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Championing open & secure info management - by Scott Mace, Open Standards Advocate


Cranky Geeks: Who coined the term 'chiclet keyboard'?
I was on this week's Cranky Geeks show, and host/longtime colleague John C. Dvorak introduced me as the guy who coined the term "chiclet keyboard." I smiled but I was thinking, "Oh yeah?" And after some digging around, I have...

MS Office remains the fault line between open and closed
The true state of open source / open standards, 2010: open source "champion" Matt Asay apparently still uses Microsoft Office, not OpenOffice; open standards champ Tim Berners-Lee won't open MS Office files. (Disclosure: I use both MS Office and OpenOffice,...

Google always gets your consent
A commenter to this New York Times blog post states that "Google sucks out every byte of call, contact, text, location data without your consent" but that hasn't been my experience. Google asks for your consent, and then (usually) sucks...

Do you really own your contact list?
Better read those social network terms of service carefully. Open-Xchange lets people share their contact lists with the world -- but what if your contacts don't want that information shared outside of the social network where you connected? I smell...

10 reasons I'm buying my first iPhone
1. There's a critical mass of cool new apps that can't be ignored for sheer productivity. 2. I would stick with open standards if phones based on them offered all these cool new apps, but they don't. 3. People who...

Link rot in the blogsphere
Link rot used to be associated with Web 1.0 and the dot com bubble. But as I resume daily blogging based on the research I conducted from 2002-2008 for a book project I abandoned, it's clear that the blogosphere has...

Hack of Sarah Palin's account shows security questions ca...
Those questions so many Web sites ask us to answer -- the ones that let us recover a lost password -- can be a joke. Especially if the person answering them is a public figure. In recent years, at River's...

London Stock Exchange outage blamed on Microsoft
This September 9 story hasn't been fully explored by the press, and with the collapse of Lehman Brothers yesterday, is now in danger of being forgotten. But in the midst of rocky financial times, to have your institution relying on...

Literacy Bridge: Building a really cheap digital audio de...
Cliff Schmidt is leading an effort by Literacy Bridge to build a very inexpensive MP3 player for the developing world. I spoke with him for my latest Opening Move podcast.

Google Chrome: Yep, there's a catch
Maybe Matt Asay makes more of Google's evil intent than he ought to, but for now it'll keep me on Firefox.

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