Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
A quick update since my last report on my current spam filtering setup.
Last week, I received over 87,000 inbound emails. Roughly 86,000, or 99%, were spam. About 1000 messages made it through SpamSoap and my other server-based spam filters, and were delivered to my client-side email program. ...
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
I appeared on the PBS "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" show yesterday, talking about the Microsoft Windows Vista launch. The transcript and live audio are online if you're interested.
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
From the IT person for my department:
Congress changed Daylight Savings Time from the first Sunday of April
(1st) to the second Sunday in March (11th).
This is new, many computers, Palm Pilots, Blackberries, cell phones and
software may not yet be equipped to handle this change.
We are beginning to run into trouble with ...
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Sorry for the radio silence the past couple weeks. I'm teaching introductory law to six parallel sections of MBA students, about 400 in all. It's actually a lot of fun, but all-consuming during these few weeks.
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
Comments are due next week in the FCC's white spaces proceeding to open up unlicensed use of broadcast spectrum.
I've been too busy with other things to focus or talk much about this proceeding, but it could be incredibly important for the future of communications. If the FCC does allow for ...
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Clay Shirky responds to Mark Cuban's post that "HDTV is the Internet video killer." It's rare that I disagree with Clay, but here I think both positions are right.
Nothing is really going to "kill" anything else, as both of them are well aware. There is a future for ...
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
A pretty good New York Times article on new search engines, which digs into the shallow next Google" meme. It concludes with a delightful quote from my former boss, Esther Dyson: "'I love Google,' she said, 'but I love the march of history.'"
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Danah Boyd has some perceptive thoughts on the future of MySpace and other high-profile social networking sites. Including this gem: "Every PR organization and marketing arm is leeching onto MySpace like a blood thirsty vampire. Problem is that vampires kill their prey."
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Tim Wu responds to critics of the AT&T/BellSouth network neutrality conditions.
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
Best wishes to all for a wonderful 2007!
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