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InforWorld on WiFi and Warchalking. Industry publication InfoWorld published a couple of interesting quotes on Wi-Fi, ethics and warchalking this morning. [ Source: andersja's blog]

There is no ethical issue here. There's an education issue, an ignorance issue, a political issue, and in some few cases a security issue. But not ethics. If your big issue is a secure network DON'T USE WIFI, YOU MORON. Use a proprietary, secured channel instead. Sheesh.

And the whole "The industry's in trouble/no sustainable business model/need government regulation" spiel is just crap. You mean my local Starbucks is about to crater?! D-Link and LinkSys and Orinoco seem to be doing OK. What idiot got the idea that the only sustainable business model was selling subscription services to business users. If these people had been around 50 years ago we wouldn't even have FM radio today. Another example of the tech industry spiraling in on itself to the point it loses all perspective (kinda like Congress.)

Speaking of which...

The other massively distasteful argument is RSS and all the vitriol being spewed by the participants over something that is wonderful in damn near any form, and practically meaningless in all the details. I'm just a regular guy, and maybe all this arcane business about namespaces and social networks and FOFA/RDF/2.0/3.0 and modules really, really, really matters. Someday. But is it really worth all the screaming and yelling and (supposed) death threats? C'mon. You people are just going bonkers over stuff that 99.9% of us don't even understand. What the Hell is that all about?

Why don't you guys quit bickering and go back to work on fixing the bugs in your software. You've got a bunch of folks out here who just want to use it and need what we already have to work better. We love you. We love ALL of you. But we don't want this damn bickering to get in the way of fixing our basic tools.

Now shut up and get back to work.

Things I Should Be Blogging, But Haven't...

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I've had my head down the last few weeks with the usual struggles of a budding entrepreneur. In particular, I've been working on two engagements that require detailed proposals, onsite visits, and analysis.

I've done this sort of stuff before, and I know it's old hat to many of you who blog the KM/Klog/intranet sphere. But it's been a while for me, and I'm a bit like a fat boy who's just started training camp -- the effort has left me mentally winded and wordless. (My 2x2 matrix skills have gotten really rusty, too.)

But it's renewed my appreciation for those of you who can do this day in and day out and still write cogently about things that matter. I've blogged almost nothing of substance in the last month. Hmm.

So I'm making a list of the things I've thought about blogging, intend to blog, and should blog. The list is for me. I hope by putting it here it will provide some incentive to come back to each and give it the thought I intend.

The Digital Dashboard -- Holy Grail or tin cup? Thoughts started by the prototype posted by Rajesh, the comments by Jim McGee and Phil Windley, and a brief thing I saw that was a Flash demo of a Sopranos family hit board (that I can't find anymore).
Sharing, abundant thinking, and protecting the future while building toward it -- thoughts started by the posts of Phil Windley and Brent Ashley
A Simple and Affordable Communications Infrastructure -- thoughts for a briefing paper suitable for my clients who don't want to hear about KM or blogs or any of the other nerdy words we throw around, and inspired by the good work done by Phil, James, Martin, Seb, that JOHO guy, and the ultimate mad klogger John Robb.
The Geoffrey Moore seminar
Themes -- I have to get a better Theme. I want to change this to a 3-column theme. I need to get my blogroll back, and several other features.
Migrating -- I plan to migrate this weblog to my own domain hosted over at Weblogger.com. I need a plan...