Archive for June, 2005

Mac Switchback

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

I'm a Mac guy. Bought my first one in 1987, replacing my trusty old Apple IIe, and stuck with the Mac through Apple's subsequent travails. Heck, I even owned a Mac clone. Somewhere along the way, though, I gradually migrated to Windows machines. I fell in ...

Supernova 2005 video

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

Mary Hodder put together a delightful short video (Quicktime format) of highlights from Supernova 2005.

The FCC Loses its Memory

Monday, June 20th, 2005

One non-Supernova event signficant enough to note here. Bob Pepper, Chief of Policy Development at the FCC and my former boss and mentor, is leaving the Commission. (He just told me the internal email went around announcing his farewell party, so that makes it official!) Pepper is irreplaceable. ...

Supernova 2005

Monday, June 20th, 2005

Supernova 2005 starts today in San Francisco. I can't wait. To the extent I blog during the next few days, it will be on the

The value of openness

Friday, June 3rd, 2005

In a New York Times article today about AOL's future, one of its excutives makes a remarkable comment: "My biggest problem is the walled garden," said Mr. Kelly, who runs all of AOL's Web properties in addition to ad sales. "The world can't see the good stuff we do every day." This ...

Supernova 2004 video

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Jonathan Marks, who attended Supernova 2004 from the Netherlands (and will be joining us again this year), put together a fantastic short video with highlights from last year's conference. The video gives you a bit of the flavor of the event. And the fact that Jonathan put this together on his ...