Technology of the Year: Publish/Subscribe. A new breed of middleware vendors brought pub/sub messaging down to the desktop. With Kenamea and KnowNow, you can subscribe a spreadsheet cell to a topic that's managed out in the cloud. An event published to that topic -- such as an inventory update -- automatically updates the spreadsheet. It's true that you could do this kind of thing a decade ago, using NetDDE (Network Dynamic Data Exchange) on your Windows for Workgroups LAN. But pub/sub at Internet scale is far more compelling. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio]  8:03:16 PM    

Rendez-fu @ Etech. Stuart Cheshire, Apple's Rendezvous architect and co-chair of the Zero Configuration Networking IETF working group, will be showing off his rendez-fu at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. [raelity bytes]  12:42:58 PM    

New Yorkers Take Half the Slots in Finals of Top Science Contest. Half of the 40 finalists named in the national Intel Science Talent Search were from New York State. By Jennifer Medina. [New York Times: Education]  12:41:31 PM    

The DigiCam Chronicles: Sound Is Half the Picture. You can add pro-quality voiceovers to your digital imagery with just a few simple tools and Mac OS X. Derrick Story shows you how to easily record and edit QuickTime audio. [O'Reilly Network Articles]  10:44:02 AM