An RFC (“request for comment”) recently submitted by Comcast — viewable here — seems to have induced apoplexy among a relatively small number of folks who believe that the Internet’s precious bodily fluids must at all costs conform to their very strict definition of purity. The topic of the RFC: redirection of Internet traffic bound [...]
I don’t have time to carry on at length about today’s Senate hearing on the Google-Yahoo search ads price-fixing deal, so here are a couple of pieces written before the hearing that put in its proper perspective. For your cocktail, try a bit of Information Week, a straight-up tongue loosener. For your appetizer, enjoy Washington [...]
According to reports from BBC and The Guardian, web inventor Tim Berners-Lee thinks his baby’s in danger. BBC News: He told the BBC: “If we don’t have the ability to understand the web as it’s now emerging, we will end up with things that are very bad. “Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation will [...]
I wish I’d said what Nicholas Carr said about Web 2.0: Web 2.0′s economic system has turned out to be, in effect if not intent, a system of exploitation rather than a system of emancipation. By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership [...]
So today all of us cyber-surfing netizen internauts are supposed to proclaim our love for on-line life and tell what it the web means to us. To me it means mediocrity and tedium, with lots of room for improvement. Here’s to making the web worthwhile and not just a place to go shopping, distort reality, [...]
How silly is the thinking behind the Web 2.0 movement? Try We Are the Web by Wellbert Kevin Kelly: There is only one time in the history of each planet when its inhabitants first wire up its innumerable parts to make one large Machine. Later that Machine may run faster, but there is only one [...]
I don’t know about this stuff: A couple of things are pretty clear: One of is that what we call broadband today isn’t going to be broadband tomorrow. It’s not just a matter of speed; it’s a matter of symmetry. A lot of the broadband services are asymmetric, which means you can’t do things you [...]
Everybody in the world has to deal with Google-stalkers, except Google’s CEO, of course: CNETNews.com, a technology news Web site, said last week that Google had told it that the company would not answer any questions from CNET’s reporters until July 2006. The move came after CNET published an article last month that discussed how [...]
So Aruba and Trapeze have decided not to roll over and play dead while Cisco tramples the wireless switch industry: Aruba Wireless Networks and Trapeze Networks Inc. submitted SLAPP (Secure Light Access Point Protocol) to a group in the Internet Engineering Task Force known as CAPWAP (Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points). The group [...]
I’m trying out Google Ad Sense to see if can generate a little more revenue from this blog, and my first impression is that it’s pretty weird. For openers, the e-mail that Google sent me saying I was approved for the program was classified by Gmail as spam. This is what they mean by “the [...]
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