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From the Dept. of Redundancy Department CDW sent me four copies of their latest catalog, each to slightly different versions of myself at this one address. They all went into the recycling bin. Concentric, my ISP, sent me two of their latest promo. The difference in addresses is the presence/absence of a period (.) after the "Inc." in "Searls, Inc." Let's see... it announces the death of the company. In its place will be XO. Let's see who XO is... Hmm... it's taking forever to download the page. While that's not happening, let me volunteer the one added value I'd like from XO: access numbers overseas. We'll see. Eventually. (The page still isn't down here yet.) Government as Usual
The NAB and NPR are the bad guys on this one. Note that the NAB site's info on LPFM is locked to non-members, To NPR's credit, their news operation at least covers the issue. From these other reports, however, it looks like the bad guys are winning the lobbying effort, which sucks. So let's fight them. Co-thinking David Weinberger in the latest JOHO on how the Web is a place — a whole world — rather than a medium:
Coincidentally, I expressed radical agreement with the idea when I spoke in Switzerland earlier this week. In fact, I haven't talked with David about the subject at all. Eerie, huh? And they're both bargains Great piece in Salon by Laura Billings about her education in the modern equivalent of the ancient markets we talk about in Cluetrain. In the speech I gave at the GDI event in Lucerne on Tuesday, I retold a similar story told to me by my favorite priest, Fr. Seán Olaoire, about an encounter between a Western guest and a rug merchant in a traditional African market. This is where I spoke, by the way. The acoustics are so speaker-friendly that I could have addressed the audience without the microphone. The microphone-assisted accoustics made me feel like I was wearing headphones. It was amazing. But will they remove any legal wrongs in copyright law? I got back from Switzerland late yesterday, immediately got buried in stuff and haven't had a chance to do anything here until now. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, dig Don Marti's latest challenge to the SMDI.
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