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Why AOL Wants To Charge E-Mail Tax

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 […]

Clearwire Proves Me Right

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 […]

Cisco-ification

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 […]

The Long View: Football

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. […]

Double Edged Sword

Immigration is an issue that cuts both parties in half. As such, it may be the first to demand a consensus solution, and a new kind of politics. To see this in action this week you had to visit the blogosphere. Bloggers write as they feel, and most aren’t strategic. They are the grassroots of […]

Freedom2Connect: Great Googly-Moogly

The final speaker at Freedom2Connect was Chris Sacca. Sacca is the head of special initiatives for Google. GoogleChris SaccaHead of Special Initiatives NOTE: Right after Sacca spoke, Google and its partner Earthlink won their bid to build a WiFi network covering San Francisco. Google has bucket trucks? What can we do to get ore access […]

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