Sajjad, Dave & I went to hear Lawrence Lessig talk last night at Temple University in Tokyo. His talk was very similar to the FT article linked above. It is really important to understand his points about the preserving the Creative Commons and about Copyright so please hear him speak or read his book if you have a chance.
I wish I could get the Palm Desktop to accept vcard Calendar files that I send from my mobile phone. It ignores them, a sure sign of a squashed exception, and I haven't a clue why. While searching for the answer I hit upon this site which has tools for exchanging information between a Palm and an iPod using Python. Excuse me while I note this down. It may come in handy later.
I'm getting interested in the crossover between RSS, POP3, SMTP, BLOGs. I want to do a couple of projects that involve mail and blogs and it looks like a Message Server like HEP might be what I am looking for.
You probably have read this on Slashdot: How To Get Hired As An Open-Source Developer. Having read through a stack of resumes recently, I can tell you, I'd much rather find or be sent a good resume than sift through 10s of mediocre ones from employment agencies.
"Much of recruiting is just grunt reading through stacks of resumes. That's why good recruiters will often search online for passive candidates [a passive candidate is someone who's not applying for a position but their resume is on their home page or some other community site].
My passive recruiting [searching online for passive candidates and contacting them] lets us target exactly the skills we're looking for and thus find people who can do exactly what we want. And even when they're not interested in the position, they often know someone who is. Passive searching can sometimes be much more fruitful than reading through stacks of resumes especially when trying to find specialized, hard to find, skills."