March 25, 2001
SJ Mercury: With deception everywhere, Net calls for hierarchy of trust.
Dan Gillmor. Sometimes I want to tell you about information I've garnered from such a forum. If the fact in question didn't come from a source I trust, I check it out. Consumers of online information need to develop that same sort of policy. We need a hierarchy of trust.
Glenn Fleishman: Trust Me. Or, trust but encryptify.
A change like this could be implemented in months. It would spread like wildfire. And, within a year or so, eliminate the vast majority of spam, which is sent through unsecured open relays and unscrupulous providers who would be shut out of this new system. By choice, not by law.
NY Times: Microsoft Relies Again on an Inner Circle.
But as Microsoft sets off to jump beyond the desktop PC, the men closest to Mr. Gates — veteran technologists and rising stars — are no monolith. Each brings a personality and perspective that diversifies the technological mix.
Lighthouse: Web project? Buy this book.
Yes, he makes the standard noises about Web project management's unique challenges. But he also borrows extensively from the wisdom and rigour which software project managers have developed over the past third of a century.
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