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David Isenberg cites another interesting FTTH feasibility study. From everything I’ve seen in what various towns have done this idea continues to gain strength.

Steve Gillmor does a nice review of the Java debate at the end of Java One. Gingell and Gosling are way up there when I think of people who are both smart and thoughtful - nice to see them getting their points across so well in a setting like this.

I hope that everyone has a safe and happy Independence Day. Please pray for our troops and other overseas. Let’s all try to be red, white and blue together for a day, not ‘red state people’ and ‘blue state people’.

Nice teaser for Applied Minds. I wish there was a way that their wonderful world could be more in the open, but I suppose that the business model naturally leads to the current mode of operation.

It was awhile ago, but I hope that everyone who remembers it can take a moment and recall the psychological change that Ronald Reagan brought to this country as President. At the end of the Carter “era” it seemed like everything was going wrong - high interest rates, oil shortages, Americans were under attack in the Middle East, and the USSR still looked like a daunting foe. Reagan believed we could be better and created an environment where it could happen.

Think about the offshoring issue for too long, with too open a mind, and I promise you’ll go nuts. David Coursey takes an interesting pass through the outsourcing conundrum. It’s not a simple issue, and there’s plenty of quality positions to go around. While I don’t think some of his ideas are tenable, some of the basic conclusions are on the money and I’m glad someone is taking a creative look at this, since the two extreme positions are not viable in my mind.

Site about charitable giving and creatively matching donors to worthy recipients. Link

David Weinberger on Powerpoint - right on again. Link

This is an incredible note about ‘situated software’, and why everything doesn’t need to be a fully-blown, all-general web service or enterprise class design. Link

Just referencing Clay Shirky’s Power Law article again - I keep coming back to it again and again. Link