News Corp. is losing so much money at MySpace that it can't earn it back in any traditional, Web-centric way. So it's going to sell out its users, isolate itself from at least two of the largest search engines, push Fox News down kids' throats, and tell the media how clever it is.
Congress needs to know when there is genuine concern about an issue. It has a right to distinguish between Astroturf and real grassroots. Congress also needs to understand that we have as much a right to choose how we filter our e-mail as they do
Open source is an approach to governance that is based, like the original New Deal, on an attitude. It's not a set of policies, but a method for finding policies and bringing them forward.
With access to data Google will be learn to distinguish honest merchants from frauds. And it can cut down on the fraud.
Let a thousand ISPs bloom. Become the Costco of backhaul.
If we go down early to the Czechs, we could be gone in a hurry. Or (believe it or not) we could be playing in July. If we are, the world will truly turn upside-down. And it just may.
Because there are so many people around today who are active, vital, but whose politics were defined by the Nixon Thesis, the next few elections will be closer than they should be. Ignore the polls which show Democrats with a 10-15 point lead. As we saw in San Diego last week, the knees still jerk. Amazingly, they will continue to jerk, for years to come.
The key, when the crisis comes, will be to have unity among the non-haters, so we can build a politics of consensus.
What we need is a new political myth, which infuses us with new political values, that can take political power and unleash this creativity. That's what open source politics is about. Be open to innovation from wherever it comes. Let the market decide what shall rise, unforced and uncontrolled. Share and you will grow. To gain, first give.
Regardless of how the Senate vote turns out (and I suspect cloture will be hard for the Bells to achieve there without a net neutrality provision) Washington is changing. And, as we noted yesterday, the Bells' technology hand is very, very poor.
