Catching up

Plowing through email, regularly checking sites and blogs and running searches results in the accumulation of a mass of information crying to be blogged. The interesting mail is marked “unread” and now totals 278, the finds from searches, sites and blogs are stored in various topical “favorites” folders running the dozens. Time to clean house. You know that is easier said than done. The email has a link. The link has two more and so it goes.

An email from Joe . . . IBM, et al. to encourage open source developers to use Cell. A Yahoo article link. Those links expire. Quotes EE Times – no link. A link at end of article to Macworld. Nice. Article is a couple days old . . . not on “Latest News” list. Wait, what is this about Intel Chief suggesting consumers buy Apple to “avoid risks . . . .focus now.

EE Times reports that IBM is eager to find opportunities for Cell and sees open sourcing as a way to attract programmers to spur applications. Supercomputers, HDTVs, maybe a redesign for portables – you have an idea and IBM is listening. IBM is looking to keep some of its employees busy helping design.

To spur ideas and uses for Cell, a library is being complied for release to the open source community. The details of the library are sketchy. Speculation from one quoted source is that it will be hard to give it all away for free.

Stay tuned.