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Here's another open spectrum overview, this time with more focus on the technology side of things, which right now means software defined radio. This is what will change everything (yeah, I know, it usually doesn't work out like that, but I enjoy believing such things...)

DailyWireless has links to some of the players in the industry.
- jim 11-03-2002 7:24 pm [link] [add a comment]

People in Bayport (you know who you are!) should not read the rest of this post. Believe me, it's for your own good.



42" Wide Screen Flat Plasma Monitor for under $3000 (although, yeah, the resolution doesn't seem that outstanding.)
- jim 11-03-2002 6:47 pm [link] [add a comment]

Doc Searls on the bottom-up nature of protocols that form the infrastructure of the internet: "They need to be born of universal intentions that support commercial activity, but are not reducible to it." I love that sentence.
- jim 11-03-2002 6:41 pm [link] [add a comment]

Great short Jorn Barger (Mr. Robotwisdom) essay on an Internet way of self-knowledge.
- jim 11-03-2002 6:26 pm [link] [add a comment]

Science News Online wonders if we have it all wrong:

Nearly all political elections in the United States are plurality votes, in which each voter selects a single candidate, and the candidate with the most votes wins. Yet voting theorists argue that plurality voting is one of the worst of all possible choices.

- jim 11-03-2002 6:22 pm [link] [add a comment]

Another mainstream overview of the arguments for open spectrum. My long distance and not terribly informed view is that Michael Powell (head of the FCC) might actually support such thinking. Can he actually do this, and keep his job? Seems doubtful with the present administration.

- jim 11-02-2002 9:36 pm [link] [add a comment]

Was using the thumb-board on my mobile in my dream last night. I guess I'm assimilated.
- jim 11-02-2002 6:22 pm [link] [add a comment]

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