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 love with IBM’s sensual trackpoint, got comfortable with Microsoft’s increasing respectable operating system releases, and wondered occasionally when I’d come home again. Inertial of ...

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. He’s the institutional memory of the FCC on pretty much every important policy issue. And he has been at the center of ...

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 is AOL, the company that virtually defined the model of keeping information off the public Internet and available ...