Archive for March, 2009
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
I've posted my draft paper, Higher Standards: Regulation in the Network Age (Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, forthcoming 2009) to the SSRN online repository. Here's the abstract:
As digital networks proliferate, standardized interfaces will define the economic and normative dynamics of markets. In other words, standardization is regulation. Regulatory mechanisms ...
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
I'm speaking Tuesday at David Isenberg's always-provocative Freedom to Connect conference, held just outside Washington DC in Silver Spring, MD. Check it out if you can. David was a pioneer in explaining how the Net challenges telecom. His conference is an exciting gathering of reformers and radicals. ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
The difference between Twitter and ICQ epitomizes what's new about the Net today. ICQ (a meteoric startup success story) was a messaging backplane that thought it was a software application. Twitter is a messaging backplane that thinks it's a social data store. Power to the cloud!
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
I'm quoted in a Knowledge@Wharton article about "free" business models. Â This is stuff that Chris Anderson of Wired has covered in depth in his recent book, so I'm not sure we added much. Â The piece ends with a quote from me:
"The problem is in thinking the business model of your ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
President Obama officially nominated Julius Genachowski today to be the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. This won't be a surprise to anyone following telecom policy, but it's great that the nomination finally made it through the process.
I had the pleasure of working with Julius during the Transition, and before ...
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