Get used to it
Tuesday, July 29th, 2003Clay Shirky: "It doesn't matter if the Wifi backchannel is a bad idea; it's not going away."
Archive for July, 2003
Clay Shirky: "It doesn't matter if the Wifi backchannel is a bad idea; it's not going away."
I thought we liked markets?
Tuesday, July 29th, 2003This controversial DARPA Project to create a futures market for terrorist events actually sounds like an worthwhile application of virtual markets that have been used in many other fields.
NYC State of Mind
Monday, July 28th, 2003Heading to New York for some meetings today, so I'll probably be offline until tonight.
AOL's new CTO
Thursday, July 24th, 2003AOL hired John McKinley, former CTO of Merrill Lynch, as its new Chief Technology Strategist and President of AOL Technologies. At Merrill, McKinley was a visible and respected leader in the move to Web services. Hiring him suggests that AOL, which has always defined itself as a company ...
Where did the FCC go wrong?
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003PC World: "In response to a direct query from an obviously agitated Upton, the FCC's Pepper said he hopes the agency can get the Triennial Review order released by Labor Day." This is truly amazing. The FCC's order concerning the unbundling obligations of local exchange carriers was adopted ...
Controversy isn't the same as power
Monday, July 21st, 2003Cindy Skrzycki of the Washington Post, quoted in Fortune: "[R]ight now I think the most powerful agency is the FCC, with its recent decision [to relax media concentration rules]."
Haven't we heard this before?
Monday, July 21st, 2003The regional Bell companies say this time they're serious about broadband. I think they missed their opportunity. When cable operators were fighting mandatory open access in 1999-2000, the Bells could have positioned DSL as the open alternative for broadband. They could have leveraged independent ISPs and content ...
Woz goes wireless
Monday, July 21st, 2003New York Times: "Mr. Wozniak described WozNet as a simple and inexpensive wireless network that uses radio signals and global positioning satellite data to keep track of a cluster of inexpensive tags within a one- or two-mile radius of each base station. WozNet, he said, will include a home-base station ...
Safety first?
Friday, July 18th, 2003US auto fatalities are at a 12-year high. Eighty percent of the increase since 2001 is due to rollover accidents. The rollover rate for SUVs is three times higher than for cars. You do the math. Millions of Americans buy these things because the think they ...
RSS goings-on
Friday, July 18th, 2003Dave Winer is transfering ownership of the RSS 2.0 spec to the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School. This addresses one of the concerns that motivated the Atom project (nee Echo), but I suspect it won't keep that group from moving forward. There is growing recognition that syndication ...