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Sunday, May 21, 2006
I'm fuzzed on what they're talking about 
| | here, but I've got a feeling it's gonna creep me out once I dig into it. |
| | So far it looks like stupid smartness (instead of smart stupidity) in the middle of the Net to assure scarcity, shakedown billing of large "content providers", TV-habit maintenance for "consumers", and a long-lived Regulatorium. Instead of the wide open markNetplace we've grown in spite of the carriers, more than because of them. |
| | Here's what carriers and their opponents alike need to imagine: All the business that's made possible in the wide open marketplace when every home, every business and every other organization sits on a fat, symmetrical Internet. |
No fun with un
| | I'm a subscriber to near-daily BradBlog emails, each nearly as chock-full of graphics as the blog itself. I don't know how I became a subscriber, but I do know I want to unsubscribe, mostly because I want to minimize emails I probably won't read — especially ones that aren't plain text. |
| | But there is no unsubscribe info in Brad's emails. When I look up "unsubscribe" in the NEW FASTER SEARCH! box on the BradBlog site, I get three results, none of which are any help. |
| | Last Monday at a cocktail party in New York, a heated exchange took place between a former MoveOn executive and Jason Calacanis, who had been explaining why AOL for awhile treated MoveOn's frequent mailings as spam. The reason, Jason said, was that AOL mail customers had marked some MoveOn mailings as spam. When that happens, flags go up. The ex-MoveOn dude defended MoveOn's mailings, and said there is a clear and useful unsubscribe link on each mailing. I told him that, in fact, I had failed to unsubscribe in the past from MoveOn mailings as well, but that I'd test unsubscribing one more time. |
| | Sure enough, MoveOn's mailings did have an unsubscribe link, and when I followed it, unsubscribing was easy, and it worked. That made me respect MoveOn. |
| | So, Brad, I'd like to respect you a bit more too. Please put an unsubscribe link in your emails, and in your blog as well. Thanks. |
The Future, Part I
| | One of my favorite quotes about the future comes from William Gibson: "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." Based on this, it is relatively easy to make future predictions by looking at some of the core things that are happening today. |
| | Some of the trends I'm starting to look at in terms of defining how the next generation will work include |
| | - The rise of always-on high-speed internet connections
- The IPzation of everything<liThe drop in the price of real-world sensors>
- The rise of participatory applications
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| | Looking at each of the components individually, it is hard to form a picture of where the world is going. However, looking at them together and how they interact, a picture starts to form. |
| | Interesting stuff. Dig it. |
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