Archive for March, 2004
Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
"That's what broadband
technology is. It means we'll open the highways of knowledge -- new
highways of knowledge."
-- President George W. Bush, March 26, 2004
You'd think he would at least give Al Gore credit for the metaphor.
Bush's call in the speech for universal broadband by 2007 has gotten press attention, ...
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
Stuart Buck, author of a great paper
on spectrum commons, is in the hospital after suffering a stroke last
weekend. Stuart is 29 and was in apparently great health, so this
is quite a shock. The note on his blog from his wife is
encouraging. I wish Stuart a quick and full recovery.
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
Just going through another one of those busy periods.
I'll have some interesting news about my future to report soon.
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2004
The Chicago Tribune has an article about
the FCC's various proposals to open up more wireless capacity, with
several quotes from me. The different aspects of open spectrum
get a bit muddled, such as the distinction between current initiatives
like the FCC's broadcast underlay proceeding and long-term proposals
like my supercommons idea. Still, it's good ...
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Monday, March 22nd, 2004
As suddenly as it appeared, my Treo problems have suddenly
stopped. I brought it into my office this morning, and when I
took it out to call the replacement service, it was working fine.
I'll keep my fingers crossed that whatever happened has corrected itself
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Monday, March 22nd, 2004
My beloved Treo 600 is suddenly on the fritz. It makes and
receives calls, but whenever I turn it off and on, it locks in the
keyguard mode. Shutting off keyguard didn't help, nor did soft
and hard resets. This is something serious. Time to call
the equipment replacement program, which fortunately I signed ...
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Friday, March 19th, 2004
My old boss, Esther Dyson, just announced
that she is selling her company to CNet. Reportedly, she and her
business partner Daphne Kis will stay involved. Even for someone
as prominent as Esther, it's tough to make it as an independent
publisher. I hope the merger works out well for everyone.
If nothing else, it ...
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Thursday, March 18th, 2004
The Treo 600 was definitely the "in" device at this year's SXSW conference in Austin. I've had mine for five months, and I still love it.
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2004
I'm speaking next week at the Internet Commons Congress
at the University of Maryland. The name is a bit over the top,
and I was hoping the organizers would be able to get more of the
thinkers defining the "commons" vision (like Yochai Benkler, Larry
Lessig, and Elinor Ostrom). Still it's an excellent group ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2004
I had a wonderful time at South By Southwest Interactive.
There was an unusually high concentration of people I know virtually or
have spoken with by phone, but had never actually met before in
person. It was an incredibly fertile environment. And kudos
to Hugh Forrest, Jon Lebkowsky, and the other organizers for giving
significant ...
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