Update: The September issue of Forbes is on stands now, featuring the Do-It-Yourself Tech series. Along with highlighting Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reily, the series covers Braniac videogame creator John Carmack, Bug Labs founder Peter Semmelhack, 2007 MacArthur award recipient Saul Griffith, and more.

Over the Labor Day Weekend--while some of us were playing croquet and barbecuing--public access advocate Carl Malamud posted online the 38-volume California Code of Regulations. Santa Rosa Press Democrat's Nathan Halverson reports on Malamud's latest exploit in a front page story today. Why? It seems the state claims copyright to those very laws. In other words, for those of us who live in the Golden State--even though we must abide by California's laws--we're forbidden to store or distribute these regulations without the state's consent.

O'Reilly Media introduces and opens registration for iPhoneLive, a new conference scheduled for Nov. 18, 2008, at the Holiday Inn San Jose in Silicon Valley, California. Chaired by Raven Zachary and Bill Dudney, iPhoneLive will be a gathering of the best and brightest participants in the iPhone ecosystem today. If you're already building apps for the iPhone, a developer who wants to make a move to the iPhone platform, an entrepreneur, or an enthusiast of the emerging iPhone industry, this is the event for you. iPhoneLive is sure to be a mind-blowing day filled with information that you just can't get anywhere else. Register by October 14 and save $125.

In his morning column, New York Times technology writer David Pogue asks if the world needs another browser? Although that question remains unanswered, the author of "iPhone: The Missing Manual" found much to like in Google's new open source browser project. Dux Raymond Sy, author of O'Reilly's upcoming SharePoint for Project Management, also took Google Chrome out for a spin and found three reasons to be delighted. Read more for a chance to win a free book from O'Reilly.

You might have heard that our Digital Media Evangelist, Derrick Story, was hired by Apple to photograph the Beijing Olympics and help other photographers in the Main Press Center get their images of the events processed and posted. Colleen Wheeler, an editor for our Digital Media division, recently blogged about Derrick's experience at deke.com. Check it out to see many of Derrick's photos as well as links to other blogposts about his adventures in China.

"There's a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2," writes Jesus Diaz in a story on Gizmodo, "a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your cellphone private information in Mail, SMS, Contacts, and even Safari." But this is nothing new, says iPhone hacker Jonathan Zdziarski, author of the upcoming iPhone Forensics. "The iPhone passcode was cracked long ago," he explains, leaving the iPhone with certain inherent security flaws. Read more.

Craig Smith, who works out of O'Reilly's UK office and is the driving force behind O'Reilly GMT, got a chance to interview O'Reilly editor Laurel Ruma recently. In this video, Laurel talks about her upcoming titles, including Learning XNA and SharePoint for Project Management.

At this year's OSCON, Terry Camerlengo sat down with Damian Conway, author of Perl Best Practices and Perl Hacks, to get his thoughts on a wide variety of subjects, including the what-and-when of Perl 6 and what he thinks is important for the next generation of computer scientists. Watch the video (or read on) to hear what he says.

Maker Media editor Brian Jepson sat down with the Providence Business News recently to talk about his work along with his views on education and tech industry trends. "I think that the capacity to learn goes very deep with all people," observes Jepson. "Learning is not just memorization, but an attitude, mindset, set of skills. If people learn how to learn at a young age, they'll have the tools they need to educate themselves, with curiosity as their guide, throughout their entire life."

Veteran travel photographer Rick Sammon shares his tips for shooting memorable images when on the road. "One of the cool things about digital SLR cameras (and top of the line cameras) is that you can control the shutter speed to either stop or blur action," writes Sammon, author of Face to Face. "A shutter speed of 1/500th of a second is usually fast enough to freeze most fast-moving animal action, but when the animal is moving extremely fast, as was this seagull in flight, I had to use a 1/2000th of a second shutter speed."