Gordon Cook quotes Harold Feld's assessment of Julius Genachowski's record at the FCC so far, with recommendations for a turnaround. A perusal of the last year of FCC orders and Commission meetings shows a non-stop stream of reports, studies, and proposed rulemakings. The only actual orders involve things so non-controversial and trivial that they hardly constitute tweaks... Genachowski creates his own opposition by his stunning refusal to actually make decisions and lead. This gives opponents time to organize, frustrates and exhausts supporters, and undermines support for Genachowski’s initiatives. (Why put yourself out for someone who isn’t ever going to actually take action?) (more)

Phrase Of The Day: The War On The Net.

Tom Evslin on the potential of Municipal Wifi as kicked off by Google and Earth Link. Big potential for VoIP Over WiFi... will Earth Link become a big TelCo this way?

page was renamed from z2009-01-13-GrenachowskiHeadFcc (more)

Sudbury School trustee (more)

chairman of FCC since Jun'2009 (more)

Internet protocol/policy researchers. (more)

Some interesting Open Source projects of the moment (alphabetically): (more)

Mongrel2 has reached v1.0.

Steve Blank distinguishes the Product Manager's role in a Start Up vs BigCo.

James Jay Lee took at least 1 person hostage at the Discovery Channel headquarters, making a variety of Ecology-related demands inspired by Daniel Quinn.

The U.S. government has won just 14 of the 51 decided cases filed by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Route Around Censorship (more)

Games for Change (also known as G4C) is a movement and community of practice dedicated to using computer and video games for social change. An individual video game may also be referred to as a "game for change" if it is produced by this community or shares its ideals. Games for Change is also the name for the nonprofit organization which is building the field for the new movement by providing support, visibility and shared resources to individuals and organizations using digital games for social change. (Computer Game) (more)

Food which has not been processed, nor cooked (heated above 115degF). (more)

massively multiplayer online game (Computer Game) (more)

One Swarm is a privacy-preserving P2P client developed at the University of Washington. Although backward compatible with BitTorrent, it also includes new features designed to protect user privacy when sharing data among friends through creating a distributed Dark Net, so-called friend-to-friend sharing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneswarm

comedian, actor

Tiny AutoMobile. (more)

Theo Schlossnagle's presentation on Scalability looks good.