The more I read about MySpace, its success in getting users, and its problems, the more one word keeps coming to mind. Pointcast. I know you’ve got to be pretty old in Internet years to remember the PointCast fiasco. It was an early "push" system. You would sign up for news stories and get them […]
The real political divide in America is between the ascendent open source view on the one side and the proprietary view on the other. Right now, the proprietary view holds absolute power. This is partly because open source is not organized. In fact, many with an open source view see what they’re doing as merely […]
Just as Republicans split 40 years ago, between those who would accomodate the Democratic majority and those who rejected it, so Democrats are now splitting in a similar way. On the one side we have accomodationists, or "Clintonistas." On the other we have the Netroots, who identify first with DNC chair Howard Dean but have […]
Lately the Web has been filled with stories of conflict. The Attorney General wants to ban pornography from the Web, not just child pornography but even depictions of adults doing their biological part. The government’s new abstinence education programs extend even to adults. Anyone who is unmarried (and only male-female unions are recognized) may have […]
When the political pack is shuffled, the phone companies and cable companies are going to find they have won nothing but emnity from the coming votes. They will have seen millions of customers educated on the issues, and they will likely have Democratic majorities ready, willing, and able to jump down their throats.
The surprise is that the debate exists at all. By its nature, net neutrality is not a high-profile issue. It is assumed that net neutrality will be an issue dealt with by elites, by what Bob Frankston calls the regulatorium. But the Democratic Netroots are being activated on this issue. Here, for instance, is an […]
Most of us don't have such an incentive, so we do what we like. We either base everything on our prejudices, or we lack experience in differentiating good from bad, of we think Desperate Housewives is Great TV.
Remember, Nixon is in the opposition party. He was a leader of the Anti-Thesis to the FDR thesis. So the New Nixon is a Democrat who was a leader of the Anti-Thesis to Ronald Reagan.
By combining software with XML tags on data (Java + XML = AJAX), you greatly minimize the traffic load, you do more of the analysis at-home, and you give the people monitoring back at base a much better view of the resulting data, without taking up a lot of bandwidth.
Lies, damned lies and statistics. And the worst of these is statistics.
