Jay Rosen: The Citizen's Agenda in Campaign Coverage. Ten Steps to a Better Narrative. (Pr) (more)

Bob Frankston says that a Spectrum Auction is mis-FramIng connectivity. (OpenNet, Open Spectrum). We should be asking for bids on contracts to maintain common facilities rather than auctioning off our ability to communicate to service providers. More like roads than railroads. (more)

The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. Using UDP, programs on networked computers can send short messages sometimes known as datagrams (using Datagram Sockets) to one another. UDP is sometimes called the Universal Datagram Protocol or Unreliable Datagram Protocol. UDP does not provide the reliability and ordering that TCP does. (more)

Edward Wyatt at the Ny Times reported that Google and Verizon were making a secret deal flying in the face of Net Neutrality, that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators (e.g. YouTube) are willing to pay for the privilege. (more)

Bob Frankston on Ambient Connectivity, embracing the End To End Network. I'm positing Frankston's First Law as "MarKet-places that provide opportunity rather than just solutions allow demand to create supply"... It's too bad we only teach Evolution in biology classes - it's hard to learn hard science amidst the Complexity of biological systems. There is nothing special about biological evolution - it's just one example of how complex digital systems change.

Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)... The SEC cited the new law Tuesday in a FOIA action brought by FOX Business Network... “It allows the SEC to block the public’s access to virtually all SEC records,” said Gary Aguirre, a former SEC staff attorney-turned-whistleblower who had accused the agency of thwarting an investigation into hedge fund Pequot Asset Management in 2005.

The Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). (more)

Demand Media filed for an IPO last week. (more)

Paul Graham on what happened to Yahoo. The problems that hosed Yahoo go back a long time, practically to the beginning of the company. They were already very visible when I got there in 1998. Yahoo had two problems Google didn't: easy money (Banner Ad DotCom bubble), and ambivalence about being a technology company (vs New Media). (more)

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is an autoconfiguration protocol used on IP networks. Computers that are connected to IP networks must be configured before they can communicate with other computers on the network. DHCP allows a computer to be configured automatically, eliminating the need for intervention by a network administrator. It also provides a central database for keeping track of computers that have been connected to the network. This prevents two computers from accidentally being configured with the same IP address. (more)

The TCP/IP model consists of four layers (RFC 1122).[1][2] From lowest to highest, these are the Link Layer, the Internet Layer, the Transport Layer, and the Application Layer. (more)

Tim Bray on progress for non-JaVa languages like Python on Android. I Commented: I think non-Java languages become even more important as Android spreads to larger devices like Tablet-s.

AutoMobile-s have to live within CAFE standards, except for the dang SUV market. (more)

William H Patterson has written a bio of Robert Heinlein called Robert A. Heinlein: Learning Curve ISBN:0765319608. (more)

MIT Mesh Network project (more)

Cell Phone that can do things other than handle Voice Call-s: Web Browser, EMail, Multimedia, etc. (more)

I've seen a number of people say that the IPhone is more important as a new computer Platform than as a Voice Call device. (Smart Phone) (more)

Chris Paget, who also showed yesterday how he can hack into radio frequency identification tags (RFID) from a distance, created a fake cell phone tower, or Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) base station... with just about $1,500 worth of equipment... Paget’s system disables the encryption in the system, and the GSM network complies and never sends a warning message.

Stowe Boyd points to James Surowiecki's suggestion that we increase the Income Tax to the Super Rich (Income Inequality). An annual income of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars puts you in the top three per cent of American households, and is more than four times the national median... This means that someone making two hundred thousand dollars a year and someone making two hundred million dollars a year pay at similar tax rates. Le Bron James and Le Bron James’s dentist: same difference. This makes no sense—there’s a yawning chasm between the professional and the plutocratic classes, and the tax system should reflect that. A better tax system would have more brackets, so that the super-rich pay higher rates. (more)

Clive Thompson says we're making fewer/shorter Voice Call-s. Indeed, I predict that as this sort of hybrid coordination evolves, it will produce a steep power law in the way we use voice calls. We’ll still make fewer, as most of our former phone time will migrate to other media. But the calls we do make will be longer, reserved for the sort of deep discussion that the medium does best.