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Check out this new Nokia 6800 phone with regular numeric keypad, and - with a flip - full qwerty keyboard. Genius.
Ogg Vorbis plugin for iTunes 3!
Wired has an article about a company, Vivato, set to introduce a new type of antenna for wifi (802.11) access points that will greatly increase the range of these devices. If we are to believe them their new antenna will provide for 2000 foot radius coverage indoors, and up to 4 miles outside! Holy wow. That would pretty much solve almost everything.
Dan Gillmore on telecoms, the FCC, and the promotion of open spectrum.
Cory Doctorow reviews Harold Rheingold's new book Smartmobs. Worth a look.
Wow. Long elaborate dream last night. We were on some kind of plush party train Big Jimmy had hooked up rolling across Montana. The countryside was filled with weird space ship launching pads. And I kept trying to blog everything on my mobile. I think that helped me remember so much of the dream.
In one of the cars I met a woman who had a much cooler mobile device. It was called a Bueno Avalanche. I remember trying to write the name into a blog, and it was taking me forever because the letters kept changing around. Anyway, the device folded up in the most improbably manner, so that when closed it was about the size of a book of matches, but then it would expand transformer-style into a much bigger device. I was showing her mine, but she wasn't very impressed. "That's last generation technology."
Don't miss blogs of the day: one, two.
The image upload function is about to get a nice upgrade. I've always wanted these features but didn't think I could do it before. Very satisfying to see it finally working. (Note: it's not working at this site yet.)
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.
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.)
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.
Great short Jorn Barger (Mr. Robotwisdom) essay on an Internet way of self-knowledge.
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.