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Ten years later
I’ve been listening to the repeat broadcast of the Howard Stern Show, recorded live in New York as the 9/11 events unfolded. It’s been a transporting experience. The anger, bewilderment, confusion and fear are all there. I was at our house in Montecito, California when it happened. My sister Jan called right after the first… Continue reading
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Restaurant redux
The best Romans we ever knew were former ex-pats there: Charles and Doris Muscatine. We didn’t know them well, having met only once, for dinner in the early ’90s, at their son Jeff’s house in the Bay Area. But it turned out we were going to be in Rome at the same time, not long after that… Continue reading
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Al Jazeera in Egypt is cable’s ‘Sputnik moment’
Cable companies: Add Al Jazeera English *now* Jeff Jarvis commands, correctly, on his blog — and also in Huffpo, under the headine We Want Our Al Jazeera English Now. For me now was a few minutes ago, when I read both items on the family iPad, which has been our main news portal since the… Continue reading
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Jay Rosen and the Watchdog Web
I have to say what nearly fifty thousand Twitter followers already know: nobody does a better job of following and writing about what’s going on in journalism than Jay Rosen. The dude just nails it, over and over and over again. His latest, From Judith Miller to Julian Assange: Our press somehow got itself on… Continue reading
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Rethinking network neutrality
For whatever reasons, network neutrality has become more of a political football than a technical principle. Lately, however, its advocates have come up with some original new approaches that may de-politicize the matter to some degree, and cause progress (or at least conversation) to occur. One is John Palfrey’s Citizen’s Choice Framework for Net Neutrality.… Continue reading
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Outlining fun
Hanging here with Dave, getting outlining going again here. This is our second test post. This is an update. Continue reading
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Testes testes 1-2
It’s nice to know Doc’s inner-four-year-old is alive and well. Please don’t worry his site wasn’t hacked. This is just a test. Your friends, Dave and Doc Continue reading
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Reliable old blogging
So here I am on a street in Saverne, France, getting on the Net over a rare open wi-fi hot spot. I was going to tweet something about it, but Twitter is down. So here we are. There’s one Net, one Web and one Twitter. Many paths through the formers and but one through the… Continue reading
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Earth to Hollywood
Please get rid of the @#$%^& region coding. See, our family meant to bring along some movies when we came to Switzerland for our holiday vacation. Forgetting them was my fault. But not being able to watch other movies, that we would be glad to pay for, on our laptop, is not our fault. It’s… Continue reading
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Vroom with a view
I’m not there, in that shot above. That was in Denver, en route from Santa Barbara to Boston last Monday. Now I’m at a different airport — O’Hare in Chicago — en route from Boston to Las Vegas. Still, I thought it as a nice shot in a pretty set. So there ya go. Continue reading
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Dwarf Star Alliance
I fly United Airlines with a frequency sufficient to earn me 1K status. That stands for more than 100,000 miles per year. I’ve had that status for at least the last three years, and was an Premier Exeutive (next status down) for years before that. United belongs to the Star Alliance, which includes a bunch… Continue reading
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But where?
@Jesusitafire, of the Los Padres National Forest, is tweeting. So far following ø, followed by 12. Hey, it’s a start. Continue reading
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Much is technically wrong
Twitter says “Something is technically wrong”. The hotel wi-fi is up and down. Mostly down. My Sprint data card gets squat from this hotel. AT&T is borderline useless at #sxsw, probably because 90% of the attendees have iPhones. My wife is headed off to Europe in the morning, and I’m trying to get her going… Continue reading
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Naturally good
Had a great breakfast with Rex at the Bouldin Creek Coffee House and Café in Austin this morning. It’s about 1.5 miles from downtown on South 1st. Found it on Yelp. Great little place. I had two vegetarian egg variant tacos. One was a veggie chorizo thing (I forget the details), and it was outstanding.… Continue reading
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Going old turkey
We withdrew from TV this morning. I called Verizon and cancelled our FiOS TV service. Kept the Internet, of course: $64.99 for 20Mb symmetrical service. No complaints there. But what I want from Verizon is á la carte — or something close — and they don’t offer that. If it’s HD you want, it’s kind… Continue reading
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A step toward the user-driven future
I just put up Get ready for “fourth party” services, over at Linux Journal. It comes from thinking about new kinds of businesses that serve users, or customers, first. Traditionally, “third party” companies are accessories to sellers. So I’m thinking we should call accessories to buyers “fourth party” companies. See what you think. Continue reading
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Quote du jour
blogs exist because they fill a void, blogs that refuse to do so become void. Tony Pierce. Continue reading
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Just asking
Has President Obama made a single appointment that says “change”? Here’s his latest. Continue reading