We all know Dick Cheney is no Hubert Humphrey. He never was in the mix to follow George W. Bush, our era's LBJ. So who gets the Humphrey role now?

The following, part of my free weekly e-mail newsletter, A-Clue.Com, is being reprinted at Always On next week as a guest column. Enjoy. Given that we have successfully built a bridge to the 19th century it’s time to rediscover Frederick Law Olmsted (right and below). Olmsted had one of the great lives of the 19th […]

By offering bits wholesale, municipalities break the bottleneck and ultimately (I hope) move the Bells and cable guys to start wholesaling again as well. If they do, then it doesn't matter what their terms of service are in their own retail operations.

It’s because their own spam filtering system is broken. It doesn’t work and it costs money. Goodmail promised to turn it into a profit center. Proof lies in how AOL itself treated a flood of e-mail about DearAOL.Com a site set up to protest the proposed Goodmail e-mail tax. Apparently it banned all e-mail mentioning […]

George W. Bush can only be restrained (if he can be restrained at all) by fear, by the real fear that he himself will be tried, convicted and executed for war crimes if he goes nuclear.

You're no one unless you have a book.

For any idiot who claims that auctioning spectrum leads to faster change than going unlicensed (and letting the edges and equipment makers create new services) I have one word for you. Clearwire. Clearwire has been around for many years now. Clearwire is a start-up run by Craig McCaw (who previously sold his cellular firm to […]

he company that wholesales is growing faster, in terms of its share price, than the one which refuses to.

Cisco Systems, which was the hero of the free Internet in the 1990s, has become its chief enemy. That’s because throughout this decade it has put most of its investment into systems that monitor or control what people do with the resource. As Richard Doherty of Envisioneering, explained to me this week at the NCTA […]

I am one of millions of Americans who were turned-on by "Association Football"  (soccer) by the exploits (or lack of them) of their own kids. Soccer (some Americans have tried calling it futbol, to distinguish it from American football without changing its name) is an upper-middle class pastime here, a fair game that teaches sportsmanship. […]