Daniel Suarez: In-Flux ISBN:0525953183 (more)

Pamela Paul confesses: *I was one of the middling sort, endowed with a reasonable amount of natural ability. But, I figured, if all went according to my carefully hatched plan, I could graduate with all my “to do” boxes neatly checked off, my teachers impressed if not wowed, and the ultimate achievement: an acceptance letter from the Ivy League college of my choice. It all went as planned. I didn’t learn much of anything. (more)

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Matt Buchanan slams the Galaxy Tab and 7" Tablet-s in general. There's almost no added benefit to using the Tab over a phone. It's not big enough. Web browsing doesn't have greater fidelity. I don't get more out of Twitter. A magazine app would be cramped... There is no way to not feel like a total dorkface while typing on this thing. In portrait, it's like tapping on a massive, nerdy phone. In landscape, it's just dumb. You still have to thumb type, only you're stretching out further, and text entry swallows up the entire screen. (more)

an American journalist, blogger, and columnist. He is most known for his former work as a blogger and columnist for The Washington Post, as well his ongoing work as a contributor to BloombergNews and MSNBC. He was formerly an associate editor of The American Prospect political magazine and a political blogger at the same publication.[1] At The Washington Post, he managed a branded blog called "WonkBlog," which featured his writing and the writing of other policy reporters. Issues discussed in the blog included health care and budget policy.[2] He wrote a primer on policy called "Wonkbook," which was delivered by e-mail and on his blog each morning. In 2011, Klein's blog was the most-read blog at The Washington Post. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Klein

Typically thought of as high-BandWidth network connectivity. To me, the even more important consumer feature is Always On, so you don't have to wait for the modem to dial, ring, connect, authentication, etc.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just issued its long-awaited decision striking down the FCC’s Net Neutrality rule. This is the second time in four years that this court struck down the FCC’s attempt to adopt a network neutrality rule. It is now legal for AT&T or Verizon to block Slate, your blog, or any other site... Everyone knew we were going to lose this case... That decision, called ComCast v. FCC, made it clear what the FCC would need to do to have the jurisdiction to try again to enforce network neutrality. Congress gave the FCC the power to regulate “telecommunications services” (Title II) (which many believe include the Internet services provided by cable and phone companies) but not “information services” (Title I) (which everyone agrees includes Twitter, Google, and other services riding on top of the Internet lines). That is, the FCC can regulate cable and phone networks but not apps and websites. The deregulatory FCC of 2002, however, had a chairman (Michael Powell) who is now the head lobbyist for the CableCo industry, and he succeeded in removing regulations for the cable industry by classifying cable Internet as an “information service,” the category for Twitter and Slate. The court was unimpressed: If the FCC wanted to regulate cable companies but not Twitter and Slate, it had to put them in different categories, or else the FCC could start regulating Twitter and Slate... All the FCC had to do back in 2010 was clarify that Internet service offered by cable and phone companies is a “telecommunications service,” and to “reclassify” it as such. That would require reversing a few of the earlier orders but would have likely been upheld in court... Even though he and his general counsel promised to reclassify Internet service, Julius Genachowski essentially caved as the cable and phone companies unsurprisingly continued to oppose network neutrality... The current FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, is highly regarded, but some distrust him because he is the former head lobbyist of both the cable and wireless phone industries. (more)

chairman of FCC appointed Nov'2013 by Barack Obama. (more)

Susan Crawford tells Ezra Klein why the US needs a government Utility Company to provide Broad Band. (more)

Case where the Supreme Court supported Eminent Domain laws. (more)

tech Journalist who was until January 2014 the principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones announced on Sept. 19, 2013, that Mossberg would leave the Wall Street Journal as part of the breakup with All Things D by the end of the year.[1] Along with other reporters from All Things D, Mossberg started a new media site called Re Code in 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Mossberg

Drop Box has acquired the iOS and Android EBook reading app ReadMill, and the app will be shut down. Readmill confirmed the news... Readmill’s technology also allowed users to share and leave notes for each other within ebooks (Annotation) and it sounds as if that’s the reason for the acquisition. (Acqui-Hire)

The Tinkering School runs a one-week camp of hands-on Stimulating Learning Projects for kids 7-17. (more)

company originally named Loud Cloud (more)

Venture Capitalist at A16Z. (more)

CoFounder and CTO of Coun Syl, a genomics startup... Prior to co-founding Counsyl, Dr. Srinivasan taught data mining, statistics, and computational biology in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. (more)

CoFounder (more)

Electric Car company created by Elon Musk.

A number of Disruptive Innovation Start Up-s (esp in the Sharing Economy) are getting Back Lash from the Status Quo. (more)

Chris Dixon pitches the concept of "FullStackStartup-s". The old approach was to sell or license your technology to the existing companies in that industry. The new approach is to build a complete, end-to-end product or service that bypasses existing companies. Prominent examples of this “full stack” approach include Tesla, Warby Parker, Uber, Harry’s, Nest, BuzzFeed, and NetFlix. Most of these companies had “partial stack” antecedents that either failed or ended up being relatively small businesses. (Start Up, Disruptive Innovation) (more)