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The Internet Hammer and the everything Nail {Blog Maverick}
Jul 9th 2008 10:49AM Do you find any irony in the fact the only way these views would be so publicly visible is the internet? What are your words worth to you?
Why Tiered Broadband is a Wonderful Thing and ASIVS {Blog Maverick}
Jun 9th 2008 10:10AM One more for you to read:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080608-mpaa-wants-to-stop-dvrs-from-recording-some-movies.html
Birds of a feather...
Why Tiered Broadband is a Wonderful Thing and ASIVS {Blog Maverick}
Jun 8th 2008 12:42PM Your missing the bigger argument because of your vested interest - and position - in the matter. What if you are a small guy trying to distribute some music and you haven't paid the bandwidth god enough so you decide to release your stuff P2P - should people not be able to d/l your stuff as quickly? And who makes that call? What happens when someone decides your net activities are too burdensome and slows down your connection? Tiered net only benefits telcos who want the marketing cache of offering unlimited service while neglecting to upgrade their infrastructure to offer that service.
Atom-based Eee PC 901 pops June 3rd with Bluetooth for $650 {Engadget}
May 16th 2008 10:29AM If I told you, even a year ago, that you could get a ultraportable notebook for under $700 that has a 1.6Ghz/1 GB/20GB SSHD/9" screen and bluetooth, wireless, etc, you'd have been very excited. Maybe the deal isnt quite as sweet, but this computer is still a bargain.
Beating Google ? {Blog Maverick}
May 15th 2008 1:19PM Get into a bidding war with Google...youd last about 5 minutes.
The Ala Carting of Video on the Net - Will it lead to disaster ? {Blog Maverick}
May 9th 2008 2:45PM Doom and gloom aside, you seem to have forgotten a couple big pieces here.
One - the price to produce extremely high quality media has fallen and is continuing to fall. Following that logic, some of the things on YouTube should one day equal what we see on TV now (a theoretical HD Rocketboom comes to mind).
Two - 'carriage fees' on the internet are what the public is paying to the ISPs on the monthly basis as 'subscription frees'. In the future, there may be premium web channels you can subscribe to via your ISP (subscription fees would be required to compensate for higher production and bandwidth costs). Think like an HBO or Showtime today. What do the cable companies care - you can call the revenue 'cable subscription' or 'internet subscription'. They certain dont mind throttling or censoring content behind our backs.
Three - maybe the democratization of media means the quality may not need to be as high as it was before on all products. Maybe the consumer substitutes a wider selection of stuff on the net for having 150-200 really pretty channels on cable. Maybe the future has only a couple really premium channels people are willing to pay for. Big content seems to already be leaning that way (joost, hulu, etc).
Lots to consider but your crystal ball is probably about as good as mine.
More on Blogs, The Long Tail and Following vs Leading {Blog Maverick}
Mar 23rd 2008 7:59PM I know your a businessman but try and suspend the business logic of blogging for 5 seconds and youll see something with 'value' here. Blogs are an instantaneous publishing platform. It frees media back to what it was for most of human history - people simply entertaining each other. Same thing for YouTube. Its just now we have a global world. This is such a game shifting thing. Just because the business models for it aren't as easy to crack doesnt mean it doesnt have value. How can you not see that?
Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig are a couple good places for you to start your research into the subject of free media and how it creates so much value in a society. For a media/technology guy, I dont understand how you continue to miss the mark on this by such a wide margin.
Canon's new PowerShots: SD890 IS, SD790 IS, and SD770 IS {Engadget}
Mar 13th 2008 3:04PM As FirstGuy continues, he is slowly gaining some type of comic timing. Maybe he/she is more than just a pretty face.
NVIDIA's GeForce 9600 GT card is officially the new budget hotness {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 3:59PM @Dseaver-
I'm not so sure Engadget is just a blog. They sure ride the line between news source and blog. I feel its at least worthy of a discussion.
I read this and ARS quite often. One is a 'blog' one is a 'news source,' so 'they' say. If I put both their iPhone reviews in a text doc side-by-side, could you tell me which is which? Would it even matter? I think perception maybe be reality in this case.
In case you want to take me up on it:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/iphone-review-part-1-hardware-interface-keyboard/
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/iphone-review.ars
Telecom immunity for domestic spying dies on House floor {Engadget}
Feb 15th 2008 12:38PM A bit late to the party CUBG-
https://www.eff.org/cases/att
I think this lawsuit may be the reason the immunity rider was slipped onto the new FISA bill in the first place.
