Kieren McCarthy at The Register: The end of universal free news content has finally come:

The Guardian yesterday announced that it was going to start charging for online services, making it the last UK broadsheet newspaper to install a paid-for element on its website.

…Simon Waldman, the Guardian director of digital publishing, told us the move was a first step into understanding the market for paid-for content. “When it comes to newspapers on the Web, people want two things,” he told us. “A live up-to-minute extension of the paper, and a replica of the newspaper.”

You need to read, half-way thru the article, to discover it is only for a few extras and not The Guardian’s articles – which will remain free.

However, The Register does takes note of the entire UK online newspaper scene, and it will be an eye opener for some. I don’t think so here in America where many, if not most, well known newspapers already charge for some online services.

Did you know about the JavaGnome project: “a set of Java bindings for the GNOME and GTK libraries that allow GNOME and GTK applications to be written in Java. The project consists of two libraries: java-gtk, a GTK-only binding, and java-gnome, a GTK and GNOME binding. Java-GNOME is not a Swing look-and-feel mimicking the GTK look, it is not a GTK/GNOME rewrite in Java, and it is not a set of GTK peers for AWT. It is a JNI layer that delegates the calls out to the native GTK or GNOME C libraries.”

Sounds just like SWT.

An argument is ensuing over at Javalobby. It’s terrible how Javalobby threads are dominated by trolls, trolls and more trolls.

An email discussion between O’Reilly editors focusing on Java and Flash on the desktop.

Here goes a similar discussion thread at ActionScript.com.

Bruce Eckel covers the Java vs. .NET question.

Related: Jeff Jarvis has the big scoop on AOL’s upcoming weblogging toolset.

Speaking of AOL, according to Jon Udell, they may have helped develop the perfect “universal client” platform – Mozilla. XUL looks very interesting. The growing list of active projects at mozdev.org is an eye opener.

Looks like a great tutorial at IBM’s developerWorks (free registration required). The PDF makes a handy quick read on the train. This is applicable for XEmacs users as well, but I guess you would have known that already wouldn’t you? 🙂 One for my Emacs Notes page. via dangerousmeta.

Read the details over at community.jedit.org.

I just installed version 4.2pre2 (the latest) along with Sun’s latest SDK/JVM, 1.4.2, and it smokes.

This article summarizes many of the great components that the Jakarta Commons project provides.

You can download it here. This whitepaper shares the details. Over 2000 bugfixes and some performance improvements.

I wonder how many have started using it?

Too many people are telling me about the bad coverage T-Mobile has and a few of my friends have even demonstrated it. I’m on the hunt now for a decent J2ME capable phone on a solid network.