Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition shows readers how to get started with the GNU Emacs editor. This thorough guide grows with you: as you become more proficient, it teaches you how to use Emacs more effectively. The new edition describes Emacs 21.3 from the ground up, including new user-interface features such as an icon-based toolbar and an interactive interface to Emacs customization. There's also a new chapter that details how to install, run, and use Emacs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Sample Chapter 6, Writing Macros, is available free online.

O'Reilly Learning Lab: $200 Instant Rebate -- Learning programming languages and development techniques has never been easier. Using your web browser and Useractive's Learning Sandbox technology, the Learning Lab gives you hands-on, online training in a creative environment. This month, receive a $200 instant rebate (and a Certificate from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education upon course completion) when you enroll in any Certificate Series.

Remixing Culture: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig -- What do you get when you mix P2P, inexpensive digital input devices, open source software, easy editing tools, and reasonably affordable bandwidth? Potentially, you get what Lawrence Lessig calls remix culture, which he explains in this extensive interview. The concept of remixing culture is also the topic of his keynote at O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference, March 14-17 in San Diego.

Open Source and MySQL Will Rise, Legal Foes Will Fall -- "2004 was a portent of things to come for Linux in 2005, both because of what didn't happen (SCO Group's victory) and what did (the rise of open source software), according to Marten Mickos, CEO of Sweden-based MySQL AB. In this interview, he predicts how those events, which included the success of MySQL's database, will play out in 2005." Mickos will be speaking at O'Reilly's upcoming MySQL Users Conference.

Freedom, Innovation, and Convenience: The RMS Interview -- Since 1984, Richard M. Stallman has fought for software freedom as coder, project leader, and philosopher. Read about Stallman's views on freedom, the GNU project, the Linux kernel, and GNU/Linux distributions, in this interview by Federico Biancuzzi on LinuxDevCenter.com.

All the News That's Fit To Blog -- In this Guardian book review, Simon Waldman writes, "If you follow the internet closely, chances are you might have spotted many of the phenomena [Dan Gillmor] writes about. But, even so, it will have seemed like a collection of random fragments of activity scattered across cyberspace: some spectacular, some comical, some irrelevant. However, when it is all put together in one very readable book, you can see that something quite remarkable is happening." Dan's book is We the Media.

Registration Is Open for the Emerging Technology Conference -- Immerse yourself in a network of like minds at ETech 2005. The theme is "Remix," and the conference will be dedicated to finding new ways to further the hacker spirit, extend the architecture of participation, and uncover unconventional innovations. ETech is in March 2005 in San Diego, California. Register early and save.