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Come to Peripheral Visionaries

( Net Freedom and VoIP )

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 [...]

Frankston on Kodak

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 [...]

Chairman Isenberg?

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 [...]

Verizon edges towards service discrimination

TelephonyOnline has an article Verizon’s got game about Verizon’s launch of an online gaming service.
What’s important about this is that it represents the move by an iLec into content bundling and subscription of multi-player gaming services that have been typically provided by “edge” gaming companies.
A Yankee group analyst, Michal Goodman, adds

Verizon Game Network offers [...]

Weinberger to interview Isenberg on Freedom to Connect

Tomorrow, that is to say Wednesday, Sep 14, David Weinberger is interviewing David Isenberg on Freedom to Connect in Cambridge at Harvard’s Berkman Institute. I plan to go, (and maybe to blog if I’m not too lazy). David W has posted the details here.
I first watched these two interact at David Isenberg’s [...]

Question of the Day

OK, so, if you could, what one thing would you want to know that would affect how you think the internet might develop over the next 10 years. Here’s my question …
Does the mass of humanity want to create and participate in the web as an act of creation and dialog, [...]