Archives for May, 2007
Lunchtime Musings: too much bandwidth, or too little imagination?
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
BusinessWeek, May 29, 2007
But once you have 100Mbps or more available at home, what the heck are you going to do with all that bandwidth? For the average consumer, 6Mbps should more than suffice for today’s typical needs, whether it’s downloading music, watching the occasional video, or even running a home network that lets two [...]
VRM Is Not Anti-Vendor
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
VRM on the brain continues…
Another (slightly modified) reproduction of an email on VRM that I sent a few months ago, this one to Doc Searls and Britt Blaser (hey, guys—I’m still following the VRM effort, and I hope to have the bandwidth to start contributing again before too long). The email was largely a [...]
When Social Software Works
Monday, May 21st, 2007
Within 24 hours of the publication of Mark Helprin’s op-ed on perpetual copyright from yesterday’s Sunday New York Times, a wiki page on Larry Lessig’s site, intended to facilitate the collective authorship of a rebuttal to the piece, is well underway.
Sometimes social software works the way you want it to.
Stupid Ideas have a Halo
Friday, May 18th, 2007
As the operator of 250 Labs, I read Techdirt’s post entitled Internet Economics: Making Stupid Ideas Cheaper To Bring To Market and immediately thought “hey—how did Techdirt get access to my super-secret business plan?”
Alas, the Techdirt post is actually focused on Guy Kawasaki’s Truemors venture as an example of how the ever-decreasing costs of starting [...]
VRM and Public Broadcasting
Friday, May 18th, 2007
The wide variety of demands on my time have meant that I haven’t been able to contribute much to Project VRM recently, but VRM is one of those ideas that won’t leave you alone: it makes so much sense and has so much potential that it just keeps popping up.
With the end of WNYC’s [...]
Microsoft’s Patent Strategy: Now It Can Be Revealed
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
From Slashdot:
CptRevelation writes “Microsoft has released more detailed information on the patents supposedly in breach by the open-source community. Despite their accusations of infringement, they state they would rather do licensing deals instead of any legal action. [...]”
bzzt…bzzzt…automatic translation system now online…
GraspingTheObvious writes “Microsoft has released more detailed information on the patents supposedly in breach [...]
Twitter has a Halo
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
As a borderline obsessive registrant of odd domains, I am a veritable storehouse of borderline interesting domain registration trivia.
The binary representations of ASCII alpha characters? Already registered in their .com forms, for the most part — particularly those with appealing patterns (i.e. “U” as 01010101.com, or the beautifully symetrical 01011010.com for “Z”).
Clever english wordplay [...]
Saying My Piece on HD-DVD
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
It is Wednesday, after all…
