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| Friday, May 12, 2006 |
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Happy Birthday 
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Read on
| | Long after the next bubble has burst, the internet will have surpassed the hype generated by the last one. |
| | Open, shared platforms of content and code must be the foundation of such a radically free, creative and informed society, but an unholy trinity of Congress, the courts and large corporations has effectively sealed media and software platforms by lengthening copyright laws and strengthening intellectual property protections |
Best wishes
| | to Craig Burton, who is recovering from a fall he took recently. |
| | Also great to see Terry Heaton back to his customarily sharp and original blogging, after the recent death of his beloved wife, Allie. |
Think globally, neutralize locally
| | If you are concerned about keeping the internet a level playing field, aka Net Neutrality, then talk to your neighbors, fellow community business owners and local political officials about your concerns. The best way for big picture issues to gain traction is to start at the local, grass roots, level. |
| | That's from Tom, in Red Bank TV, about which Tom says, This blog was created by a Red Bank homeowner to track news and to express my views on the negotiations between the town of Red Bank NJ and Verizon Commmunications Inc. to grant Verizon a cable television franchise. |
| | There are two audiences I try to keep in mind as I post to this blog in my inelegant Jersey Shore writing style. |
| | - The residents, business owners and local officials in Red Bank, New Jersey. The town that I call home.
- People beyond Red Bank who have concerns about emerging telecommunications issues and are looking for ways to do something about those issues.
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| | It was just yesterday that I discovered Lafayette Pro Fiber, and its blog, where citizens of Lafayette, LA, already pissed about not getting sufficient broadband (and taking matters into their own hands), are playing journalistic hardball with carriers that think they can quietly lobby through state legislatures laws that gut local carrier franchise control. |
| | These and other local bloggers are answering Om Malik's call for the battle against carrier duopoly power abuse to start at the local level. |
The big get bloggier
| | NYTimes: Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in P.R. Campaign. As more and more Americans go to the Internet to get information from varied, credible, trusted sources, Wal-Mart is committed to participating in that online conversation. |
| | Actually, it's a good story about how a big company, bloggers and a PR firm are all learning from each other — while the mainest of the mainstream newspapers writes about it. |
Quote du jour
| | Education also involves getting people's attention. But so does electroshock therapy. No one makes a living saying nonsense like "Marketing, at it's core, is electroshock therapy." |
Whodentity
Got my trusty practoscope right here
The blog you are about to read is true...
| | Bonus link, for those not old enough to remember where that headline came from. |
Welcome to the iHouse
| | Everything is packed at the old place. Today it moves to the garage in the new place, which won't be done for another couple months, probably. |
| | Meanwhile, we were lucky to find that the house behind our house was mostly empty, and we could move in on an interim basis. So that's what we're doing. |
| | Yestrerday's project was getting Internet service at the new house. This involved getting Cox to come out and install new service at the garage of the new house, with electrical service borrowed from the drop pole the construction crew is using, since there's not electrical service at the new house yet. Then it involved getting 200 feet of Cat5 Ethernet cable (one coil of it, complete with plugs on the ends, for $24.95 at MarVac... nice) and stringing it through the woods and behind shrubs, up to the iHouse, which is about 150 feet behind the new house, and about 50 feet higher in elevation. After doing that, we found no easy way to get the ethernet cable into the iHouse. The doors were too far away and all the windows were permanently closed. After scratching my head for awhile, I checked out this one narrow access door to what looked like an outdoor broom closet. There, hanging inside a long dark shaft, was some coiled-up Cat5. The other end seemed to go to an upper floor. Sure enough, it came out a wall in the bedroom of the guy upstairs we're sharing the house with. So I went down to Staples, got an end-to-end Ethernet connector, plugged the two cables together, put a trusty Netgear hub/router at the other end, and voila! Here we are. |
| | Now I need to go move furniture and stuff. See ya, maybe, when the dust settles. |
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