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Dan Gillmor is about as high on the IT journalist and industry pundit "respect" totem pole as you can get. Slashdot has linked to hundreds of his articles. What do you ask this veteran observer of the Silicon Valley scene? Whatever you like, one question per post. We'll email 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Dan 24 - 36 hours after this post goes up, and run his answers shortly after he gets them back to us.
That link is dead. Is it so hard to check links before you post them?
Just as a matter of interest... Wine is coming along surprisingly well. I installed Office 2000 today - onto a ReiserFS partition - and it worked first time. What's left are mostly minor irritations (font selection, some bugs in the pop-up menus, common dialogs, etc.), and, admittedly, one or two major design issues (mostly revolving around NT and filesystem issues). If Quake and Office work, I for one see no compelling reason to stick with Windows :-).
IMHO the vast majority of everyday users just want "The Internet" and "Mail" and "Word" plus maybe "Some Games" (especially Solitaire).
I wasn't wrong. I maintain that when a URL is provided and that link leads to a 404 when copied and pasted directly, the link is dead. Ease of use will go up greatly if people would simply "Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!" And it's not a quirk of the system, it's laziness on the part of the poster that I am offended by.