Archive for February, 2005
Monday, February 28th, 2005
According to a story in today's Financial Times, music companies are upset because, get this, customers are flocking to buy legal digital downloads.
For several years, the record companies have complained about unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing. Now, they are finally generating significant revenues from users paying to receive their ...
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
This year's Supernova is really starting to come together. Registration is now open, so sign up, y'all!
As usual, we've got some wonderful people speaking. Here's an introduction to a few of them; I'll post updates periodically in the future. The speakers page on our Website has a ...
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
Some fun facts from the two keynotes I attended at the Wharton Technology Conference today: Lou D'Ambrosio of Avaya and Jeff Weiner of Yahoo!
In 1998, the average Web search query was 1.2 words long; in 2004 was twice as long (2.5 words). Weiner (who heads up the search ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
Who would have thought a historical baby-name database could be so compelling?
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
The Harvard Law Review (where I served as an editor some ten years ago) is leading an effort to prune back the excessive length of law review articles. Eleven of the top journals have
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
Very cool visualizations of relationships among photo-sharing users at FlickrLand.
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
14.2 billion video streams sent over the Net in 2004, a 79% increase over 2003, according to AccuStream iMedia. (via IT Facts)
That doesn't include the vast amount of P2P video downloads through BitTorrent and similar services. The videonet is coming faster than we think.
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Sunday, February 20th, 2005
Susan Crawford explains why this week's oral argument concerning the FCC's broadcast flag ruling is important to the future of the Net.
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
It has been interesting to watch the debate progress over the city of Philadelphia's plan to create a city-wide outdoor public WiFi network. The project generated a lot of attention when first announced. At that time, Verizon and Comcast didn't have much to say about it. ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
Vonage, the leading independent US VOIP provider, has complained to the FCC that a broadband access provider is blocking the ports it uses to provide service.
I and others have been raising concerns for some time that broadband platform owners will use their control of the physical and logical layers of ...
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