Tag Archives: “Bob Frankston”

The longer view

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Doc Searls

We have two iPhones in our family. Yesterday we traded in the older one — my wife’s first-generation model, bought in 2007 — at Radio Shack. They gave us $72.94 for the phone and charger, against $199 for a new 16Gb … Continue reading →

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The Infrastructure Dynamic

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Doc Searls

I just posted Rupert Murdoch vs. The Web, over at Linux Journal. In it I suggest that the Murdoch story (played mostly as Bing vs Google) is a red herring, and that the real challenge is to free the Web … Continue reading →

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Liberating the Net from the FCC

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Doc Searls

In The Office of Connectivity Advocacy, Bob Frankston argues for something we’ve needed a long time: prying the Net from the regulatory grips of telecom and cablecom, both of which are inside the FCC and part of a regulatory mess … Continue reading →

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