Monthly Archives: December 2001

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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