

Steve Yelvington is one of my heroes. Last summer, we swapped stories over beer in Kuala Lumpur with Peter Ong after talking citizen media at an IFRA Asia workshop. Steve told me how he wrote a newsreader for the Atari ST in 1985 and how he got the Minneapolis Star-Tribune newsroom on the internet in 1993.

So Google just released a beta version of their Chrome browser without offering software for Mac OSX and Linux users. That fact was the content of my previous post. This is one major example of companies doing their product testing in the marketplace.

These are my links for August 12th through August 13th: Speechification - On or around BBC radio 4 and other speech output. A great blog. Open Industry Standards For Audio & Video On The Web - BBC Internet Blog - On the back of the Iplayer H.264 annoucnment a reflection on open source. MediaShift .

As some of you may have gathered from my recent Tweets, I've been working with the Knight News Challenge team with this year's Knight News Challenge. Our goal? To help improve the range, quality and diversity of this year's applicants for the 2008-09 News Challenge (which will give away roughly $5MM

As some of you may have gathered from my recent Tweets, I've been working with the Knight News Challenge team with this year's Knight News Challenge. Our goal? To help improve the range, quality and diversity of this year's applicants for the 2008-09 News Challenge (which will give away roughly $5MM

Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review, where I capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog throughout the past week. In case you missed it, you can catch last week’s roundup HERE.  Friendly reminder: the Wikinomics Roundup has a nice new home on the left side of the page, under Regular Features.

It's time to change my the tagline of my blog. At the end of this post I have my own suggestions. You can skip right to them and leave a comment, but if you want the reason WHY I am changing the tagline to remove the word 'journalism' (until further notice) - keep reading.

It's time to change my the tagline of my blog. At the end of this post I have my own suggestions. You can skip right to them and leave a comment, but if you want the reason WHY I am changing the tagline to remove the word 'journalism' (until further notice) - keep reading.