:: Netspeak Archive ::

ONE OF the commendable impacts of the Net is that it has created a resource sharing culture that is based on respecting others' needs and a willingness to offer whatever one has to others. As Mr. Eric Steven Raymond, the Open-source evangelist, says in one of his popular articles (available at: http://tuxedo.org/esr/writings/cathedral- bazaar/homesteading.sgml), in the Net world your status is "determined not by what you control but by what you give." This week, we will look into the phenomenon of 'weblogs', whose base can be traced to the Net's dominant culture of sharing one's resources/ideas with others.