Johnny Cash died this morning of heart failure stemming from complications from diabetes.

News.com interviewed Janus Friis about Skype.

Skype is a new P2P telephony and instant message application created by Niklas Zennstr�m and Janus Friis, the creators of KaZaa. The IM capability sounds like a good fit so people will be used to logging on and staying connected even when they are not performing the service’s primary use. Right now the app is ad-free but how long until it becomes infested like KaZaa?

Robert Frost : “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.”

Next week I will be attending an event with Michael Lewis and Billy Beane as part of the Moneyball book tour. The moderator is Roy Eisenhardt, the ex-VP of the A’s back in 1985 who almost sold the team to Tampa for $37 million. What would you like me to ask on your behalf?

I received an e-mail from Evan Williams tonight. “We’re no longer offering Blogger Pro as a separate product and we’re folding most of the features into regular (free) Blogger.” “You will continue to have access to features like RSS and post-via-email that are still not in the free version. You’ll also have priority support from our expanded team and new support system” For supporting Pyra I am presented with a Blogger hoodie. Where will new users get their RSS from? You may want to take a look at TypePad.

According to We Want Your Soul, I am worth �14678 and 50% of people have a purer soul than I do.

Chief Scientist Bill Joy is leaving Sun. Bill has been working mainly from Aspen for the past few years, but I have not seen any reporters pick up on his already shifted work schedule.

Open Office 1.1 RC4 is now available.