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Monday, April 18, 2005
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Weblogs
ArchPundit: "While I'm pretty reluctant to join in blogger triumphalism, I have it on good word that the City of Chicago's decision to pull back from selecting Inkavote as the voting system was derailed by comments spurred from blogs! Credit should go to Deadly Earnest who doesn't post often, but was the guy pushing the issue. Inkavote is complicated and simply doesn't work well. It makes no sense to go to it from punch cards."
6:29:48 PM 
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2008 Presidential Election
TalkLeft: "The California State Democratic Convention took place this weekend. CVCobb01 live-blogged Wesley Clark's speech and sat next to Clark's media advisor. He reports that Clark all but announced he is running in 2008 - enough so that he feels comfortable presenting it as fact."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
7:05:36 AM
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Weblogs
Dave Winer: "We don't get no respect from Google, we don't get no respect from the EFF, but we do get respect, tons of it, from Rupert Murdoch...The information system of the WORLD is changing, Murdoch sees that, and sees himself as an immigrant (all of us who were reared in the centralized information system of the 20th century are), and because of that, understands that he has much to learn."
Carl Pope, the executive director of The Sierra Club now has a weblog. Thanks to Josh Marshall for the link.
Now if Pope could only take back the Sierra Club decision not to oppose the Glen Canyon Dam.
6:57:07 AM
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Wi-Fi
Here's a short article from Left in the West about SB 152. They write, "If municipal broadband is really bad for the market, people will vote with both feet and dollars and the idea will pass. Preventing it with legislation, though, may only set Colorado's rural areas to fall even further behind. We should encourage municipal innovation, not stifle it."
New West Network: "I'll admit I'm an old friend - and a big fan - of Larry Lessig, and I've covered so many outrageously self-serving legal and legislative initiatives by Qwest and Verizon and SBC that I'm pre-disposed to think they are on the wrong side of this. I'm not at all sure it's a good idea in general for cities and towns to be in the wireless business. But in some situations, i.e. when the phone or cable companies won't build the networks, it would almost certainly make sense. And shouldn't local taxpayers be allowed to decide that for themselves?"
Curious Stranger: "And given the monopoly the Comcast's and Qwest's of the world enjoy in their local markets, they're hardly the bastion of free-market innovation the bills supporters want to paint them as."
Curious linked two background articles on David Hughes in the Coyote Gulch comments, here and here.
Coyote Gulch is struck by the fact that the Qwest and Comcast solution (wired connection) for the "last mile" has been left behind by the market. Wi-Fi changes everything. It's much cheaper to deploy, cheaper to run, and is built in to most laptops today. The bill is not in opposition to municipalities and broadband it's against municipalities deploying Wi-Fi. Big difference.
6:16:42 AM
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