Dana Blankenhorn is excited about Netgear’s announcement that it’s fully supporting a router intended to run open source software, but he’s off on the relevance of the hardware:
MyOpenRouter offers developers a comprehensive user guide, applications forums and downloads. Best of all this isn’t a stinky would-not-sell-otherwise router. It’s got an internal diversity antenna to improve [...]
Very funny nerdy YouTube, via Dave Winer and Doctor Weinberger.
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This is pretty damn amazing. At the Personal Democracy Forum, Vint Cerf declared that the government should own and control the Internet:
Should the Internet be owned and maintained by the government, just like the highways? Vint Cerf, the “father of the Internet†and Google’s Internet evangelist, made this radical suggestion while he was sitting next [...]
As one would expect, the New York Times editorial page is not happy with the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the right to keep arms. But the language of their editorial is quite a bit over the top:
This is a decision that will cost innocent lives, cause immeasurable pain and suffering and turn America into a [...]
I need to expain why this is bad in some detail, but for now enjoy Julian Sanchez’ Internet for Everyone campaign aims to bridge digital divide:
Legal scholars Jonathan Zittrain and Tim Wu stressed what Zittrain called the “weird” economics of providing high-speed Internet. Initially, said Zittrain, cost increases are commensurate with the scale of the [...]
The Seoul Declaration For the Future of the Internet Economy signed by OECD ministers isn’t half bad. There’s no wacky net neutrality language in it, and plenty of commitment to protect privacy and intellectual property. This must have taken a lot of work, as the forces of evil were in full tilt to corrupt this [...]
Vuze is the Palo Alto peer-to-peer indexer that helped bring the net neutrality circus to the FCC with their publicity stunt of a complaint against Comcast. They’ve maintained their business was nothing to do with piracy, and all about innovative delivery of legal content. It turns out it’s mainly piracy after all:
This month, Vuze did [...]
Do we have meaningful competition among broadband carriers? See the Verizon PolicyBlog comments for an example of what the competition looks like. Here are Verizon VP Tom Taulke’s comments on retention marketing:
First, should consumers have information from all providers before choosing a carrier for voice or video services . . . or a package of [...]
Supernova was an interesting experience. It’s not my usual crowd, more a Web 2.0/Social Networking scene than my hard-core networking and tech policy people, but there was a fair bit of overlap. I met some people whose blog work I’ve read for years – Steve Gillmor, J. D. Lasica, Kevin Marks, Susan Crawford, and Kevin [...]
John Oram of IT Examiner does a fair write-up on the Innovation ‘08 panel in IT Examiner:
Richard Bennett said he is opposed to Net Neutrality regulations because they shut down engineering options that are going to be needed for the Internet to become the one, true, general-purpose network. Today on his blog, Richard adds “Google [...]
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