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Link to data about Apple’s Rendezvous

"Dimensions of Communications" outlines some dimensions on which to guage different forms of communications. Sticks mainly to people-to-people…

Story in Scientific American about Loop Quantum Gravity: Throwing Einstein for a Loop

WiMedia Alliance: “Technology Leaders Establish WiMediaTM Alliance to Promote Personal Wireless Multimedia Connectivity&quot Looks like some commercial headway on the Ultra-Wideband front. I believe that this is one of the important technologies that will give WiFi some legs for the next few years…

Kevin Werblach pointed out this article in the NYT: Change Urged in Broadband Policy. According to Kevin there’s significant substance behind this…

Article by Adam Engst on The Evil That Is the DMCA.

A description of how to put google search on your blog or page

Kevin Werbach connects with me today: In Into the Matrix he captures exactly how I feel about view that we’re going to be trapped into a Matrix like situation by increasingly strict and complex software licenses. _ “If I were a pessimist like Larry Lessig, I’d say we’re going to wake up one day and find we’re living in the Matrix – a prison built of software. But I’m an optimist.

My vote for the best rule change to a professional sport: the overtime rules in the NHL. For those who don’t know, when an NHL game ends up tied, they do two things different than they used to: 1. They have 4 people on the ice per team instead of 5 (less if there’s penalties). 2. They give both teams 1 point in the standings, and give an “extra credit” point to the team that scores in sudden-death overtime.

Richard Koman reports on O’Reilly net about Lessons from the Internet Bookmobile. Travelling the country with Brewster, Caslon et al, Richard highlights some of the reactions he got and what he thinks it meant to various institutions. This event is vintage Brewster. When I worked with him in the early days of my career he always was coming at problems from new and interesting directions. We were successful at some things that were probably close to impossible, and we probably made some easy problems harder by trying a more difficult path.