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Internet Explorer 6 was finally put to rest this weekend.  The web browser is survived by Internet Explorer 7 and IE 8.  The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications what include video and voice.  With these new technologies, older browsers could not run many of these new features.

Even today, with IE 7 and IE 8, there is wild complaints that these two more modern broswer are too slow.  Today IE 8 commands 22.5 percent of the market.

BBC Web 2.0. Seriously. The Beeb's director-general, Mark Thompson, told his staff on Tuesday that in the new world of BBC Web 2.0, audiences would become participants and partners. Probably means Web 2.0 is officially over. Time for Web 3.0!...

On Wednesday morning, I'll be in Washington, DC, moderating a panel at a Cato Institute-sponsored summit on Copyright Controversies. Should be an interesting refereeing task. I'll be sitting between Patrick Ross, a defender of stiff intellectual property laws and fellow...

Hey, this blog is an EPpy Award finalist -- a fairly big deal. Even cooler is the e-mail today from rock legend Roger McGuinn about She Took My iPod. Roger writes: Good song Kevin! You have a lot of fun!!!...