This is heartwarming and inspirational:
Television viewers will ultimately wind up with one-stop shopping for video, phone and Internet services, under legislation approved by the state Senate that would open the video-services market to telephone companies.
No matter what happens with Stevens and Barton this year, those of is in California are cool.
I heard a debate of [...]
Mark Purdy opines that the world’s greatest sports franchise, the A’s, are buddy-buddy with Cisco:
There are plenty of murmurs in Silicon Valley circles that Cisco is smitten with the idea of a partnership with the A’s, on many levels — including naming rights to the ballpark. There are rumblings out of Cisco’s offices that concepts [...]
According to geographer Jared Diamond the fall of the Easter Island society, Rapa Nui, is a parable of the dangers of environmental destruction. Turns out his analysis is completely wrong:
I believe that the world faces today an unprecedented global environmental crisis, and I see the usefulness of historical examples of the pitfalls of environmental [...]
I used to spend a lot of time in the Indian state of Kerala, so this article in Salon by Andrew Leonard caught my eye:
Richard Stallman must be sleeping well this week. Eight years ago, I accompanied the free software pioneer on a visit to the Bill Gates-funded computer science building on the Stanford campus. [...]
Here it comes, a broadband technology that can move bits at a gigabit per second. And it’s all done without any wires:
On a bus fitted out specially for the occasion in Jeju this week, Samsung demonstrated a new version of 4G technology transferring data at speeds of 100Mbit/s.
The bus was moving at 60kmph – which [...]
A couple of days ago, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post calling Net Neutrality “Intelligent Design for the Left”. My point was that NN is pseudo-engineering, just as ID is pseudo-science. Coincidentally, an ID firestorm erupted on an anti-NN blog, Technology Liberation Front, over the addition of a Discovery Institute fellow to the authors of TLF. [...]
Cisco High Tech Policy Blog is interesting. They’re got some heavy-duty contributors, including my former California Assemblyman, Jim Cunneen.
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Technological Musings says:
British Telecom makes sure that no other VoIP service can work on their network by blocking commonly used ports.
Is this true? I know that Korea Telecom does this, but I’d never heard this before. The blog contains a number of errors, such as this one: “There are a lot of ISPs in the [...]
Doc Searls is puzzling over new ways to do old things on the Internet, prompted by Dave Winer’s river of news concept:
“River of news” usefully combines three metaphorial frames: place, transport and publishing. Using all three, it proposes an approach to publishing that respects the fact that more and more people are going to want [...]
Wednesday the Boston Red Sox beat the Angels 5-4 in an interesting game. The Sox only got 6 hits and 1 walk, compared to 11 hits and 6 walks for the Angels. The difference was the two home runs hit by Sox with runners on base compared to none for the Angels. The Southern Cals [...]
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