Good smart dust article. This stuff is highly related to RFID, and I believe the two will merge in interesting ways. It’s clear that RFTags are going to become the cheapest way to move data 3 feet wirelessly, so this is a great fit. Link (thanks to BoingBoing.
Guardian Unlimited Book: Have you seen this man?
Very interesting notes about Thomas Pynchon - mystery man of fiction.
Via en Banc.
Very interesting note by Jon Udell on the interplay between real books and the new (and cool) Amazon Book Search capability. Link.
From Political Wire: Democrats battle plan to take on Bush.
Steve Stroh: Focus on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Newsletter. Interesting looking - relevant to what we’re trying to do here in Concord.
In Moving forward on VOIP, Kevin Werbach says he’s worried about trying to distinguish VOIP regulations based on the nature of the network (private, public, etc). I’ll go a step farther than Kevin and state flat out that this makes no sense. Firewalls and distinctions between networks is not a feature - it’s a problem that messes things up every day. It’s all IP (is Voice Over IP for heaven’s sake) so it is one network.
Very intersting article in t a c i t u s:Conservative Socialism.
Good has article on federated identity and PingID. [via Jeremy Allaire’s Radio]
Joho the Blog: [POPTECH] Our Non-Zero Future: must follow up on this - very intersting looking ideas and book.
‘Internet Security Model debunked’ is a very interesting read about the inherent threat model of the Internet. While I think it’s useful to consider if it a reasonable security model given how the web world generally works, I’m much more interested in observing how people misuse SSL as the magic solution to all networking security problems. Too many people are taking the approach that if it’s traffic on the Internet, then SSL must be the right answer.