Sunday, January 30, 2005

Quote of Note: Mike Stagg Quote of Note: Mike Stagg: ""Whoever builds a fiber to the home network is going to have a monopoly - whoever builds it. As a practical matter, I am opposed to monopolies. But I would much rather have a monopoly that I can touch and see and feel and affect, which is [Lafayette, Louisiana municipal utility operator] LUS." Mike Stagg, co-perpetrator of the Lafayette Pro-fiber blog, quoted here." (Via isen.blog.) 8:01:31 PM     trackback []

Network Intelligence Jonathan Schwartz's Network Intelligence does a nice job of capturing a the current state of the world for distributed data gathering and aggregation via the 'Net, blogs, cellphones, etc. Better yet, it gives a sense of the speed of change. The key here is obviously the network. It's one thing to create or capture some data or an idea, its another for it to be shared so easily. This is why blogs and wikis are so new and different. 8:01:23 PM     trackback []

Friday, September 17, 2004

Kerry and the IP extremists Lawrence Lessig says that Kerry has selected an "IP Czar" that is not (if Kerry is elected) make the our current IP environment get any better. 10:40:58 PM     trackback []

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Report from Crypto 2004 Ed Felten gives good summary of the excitement at Crypto 2004. Some important algorithms have been shown to have some weaknesses, and it seems like it's a bit a surprise to people. This post tells why the seemingly small breaches are significant. 11:11:57 PM     trackback []

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Competition in the Software Industry Good post by Jonathan Schwartz on the dynamics of the software industry, and users ability to switch among vendors. I'm sure he takes heat from the Linux community on his comments, but the emergence of Red Hat as a company charging high prices for server software are an important indicator that the utopian vision isn't yet a reality... 11:19:20 PM     trackback []

Saturday, July 10, 2004

A "NearWalden" experience for the Internet BookMobile The Internet Bookmobile came to Walden Pond and learned first hand about the conflicting goals for that property. What would Thoreau think? Yesterday (July 8, 2004) I took the Internet Bookmobile to Walden Pond in Concord, Mass. It was the 150th anniversary of H. D. Thoreau's boo k "Walden." The Thoreau Society had a dawn to dusk reading. After an hour of having readers print and take away free copies of "Walden," I was asked by the Walden Pond Reservation police to pack up and leave and threatened with arrest. I left. The park supervisor (Denise Morrissey, 978-369-3254) told me I could not pass out free literature without a permit. And she would not give me a permit because, as she explained, the state park gets money from a concession by the Thoreau Society, which operates a store that sells "Walden"--and I was competing with them by giving away free copies. There is no place to park at Walden Pond except in the state parking lot, for which I paid $5. [via Boing Boing Blog] 9:19:44 PM     trackback []

Wednesday, July 7, 2004

Weblog Growth David Sifry tracks the growth of weblogs. Amazing growth curves... 10:38:36 PM     trackback []

Monday, July 5, 2004

Telcordia Study: ILEC FTTP feasible, driven by opex savings David Isenberg cites another interesting FTTH feasibility study. From everything I've seen in what various towns have done this idea continues to gain strength. 9:21:17 PM     trackback []