Technology journalism or blogging: Deconstructing Maui X-Stream

This DrunkenBlog: Deconstructing Maui X-Stream is a fantastic article, technically a blog post, but really a great piece of journalism. It tells the story (so far) of a company which appears to have taken several open source projects and products, relabelled them, recompiled them, and marketed them as its own commercial software. The article is thorough, researching many angles, asking for quotes and confirmations. It's what I thought journalism was supposed to be when I took the required Journalism 101 classes in college, not the ad nauseum on the runaway bride or Michael Jackson. Too much of what passes as journalism these days is simply rehashes of talking points from press releases.

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Slightly acerbic and eccentric dog walker who masquerades as a web developer and occasional CTO.

Spent five years running the technology side of the circus known as www.ibm.com.

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