Wednesday, July 03, 2002

Business Week: "Just as Napster changed the monopolistic music industry by making it easier and essentially free to obtain music, Wi-Fi could rip apart the burgeoning broadband industry, a duopoly of established cable and telecom companies, by replacing last-mile connectivity with last-acre connectivity." [Scripting News] 2:55:15 PM    comment []

I'm slowly working my way through my MP3 collection on my iPod. As I write this it's playing the first song I got through Napster -- Father and Son by Cat Stevens. "Take your time, think a lot, think of everything you got, for you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not." [Scripting News] How long before Dave gets his ipod hooked up to Radio? I remember when radio was beta the shared play list was part of the development of the culture around radio. I don't see much mention of it anymore. 11:17:05 AM    comment []

I found this by following Jon's attempt to visualize watching it change through time has been interesting. This is the visualization of an Ideavirus (pdf) as described by seth godin who was sited in an article about Yahoo and the changes to their privacy policy. Which reminds me about a quote from ray ozzie  "I can't tell you what I'm going to do. I listen to the customer and if they tell me that's what they want then I go that way because as stevie says ultamently business is about the customer." From seth's book The Eight: 1. Sneezers 2. Hive 3. Velocity 4. Vector 5. Medium 6. Smoothness 7. Persistence 8. Amplifier This remindes me I was going to dig around the topic of Network Contagion starting with an old 1957 piece by Coleman titled The diffusion of an innovation among physicians. (pdf) 11:14:26 AM    comment []

Thank you Jeroen Bekkers for the link to Jack Tuckerman's post. I had a great exchange with Jack via groove messenger this morning my time the afternoon his time about his project. I look forward to following his work. 11:01:46 AM    comment []

I wonder if a place like India could take advantage of the large capacity in the spectrum in the frequency range UHF. I read somewhere back that because our UHF is reserved it is unlikely that we could re-purpose that space for wireless broadband but the argument went on to say that the UHF area of the spectrum for some reason was ideal for wireless broadband access. I'll have to dig around and see if I can relocate this one page out of the several billion on the Internet to verify this thought. But countries like India probably don't have this same problem of preoccupancy of the spectrum since the same way we do in the US. Hmm. EE Times: India moves to deregulate wireless LAN usage. A notice suspending licensing regulations is expected to be issued this week. A plan to deregulate outdoor use of 802.11b WLANs is also in the works, but may take until the end of the year to complete, said Pramod Mahajan, India's communications and information technology minister. [Tomalak's Realm] 9:32:00 AM    comment []

Top 10 hits for non directed learning and wayfinding on.. 1. Cognitive Maps in Virtual Environments: Effortless Learning 2. Program 2002 3. "Spatial Learning in Formal and Informal Settings" 4. Wayfinders : Wayfinding 5. Wheeling Jesuit University - Psychology 6. SBA - Signage for Your Business - Welcome! 7. Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Worlds 8. Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Spaces ... 9. Minneapolis College of Art + Design : BS 10. Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Worlds  8/1/2002; 9:25:18 AM.

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