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| Thursday, October 2, 2003 |
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It had to happen 
| | Seventeen comments were posted by a spambot this morning to a dead experimental blog that I set up last Fall. I'd heard that spammers were targetting blog comments sections. Now that I've seen it happen, it creeps me out. |
Tech Rulez
| | I'm here, in Boston, at the Hotel@MIT, which may well be my favorite hotel, ever, already. It is both a fine upscale hotel with excellent furniture and arty fixtures and a tech museum furnished abundantly with goods produced, invented, or otherwise associated with MIT. |
| | Even the cabinets have inlaid circuitboards. Nice. |
| | Also free high speed Internet via both wi-fi and Ethernet. Very nice. |
Eastward bound
IDentity
| | There is a meme that has been floating around the Internet. A meme that would tell us that the Internet as we know it is in grave danger; that the Internet as we know it is threatened by trusted computing; that the Internet as we know it - in its idyllic state of anonymity - is being corrupted by the interests of big business. |
| | This meme - call it the "Free the Internet" meme - levels charges against the enterprise. It seeks to say that the state of the Internet's birth should never change. At the core, this meme seeks to persuade us that the argument is about the Internet remaining "free." |
| | I'd like to see some pointers to sources on that stuff. [Later: a reader provides this item from Karl Auerbach at CircleID about the growing threat of "background packet radiation" and this item from Esther Dyson at Release 1.0 about the need for online registries.) |
| | Meanwhile, I still believe Identity needs to become part of the Internet's infrastructure — a base service like hypertext and email. And that its protocol(s) need to be NEA, or they won't qualify. If some company holds onto those protocols as intellectual property, they might still be fine for running (or running stuff) on the Net (as, say, with Java, Flash or Acrobat), but they won't be part of the Net's base portfolio of service-enabling infrastructural conditions. |
| | More later if I have time (which is unlikely). |
If you build a nation, they will — no wait, they're already here
If you think markets aren't about marketing, you may be qualified
Bottom line: it's journalism all right
| | Sheila has a report (with copious links) on the Nieman Reports blogger roundtable, which collects the thinking of many familiar voices. |
Ruminations
| | After reading about Dr. Weinberger's "blogroll", Dr. Koslosky says Blogging Makes You Fat (I'll link after the permalink works). Good health practice advice for all desk potatos — not just bloggers. |
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