Later: Aargh. One thing led to another, and I got buried in tasks. From home, more.

-- Dis-Connection: Dick Gordon speaks out about his surprise firing from WBUR

On the second page, Gordon notes he has "4000 theories" why he was fired, including his refusal to participate in online fundraising.

-- Citizen scoops: A new online photo agency wants to sell your amateur snaps to the mainstream media. (Guardian U.K.)

Or you could skip the middleman and upload them directly to the Associated Press: AP Photo Submission Form

-- Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records was on PBS last night. If you missed it, watch it at the link.

More good times to come in this series:
Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues August 10
Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds August 17
Ralph Ellison: An American Journey August 24
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams August 31
Willa Cather: The Road is All September 7
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea September 14
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy September 21
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home September 26 & 27

-- Demystifying Diet Coke(s) at The Historical Present. Which Coke is what.

Leslie Harpold performs a small, essential community service with this one.

-- What Business Can Learn from Open Source by Paul Graham.

Coiner-of-the-word-"weblog" Jorn Barger (Robot Wisdom) calls this an "Instant classic." It begins,

Lately companies have been paying more attention to open source. Ten years ago there seemed a real danger Microsoft would extend its monopoly to servers. It seems safe to say now that open source has prevented that. A recent survey found 52% of companies are replacing Windows servers with Linux servers. [1]

More significant, I think, is which 52% they are. At this point, anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don't.

But the biggest thing business has to learn from open source is not about Linux or Firefox, but about the forces that produced them. Ultimately these will affect a lot more than what software you use...

[1] Survey by Forrester Research reported in the cover story of Business Week, 31 Jan 2005. Apparently someone believed you have to replace the actual server in order to switch the operating system.

-- Eminent-Domain Uproar Imperils Projects

By MICHAEL CORKERY and RYAN CHITTUM
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Michael, we knew you when...

Off to a meeting. More later...