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| Wednesday, January 22, 2003 |
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Comain 
Wide-fli from O'Hare
| | Hey, I'm sitting at a Starbucks near the F Concourse here at O'Hare in Chicago, grateful that somebody with a hotspot called tabletlaunch is providing free airtime to roadloaders like me. |
| | I'm pretty sure it's Microsoft, by the way. They have a kiosk nearby showing off TabletPCs. I'll ask. Then I have to catch the next plane. |
| | [Later...] I'm sure it was coming from the TabletPC kiosk, but the folks there had no idea what I was asking about. |
| | Now I'm here at my sister's house, live on the Net by household wi-fi. |
Packing the miles on
| | I'm flying three zones to the East to hang with my Mom (whose 90th birthday is a few weeks away) for a few days. The plane (the first of 3 I'll take today) leaves at 5:15am, about 5 hours from now. So I'll just post a bunch of pointers (with help from Technorati): |
| | Doing sensible things makes us consequential. |
| | Mitch also points to Bill Safire's On Media Giantism, an outstanding and important piece, especially considering the source. A sample: |
| | Take a listen to what's happened to local radio in one short wave of deregulation: the great cacophony of different sounds and voices is being amalgamated and homogenized. (The following figures were published by Gannett's USA Today, which kind of blunts my point about big-media squeamishness, but its account of the F.C.C.'s ruination of independent radio is damning.) |
| | Back in 1996, the two largest radio chains owned 115 stations; today, those two own more than 1,400. A handful of leading owners used to generate only a fifth of industry revenue; now these top five rake in 55 percent of all money spent on local radio. The number of station owners has plummeted by a third. Yesterday's programming diversity on the public's airwaves has degenerated to the Top 40, as today's consolidating commodores borrowing public property say "the public interest be damned." |
| | Public property, huh? Sounds like the Commons might have a friend in Bill. |
| | The Times says a judge has ruled that ISPs can narc their users to the RIAA. Key excerpt: |
| | Judge Bates's ruling may play a pivotal role in allowing the industry to do that, legal experts said yesterday. "The court's decision has troubling ramifications for consumers, service providers and the growth of the Internet," said Sara Deutsch, vice president and associate general counsel for Verizon. "It opens the door for anyone who makes a mere allegation of copyright infringement to gain complete access to private subscriber information without the due process protections afforded by the courts." |
| | On the phone yesterday Dave Sifry told me that I've been conflating a familiar corporate subject — identity management, or Digital Identity (aka DigID) — with something new and very different: relationship management, grounded in what Andre calls Tier One, or T1 (My) Identity. Relationship management, which requires fully empowered customers, and a customer-centric Digital ID infrastructure, implements the founding Cluetrain rant, spoken from the customer's side of the demand-supply relationship: |
| | I just hope that whatever it is that's being built by Liberty, PingID and others on the supply side won't leave room only for a wide-bodied version of the old producer-consumer system that's about relationships in label only. |
| | What we need is a killer T1 "Mydentity" app (hint, this isn't it). Without it, the "federation" of our identites among a bunch of big suppliers is hardly a dream come true. |
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