Fat Pipe, Always On, Get Out of the Way

February 2, 2006

The last couple of days have seen a lot activity on net neutrality, so herewith a collection of links: 1. From O’Reilly Radar, the news that David Isenberg is organizing a conference – Freedom-to-Connect (“F2C is for all who care about — and are affected by — network connectivity, economics, applications and policy; F2C is […]

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What is the Tory Plan for Copyright Reform?

February 1, 2006

Jack Kapica has an entirely sane and balanced overview of the road ahead for copyright reform in today’s Globe. What also caught my eye was his look back at where we’ve recently been: Reforming the law is not simple, certainly not as simple as Liberal hopeful Sarmita Bulte thought it was. As the former assistant […]

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NTP Patents: The Final Non-Final Rejection

February 1, 2006

eWeek.com reports on the non-final rejection of the last remaining patent at issue in the RIM-NTP litigation.

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On Empty Suits

February 1, 2006

Fred Wilson writes about ’empty suits’ in business, a problem that is, in my opinion, epidemic in professional services, including law.

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BigLaw and Personal Beliefs

February 1, 2006

Cory has the story of a legal clerk at an intellectual property law firm in midtown New York who was let go because of an article she’d written in Village Voice that was critical of DRM – a view incompatible with her firm’s business interests. This is yet another reason to think that small is […]

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More From Ed Whiteacre on the Two Tiered Internet

February 1, 2006

Via Broadbandreports (which has a thriving comment thread on the topic), Ed Whiteacre is working the media again on the two tiered internet.

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More on the Fiber Optic Future

February 1, 2006

I’ve just added a significant update to my recent post on Bruce Kushnick’s new book, “$200 Billion Broadband Scandal”.

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A Cottage Country Wireless High Speed Trial

February 1, 2006

Tyler has one man’s story of trying to surf the web down by the dock: “the service is reliable and performs well”.

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Your Senator Needs an iPod

January 31, 2006

This is brilliant. Hot on the heels of an apparent volte face on DRM by a couple of members of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee – a reversal that was seemingly triggered by Senator Ted Stevens’ fun with his daughter’s new iPod – IPac, “a nonpartisan group dedicated to preserving individual freedom through balanced intellectual […]

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David Maister on the Democratization of Advertising and PR

January 31, 2006

I’m very pleased to say that David Maister, the author of “The Trusted Advisor” and one of the true gurus of professional services marketing, commented on my recent posts on the Democratization of Advertising and PR. Please drop by, spend some time – here and here – and get engaged in the dialogue.

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Whither the Fiber-Optic Future?

January 31, 2006

Steve Stroh posts on a new book by Bruce Kushnick that he describes as a history of a massive bait and switch campaign in the 1990s by the US telcos using the pretext of a national fiber optic buildout as a basis for increasing their rates. Gist: Bruce Kushnick has written a new book, $200 […]

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A Single Massive Database

January 31, 2006

Security Focus features some very harsh criticism by Mark Rasch, a former head of the Justice Department’s computer crime unit, of the U.S. Government’s Google subpoena. Gist: The Google subpoena fight isn’t really about the anonymous data at issue here today. It is really about the way the government can “deputize” unwilling private companies who […]

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