Interesting Wired piece explores the possibility that campaign parody Web sites may actually carry weight with voters.

A quote from The Register story: “…Red Hat drew specific attention to its successes in the embedded arena,
which is rapidly becoming flavour of the month in the world of Linux companies,
replacing corporate services in the great ‘this is way we’ll make money’ mantra.”

“Asian companies that have not yet formulated an electronic
commerce strategy are acting irresponsibly towards their
shareholders, according to Phil Kelly, chairman of e-commerce
service provider Netcel360.” PCWorld article.

Neither MSN nor WebTV has ever been nearly as successful as Microsoft hoped. The latest move is to give free WebTV settop boxes and keyboards to MSN subscribers. More at CNet.

“Open Source’s main goal is about producing high-quality software, while the Free Software movement’s main goal is to have software that is FREE (as in freedom). That doesn’t mean that the Open Source movement is not worried about freedom, and that the Free Software movement is not worried about quality. It simply means that the priorities are different!” –Kelly McNeill

A lot of multimedia sites are spending megamillions on big-name talent and losing their shirts. Meanwhile, according to Business Week, iCast CEO Margaret Heffernan, who doesn’t play that game, went out and bought a new handbag

“Among the states, Texas ranked first and Rhode
Island last in efficient use of the Internet, Brown
University researchers said. The White House
Web site ranked near the bottom among federal
Internet destinations.” Story at dallasnews.com.

A chilling ZDNN story begins, “Apple Computer Inc.’s advertising agency is offering Mac publications a choice: Get out of the rumors business or lose Apple’s business.”

Red Hat lost money in its recently closed 2nd quarter of this fiscal year, but InfoWorld says it didn’t lose as much as expected, which is good.

According to InfoWorld, the FCC has rescheduled a decision on how much power the Commission has — or should have — to regulate phone and net providers’ access to apartment and office buidlings.