Blogs

This is important to follow up on. May make sense as a way to think about RFID feeds, for example. The Algebra of RSS Feeds (LinuxWorld)

World of Ends by Weinberger and Searls. Paper from earlier in the year.

Summary and notes by Ross Mayfield on the discussion of technology, policy and society from the last few weeks. Link

Very good discussion by Tacitus of communism and the Cold War. It’s pretty amazing to me how quickly we forget that that was a real war. The Cold War resembled its predecessors in that it had a clear front, however it was radically different in that it had no traditional battles. Our new War against Terrorism is interesting in the lack of a front (or even a clearly defined ‘enemy’, short of some visible ring leaders’).

Interesting artist: ewhite.com.

A great story from Jon Udell about technology, small towns, and random occurences. Link

Rael compares Dave’s Channel Z and current Blosxom. Lots of interesting points and good links.

Kevin Werbach also read Cory’s piece, and he quibbles that technology and policy have always been linked. While this is not an invalid point, I think the link between the two has been getting tighter and tighter. Five years ago a broad set of people weren’t able to factor in the real capability of the Internet into their thinking (despite the fact that they were sending their stockbrokers all of their money to invest in it).

Cory Doctrow’s end of year thoughts with some requests for 2004. I think his assessment of the next 20 years is right on the money. When I was trying to do my top level categories for my blogging the most logical I could come up with was one called “infrastructure”, which includes telecom, etc, but also policy as all aspects are becoming inextricably linked. Link

Kevin Werbach works through a deployment schedule for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) by Verizon based on a blurb saying how many houses they’d pass this year. Unfortunately I don’t believe his linear extrapolation. Verizon is going to start in the places that are a) easiest and b) have the highest likely subscriber rate for premium services. My guess is that it’s probably more like a logarithmic progression, with every year less than the year before.