Tag: Technology

Italy’s Roberto Galoppini posts his thoughts from the recent Open Source Think Tank. It’s great seeing the long list of open source leaders Page One PR does business with.

When Red Hat named Jim Whitehurst as its new CEO, many in the open source community wondered, “Huh?” But Whitehurst made himself available to reporters and bloggers and quickly gave everyone an inside look at who he was, what he knew and what he had planned for the open source powerhouse.

Which is why this interview by Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller is so important.

The majority of Whitehurst’s “rainbow tour” when he was announced was conveyed through words on paper or on a screen. Roblimo caught Whitehurst in Orland at JBoss World and put him on tape — uncut and unplugged. The video adds to what we already know about Whitehurst, giving us a more personal connection to the man who will lead one of the industry’s most visible brands…warts and all.

It’s an example of how the interactivity of the Web is changing the face of journalism. Is Roblimo a broadcast reporter? I’d claim not (although I could be wrong). But it was simple enough to throw a video camera on a tripod to capture the questions he was going to ask Whitehurst anyway. And we’re all the richer for him doing so.

LinuxWorld.com’s Mark Hinkle pulls together a who’s who of the open source movement in this list of the publication’s top leaders for 2008.

Interesting story by New York Times reporter Brad Stone (the reporter who broke the identity of Fake Steve Jobs) on the recent uprising at Digg. Slashdot founder Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda does a standup job in the interview explaining why Digg ran into the troubles it did and why the two sites don’t necessarily compete for the same audience.

Disclaimer: Slashdot is part of SourceForge, Inc., which is represented by my agency, Page One PR.

There are those who think the pervasiveness of technology in our lives is a bad thing. There are others — a camp which I freely admit to falling into — who believe that being always-on, always-connected is a good thing.

This really hit home for me today while I was walking through the Moscone Center in San Francisco where the JavaOne conference is being held. The organizers had set up a quasi lounge area, complete with a big screen to watch the conference keynotes, as well as the requisite multi-colored bean bag chairs. Nearly 90% of those sitting and watching the keynotes had their laptops open (Note: a *vast* majority of the laptops at the show were Powerbooks.). Some were catching up on work, some were blogging what they heard in the keynotes, others were surfing Web sites or catching up on personal e-mail.

And since when is producing, learning or communicating such a bad thing?