The Atlantic Monthly has an online article about weblogs. It discusses the history of weblogs (as told by the writer), and the growing number of webloggers writing blurbs for epinions.com. None of these weblog articles ever mention rc3.org, but I’m dealing with it. Oh wait, I forgot the one that said rc3.org is “kind of boring.” Perhaps it’s better that this site goes unmentioned.
AOL is pumping 800 million bucks into Gateway in return for taking over their ISP business. As always, there’s more to it than that, but the crux of the deal is the 600,000 gateway.net subscribers. At least they’re not making them all switch to AOL.
Apparently someone at the San Francisco Chronicle thinks that the iBook is too big. That picture accompanies Henry Norr’s iBook review.
There’s a Salon article today about the next generation of video game consoles, including the Playstation 2, the Sega Dreamcast (already out), the Nintendo system code-named Dolphin, and a mystery offering from Microsoft. The article is very detailed, and lays out the positions of each of the players clearly. Fascinating stuff.