“Way back when I posted twice about marriage, I was preparing a general case about the texture of Christian marriage as a particular sacramental institution. I proposed a variety of ways of thinking about Christian marriage, noting that a strictly biblical version of Christian marriage (hence, a version defined by marriage as the New Testament represents it) begins with indissolubility, exclusive duality, constitutive gender complementarity, and the subordination of women to men.
Quote of Note: Mike Stagg: ““Whoever builds a fiber to the home network is going to have a monopoly - whoever builds it. As a practical matter, I am opposed to monopolies. But I would much rather have a monopoly that I can touch and see and feel and affect, which is [Lafayette, Louisiana municipal utility operator] LUS.” Mike Stagg, co-perpetrator of the Lafayette Pro-fiber blog, quoted here.”
(Via isen.blog.)
Jonathan Schwartz’s Network Intelligence does a nice job of capturing a the current state of the world for distributed data gathering and aggregation via the ‘Net, blogs, cellphones, etc. Better yet, it gives a sense of the speed of change.
The key here is obviously the network. It’s one thing to create or capture some data or an idea, its another for it to be shared so easily. This is why blogs and wikis are so new and different.
David Isenberg has a nice summary of the cost of fiber to the home (FTTH).
“What can be said accurately and confidently is that under any reasonable estimate for construction costs and take rates, FTTH can be had for capex in the low thousands per installation. "
(Via isen.blog.)
Lessig gets to the heart of the matter…
This article by David Brooks in the Times makes a lot of sense to me.
Amazing fact from this article: “The reality is that this was a broad victory for the president. Bush did better this year than he did in 2000 in 45 out of the 50 states. He did better in New York, Connecticut and, amazingly, Massachusetts.”
Good discussion by Kevin Marks following up on Clay Shirky’s analysis of the difference between mailing lists and blogs for open discussions.
(Via Many-to-Many.)
Good article by Cory on the brands and the change in copyright over the years.
(Via Boing Boing Blog.)
From David Isenberg: “I held down one end of the annual Great Debate at NGN (Next Generation Networks) last Wednesday. The topic was “Are Smart Networks a Stupid Idea?” Opposing me was the estimable Tom Nolle, who has been saying that the Internet needs a haircut, a shower and a job if it to be an economic success for the last five years or so.”
The story has a good summary…
Well, I didn’t say alot in my blog about the election during the run-up, since I had lost the passion about either candidate. By 11/2 my top hope was that the election go off without a prolonged legal or other battle which would leave us without a result. In the end I voted for the president despite my dissatisfaction with executing his policies. I continue to support the war in Iraq, but agree that it has been incredibly poorly executed.