02/ 8/2004
Guardian Unlimited recently has an interview with Bill Gates who is a Chairman of Microsoft Corp. Article said Bill Gates is the world's wealthiest man and history's most generous philanthropist.
No doubt, he knows money, Mr. Gates makes millions everyday and his company Microsoft expends business every second. The whole world people are jealous of him and his wealth. We are making our eyes on the money but nothing. Just a few people know he is the world's most generous philanthropist. I am not saying he is good or not. But we can not turn a blind eye to his huge contribute in charity.
Mr. Gates and his wife found a foundation called "The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation"; the foundation is 10 times the size of Rockefeller's (oil monopoly in 20 century) charitable foundation and three times of Henry Ford's. His wife spends most of time in India to help poor people. Also, Mr. Gates has pledged to give away his 95% ($46bn) fortune before he dies to help the world's poorest countries.
As one of technology's most devout missionaries, Gates is surprisingly restrained in preaching the benefits of computer literacy. Bill says "When I'm at IT conferences and people say the most important thing in the world is to get people connected to the internet, I say: 'Are you kidding me? Have you been to poor countries?'". That's true, Web Technology is helping people to acquire information and enhance personal communication, but in developing countries the most important thing is not get online, they need food and blankets, they thirst for dress warmly and ear their fill.
In a typical week, he spends up to 60 hours working on Microsoft business and 10 on the foundation. His charitable work is not just about grand gestures. He tells a story about helping his four-year-old son Rory on a small-scale volunteer project. "We were putting together these kits for homeless people - you know, where you put in the toothbrush and toothpaste- and Rory says: 'This is really nice, Dad, but if these people are homeless, why don't we give them homes?'
"It's kind of a good question." He breaks into laughter. "We told him: 'A home costs a little more, but basically you're right!'"
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02/ 7/2004
"Father of the Web" This is a old article from Wired.com, a interview with Tim Berners-Lee in 1997.
Wired.com
"Trained in physics at Oxford,Berners-Lee was working at the Swiss-based European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) when, in an astounding burst of creativity, he sat down in 1990 and wrote the specifications for a global hypermedia system, using the innocuous acronyms HTTP, HTML, and URL. Originally designed to let far-flung researchers collaborate on large problems, the resulting universal information space made real the dreams of hypertext visionaries from Vannevar Bush to Ted Nelson. For good measure, Berners-Lee even gave his creation a name: the WorldWideWeb.
Berners-Lee, now 41, left CERN in 1994 to found the World Wide Web Consortium, a nonprofit group of research institutions and Web technology users and providers. Headquartered at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, W3C's mandate is to try to guide the Web's evolution - a task Berners-Lee describes as frantically trying to steer a bobsled that is careering downhill at ever-accelerating speeds.
Mr. Berners-Lee also list in TIME 100 - The Most Important People of the 21 Centry.
Interview with the Web's Creator in 1999 Oct Via Wired.
Stuart Weibel Interviews Tim Berners-Lee July 29, 2003 Via OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).
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12/29/2003
PC Mag has a new article about social networking field: Make Contact. Five popular social networking tools had been selected in this review comparison.
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11/24/2003
FT News, A interview with HP CEO: FEATURES: 'I have learnt from mistakes' . How successful people do thing what they believed
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10/23/2003
Blog on. The lastest interview with Evan Williams who is the co-founder and CEO of pyra, the company behind Blogger
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10/ 6/2003
L.soa's website. She is the most popular and famous CD designer in Korean.
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Fortune has a interview with Blii joy after he left SUN microsystem.
I think keke will be interesting in this news and see what joy saying.
Also come with Bill joy's old article: Why the future doesn't need us. And Ray Kurzweil has an insightful article the double-edged sword of technology.
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09/22/2003
A article about google's Founders: google's Heros
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09/16/2003
A review from OJR: The Guardian of the web
Althroug the Guardian newspaper is the second smallest national daily broadsheet in London, but this modest-sized paper's online edition, Guardian Unlimited, is the most successfuly newspaper site in the UK,attracting 7.5 million unique visitors a month, more than 2 million of them from the U.S. and many others from around the world. There are just 70 journalists working in the Guardian Unlimited, including reporters, editors,copy editors,designers and production staff. How amazing work they did with such a small group.
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