On May 29, 2002, a girl celebrating her 18th birthday -- in her first hour of her first day on the job at the McDonald's in Roosevelt, Iowa -- was forced to strip, jog naked and assume a series of embarrassing poses, all at the direction of a caller on the phone, according to court and news accounts.Link (Thanks, Eric Paulos!)
On Jan. 26, 2003, according a police report in Davenport, Iowa, an assistant manager at an Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar conducted a degrading 90-minute search of a waitress at the behest of a caller who said he was a regional manager -- even though the man had called collect, and despite the fact the assistant manager had read a company memo warning about hoax calls just a month earlier. He later told police he'd forgotten about the memo.
On June 3, 2003, according to a city police spokesman in Juneau, Alaska, a caller to a Taco Bell there said he was working with the company to investigate drug abuse at the store, and had a manager pick out a 14-year-old customer -- and then strip her and force her to perform lewd acts...
Across the United States, at least 13 people who executed strip-searches ordered by the caller were charged with crimes, and seven were convicted.
But most of the duped managers were treated as victims — just like the people they searched and humiliated. They all "fell under the spell of a voice on the telephone," wrote a judge in Zanesville, Ohio, in an order acquitting Scott Winsor, 35, who'd been charged with unlawfully restraining and imposing himself on two women who worked for him at a McDonald's.
Chicago lawyer Craig Annunziata, who has defended 30 franchises sued after hoaxes, said every manager he interviewed genuinely believed they were helping police.
"They weren't trying to get their own jollies," he said.
We know Microsoft has a lot riding on the Xbox 360’s success, so it makes sense that in response to the first reports of Xbox crashes, they told Reuters there were “a few isolated reports of consoles not working as expected” for a “very, very small fraction” of Xboxes sold, and that their “number of calls was not unexpected.” Maybe so, maybe no; there are always a certain amount of defective units on any product launch — especially one as huge as this — and it’s not usually something anyone can call just based reports on forums alone. Molly O’Donnell, Microsoft spokesperson, called it “Par for the course.” Then again, we did have to call the Xbox support line about six times before we could even get on hold to talk to someone, and wound up on the horn over two and a half hours because one of our retail units (the one that crashed a couple times) wouldn’t (and still won’t) connect to Live. We’ll have to chalk that up to amazing odds, since only time will tell how pervasive and persistent the Xbox 360 crash problems really are, but in the mean time Microsoft says they’ll overnight repair or replace any defective 360s in your midst. So if you’re seeing screens like those above, holla at ‘em.
[Thanks, gamestopzak]
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Originally posted by Ryan Block from Engadget, ReBlogged by julianbleecker on Nov 24, 2005 at 10:54 AM
Following up on Jamais' June 2004 post about the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, or EPICA, new results published this week verify that "the relationship between climate and CO2 that had been deduced from the Vostok core appears remarkably robust," according to RealClimate.
Secondly, these results will allow paleoclimatologists to really look in detail at the differences between the different interglacials in the past. The previous 3 before our current era look quite similar to each other and were quite short (around 10,000 years). The one 400,000 years ago (Marine Isotope Stage 11, for those who count that way) was hypotheisied to look more like the Holocene and appears to be significantly longer (around 30,000 years). Many of the details though weren't completely clear in the Vostok data, but should now be much better resolved. This may help address some of the ideas put forward by Ruddiman (2003, 2005), and also help assess how long our current warm period is likely to last.
The study shows that carbon dioxide levels have increased significantly over the last two centuries, from 280 to 380 parts per million. According to Edward Brooks, a geosciences specialist at Oregon State University, quoted in an Associated Press article, "There's no natural condition that we know about in a really long time where the greenhouse gas levels were anywhere near what they are now. And these studies tell us that there's a strong relationship between temperature and greenhouse gases. Which logically leads you to the conclusion that maybe we should worry about temperature change in the future."
An article in the UK Guardian, linked from a comment on the RealClimate post, refers to analysis of cores drilled along the eastern seaboard, suggesting that "oceans will rise nearly half a metre by the end of the century, forcing coastlines back by hundreds of metres." Professor Kenneth Miller is quoted as saying there's little we can do at this point to stop the sea level from rising, prompting a clarification from Gavin Schmidt at RealClimate: "Miller's point is that sea level will continue to rise under any conceivable scenario (as seen in the 'committed climate change' papers by Meehl et al and Wigley earlier this year....while cuts in emissions will not prevent sea level rise, they may prevent the worst case scenarios in the medium to long term."
MSNBC also published an article, "Tiny bubbles, rising seas point to warming."
Mitigation/Adaptation: Jamais' post, What's the Best Path to CO2 Reduction, has good information on potential mitigation strategies, as well as the WikiPedia entry on Mitigation of global warming. The leading global effort at mitigation, of course, is the Kyoto Protocol. As Jamais posted when the Kyoto Treaty became active, "Kyoto is a reframing exercise, a memetic engineering project. It forces us to respond and, by being transparent in its failings, forces us in turn to come up with something better."
(Posted by Jon Lebkowsky in To Know It for the First Time Place, Environment and Ecology at 03:55 PM)
Why do I reBlog this? As long as I'm in an existential tailspin.. -JB
Originally posted by Jon Lebkowsky from WorldChanging: Another World Is Here, ReBlogged by julianbleecker on Nov 25, 2005 at 10:22 PM
This fad may be here to stay: The Wi-Fi Alliance and In-Stat co-released the detail that over 100 million Wi-Fi chipsets were shipped already this year, with an estimate of 120 million by year's end.
Given that the share of laptops sold worldwide for 2005 is estimated at over 100 million units, and that a large majority of those are now sold with Wi-Fi, that accounts for a big hunk of it. Another large hunk are home gateways, selling in the tens of millions each year. The rest? Adapters, chips in handhelds, and newer Wi-Fi appliances.
For his New York column, John keys off the AAP lawsuit:
The signs are everywhere. In France, Jacques Chirac has ordered his minions to gin up a French and German search engine—on the grounds that Google is (wait for it) a tool of U.S. cultural imperialism. In Bentonville, Arkansas, Wal-Mart board members admit to keeping a wary eye on Google—whose capacity to alert shoppers to better bargains elsewhere is seen as a burgeoning threat. Even out in Silicon Valley, reproachful accusations are hurled that the once-beloved leader of the Internet resurgence has taken on a dark Microsoftian cast.
He quotes AAP Pat Schroeder:
“Alan Murray wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal that called Google’s business model a new kind of feudalism: The peasants produce the content; Google makes the profits,” she informs me, then ladles on an extra helping of ominous foreboding. “Do we really want one corporation controlling all the content in the world?”
Then explains how the case turns on interpretation of fair use:
7;s right? Impossible to say. By all accounts, the law of fair use is mind-bendingly complex: “There are parts of it that I don’t understand, and I’ve been studying it for years,” says Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford intellectual-property guru. Like virtually everyone involved in the dispute—he’s a vocal Google backer—Lessig allows that there are precedents that point in each direction. But he also acknowledges that the legal issues are in some respects peripheral, for the battle is actually being fueled by factors at once more venal and more visceral.
And then gets into the real business at hand:
If Google were to stick to its pledges about how it would employ the megadatabase of books that it’s constructing, the book business would likely benefit. But publishers don’t believe that Google can be relied on to keep its word. They fear that the company, which has made a mint off a technology, the Internet, that publishers still only vaguely comprehend, will someday abandon its putative adherence to just-the-snippets fair use and screw the publishers with their pants on.
As usual, a fun and worthwhile read.
Seems since the sale of Weblogs Inc. everyone seems to think that a lot of weblog companies are going to be flipped this year. It's all about the eyeballs and ears checking out or tuning into content. In a nutshell though it's all about the content and in order to have enough content people have to join forces and align themselves with others that create quality content. Does that mean a bunch of people are going to get rich this year. I would imagine some like the folks over at Boing Boing and other similar high traffic sites are going to have a very good year if they decide that they want to flip their companies and cash in. Time will tell [Business2.com]
The European music industry is lobbying the European Parliament, demanding things that the RIAA can only dream about:
The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute illegal downloaders. In an open letter to MEPs, companies including Sony BMG, Disney and EMI have asked to be given access to communications data - records of phone calls, emails and internet surfing - in order to take legal action against pirates and filesharers. Current proposals restrict use of such information to cases of terrorism and organised crime.
Our society definitely needs a serious conversation about the fundamental freedoms we are sacrificing in a misguided attempt to keep us safe from terrorism. It feels both surreal and sickening to have to defend our fundamental freedoms against those who want to stop people from sharing music. How is it possible that we can contemplate so much damage to our society simply to protect the business model of a handful of companies?
More nonsense in the name of defending ourselves from terrorism:
The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world.nd the military have fundamentally different missions. The police protect citizens. The military attacks the enemy. When you start giving police powers to the military, citizens start looking like the enemy.The moves have taken place on several fronts. The White House is considering expanding the power of a little-known Pentagon agency called the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, which was created three years ago. The proposal, made by a presidential commission, would transform CIFA from an office that coordinates Pentagon security efforts -- including protecting military facilities from attack -- to one that also has authority to investigate crimes within the United States such as treason, foreign or terrorist sabotage or even economic espionage.
The Pentagon has pushed legislation on Capitol Hill that would create an intelligence exception to the Privacy Act, allowing the FBI and others to share information gathered about U.S. citizens with the Pentagon, CIA and other intelligence agencies, as long as the data is deemed to be related to foreign intelligence. Backers say the measure is needed to strengthen investigations into terrorism or weapons of mass destruction.
We gain a lot of security because we separate the functions of the police and the military, and we will all be much less safer if we allow those functions to blur. This kind of thing worries me far more than terrorist threats.
WSJ writes:
Ambitious plans to cover two big swaths of California desert with solar dishes could finally help the energy-producing technology make the leap to industrial-scale development.
ystems Inc., of Phoenix, hopes to construct 20,000 solar dishes covering four square miles of the Mohave Desert near Victorville, Calif., each dish pointing skyward to collect the sun's energy and convert it into electricity that would flow 80 miles south to power-hungry Los Angeles. The solar encampment, if eventually built, could produce 500 megawatts of electricity, enough to meet the daytime needs of 300,000 homes, doubling the state's solar capacity. The project cleared a hurdle last month when state regulators approved a 20-year power-purchase agreement between Stirling and Southern California Edison, a unit of Edison International.
A second project, involving Stirling and San Diego Gas & Electric Co., a unit of Sempra Energy, awaits approval. It calls for the purchase of 300 megawatts of solar power from a Stirling project in the Imperial Valley, east of San Diego, with an option to expand to as much as 900 megawatts -- the equivalent of two big gas-fired power plants.
I can't wait till they finally release Firefox 1.5 this week. I've been talking through some of the changes with a developer and it sounds awesome. I think some of the extensions we're likely to see will be in a class of their own.
Talking about the hidden story in this AP Story, Dana says AOL owned MapQuest is going down.
For more than 30 years the 980 people living on the Carteret atolls have battled the Pacific to stop salt water destroying their coconut palms and waves crashing over their houses. They failed.
One week before UN Climate Change conference in Montreal, the Carterets' people became the first to be officially evacuated because of climate change. 10 families at a time will be moved by the authorities to Bougainville, an island 62 miles away. Within two years the six Carterets will be uninhabited and undefended. By 2015 they are likely to be completely submerged.
The Carterets will join many other Pacific islands that are on the point of being swallowed by the sea. According to the Red Cross, the number of people in the Oceania region affected by weather-related disasters has soared by 65 times during the past 30 years. Increased numbers of cyclones, droughts and floods, all predicted by climate change scientists, are making life unviable on many islands. Rising sea levels swamping the islands is the last act of a long, perhaps unstoppable process.
Via The Guardian.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum has begun their podcasting initiative, and it's heralded as the first museum or gallery in the UK to start such a venture. The podcasts feature a slew of curators, conservationists and researchers artfully (no pun intended) telling the story about the artwork in the Victoria and Albert Museum Paintings Gallery. This is all part of the museum's "Every Object Tells A Story" campaign. | Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments |
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One of Harvard's Computer Science classes, "Understanding Computers and the Internet," has seen a massive fanfare from putting class lectures up as podcasts. Since making the lectures available as both audio and video podcasts via iTunes, "Understanding Computers and the Internet" Podcast has made the jump to the top 100 podcasts and the "New-and-Notable" list on iTunes. And damnit, there's bragging rights in that!| Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments |
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John Robb explains some "Lessons from Phishing Networks." What's especially interesting is his comparison of phishing networks and Iraqi insurgents:
The 21st Century criminal economies like the phishing economy... demonstrate the same degree of decentralized self-organization we see in the market for IED (improvised explosive devices) manufacture/deployment in Iraq. Both markets aren't controlled by any single gang, or even a collection of gangs. Instead, they consist a large network of individuals that trade, sell, share, and collaborate to make money and generate desired effects.
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Even though they can't be signatories to the Kyoto Protocols, a growing number of states, counties, or cities have used the Protocol as a model for local initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases. Indeed, according to a recent article in Nature,
Even though the United States does not participate in the Kyoto protocol, about one-quarter of the population lives in states, counties or cities that have adopted climate change policies similar to those of the global initiative.... Including regions classified as 'probable' and 'possible' adopters, which have pledged to reduce emissions, more than one-third of the U.S. population lives in such areas.... Together, these regions contribute up to half of the US gross domestic product, equivalent of 16.9% of global GDP, a slightly larger share than Japan, the world's second largest economy.
[via WorldChanging]
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More and more, when I come upon some interesting article online, one thing I want to know is, "Who's blogged about this?"
In part I'm curious to see what other people have said about it; but the article itself also serves as a tool for finding interesting people-- much in the same way that del.icio.us tagging can help us identify people who share our interests.
Tonight I discovered a search plugin for Firefox that lets you search for URLs in Technorati. Very cool.
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... renewable energy, according to a new study. Solar Power for North Bay Homeless Shelter... & Geothermal Energy (SPG) installed a 22 kW solar system on the roof of Petaluma's Mary Isaak... renewable energy. Interested in solar power? How much you'll pay in city fees to put solar panels ...
Google has been quizzed about rumours that its current quest to digitise books may be about more than simply making literature available online, but the search giant is being non-committal on the subject.ide-steps AI rumours".At a conference on Tuesday, organised by The Economist, Jeff Levick, Google's director of vertical markets, was questioned about comments concerning artificial intelligence made by historian George Dyson following a recent visit to the Googleplex. During his visit Dyson claimed that one Google staff member working on book digitisation told him that some of the material was destined for a non-human audience.
"'We are not scanning all those books to be read by people,' explained one of my hosts after my talk. 'We are scanning them to be read by an AI,'" Dyson wrote in a posting on Edge.org following a visit to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of John von Neumann's proposal for a digital computer.
Previously: George Dyson's Google visit -- "Turing's Cathedral"
EFF has launched a Bloggers' Rights fundraising campaign. Bloggers are asked to put a badge on their sidebars encouraging people to sign up for EFF, and in return bloggers get premiums like tees and hats. More importantly, though, they get the freedom that EFF works to safeguard for all users of the Internet, defending your right to speak freely without fear of censorship, snooping or suppression.
EFF has won fights to require the cops to get a warrant before reading your email, to knock out parts of the PATRIOT Act, to kill frivolous copyright and trademark suits aimed at silencing criticism and innumerable other critical pieces of the struggle to keep the Internet free and open.
Boing Boing's got an EFF fundraiser badge. All the Gawker media, PVRBlog, Searchblog, and lots of other sites are following suit. So are personal blogs like Neil Gaiman's site, John Scalzi's Whatever, Anil Dash, and lots of others too. I hope you'll consider adding the badge to your site and helping us to keep the Internet free. Link
Linux Journal Senior Editor Doc Searls, in a lengthy essay that's more than worth the time it takes to digest: "We're hearing tales of two scenarios -- one pessimistic, one optimistic -- for the future of the Net. If the paranoids are right, the Net's toast. If they're not, it will be because we fought to save it, perhaps in a new way we haven't talked about before. Davids, meet your Goliaths."
Update: Tim Lee, offering a nearly as lengthy rebuttal: "I think the author of the article is wrong. Indeed, with all due respect to the people pushing so-called 'network neutrality' regulations (whose arguments I find persuasive on a lot of other issues), I think it’s rather silly. The Internet is a massive, chaotic, fiercely competitive ecosystem. No one carrier owns more than a tiny fraction of its capacity. No one company controls more than a tiny fraction of its content. In short, no one company is ever going to control the Internet."
Update #2: I haven't read it all the way through yet, but it appears that Jonathan Zittrain's latest paper takes a bird's eye view of the conflict, arguing that in order to salvage what's positive about the Net (its "generativity"), we may have to think through the unthinkable -- an unprecedented, but not fatal, level of technological "lockdown."
TechWeb News reports that Yahoo is working on a tool to make it easier for people to produce and publish podcasts. Joe Hayashi, senior director of product management, told TechWeb that the the challenges podcast publishers face are based on not understanding the technology behind the publishing tools - particularly RSS.
He's absolutely correct. Creating podcasts has to become as easy as blogging for it to take off beyond the geeks. People won't want to invest the time, PR professionals included. This is welcome.
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This story is just getting weirder and weirder (previous posts here and here).
Sony already said that they're stopping production of CDs with the embedded rootkit. Now they're saying that they will pull the infected disks from stores and offer free exchanges to people who inadvertently bought them.
Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Monday it will pull some of its most popular CDs from stores in response to backlash over copy-protection software on the discs.news, but there's more bad news. The patch Sony is distributing to remove the rootkit opens a huge security hole:Sony also said it will offer exchanges for consumers who purchased the discs, which contain hidden files that leave them vulnerable to computer viruses when played on a PC.
The root of the problem is a serious design flaw in Sony’s web-based uninstaller. When you first fill out Sony’s form to request a copy of the uninstaller, the request form downloads and installs a program – an ActiveX control created by the DRM vendor, First4Internet – called CodeSupport. CodeSupport remains on your system after you leave Sony’s site, and it is marked as safe for scripting, so any web page can ask CodeSupport to do things. One thing CodeSupport can be told to do is download and install code from an Internet site. Unfortunately, CodeSupport doesn’t verify that the downloaded code actually came from Sony or First4Internet. This means any web page can make CodeSupport download and install code from any URL without asking the user’s permission.
Even more interesting is that there may be at least half a million infected computers:
Using statistical sampling methods and a secret feature of XCP that notifies Sony when its CDs are placed in a computer, [security researcher Dan] Kaminsky was able to trace evidence of infections in a sample that points to the probable existence of at least one compromised machine in roughly 568,200 networks worldwide. This does not reflect a tally of actual infections, however, and the real number could be much higher.
I say "may be at least" because the data doesn't smell right to me. Look at the list of infected titles, and estimate what percentage of CD buyers will play them on their computers; does that seem like half a million sales to you? It doesn't to me, although I readily admit that I don't know the music business. Their methodology seems sound, though:
Kaminsky discovered that each of these requests leaves a trace that he could follow and track through the internet's domain name system, or DNS. While this couldn't directly give him the number of computers compromised by Sony, it provided him the number and location (both on the net and in the physical world) of networks that contained compromised computers. That is a number guaranteed to be smaller than the total of machines running XCP.Sony's rapid fall from grace is a great example of the power of blogs; it's been fifteen days since Mark Russinovich first posted about the rootkit. In that time the news spread like a firestorm, first through the blogs, then to the tech media, and then into the mainstream media.His research technique is called DNS cache snooping, a method of nondestructively examining patterns of DNS use. Luis Grangeia invented the technique, and Kaminsky became famous in the security community for refining it.
Kaminsky asked more than 3 million DNS servers across the net whether they knew the addresses associated with the Sony rootkit -- connected.sonymusic.com, updates.xcp-aurora.com and license.suncom2.com. He uses a "non-recursive DNS query" that allows him to peek into a server's cache and find out if anyone else has asked that particular machine for those addresses recently.
If the DNS server said yes, it had a cached copy of the address, which means that at least one of its client computers had used it to look up Sony's digital-rights-management site. If the DNS server said no, then Kaminsky knew for sure that no Sony-compromised machines existed behind it.
The results have surprised Kaminsky himself: 568,200 DNS servers knew about the Sony addresses. With no other reason for people to visit them, that points to one or more computers behind those DNS servers that are Sony-compromised. That's one in six DNS servers, across a statistical sampling of a third of the 9 million DNS servers Kaminsky estimates are on the net.
In a great piece at Business Week, it is speculated that increasing competitive strains between Microsoft and Cisco
may result in Redmond attempting a power-grab at the enterprise VoIP market, which is currently dominated by Cisco
phones, softswitches, and network switches.
Now I don’t have it on good authority that Microsoft has any real ability to vend realtime communications services,
including VoIP solutions. My chief reason for saying this is that Microsoft does not have a platform that gives
them a competitive advantage. The Windows platform may be good for a number of things, but realtime applications isn’t
one of them. Singularity, on the other hand—somebody
with a realtime computing background, tell me if this has any promise for IP telephony?
But I’ve also heard it said that Microsoft would love to develop a “Telephony Services” edition of Windows, aimed at
gearmakers like Avaya and NEC. (I can’t help but giggle at the potential name of such a product: “Microsoft Phone
System 1.0” or “pb-X-box” etc.) That is consistent with Nortel’s change in strategy, moving to a more
software-dominated mindset. But, knowing what I know about the telecom industry, I doubt Microsoft is going to
have an easy time convincing big hardware players like Avaya to scrap ten years of hardcore, highly-refined IP
telephony investments just to slap a label on their PBX that says, “Designed for Windows Telephony”. Yeah,
right.
That said, I do believe Microsoft is cooking up yet another services framework, this time for media applications like
telephony—and I suspect it will be bundled with related frameworks that work a lot better together than they do apart,
a la BackOffice or Small Business Server or IIS with Sharepoint. Not “Microsoft Phone System” per se, but
maybe a plug-in architecture for Live Communications Server, or perhaps, yes, even a very-much overhauled realtime
media oriented version of Windows.
Getting back to the Cisco vs. Microsoft angle, here’s a quote from the BW piece:
VoIP CONNECTION. “In spite of a lot of analyst commentary, I’ve seen more meat to our collaboration in the last few years,” says Scheinman. “Microsoft is dealing with the impact of the Internet revolution. Our hope and our goal is to work with them, to create opportunity for both of us.”
Wishful thinking? Many observers believe so. Take the burgeoning VoIP market, which is revolutionizing the way businesses and consumers communicate. Cisco is a market leader in selling entire systems — right down to VoIP handsets — to corporations.
Its Linksys division is the leading provider of routers that create wireless home networks and adapters that let conventional phones make calls via the Net. That makes Cisco a leading supplier of gear that works with services offered by Vonage and others, which allow users to talk to one another via broadband lines — a territory largely outside of Microsoft’s traditional competency of desktops and servers.
WINDOWS CALLING. The market for VoIP phones and equipment is expected to rise to $1 billion in 2009, from $194 million this year, according to WinterGreen Research. Microsoft aims for as big a slice as possible. Microsoft bought one VoIP company, Teleo, in August, and another, media-streams.com, in November. “There’s not a market that’s safe from Microsoft,” says Jeff Pulver, one of the leading authorities in VoIP.
In October, Redmond released a Beta version of its Communicator for souped-up cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Due for release in 2006, the Communicator Mobile will allow users to make VoIP calls over their wireless handsets. And Microsoft plans to embed “call-manager” software directly into it next version of Windows, dubbed Vista, in late 2006. “That could make the Windows PC into the best telephone in the world,” capable of both displaying your contacts and allowing you to easily reach them all at once, says Frank Dzubeck, president of Communications Network Architects.
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r>| I started writing it after a recent surprise visit by David Isenberg to Santa Barbara. He's the one who got me — and, I hope, us — going. |
| I finished writing it yesterday after David Berlind published three excellent pieces, which I highly recommend reading, and acting upon. |
| For guidance during the rest of this thing (whether they knew it or not), I also want to thank David Weinberger, Dave Winer, Steve Gillmor, Kevin Werbach, Cory Doctorow, Don Marti, Richard M. Stallman, Eric S. Raymond, Susan Crawford, Larry Lessig, John Palfrey, Chris Nolan, Jeff Jarvis, Craig Burton, Andrew Sullivan, Paul Kunz, Dean Landsman, Matt Welch, Sheila Lennon, George Lakoff, Om Malik, Phil Hughes, J.D. Lasica, Virginia Postrel, Jerry Michalski, Chris Anderson, Esther Dyson, Jim Thompson, Micah Sifry, John Perry Barlow, The EFF, the Berkman Center, the Personal Democracy Forum and others I'm overlooking but will fill in later when I have the time. |
| Here they are: Bob Frankston, David Reed and Dan Bricklin, Phil Windley, Dave Farber, Elliott Noss, Vint Cerf, Joi Ito, Lauren Weinstein, Bret Faucett, John Clippinger, Kevin Barron... |
| Although it's kinda huge, Saving the Net wasn't written as a Finished Work, but rather as a conversation starter — a way to change a rock we're pushing uphill to a snowball we're rolling downhill. |
| Larry Lessig started rolling it at OSCON in 2002, and in various other ways before that, and the whole thing has been too damn sisyphean for too damn long. Time to change that. |
| There's a thesis involved: that the Net is in danger of becoming what Kevin Werbach calls "a private toiled garden |
