Cory Doctorow debunks war-plus-suffix Wi-Fi fears in InternetWeek: Cory says a lot of very sensible, logical things about why the fears raised about warspamming, wardriving, and other problems are fearmongering and misdirection.[80211b News]
*Linksys 802.11g gateway for $134…
Linksys 802.11g gateway for $134 from Amazon.com: Linksys is shipping their Broadcom-based 54G draft 802.11g gateway for a low low price.[80211b News]
Dan Gillmor defines “We Media”…
Dan Gillmor defines “We Media”. Dan Gillmor’s latest piece in the Columbia Journalism Review extends his Journalism 3.0 thesis (“my readers know more than I do”) and talks about “We Media:” Interactive technology — and the mostly young readers and viewers who use and understand it — are the catalysts. We Media augments traditional methods with new and yet-to-be invented…
Why WiFi will kick the…
Why WiFi will kick the telcos’ asses. Clay “former guestblogger” Shirky’s posted a great editorial about what happens to businesses that fail to distinguish a product from a service: Putting a fax machine in every FedEx office would radically reconfigure the center of their network, thus slashing costs: toner would replace jet fuel, bike messenger’s hourly rates would replace pilot’s…
Outlook Based Aggregator [1]. Greg…
Outlook Based Aggregator. Greg Reinacker: …possibly coming soon to a weblog near you. Anyone interested in something like this? No hablo Outlook. 😉 Looks real cool, though.[Sam Ruby]
A conversation with Ray Ozzie…
A conversation with Ray Ozzie. Ray Ozzie, founder, chairman, and CEO of Groove Networks, has been a creator and harnesser of disruptive technology since the dawn of the client/server age. In a conversation with InfoWorld Test Center Director Steve Gillmor and Lead Analyst Jon Udell, Ozzie discusses the unique nature of disruptive technologies, the role of collaboration tools in the…
The disruptive Web [1]. If…
The disruptive Web. If you’re creating a Web service that you hope will have a disruptive impact, the lessons are clear. Support HTTP GET-style URLs. Design them carefully, matching de facto standards where they exist. Keep the URLs short, so people can easily understand, modify, and trade them. Establish a blog reputation. Use the blog network to promote the service…
Radio as Infrastructure [1].
Radio as Infrastructure. Ernie’s post the other day about how he’ll be using Radio to update his firm’s News page got me thinking about how flexible Radio really is. Here’s how I use Radio today: As a weblog application. Radio runs on my desktop and uploads new posts to my weblog TINS (just in case you hadn’t figured it out,…
Terry Frazier [1] deconstructs a…
Terry Frazier deconstructs a K-Logs post I made. Nice. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]
Using smart dates [1]
Using smart dates[holovaty.com]