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IODA + Harry Fox

IODA and Harry Fox just announced a deal they closed yesterday. Under the deal, this service allows you to get a song on your blog and/or in a podcast cleared a…

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Powell's Internet Freedoms (gnomdex)

Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) is here to talk about Net Neutrality debate. He closed his speech by highlighting Powell's Internet Freedoms: 1- Freedom to acce…

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john edwards @ gnomdex

The discussion opened with Edwards providing a few opening comments, and then he took nearly 45 minutes of questions and dialog from the group. Some thoughts/co…

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RSS Days

So, it's the start of Gnomdex, and the introduction includes an official Washington State proclamation that June 30-July 1 are "RSS Days" in this…

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Seattle trip begins

So I'm up in Seattle for a few days to attend Gnomdex later this week and to spend some time with my family and our newest member, Marcus Paul Vogele, who I…

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Cryptography as physical law

"Rules" and "physical laws" are two powerful, immediate, external influences on our behavior. At its heart, a rule is little more than a su…

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@ supernova

I'm at SuperNova2006 today. The morning started off with a talk about Net Neutrality by Michael Copps of the FCC. The talk left me pleased that someone is u…

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Net neutrality - pay attention!

I was a bit disturbed this morning as I drove down the penninsula to the Podcasting Summit in Redwood City. What disturbed me was Scott Cleland's "argu…

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Quality time with Denise

Spent some great quality time with Denise Howell this week. On Monday we recorded a podcast for her IT Conversations series, Sound Policy, and today we appeared…