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Saturday, July 6, 2002
The man nose what he's talking about 
| | Marc Canter: On-line media publishing (and editing and manipulating) will be to broadband - what web pages were for the Internet. Some background on Marc, in case the name doesn't ring a bell for you young'uns. |
An embarrasment of britches
| | I'm 185. Most I've ever weighed. |
The 10,000 bloggers theory?
| | Just ran across Deborah Branscum's amen to something I wrote about something David Gallagher wrote in The New York Times a month ago. What I said was less a criticism of his story than a commentary on the need to find conflict where there often isn't any. Something like that. It mattered a lot more then than it does now. |
| | Anyway, I ran into David Gallager last week at a party in New York. He reminded me about the whole fracas and told me (as I recall) that I was right. I think. Not sure, because at first I had no idea what the fuck he was talking about. Did he mean somebody else? How long could I fake following what he was saying? |
| | It took half a minute or more before some of it came back to me — enough not to be too embarrased; but even then I didn't remember the whole thing, which only became clear five minutes ago, when I read Deborah's piece. |
| | In the first piece I wrote about the subject (yes, I actually wrote about it more than once), my concluding remarks were these: "What's happening is writing, and its out of fucking control." |
| | No shit. I think I know 10x the bloggers I knew only six months ago. And the number of interesting items that flow through all their blogs, and all the emails we all toss to each other, is up by about the same multiple. |
| | Which makes it all the more fun, huh? It does, actually. Except when you're giving a blank stare to the New York Times guy, wondering what the fuck he's talking about when you know you ought to know because it actually involves something you actually wrote. |
| | It's like we're all involved in a massive experiment combining Attention Deficit Disorder with Alzheimer's Disease. |
On the other stream...
| | In Cable Modems: Less Boon than Beast, Andy Oram makes a case against cable modems. I agree with it, even though I am mostly satisfied with Cox High Speed Internet. Right now I'm getting 3.303 MBps down, and 65 KBps up, which is the most asymmetrical I've ever seen it. Usually the up side is close to a meg. Let me post this and turn off Radio and see if that makes any difference... While I'm doing that, take a gander at Death From Above, which John Perry Barlow wrote seven years ago. It's still right as rain. |
| | Well, the connectin actually looks worse. It's still around 3 megs down but a whopping 6kbps up. Strange. Let me try to load something up to the server... Well, it went at an 80 KB/sec transfer rate. A big pile of pictures in pretty close to no-time. So there's no problem there. Just a measurement error, it seems. Maybe it's screwed up by the fact that I'm one computer among 3 on this hub, which is connected to another combo hub/wi-fi base station with 2 computers hanging off of it. That hub has a router that goes to the cable modem and out to the Net. |
| | To Cox's credit, they don't care what I've got hanging off their modem (actually, mine: I own it). They don't even require an ID. I just set the router for straight DHCP and it rocks. |
| | When it's up. It's down a few hours every month or so. |
| | But that's not why I'm going to get a real broadband line in here, with real assigned IP addressses. It's becaue I need to serve pictures and movies to family members and friends from my own servers here at the house. My current ISP is charging me around $200 for 200 MB, and I can't afford to spend $10 for each additional 10 MB. So I keep taking down stuff to make room for other stuff. Breaking links, is what I'm doing. Yes, I'm 404ing my own shit. True, it's not stuff meant for general consumption, but still, I'd rather leave it all up there. |
| | Anyway, I'm beginning to think that personally produced multimedia is what's going to drive the asymmetry out of these cable systems. While ISPs keep charging for disk space, and customers keep looking for places to put piles of iMovies and iPhoto albums, sooner or later they're going to look at the old PCs they've got laying around, with 10, 20 or more gigs of idle disk space among them, and they're gonna say, Wait a minute... why not just turn these puppies into dedicated Web servers? |
| | Why not, indeed? You listening, cable guys? This is your market talking. We're making our own TV now. We're our own Kodaks. Deal with it. |
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There are responses to this message:Re: Saturday, July 6, 2002, Eric Case, 7/6/02; 7:00:26 PM Re: Saturday, July 6, 2002, Marc Canter, 7/6/02; 11:50:19 AM Re: Saturday, July 6, 2002, Dave Polaschek, 7/6/02; 1:38:38 AM
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