“Radio has no future”

March 30, 2006

Here’s an entertaining stroll through the “Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future”.

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Copyright to Extend to Clothing Designs?

March 30, 2006

The NYT covers the debate raging in the U.S. fashion industry over whether a 3 year period of copyright protection ought to be extended to clothing design.  Reasonable people can disagree, I suppose, but to my mind it is odd to see the fashion industry presented as a case of creativity suffering because of a […]

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France Racing Ahead in Broadband

March 29, 2006

We’ve heard it many times, often via Om, but the transformation of French telecom has been remarkable, and the penetration of ridiculously fast broadband a case study in in fostering innovation. From the WSJ: For years, France’s telecommunications industry was a state-owned monopoly with one of the world’s most backward broadband markets. But thanks to […]

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Stupid Networks

March 29, 2006

Tom Evslin has a great post on David Isenberg’s work on the concept of the stupid network.

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U.S. Bill Backs off Neutrality Protections

March 28, 2006

CNet reports on the just-released text of anticipated U.S telecom legislation. Instead of providing neutrality assurances it has given the FCC rule-making authority. Punt. Competing sound-bytes: “This bill will produce an explosion of opportunity for American workers, and American consumers will get an array of video services that were unimagined just a few years ago”; […]

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Plaxo Gets its Mojo Back

March 28, 2006

Plaxo’s taken a lot of heat for its acquaintance spam – perhaps deserved, but I’ve always thought it excessive. After all, it’s a ridiculously competent update and sync service – and it’s free. So I’ve been a supporter since I discovered it, spam or no. And so it’s nice to see the winds changing for […]

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Why Are Roaming Charges So High?

March 28, 2006

Amid the scrap between Vodafone and the EU over plans to regulate lower roaming charges in Europe, I’ve been wondering – why are celphone roaming charges higher than even the highest of the country-pair’s domestic rates? And why are they not only just a little higher than standard rates, but orders of magnitude higher?

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Tim Berners-Lee in The Star

March 28, 2006

Tyler has an interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the subject of net neutrality.

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Basecamp now has an API

March 27, 2006

This is a very cool development.

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Tool Time

March 27, 2006

One of the tricky parts of organizing mesh was figuring out how to coordinate the work of 5 people, all of whom had ‘day jobs’, worked from multiple locations, sometimes even from mobile devices, and had different work routines. We’ve done all of the organizing ourselves, so there’s been no delegation to ‘staff’. But as […]

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When the Ecosystem Strangles Innovation

March 27, 2006

The NYT has a fascinating article today about the effect of Microsoft’s vast ecosystem on its ability to innovate.

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Steve Jobs on DRM

March 26, 2006

Techdirt and Boing Boing raise some embarrassing contradictions between Apple’s current position on DRM and its position when it was trying to curry favour with consumers to drive early acceptance of the iPod.

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