Archive for January, 2004
Friday, January 30th, 2004
Om Malik thinks Tivo's
purchase of a startup called Strangeberry signals its intention to
become a hub for digital home entertainment. Makes sense.
Strangeberry is apparently made up of ex-Sun people, and the idea of
universal zero-configuration networking was a big element of Sun
co-founder Bill Joy's Jini vision.
Of course, all the major consumer PC ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2004
One of the best things about doing a conference like Supernova is the
opportunity to assemble some of the most fascinating, insightful people
I know in one room. It makes me excited just to attend!The speakers for this year's event are looking particularly good. He'll be there. And her. ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2004
Here's how Howard Dean justified his
decision to replace campaign manager Joe Trippi with Washington insider
Roy Neel: "What we need is decision making that's centralized."
One would think that, after Dean's extraordinary rise from obscurity to
front-runner status on the back of a radically distributed, networked
movement, he would appreciate the value of decentralization. ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2004
Today, the hyper-connected are still seen as weird and almost
childish. Conferences still think their value depends on secrecy,
as though real-time communication to the outside world would sap their
essence. Before long, though, newspaper articles will poke fun at the people whose only connectivity is their secretary back at the office.
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2004
Steven Johnson questions the
conventional wisdom that the Net fragments us into like-minded
micro-communities. (FYI, the seminal elaboration of this
viewpoint is Andrew Shapiro's The Control Revolution.)
I generally agree with Johnson's view. The Net gives us many
tools to filter information and to spend our time in closed
communities. But at the same time, it ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2004
...Just a bit under the weather.
Our son got a bad cold last week and gave it to our daughter.
Nothing more serious, according to the doctor. Since Esther is
only one month old, though, anything is a cause for concern.
So that's my current excuse for the lack of blogging lately.
That, and something ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2004
There is an important New York Times article
today about the battle between law enforcement agencies and the FCC
over Internet policy. The Justice Department wants broadband and
voice-over-IP applications classified as legacy "telecommunications
services," so that it has an easier time gaining access for
wiretaps. The problem is that classification brings with it a
whole ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2004
Sorry, light blogging period. In addition to baby-related
activities, I had a serious computer crash earlier this week. I
had to reformat my hard drive and recover from backups. Thankfully, all
my data is fine, but the process took the better part of two
days.
Now I'm sitting at Philadelphia airport getting ready to fly ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2004
Ahh yes, now I remember what sleep deprivation is like!
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2004
Esther's photo album #2 is online, with shots from Esther at home.
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