2013_05_24 link pile

Media

• Tell Hollywood Thou Shalt Not Put A Stumbling Block Before the Treaty For The Blind, by Harold Feld. Points to the We the People Petition
• Why is the Media Hyping Cord-Cutting?
• Elements of a viral launch page, by Simon Schmid on Smashing
• Fred Wilson on “natural advertising”

Science

• Tornadoes and Climate Change: Huge Stakes, Huge Unknowns, by Dr. Jeff Masters in the Wunderblog.

Business

• The 1 Chart That Reveals Just How Grossly Unfair The U.S. Tax System Has Become, by Mark Gongloff in HuffPo.
• Senators laud Apple CEO Tim Cook for his amazing products and outside-the-box interpretation of the American corporate tax code. On The Daily Show
• Google reportedly pursuing ‘multipronged effort’ to build wireless networks in emerging markets, by Donald Melanson in Engadget

Personal Clouds & VRM

• The Power of Vendor Relationship Management, by Pam Baker in Tech Page One
• IT’s new concern: The personal cloud, by Robert L. Mitchell in Computerworld
• Space Monkey! The Challenge of Providing a Truly Private Personal Cloud, by Dan Blum (Here is Space Monkey.) Also by Dan: Personal Cloud Security and Defining Personal Cloud: An Analyst’s Perspective.
• Video by John Kelly, of Neustar, at Gartner

Infrastructure

• Wikipedia:
• Radio masts and towers
• List of links to masts and towers
• List of catastrophic collapses and demolitions of broadcast masts and towers
• Photos
• Photos by Nfrastructure (yours truly)
• WBZ Tower site in Hull, Mass
• Radio
• WBUR transmitter tour
• WQXR to buy WDFH in Ossining
• WDFH transmitter (directional, 53 watts). Application for 250 watts, but note the high degree of directionality. In all directions other than north the power is as low as 50 watts.