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Update 2: Woz is done. His efforts may have kept him around longer than he would have made it otherwise, but in the end, he just didn't make it. Update: Woz has survived another round of Dancing with the Stars for all of you who want to stay up to date without having to watch the show. Original article: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak appeared on Dancing with the Stars last night and came in last place. Now he wants help getting votes.

The thing about being a journalist, web or otherwise, is you are essentially always on the job, and sometimes you’re on the clock when you least expect it. Rufus Edmisten, former attorney general and secretary of state for North Carolina turned Philip Morris/Sprint/Alltel lobbyist, was informed of my occupation more than once—web journalist, I told him—which didn’t seem to register on any particular level with him.

I’ll admit it. I’ve put off purposefully joining Open ID for no real reason. But now, whether we want to or not, you and I (well, I’m guessing you are, anyway) are being jumped in to the world of Open ID. Because not only are Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Mail (aka Hotmail) joining the Open ID ranks, allowing their logins to become Open ID logins, but so is Gmail.

In the days of dialup, accessing the Internet was a nuisance.  Now, not so much.  Still, users of Gmail and Google Calendar should be pleased to hear that the programs may support offline use in about six weeks' time.

Legg Mason portfolio manager Bill Miller is kind-of-sort-of on Yahoo's side as it deals with Microsoft, judging from a new interview.  Since Legg Mason holds about seven percent of Yahoo's shares, this is important.

Jonathan has a nice post with additional explanations on the MySQL deal, seeing as one or two folks have questioned it.

Those (derogatorily or not) considered on the left side of the political spectrum seem to be turning on Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, especially in regard to her plan for expanding broadband access.

Google joined another wireless alliance this week, the Wireless Innovation Alliance, a coalition of technology companies and public interest groups devoted to opening up "white spaces" for broadband use.