A friend asked me what I thought about Doc Searls’ latest essay on the evolution of the Internet and as I happened to be reading it already, I’ve written a few disjointed notes. The short version of my reaction is that it’s sad that everybody with an axe to grind about technology, politics, or business [...]
The House Energy and Commerce committee is holding hearings today on broadband regulation aimed at harmonizing DSL and cable access policies: While these two forms of broadband directly compete in many cities, they are currently regulated in different ways. Phone companies are required to provide Internet service providers non-discriminatory access to their networks, while cable [...]
This is cute: TiVo Inc. subscribers will be able to program their digital video recorders remotely by logging on to America Online under a new service TiVo and AOL plan to announce today. One of the coolest things about Replay is the ability it gives its customers to program recording lists on the web, so [...]
Joe Lieberman has a moderately interesting paper on his web site called Growing the Innovation Economy: A New Strategy For A New Prosperity that deals with Internet openness in broad terms: Ensure that the Internet continues to provide an open platform for innovation: The Internet is different from the phone network and radio and broadcast [...]
The mistaken idea that Internet architecture is “End-to-End” has cropped up again, this time on the Doc Searls blog, with a reference to some orders to the FCC from Larry Lessig, who’s not especially empowered to make them. While there are many problems with using the FCC to impose this view (like, um, the fact [...]
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