Archive for September, 2003
Tuesday, September 30th, 2003
The News.com article spins
Comcast's statement that it will deploy voice over IP service in 2004
as a "go slow" decision. With 2004 just 3 months away, I see the
glass as half-full. The Comcast comments are further evidence
that cable operators will launch serious VOIP marketing efforts in
2005, after testing it next year. ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2003
Kevin Laws: "If the music industry is such a monopoly, why aren't music companies wildly
profitable?"
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Monday, September 29th, 2003
Eli has a new cousin, Mila Cassidy Werbach. Isn't she cute!
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Monday, September 29th, 2003
This time in Forbes, with an extensive focus on Pulver's Free World Dialup and related efforts.
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Monday, September 29th, 2003
Has anyone else noticed that over the past month, the New York Times has run a series of articles suggesting that the current intellectual property system is broken? This one
about the history of patents and innovation is the latest. I
think IP protection has gotten way out of balance, to the ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2003
David Brooks writes in the Wall Street Journal about conservatives not being welcome in academia. Juan at the Volokh Conspiracy agrees, and links to several other posts on the topic.
American intellectual life is recreating the division between the Red
States and the Blue States made famous in the Bush-Gore election ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2003
Check out these amazing optical illusions by
Akiyoshi Kitaoka. But be warned -- they can be
nausea-inducing! You won't believe it, but they aren't
moving. Trust me. (via Brian Dear)
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Monday, September 29th, 2003
Jerry Michalski explains why the new social networking services give him the willies. (And who knew that the Red Herring still had a functioning Website?)
UPDATE: It's the new, improved, post-bubble, relaunched, no-longer-dead Red Herring. That explains it.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2003
I'm going out of town for a few days to visit family. Including
the latest addition, my three-week-old niece Mila. I'll be
checking email occasionally, but mostly offline through Monday.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2003
"Weblogs, Inc. is a B2B Web site dedicated to creating niche Weblogs
(a.k.a. blogs) across niche industries in which user participation is
an essential component of the resulting product."
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Corante, Nick Denton's microcontent collection, TechDirt, AlwaysOn,
and now this. I do think there's room to build successful ...
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