It seems like the music industry is still in denial about the future of MP3. Looks like we’re going to have to do this the hard way …

IBM has created a new XML web site. Structured data geeks of the world, unite!

So, what do you collect? Beanie Babies? Baseball cards? Stamps? Groups of employees from Internet Service Providers? No matter your fetish, eBay offers what you’re looking for.

My computer fails to keep accurate time. It loses about 10 minutes a day. I don’t know who to blame, ASUS, who made my motherboard, or Microsoft, who made Windows 98. My computer at work running Windows NT Workstation keeps perfect time; it’s a Compaq.

More on the Internet standards process: The Tao of the IETF.

No matter how interesting his ideas on software modeling and object-oriented design are, this interview proves that Grady Booch is an idiot.

The local business rag has an article on Red Hat that talks about their impending IPO. By the way, Red Hat 6.0 (announced today) includes 30 days of free phone support for installation questions.

Amazon.com purchased three companies today, one of which hasn’t even released a product! How do I get in on that? They acquired Alexa Internet, which provides the technology behind the What’s Related feature in Netscape, and is affiliated with Brewster Kahle’s efforts to “archive the Internet.” These acquisitions all seem to be part of Amazon.com’s plans of world domination, but I’m lost trying to figure out how it all relates.

What happened to Deja News (now deja.com)? The new design is awful.

What happens when marketing goes wrong? The Washington Post reports on the fallout at Miller from the unsuccessful “Dick” ad campaign. The sad thing is, some of those ads were really great. Now they’re back to riffing on the “Tastes great! Less filling!” ads from 1975.