November 9, 2007
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The on-again, off-again relationship between Internet2 and the National Lambda Rail has hit another snag. Maybe permanently. At the Internet2′s member meeting last December in Chicago the board announced the merger was off. Then less than three months later both … Continue reading
October 31, 2007
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Internet2 announced today that Verizon Business has joined Internet2 as a corporate member. Verizon joins corporate members including Google, Cisco, Northrop and Johnson & Johnson among others. Interest in Internet2′s 100GBs backbone is sparking interest all over the place. Internet2′s … Continue reading
October 25, 2007
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This past spring’s WiscNet Future Technologies Conference in Madison when Dr. Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropologist from Kansas State University shared his video from YouTube called “Web 2.0, the Machine is Using Us.” The video documents how the Web has … Continue reading
October 11, 2007
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I was amused to read Arstechnica‘s News Desk article Internet2 at 100Gbps posted October 9th. However my blog post about this very topic from June 13th … well okay, I’m still glad to see more researchers, scientists, faculty and artists … Continue reading
October 10, 2007
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Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz is a good companion to Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat regarding globalization. At times I felt the chapters could have been written … Continue reading
October 6, 2007
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Matt Spaamen recommended Glenn Reynolds’ An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths. Glenn, professor of law at the University of Tennessee is the former MSNBC blogger known … Continue reading
October 6, 2007
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NYTimes writer David Pogue has a quick overview to the new XO or One Laptop Per Child computer from MIT…which is now laptop.org the site for the program. The opportunity to “Give One – Get One” is very impowering. Take … Continue reading
September 28, 2007
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As emotional as a situation can become over a short period of time, the Myanmar (Burma for all you old school) government’s decision to cut internet connections is a desperate act and clearly a sign that a total crackdown is … Continue reading
September 27, 2007
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Today Amazon opened the beta door to their new music store amazonmp3beta and as the name suggests, everything is available in mp3 format. In comparison Apple’s iTunes format is AAC for all those millions of iPods. Amazon MP3 offers the … Continue reading
September 25, 2007
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Nicholas Negroponte‘s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program is off to a less than stellar beginning. The biggest hurdle (outside of Intel) is securing funds from third world countries who verbally promised to purchase units for their school children. The … Continue reading