You asked for it; you got it. We asked Jon Katz your questions, ranging from the community to religion, and he's offered up his responses. If you can't get enough of our resident gasbag, check out his interview at Playboy, too.

I've attached an interesting rant below. It comes from Larry Marso and talks about the trends of content moving off USENET and onto Web sites like Slashdot. Usenet sort of automatically grants the right to distribute, but the Web isn't necessarily like that. (As a side note, among the many features planned for Slashcode is an NNTP gateway, which will hopefully address this problem, as well as allow people to use it to read Slashdot ;)

This week's "main" interview guest is L0pht Heavy Industries as a group. (We hope to have answers from Linux International head Jon "maddog" Hall tomorrow). Many insightful questions for the L0pht guys were posted Monday. Today, lots of insightful answers on everything from political controls on the Internet to hardware hacking. (Click below to read.)

Two weeks ago, Jane's Intelligence Review presented media with a new, radically improved information model for the 21st Century. Will they pay attention?