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.

Assuming cable chooses to let loose the bits, breaking the TV barrier on the speed it makes available to customers, it will gain market share, and the Bells will lose even-more subscribers. After all, why keep a phone line when cable can do everything the phone can? The Bells are already losing share to wireless. Now you have a second drain.

If China's leaders ever learn the basic lesson of dealing with the Internet -- first listen -- then watch out.

One forgotten Goldwater fact is no one of consequence wanted to be his running mate. He finally had to enlist party chair William Miller of New York, who was so much of a nobody that he ended his career doing the first AmEx "Do you know who I am" ad.