Archive for August, 2003

Guess what else is decentralizing?

Friday, August 22nd, 2003

That's right, power generation.

Weighing in at 576 pages…

Friday, August 22nd, 2003

So the FCC has finally released its Triennial Review Order revising terms for interconnection between incumbent local phone companies and competitors. Let the litigation begin! (Actually, the litigation has been going on for seven years, but this order will extend it for many more.) Hopefully now the FCC can ...

Thanks Dave

Friday, August 22nd, 2003

Wow. No doubt due in large part to a link from Dave Winer. my post the other day about the SoBig worm is currently #13 on Popdex.

How big is it?

Thursday, August 21st, 2003

BBC: "At one point every one in 17 e-mails intercepted by security firm MessageLabs was infected with the Sobig F virus."

The Day Email Died?

Wednesday, August 20th, 2003

Between 10:45pm last night and 6am this morning, I received 1,470 pieces of spam (a run rate of nearly 5,000 per day). Most of them were from the SoBig worm, which seems to be the worst yet. And as far as I can tell, it's still getting worse. I ...

At the beach

Monday, August 11th, 2003

I'm relaxing. Or something like that. See ya next week.

Six Degrees of Email

Friday, August 8th, 2003

A study by Duncan Watts of Columbia University has shown that the famous "six degrees of separation" phenomenon holds for email relationships. Though apparently the researchers didn't find super-connected "hubs" ot be as prominent as they expected. (via Nova Spivack)

In the Belly of the beast

Monday, August 4th, 2003

This is too cool. The FCC is offering free WiFi access at its headquarters.