Naming Net Neutrality

June 21, 2006

Jeff Jarvis channels Arianna Huffington.

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Throwing Mud Against the Wall

June 21, 2006

CNN’s Money.com runs a breathless “star money manager thinks X” piece on the dangers of investing in Google. The article may well be right about that – who really knows – but one discussion caught my attention: Kobrick said that Google clearly has a great product, but that alone isn’t enough to make it a […]

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Cuban’s Letter to the Publisher

June 21, 2006

Mark Cuban has written a follow-up to his NBA fine that includes this extract from his letter to the publisher of the Miami Herald, which Cuban accuses of lame reporting of his adventures: You are also the reason Im thankful for this blog. In the old days I would have had to make the rounds […]

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A Kafka-esque “Debate” on DRM and Innovation

June 20, 2006

Tim Lee deconstructs a kafka-esque debate between Wendy Seltzer and Fritz Attaway on whether DRM stifles innovation. Note: if one side – in this case the MPAA – refuses to join the issues under discussion and instead merely speaks from talking points, it’s a speech, not a discussion or a debate.

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Just How Effective is Online Advertising?

June 20, 2006

Looking at some webvertising stats recently I realized that in over 10 years of intensive web browsing I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve clicked on an ad. Less than 5 in over thousands of hours of browsing. And as far as branding effectiveness is concerned, I can’t remember a recent […]

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A Patchwork of Privacy

June 20, 2006

Google and others are calling for a U.S. federal privacy law.

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WaPo on the Future of News

June 20, 2006

WaPo has an excellent series on the future of news. Most troubling quote: “The question no longer is whether the newspaper will endure, but whether the kind of news that is essential to a functioning democracy will survive,” says Melvin Mencher in the current Nieman Reports, one of many places where journalists are worrying over […]

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Money Can’t Buy Everything

June 19, 2006

And you need look no further than here to know it’s true. Via Coyne.

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Competition and Net Neutrality

June 19, 2006

Mike at Techdirt covers some excellent recent writing on competition and net neutrality: Tom Evslin’s recent overview, and the Weekly Standard’s piece tinkering with the idea of using eminent domain to expropriate broadband networks.

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Time to Stand on Guard

June 19, 2006

Antonia covers net neutrality. More emphasis in the analysis on the role of a competitive marketplace would have been nice, but any coverage north of the border is a good thing.

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Who Owns Scobleizer?

June 19, 2006

VentureBlog asks the question. I suppose the answer is, in Scoble’s case, does it matter? People follow Scoble not for what he wrote yesterday, but for what he’ll write today. And now that he’s left Microsoft, that, if it ever did, no longer belongs to them. (There could be some ‘process’ issues, such as advertising […]

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On Vonage

June 17, 2006

Vonage has taken a lot of hits lately in the ‘sphere, especially recently with its seemingly badly fumbled IPO. But many of the shots seem to me to be off the mark. It’s obvious that the business model is highly vulnerable now – there are many competitors, and Vonage is getting squeezed both from the […]

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