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Friday, March 17, 2006
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 Friday, March 17, 2006
started 3/17/2006; 2:43:16 PM - last post 3/17/2006; 9:15:28 PM
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Doc Searls - Friday, March 17, 2006 
3/17/2006; 6:43:16 PM (reads: 6413, responses: 1)
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No spam or scam slam 
Fine print
| | Why don't we have a Federal Journalism Commission, so we can fine magazines and newspapers for the same offenses? |
What's more
| | How about framing the Net as the "Information Highway" that became a cliche (without ever quite happening) a decade ago? To get what I mean by that, consider what the US would be like today if we hadn't created the Interstate Highway System fifty years ago. What would the lack of Interstate Highway infrastructure have cost us by now? Where would Germany be without the Autobahn? How about Switzerland without its rail system? How about any great city without its international airports? |
Lets get it all on paper
| | Anyone who has worked long and hard on a blog, zine, or web product realizes how ephemeral they are. (We are Ozymandias.) Preserving blogs is a multilayered task involving curatorial and editorial acumen, systems and programming skills, an understanding of copyright law, and more. If the preservationists do their job right, people 25 years from now will have some inkling of what we have created in this time. If they get it wrong, our work turns to sand. |
At least over the last 23 hours
Hip gnosis
| | Paul Boutin at dinner last night: Nokia would never ship a phone with a spinning color wheel of death. |
| | Euan adds, I wish they had because then at least I would have something to stare at when my new n70 hangs which it does on a wearyingly regular basis! |
Catching up
| | Sean Coon, whom I met at SXSW in Austin, is also from New Jersey (where I come from), lives in Greensboro (where I went to college) and digs basketball (as do I). We had a great talk after Bruce Sterling's amazing speech (the best from him yet, and with zero overlap with the one Bruce gave at eTech a few days earlier), then joined a buncha other folks for dinner (where I discovered Nancy White and I also share an NC co-history) and partying. Anyway, Sean has a great list of credits that would overlap significantly with my own if I bothered to list them. |
| | By the way, Sean has a good set of ideas for tipping blog success into hooks between blogging and business. See the bulleted list near the bottom of that post. |
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Andrew Leyden - What is the Frequency?
3/18/2006; 1:15:28 AM (reads: 803, responses: 0)
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I'm not sure I agree with the amount or even the reason behind the FCC fines, but they do serve a part in keeping alive the (dying) idea that the frequency spectrum is a natural resource that is owned by the 'people'. We can argue about whether this fine is in the best interest of 'the people' or not (and we probably agree on that) but the idea that there is someone overseeing a natural resource like the frequency spectrum is a one that should be kept alive.
In the last decade, we've seen this concept of, well, this 'open' concept of frequency under assualt from government budget auditors (who like to 'auction off' the spectrum) and the 'privacy' groups who mandate that I can no longer buy a radio that has the capability of utilizing certain frequencies (scanners that pick up analog phones). Imagine the park service auctioning off part of Yellowstone, or saying "this is a no go area" eventhough it is a beautiful space, etc.
Anyway--just speaking off the top of my head here, but I do worry that we are depleting the limited national resource of the frequency spectrum in response to corporate desires, budgetary pressures, and privacy weenies.
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