Archive for September, 2006
Monday, September 25th, 2006
The FCC is apparently planning to adopt a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) seeking comment on network neutrality.
An NOI is an informational proceeding, in which the agency asks questions but doesn't propose any rules. I'm concerned that this is an attempt to dissipate some of the pressure for nondiscrimination rules, ...
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
OneWebDay is a global celebration of the Web and its importance to our lives. The first one is being held today in dozens of locations around the world.
My friend Susan Crawford is one of the organizers, and deserves a great deal of credit for kicking off an important, decentralized ...
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
A bogus poll funded by Verizon purports to show that most Americans oppose network neutrality. Just reading the press release, though, shows how slanted the questions were:
"According to the survey, when presented with a choice between video choice and additional net neutrality legislation, an overwhelming majority of voters supported ...
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
I'm recovering from watching the Philadelphia Eagles collapse yesterday against the New York Giants.
Walking out of a stadium with 65,000 other dejected fans was a painful experience, although of course the latter stages of the game were even more painful. One of the things I love about being a ...
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
The Economist has a few quotes from me in a story this week on social networking sites.
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Nick Carr: "Openness is not only the technological structure of the net but also its reigning ideology. But it would be a naive mistake to assume that economic interest will inevitably lose out to technological structure in determining the future shape of the commercial internet."
Well said. And relevant to ...
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Senator Stevens says that gridlock over network neutrality may derail passage of comprehensive telecom reform legislation this year. It's remarkable that the net neutrality issue has gotten such traction in such a short period of time, especially given how little public and industry interest there was for a long ...
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Last night, my Wharton colleauge Jerry Wind told me about We Are Smarter Than Me, a fascinating project that he is involved with, along with former Supernova speaker Tom Malone of the MIT Sloan School of Management. The project is going to write a book about leveraging the power ...
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
I still remember what I thought that moment, as I stood on the roofdeck, watching the towers crumble, wondering whether my wife was still alive:
The world will never be the same again.
Everyone around me was crying, as far as the eye could see. We had witnessed the explosions and ...
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
The Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC has finally launched its first outdoor WiFi hotspot, more than two years after Open Park, a non-profit group I'm involved with, offered to deploy free WiFi access across the National Mall.
For reasons that remain mysterious, the Smithsonian rejected Open Park's efforts, and instead is ...
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