Wednesday, October 09, 2002

Vint Cerf Talks About Internet Changes [Slashdot] [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]] This Slashdot-led interview of Vint Cerf is one of the reasons I dearly love this medium. Cerf had the brains and the good fortune to make a seminal, bedrock-level contribution(s) to the Internet, and hearing him recount the experience is like hearing Moses talk about the writing of the Old Testament. 7:52:03 PM

Want Wi-Fi? Verizon takes it home. The telecommunications provider plans to offer wireless home networking equipment made by Linksys for Wi-Fi fans. [CNET News.com] Good for Verizon! At last, signs of brain cell activity among the telcos. Contrast this with AT&T, who have decided that WiFi is a threat. Anything that furthers broadband wireless is OK by me. BWIA changes the way we use information appliances; you might say it changes the personal workflow. 7:43:54 PM

Ray Ozzie's thoughts on transparent email inboxes make a lot of sense to me. He's right, it does sound strange when you first consider it, but the strongest argument in the piece is that email is already the first place lawyers look during an investigation, so why not state right up front that everything you write on this corporate system is open and searchable. It would sure clean up a lot of the flame and junk I've seen on corporate email. Ray's comments are a little self-serving, because the need for a private collaboration space leads one immediately to Groove, but so what. It's a radical notion, but worth some thought. 8:14:29 AM

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