Lately the Web has been filled with stories of conflict. The Attorney General wants to ban pornography from the Web, not just child pornography but even depictions of adults doing their biological part. The government’s new abstinence education programs extend even to adults. Anyone who is unmarried (and only male-female unions are recognized) may have […]

When the political pack is shuffled, the phone companies and cable companies are going to find they have won nothing but emnity from the coming votes. They will have seen millions of customers educated on the issues, and they will likely have Democratic majorities ready, willing, and able to jump down their throats.

The surprise is that the debate exists at all. By its nature, net neutrality is not a high-profile issue. It is assumed that net neutrality will be an issue dealt with by elites, by what Bob Frankston calls the regulatorium. But the Democratic Netroots are being activated on this issue. Here, for instance, is an […]

Most of us don't have such an incentive, so we do what we like. We either base everything on our prejudices, or we lack experience in differentiating good from bad, of we think Desperate Housewives is Great TV.

Remember, Nixon is in the opposition party. He was a leader of the Anti-Thesis to the FDR thesis. So the New Nixon is a Democrat who was a leader of the Anti-Thesis to Ronald Reagan.

By combining software with XML tags on data (Java + XML = AJAX), you greatly minimize the traffic load, you do more of the analysis at-home, and you give the people monitoring back at base a much better view of the resulting data, without taking up a lot of bandwidth.

Lies, damned lies and statistics. And the worst of these is statistics.

It’s interesting that, when the generational fecal matter hits history’s rotating blades, and the assumptions of the past no longer apply, that everything about the Thesis’ founder can come under the microscope. That’s because, after a generation with a particular Myth, Americans have so internalized its Values that they operate almost on auto-pilot. The Myth […]

One of the best ways to get over the broadband gap is with what I call wireless cable. WiMax was originally designed as a standard for wireless cable. The idea is that you create a point-to-point radio link, then use directional antenna to pour as much data across the link as possible. The link runs […]

I took two interviews today with folks who insist AJAX can become a new "presentation layer" for computing, replacing HTML, and creating new, high-value interactive services people will pay for.