Dave Winer has had a huge impact on the Internet as we know it. Blogging and RSS? They might not exist if it weren't for Dave. Live from the Democratic National Convention, Dave joined The Gillmor Gang to discuss ConventionBloggers.com and the reaction it has received from the traditional press who have no idea what's under the covers. Dave says the DNC is "truly visionary" and have accepted this "technology transplant" but they probably don't realize what they've done. This could be the the turning point for RSS--when it becomes just another part of the infrastructure.

Where will blogging and RSS go? Deeper into local politics? Are RSS and the web as powereful as talk radio on a 50,000-watt AM station? Dave and The Gang also debate the importance and future of audio blogging and the need to link to or excerpt multimedia content. It's one thing to download a one-hour show to an iPod, but when you can blog a sound bite as easily as you can a text byte, then look for a boom. You'll hear this and much more in another great edition of The Gillmor Gang.

The most important things to pay attention to aren't always the most obvious. In his keynote presentation from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Tim O'Reilly takes a look at some of the deep trends underlying open source, and some of the cool projects and ideas that are keeping folks at O'Reilly up at night. He also presents some results from O'Reilly's recent market research efforts, combining information from book sales patterns with other indications of technology adoption and interest patterns.

In his keynote presentation from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Robert Lefkowitz says, "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code." So begins the Open Source Definition. What then, does access to the source code mean? Seen through the lens of an Enterprise user, what does open source mean? When is (or isn't) it significant? And a catalogue of open source related arbitrage opportunities.

Our special guest, Dave Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, will be providing real-time analysis of the political blogosphere for CNN at next week's Democratic National Convention. Dave discusses this announcement and gives us his social and technical insights into Technorati: "tracking patterns of influence and authority in real time." 140+ servers give Technorati a huge grid-computing system, and Dave explains how their technology is different from traditional search engines. On open-source software, "We wouldn't exist without it." He even goes deep into the Postgres/MySQL debate.

Is this the start of Browser War II? Can Mozilla-based browsers corner 6% of the market by year end? And if they do, will they be targeted by the same crackers who go after IE flaws? Does the potential for "tag soup" sound like what Microsoft did to the browser market in 1996? This week's special guest is Brendan Eich, chief architect, Mozilla Foundation.

Special guest: Jonathan Schwartz (Sun) and guest Gang member, Michael Vizard (CRN Magazine). Solaris goes open source. Is Sun the low-cost provider because their oeprating system cost-of-goods sold are essentially zero? Will IBM buy Novell to acquire SUSE Linux?. Will Schwartz succeed in prioritizing its sales (and compensating its staff) according to the NPV of products and services? Will Wall Street let him do it? The Gang assesses the futures of Sun and its new president.

What started three years ago as an open-source integrated development environment for Java is today a thriving programmer community reaching well beyond its roots. At JavaOne, Scott Mace talked with Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich. Listen to Mike discuss the origins of Eclipse, what's new in Eclipse 3.0, and the Eclipse perspective on the Java Community Process.

JBoss married J2EE to an open source business model and came up with something that revitalized the enterprise Java world. Scott Mace talked with JBoss Founder, Chairman and CEO Marc Fleury at JavaOne. Listen to Marc's views on the push to open source Java, the importance of aspect-oriented programming, rich Internet clients, and much more.

Every time Sun Microsystems explains why it won't join the Eclipse Foundation, it points to its own its open source integrated development environment for Java, NetBeans. What makes NetBeans special? At JavaOne, Scott Mace talked with Steve Wilson, Sun's director of engineering for NetBeans. Hear Steve explain the roots of NetBeans, recent JavaOne announcements, and Sun's take on Eclipse.

Special guests: Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings (CNet), and Dan Farber, Editor, ZDNet/CNet. The program was recorded at Supernova 2004.