Cook’s Collaborative Edge

According to David Petraeus when he visited a year ago the country of his father and was asked about it in a lecture in the Peace palace (International Court of Justice building), 90% of global warfare is about oil and gas. When power generation would be shifted to different sources (solar, nuclear and other alternatives) […]

I have borrowed Harold Feld’s title for his outstanding assessment of the FCC Chair. I will copy the first big chunk here…. but PLEASE follow the link and read the WHOLE thing. SPREAD THE WORD
Genachowski’s Fast Fading Star — And How He Can Still Salvage His Term As Chairman.
By Harold | August 3, […]

John Wilson’s item just republished below inspired me to read the Drucker article. It seems that our current troubles started with the methodology adopted by the nations and identified by Schumpeter in 1918 to fight world war one…. financialize and borrow.
A 1983 article by Peter Drucker
shows us that the reasons for the […]

From John Wilson in the UK who has been making excellent contributions to my economics of IP networks discussion group. John’s blog item is here.
[ The following notes explore themes that emerge from recent published issues of The Cook Report on Internet, and related arch-econ private mail-list discussions:]
In consideration of teasing out the themes […]

BT acquired Ribbit two summers ago. Early reports seemed to think it was a Grand Central “killer” and competition to Google Voice. In June of 2010, neither seems much to be the case.
BT has been hard at work reinventing the local phone company for the past 3 years. The incumbent is there […]

from converge Digest vol 17 no. 102
Looking ahead, McAdam said he expects that most consumers will
ultimately have a number of devices that need connectivity —
four, five, six or perhaps as many as 20 devices. Consumers will
want to buy “a bucket of megabytes” to be used any way they want
by any of the devices. Voice becomes […]

Bill St Arnaud has the following paper available for reading
A personal perspective on the evolving Internet and Research and Education Networks
here is an abbreviated abstract:
Over the past few years the Internet has evolved from an “end-to-end” telecommunications service to a distributed computing information and content infrastructure. [snip].This evolution in the Internet was predicted by […]

It is not often that I see such delightful news. The public interest is protected in California even as it is abused in Washington DC.
Ever since the NTIA mapping program became a topic of discussion on my mail list and Sara Wedeman saw and critiqued the work of Rachelle Cong and her project manager […]

Today I wrote on my list: I am increasingly more skeptical that like NTIA the FCC will do ANYTHING that could be interpreted to be in the national interest as opposed to the corporate interest.
Count me with Erik Cecil in the hope that events may render the FCC irrelevant. Sheesh what will […]

on my list:
Chris S. The information available on the Internet is a vast ocean. Google and the other search engines tell us, in effect, “here are the general coordinates of where there might be buried treasure.” What I’m talking about is hiring mercenary treasure hunters to really get down there and find […]