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Toy lust 
The new Sony MZ-RH1 MiniDisc Recorder has been announced and will ship this summer. Podrigs.com lusts too.
Net Neutrality
I think the telecommunications industry ("the industry", mostly AT&T and the bits of AT&T that haven't been reacquired) purchased sponsored Telecom bill and tiered service is, in fact, a bucket of chicken-sh*t (if you know what that smells like). It is also an invitation for competition they can't beat. [Long rant follows.]
| | Bluntly, this latest stupidity is another demonstration of how little "the industry" understands today's technologies. It's also an indication of how stupid they think their customers are. They apparently think there's no potential competition. |
| | Nobody's in the data-carriage business is currently cut out of the cash flow. Everybody gets paid at competitive rates. The only way that "the industry" can increase revenue per terabit is to increase rates somewhere. So they propose to stick it to corporate Internet companies and anyone else they can find to bully. |
| | They want to extract value something like collecting a percentage of the value of any business conducted over the telephone. Crazy. They add no value and earn no compensation beyond the market value of the pipe. They deserve nothing more or less than the market value of the pipe. |
| | Well, let's think about this. How much of the fiber optic capacity in the world is really lit up? Google's already bought/leased (long term) a bunch of fiber for their own convenience. Google's building out the WiFi with Earthlink in San Francisco. There's a market the Telcos have lost. |
| | If they muscle Google in San Francisco, Google can take several paths to opening up its own pipes into the city, potentially threatening the wire-line broadband revenues of the fools that never installed broadband (DSL isn't and Cable isn't ... the Telcos convinced us all in the mid-90s that broadband was 54MB/second symmetric service to the subscriber). |
| | "The industry" don't seem to understand exactly how threatening the glut of fiber and the power of wireless standards like WiMax really are. And they have no clue about how easy the Internet technologies make it to marginalize their networks. |
| | It can't happen soon enough. They'll force someone to give them what they deserve. Meanwhile, let's make sure we remember who bought the bucket of chicken droppings and voted it into law, like so much proto-fertilizer from "the industry". Do we hear cartel, monopoly, price-fixing? Hmmm. |
Want to get lost for a couple of hours/days?
CDBaby is a great site with Brazilians, Heptapazillions, of independently produced CDs of pretty much any genre. And they have a good sampling off each disc ...
| | They've got music from places that we don't hear from. From groups playing stuff we never hear anywhere else. Spoken word. Tons. |
| | Shipping is fast and cheap and they're quite amusing people. |
| | Don't ask how many or what ... please. |
Poor Marc Canter, so confused
He had a truly loose UnConference planned, the kind of thing I'd do or go to (maybe) then Dave Winer set him straight.
| | I'm not taking sides. Dave's BloggerCon format is powerful, constructive, and fun stuff. Marc's gab-fest open format is both an invitation for greatness and for disaster. Marc needs a strong host with a hook. Dave probably did him a favor. |
| | But I hope Marc's enthusiasm at bringing people together and avoiding the same olf faces on the same old panels leads to an UnEvent worth considering. I hope it fueled/fuels Dave and/or others to pull it off. |
AmyLoo's feeling GRUMPY!?
or Moody? ... I went through a spell of that a couple of weeks ago.
| | But points were made and feelings shared that add depth to the conversation. Don't crawl into the shell. |
Today
Rowed 10K meters in 48:56.6 at moderate exertion. A good start for the distance.
Sunny and mostly clear but the clouds are coming in from the West. Glorious if cool morning. Wind from the South East here in the valley. Early afternoon and we have clouds coming in.
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Watching Orinda. Watching the world.
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