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 Saturday, January 18, 2003
started 1/19/2003; 9:06:29 AM - last post 1/22/2003; 8:41:22 PM
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Doc Searls - Saturday, January 18, 2003 
1/19/2003; 1:06:29 PM (reads: 4415, responses: 3)
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Spectrum vs. Sphincter 
| | Our views on radio spectrum are antique. We still see spectrum as something requiring a dial of fixed frequencies: Every "station" has a "channel" with "range" and "coverage." Very limited, very antique. Also very unnecessary. |
| | This is the wireless digital age. Cyberspace is wide open, literally. We have smart people wandering around the Commons, thinking of ways to make it exactly huge for everybody. Wirelessly. |
| | Right now these folks are collected around an issue they call Open Spectrum. And they have prepared an FAQ about it. One sample: |
| | An Open Spectrum policy would permit anyone to send signals across any range of spectrum without permission, with the minimum set of rules required to enable the success of a "wireless commons." |
Same Lemur, new blog
L.A. Story
Proposed: The Bixby Snyder Law
| | Larry Lessig has a clever workaround for the Sonny Bono all-copyrights-default-to-perpetuity law, recently upheld in the Eldred decision: Charge a "tiny tax," as low as $1.00, on all copyrights upwards of 50 years old, which their owners wish to keep out of the public domain. It's a great idea. In fact, I think it would be a politically smart move for Hollywood and the publishing industry to get behind it, so they're less than 100% hostile to the very idea of the public domain. |
| | Larry calls it The Eric Eldred Act. That's fine, but it's a bit too... memorial, perhaps. I think it needs a better hook. I propose calling it The Bixby Snyder Law. |
| | Bixby was the host of It's Not My Problem, the only show running on TV in the movie Robocop. Every time a TV appeared in the movie, there was Bixby, blurting his laugh line: I'll buy that for a dollar! |
Wi-Fli
| | Earth to United: Want to come back from the brink? Put wi-fi in your planes and Red Carpet Clubs It'll be a major attraction for frequent business flyers. |
| | It frosts me that I've got a lifetime membership in the Red Carpet Club (got it a long time ago when it was still gettable), and when I'm at the airports in Denver or Los Angeles, I have to go outside the club to find a wi-fi signal. |
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lou josephs - Re: Saturday, January 18, 2003
1/19/2003; 4:59:05 PM (reads: 638, responses: 0)
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300 million dollars later, no cup for Larry Ellison, as Team Oracle lost a race they could have won. Lar's big mistake not hiring people who have been there, in short they choked. The old team new zealand (mainly the crew of Alinghi) take on the all new team new zealand, and what do we know about all new from the radio biz? Anything that's all new never goes anywhere. The next cup will be in the med, first time it's been in Europe since it left the UK in 1851.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57791-2003Jan15.html
This post story on XM isn't bad, but knowing they powered it with psychographic research, again points up whats still wrong with radio. People aren't in little boxes, more to the point it's what mood your in and there's no way you can research that.
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Alan A. Reiter - Re: Saturday, January 18, 2003 -- WiFi in Red Carpet Clubs
1/19/2003; 6:07:07 PM (reads: 1067, responses: 0)
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Regarding United installing WiFi at its Red Carpet Clubs (of which I'm a member)....it's supposed to be on the way. As I wrote in October (http://reiter.weblogger.com/2002/10/30), T-Mobile announced it would put WiFi in Red Carpet Clubs and in Delta Air Lines clubs as well as in more American Airlines Admirals Clubs. I have not seen WiFi in Red Carpet Clubs yet, but I assume it will be available this year.
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Alan A. Reiter - WiFi in Red Carpet Clubs
1/23/2003; 12:41:22 AM (reads: 690, responses: 0)
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Today, I received the United Airlines Mileage Plus newsletter. It has a brief item that's headlined: "Wireless Internet access coming soon to Red Carpet Clubs." The article doesn't provide any timetable. It just says, "Beginning this year, we'll be installing high-speed wireless technology in ** all ** [emphasis is mine!] North American Red Carpet Clubs."
Alan Reiter
reiter.weblogger.com
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