Your humble narrator had fun a couple weeks ago being interviewed on Pulvermedia Podcast Network. Here’s the brief description:
Jeff Pulver sat down and had a chat with Steve Smith, Chief Scientist at Lavalife, about the state of IP communications as they pertain to things like online dating and gaming, and where they [...]
Om Malik wrote yesterday about vyatta in particular, and about a collection of enterprise open souce communications platforms that are starting to make inroads into the telecommunications market. His entry is Here Comes Open Source Telecomm.
Vyatta is building a business model around the XORP project (eXtensible Open Router Project), and [...]
The two-tiered internet is a very current topic of discussion in many circles. During the last panel, Jack Waters of Level3 offered a clear description that I found useful so I have summarized it below.
The two-tiered internet is about “best effort delivery” vs “better than best effort”. Best effort delivery is of [...]
Earlier this Spring, I reported on an excellent one-day meeting in Washington, DC called Peripheral Visionaries. The idea was to bring together technologists and visionaries with regulators and policy people, and to get them exchanging ideas.
The meeting was so successful that there was a clamor inside the beltway to [...]
I should be working tonight, but I’ve been sucked into my wildly out of control bloglines feeds, helped along by some link-filled email dialogs with friends about net freedom (some of which may make it into an Essay in the near future — you’ve been warned). Sometimes it’s best to just give in [...]
So the last question that David Weinberger asked of David Isenberg at the Berkman Institute on Wednesday night was, “If you were Chairman of the FCC what would be your first acts?”.
David’s answers (not quoted literally, but rather from my illegible handwritten notes)
Gather up the open spectrum and give it to the people
Applications and connectivity [...]