Monthly Archives: December 2001

Controlling the Choke Points

Given the Bush administration’s fondness for corporate interests and its disdain for enforcing laws designed to enhance competition, it seems likely that Comcast, the Philadelphia-based cable-TV company, will be permitted to buy AT&T’s cable and broadband unit (AP). Given the … Continue reading

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Wireless Breaks Out

Glenn Fleishmann: Public Space Wi-Fi’s Transforming Event. Boingo will build no hot spots. Instead, they are aggregating the network infrastructure of other companies and wrapping it up through a single user account, a single bill, and a single set of … Continue reading

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Blogging Recognition

Dave Winer and his UserLand Software colleagues think bloggers deserve their own awards, and was kind enough to nominate this weblog, among others, for one of them. I’m honored. I see that they’ve excluded the UserLand sites from consideration. That’s … Continue reading

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Listening to Bill Clinton

At the World Economic Forum annual meeting in early 2000, then-President Bill Clinton gave a speech of clarity and common sense — embracing globalization but warning that globalization had to occur with less secrecy and more inclusion of the have-nots. … Continue reading

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A Bad Broadband Bill Delayed

American telecommunications customers dodged a bullet last week when the House of Representatives postponed a vote on a broadband telecom bill that would have done more harm than good. But moneyed interests will be back to push this terrible legislation … Continue reading

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Microsoft Won’t Listen

Dave Winer: Killer apps and blockbuster OSes. I’d like to recommend XP. Can you take out the phone-home features, and just ship a no-nonsense OS that isn’t all about DRM and doesn’t crash and supports modern Internet apps? The answer … Continue reading

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Segway and its Meaning

I love new gadgets, as much for what they imply as what they do themselves. The Apple Newton was wasn’t a great PDA, because it didn’t fit into a pocket, but it told us what was coming. That’s my reaction … Continue reading

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Zzzzzzz

Forgive the several days between postings. I’ve been in bed with a not-too-bad case of the flu (or something else that gives me headaches, chills and general malaise), and it’s been hard to concentrate on more than chicken soup and … Continue reading

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Independent Web News

JD Lasica: Independents Day. When it comes to Net news, small can be beautiful. This is an excellent look at four independent news-oriented Web sites. I’m a huge fan of Kuro5hin and MetaFilter, and didn’t know much about IWantMedia until … Continue reading

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Internet’s Promise, or Not

Don’t know how I missed it, but Jennifer Balderama wrote an excellent piece on “Where Internet promises remain unfulfilled” — and sparked a lively discussion among Doc, Mike and others in the blogging community. Comments

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