I can’t tell you how excited I am about this! Qik is now the first live mobile video service to launch on non-smartphones and non-PDAs. These are mass market phones, the kind you get free with a lot of airtime contracts. It’s an unprecedented move for live mobile video, reaching outside the most sophisticated market […]
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No prizes for guessing why these have been rattling around my head of late.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
The GSE structure serves to privatize profits and […]
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Taken with my Nokia N95, edited with Picnik
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Larry Lessig in the Wall Street Journal:
This war must end. It is time we recognize that we can’t kill this creativity. We can only criminalize it. We can’t stop our kids from using these tools to create, or make them passive. We can only drive it underground, or make them “pirates.” And the question we […]
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Antoine and Michael have some ideas, which they related to Brian - great podcast from three of the smartest friends I have.
Doing nothing would be better than what they are doing now. Better still would be to cut public spending in all countries (notably the USA) where the budget deficit is big. Yes […]
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This is my first autumn in California. So far it is: crisp, sunny, and very difficult to dress for. (Well, not that difficult: Just plan to carry a sweater and a scarf with you every single day.) Oh, and it’s quite gorgeous. No wonder so many people want to live here.
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Mike Arrington:
[T]o argue that a company should always cut costs to the bare minimum is the same thing as asking that bear to act like it’s Winter in the Spring, because someday Winter is going to happen. All you end up with is a dead bear.
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There’s so much I could write about this baby, about her mother and father and grandparents and uncle and everyone who’s looked forward to her arrival for so long. But that would be a lengthy post, and I probably still could not put into words how happy I am that my friend of 17 years […]
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I went to Arkansas last weekend, spending three nights and just over two days in the Ozarks. While there, I took some pictures in the woods. I used one of my cell phones (Nokia N95) to take all of the photos. Here are a few (click the thumbnail if you want to see a larger […]
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6AM: Wake up after 3.5 hours of sleep.
7.25AM: Cab arrives five minutes early for ride to train station. I usually walk 30 minutes to Belmont station, but Blake is visiting San Francisco from Cincinnati and I’m meeting him early-ish in Palo Alto for breakfast.
8.07AM: Arrive in Palo Alto 23 minutes ahead of schedule. (I tend […]
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Yeah, that’s right.
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I’ve blogged ad nauseam about my friend Pat Phelan, so I’ll spare you my usual reverence and just say that if anybody qualifies for this award, it’s him. You can vote even if you’re not Irish!
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