What we need is a new political myth, which infuses us with new political values, that can take political power and unleash this creativity. That's what open source politics is about. Be open to innovation from wherever it comes. Let the market decide what shall rise, unforced and uncontrolled. Share and you will grow. To gain, first give.
Regardless of how the Senate vote turns out (and I suspect cloture will be hard for the Bells to achieve there without a net neutrality provision) Washington is changing. And, as we noted yesterday, the Bells' technology hand is very, very poor.
Assuming cable chooses to let loose the bits, breaking the TV barrier on the speed it makes available to customers, it will gain market share, and the Bells will lose even-more subscribers. After all, why keep a phone line when cable can do everything the phone can? The Bells are already losing share to wireless. Now you have a second drain.
If China's leaders ever learn the basic lesson of dealing with the Internet -- first listen -- then watch out.
One forgotten Goldwater fact is no one of consequence wanted to be his running mate. He finally had to enlist party chair William Miller of New York, who was so much of a nobody that he ended his career doing the first AmEx "Do you know who I am" ad.
Hard to see Coulter as the uber-hippie? Shouldn't be. Little Ben Domenechs are getting off on Coulter's sound just like their stoned uncles got off on Slick.
A Thesis explains a Crisis, an Anti-Thesis rises to challenge this and fails, then an Excess leads to a new Crisis for the next generation.
Cole is better off. Any University that lets money or political influence trump its academics is, by definition, not an elite university. Elihu Yale has become Bob Jones.
Kevin Martin complies with their requests because (for now) they have the money. And thus the U.S. Internet becomes more-and-more like that of Mexico every year.
In the end it doesn't matter that much where work is done. So long as it's done. And so long as you can defend it, explain it, and implement it.
