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Zenoss, OpenNMS and Clouds on the IT Management

I am not a big podcast listener but one of the ones I listen to regularly is the IT Management podcast with Redmonk’s Coté and John M. Willis. Today Zenoss’ Matt Ray and Tarus Balog from OpenNMS were guests and I thought it was a particul

Posted: Jul. 17, 2008 11:59 PM

Open Source Links 7-16-2008

tecosystems » Earth Class Mail: Still Open for Business? - Stephen’s review of Earth Class Mail a snail mail handling service. Looks intriguing. Amazon.com: Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code: Van Lindbe

Posted: Jul. 16, 2008 11:25 PM

NetDirector: Open Source Configuration Management Goes GPL

A few weeks ago I felt a little like a proud pappa, well maybe more like an uncle since I can’t claim to have been present for the conception. NetDirector, an open source configuration management tool that I helped get off the ground has finall

Posted: Jul. 14, 2008 11:55 AM

Open Source Links 7-11-2008

SourceForge.net: ICEcore - ICEcore collaboration software is the July 2008 SF.net project of the month. GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director - Open Logic’s Stormy Peters leaves OpenLogic for the GNOME Foundation interesting job. (Via

Posted: Jul. 13, 2008 10:54 PM

Marketing Pilgrim SEM Scholarship Winners

This week Andy Beal announced the winners of the 3rd Annual SEM Scholarship I was honored to be one of five finalists out of 31 entries. I didn’t win but congratulations are in order for Linda Bustos whose article 8 Stupid Things Webmasters do

Posted: Jul. 12, 2008 11:24 PM

CAN-SPAM Act Enforceability Goes into Effect Today

Updates to the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM) becomes effective today. They four main provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act for commercial emailers are: Bans false or misleading header information

Posted: Jul. 7, 2008 01:00 AM

Xandros Acquires Linspire

Today Linux desktop manufacturer Xandros acquired Linspire for an undisclosed amount. Xandros will also be keeping existing engineering, support, and key sales employees and long-time Linspire employee and CEO Larry Kettler will be joining the Xandro

Posted: Jul. 1, 2008 06:00 PM

Oil Crisis Analysis by Congressman Rosco Bartlett

Maryland Congressman Bartlett has some incredible analysis of oil usage in the world. Incredibly well articulated state of world oil production and usage complemented with Tufte-like charts. Technorati Tags: Congressmen Bartlett, Edward Tufte, Oi

Posted: Jun. 28, 2008 11:58 AM

Links: Open Source Week in Review

Removing Barriers to the Community - MySQL Moves to Bazaar - Jay Pipes It is the role of a community manager to remove the barriers both technical and ideological between the user/developer community and the company or group of individuals which

Posted: Jun. 22, 2008 06:14 PM

The Art of Programming

For those of you who think writing code is just wrangling ones and zeros. You should check out these visualizations of code submissions over time to various open source projects. They are examples of organic information visualizations called Code Swa

Posted: Jun. 18, 2008 11:14 PM