Light Posting

April 9, 2006

Posting will be light for a week while I ponder the absence of technology in rural Mexico … from rural Mexico.

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The mesh Lineup

April 5, 2006

It’s taken an enormous amount of work, but we’re finally rolling out the schedule for mesh. Time now to take a short breather ….. ok, now back to it, we’ve got day of event stuff to plan. But seriously, we’re all enormously pleased with the way mesh has turned out so far. The energy has […]

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The Trojan Apple

April 5, 2006

Apple’s news of Boot Camp, its beta of Leopard’s dual boot capability, is hitting the ‘sphere like a blizzard. And it should. For my part, I think the strategy of giving Windows users both a better machine and a better OS to try out while they’re on it is frighteningly clever. Consider it the Trojan […]

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“The Tech Blogosphere has Peaked”

April 5, 2006

I was expecting to read Phil Sim’s post about the peak of the tech blogosphere for novelty’s sake and then toss it aside. And then I read it, and realized that he’d answered my own questions about why so much of what I’ve been reading recently just doesn’t seem blogworthy. Gist: When I was an […]

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The One Sentence Corporate Blogging Policy

April 5, 2006

“Don’t Do Anything Stupid”. Following up on recent posts here and elsewhere on the generally overwrought reaction to corporate blogging, Heather’s “Marketing at Microsoft” Blog digs into the difference between companies that want their employees to blog and companies that allow their employees to blog: My opinion (which all of this is), is simply that […]

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Net Neutrality at F2C

April 5, 2006

Roundups from Jeff Pulver and Om Malik on presentations at the F2C conference in Washington; much of the material is about net neutrality. Joho the Blog appears to have an interview on the topic with Michael Powell.

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The Road Ahead on Copyright

April 3, 2006

Michael Geist and Howard Knopf each have interesting recent posts on the political future of the copyright file.

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Open Source DRM

April 3, 2006

Wired reports on DReaM, Sun’s open source DRM initiative.

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“Microsoft Office is Dead”

April 1, 2006

Scoble’s pronouncement, issued in the first ‘graph of his post announcing his defection to Google, is going to rattle a lot of cages: I just got off the phone with Larry Page. He’s offered me a job to run Google’s PR department and I’ve decided to take him up on it. Why? Because I finally […]

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ATMs on Steroids

April 1, 2006

The NYT has a piece on the next generation of ATMs, coming soon to a 7-11 near you: Way ahead of the curve is 7-Eleven, which is introducing its second wave of custom-made terminals called Vcom’s this year. Often referred to as A.T.M.’s on steroids, the more than 1,000 Vcom’s dispense cash, sell Verizon services, […]

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The World Internet Project

March 31, 2006

Mark nicely sums up my reaction to a presentation earlier today by Jeff Cole, who is Director of the newly formed Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, where he runs the World Internet Project. A superb presentation of Jeff’s recent research results, and hats off to EBay for organizing […]

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Bell and Rogers Announce High Speed Wireless

March 31, 2006

For about $50 a month, plus the modem, which at this point seems to need a power outlet. Connie has the details at Slaw. Update: Peter Rukavina has more details here, and Jon Arnold explores the topic here.

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