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Understanding the Net
Doc Searls must have spent some of his convalescence deep in thought. His recent essay Saving the Net III: Understanding its Frames is a great piece on how we understand and don't understand the Net. This is a long... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 9, 2008 9:47 AM
Lacy's Woven World Moment
Reading Scoble's Audience of Twittering Assholes on the Sarah Lacy botch of the Zuckerman interview adds a data point--and an interesting one--to something I talked about a few weeks ago in a post entitled Organizing Ourselves. The point of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 11, 2008 11:27 AM
Larry Lessig on Changing Congress
Larry Lessig on Changing Congress(click to enlarge) Lessig's keynotes are hard to blog, but the message isn't. Lessig's basic message is that government makes poor policy--even when the choice ought to be easy. The problem isn't overt bribery. In... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 5, 2008 8:49 PM
Optical Illusion: Qwest's Concern for Consumers
I was quoted in a City Weekly article on what Salt Lake City mayoral candidates think about municipal broadband in general and Utopia in particular. It wasn't my quote, however, that caught my eye, but one from Jerry Fenn.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 13, 2007 10:10 PM
Saying Yes to Paper Ballots
An editorial in last Thursday's Deseret News got a little hot under the collar over the current debate over what to do with electronic voting. It said, in part: The concern is understandable, of course. New inventions make nervous... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 29, 2007 9:07 AM
Can You Regulate VoIP?
House Bill 119 (First Substitute) would tax VoIP service for E911 service: 3 (a) Except as provided in Subsection (3)(b) and subject to the other provisions of this Subsection (3) a county, city, or town within which 911 emergency... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 30, 2007 3:24 PM
Trading Performance for Better Design
Phil Windley and Rick Adam at the Business Ignitor talk. It's a timeworn tale in the world of computers: a new technological advance relaxes some design constraints and some of the increased headroom is used by the designers to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 14, 2005 8:29 AM
GovTracker: Getting Rhode Island Data
If you live in Rhode Island and want information on Board/Commission Memberships, Corporations, Elections, Lobbyist Registration, Rules and Regulations, or State Directories, you're in luck. The Rhode Island Secretary of State's office has just released GovTracker, a tool for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 6, 2005 9:55 AM
Qwest Files Suit to Block UTOPIA
Unable to get the Utah Legislature to kill municipal broadband in Utah and rebuffed time and again at City Council meetings, Qwest has now taken the battle to the courts. Qwest filed suit Monday alleging that UTOPIA is unfairly... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 2, 2005 9:18 AM
VoIP Gets a Helping Hand from the FCC
The FCC ruled against state regulation of the fledgling VoIP (voice over IP) market today. The specific ruling was against the State of Minnesota regulating Vonage, but the result will likely forestall regulation by other states as well. This... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 9, 2004 1:34 PM
Regulating RFID: Not Yet!
Declan McCullagh has a nice review of efforts around the country to regulate RFID. Like most places where technology and public policy meet, there's plenty of chances for politicos to act in uninformed haste. Utah had an bill sponsored... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 30, 2004 7:45 AM
Do You Want to Be Responsible for the Code You Write?
Kelly Marshall pointed out this article in eWeek to me and asked what my take was. In the article Richard Clarke (former White House Security czar) is quoted saying that developers should be held responsible for the poor state... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 20, 2004 4:24 PM
DDTI: Advocacy as Application
Jon Lebkowsky leads the Advocacy as Application panel Jon Lebkowsky is moderating a panel on Advocacy as an Application. The other panelists are Bill Greene, from RightMarch.com, Adina Levin, from EFF-Austin, Jonah Seiger, from the Institute for Politics, Democracy,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 9, 2004 6:13 PM
VoIP Growing Pains
I'm a big proponent of VoIP, partly because I've always liked the idea of getting rid of the additional burden inside the enterprise of maintaining the traditional phone network. I also have to admit that I like the idea... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 29, 2003 9:46 AM
Last Mile Broadband Deployment Creates Jobs
A new study by Citizens for a Sound Economy says that widespread broadband deployment will create jobs and benefit state economies. The introduction of broadband holds great economic promise, not just for the companies providing broadband services, but for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 22, 2003 9:38 AM
FCC Hearings on VoIP
The FCC is holding hearings on how much it should regulate VoIP telephony providers. This came to a head when a federal court declared that the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission had no jurisdiction to regulate a VoIP carrier, largely... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 4, 2003 11:04 AM
Dan Farber on DIDW and PingID
Dan Farber was at Digital ID World and has written up a great article for ZDNet's TechUpdate. I didn't get to meet Dan at DIDW, I wish I had. Dan highlights three things from DIDW: Tony Scott's keynote, the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 23, 2003 8:08 AM
Details on the Vonage Ruling
The judge who vacated the Minnesota Public Services Commission regulations concerning Vonage earlier in the week issued more detailed comments and rationale today. In a Washington Post article the judge is quoted: State regulation would effectively decimate Congress's mandate... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 16, 2003 6:02 PM
Public Records are No Longer Effectively Private
There are a lot of government records that are public: court proceedings, arrest records and property recordings are examples. Public records are one of the cornerstones of democracy. Democracies prefer accountability to enforcement. Rather than trying to enforce every... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 13, 2003 10:26 AM
Local Government and Telecommunications Services
The Supreme Court is going to hear arguments on whether States can bar local municiplaities from entering into the telecommunications business. The question is before the court because the 1996 Telecommunication Act provides that no State regulation may prohibit... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 9, 2003 10:57 PM
Federal Court Issues Injunction Against MPUC on VoIP
A few weeks ago, I noted that Wisconsin had moves to regulate VoIP provider 8x8. The Minnesota PUC had made a similar move against Vonage. Today a federal court issued a permanent injunction against a recent ruling by the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 8, 2003 3:19 PM
The Cost of Principle
A few security luminaries, including Bruce Schneier and Dan Geer, issued a report to Computer and Communications Industry Association that called the ubiquity of Microsoft software a hazard to the economy and to national security. The report states: Because... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 26, 2003 9:09 AM
You Can't Handle the Truth!
In "A Few Good Men," Keffe screams "I want the truth!" and Jessep fires back \"You can't handle the truth!\". A front page article in today's Salt Lake Tribune, is headlined "Some question value of state worker blogs," but... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 30, 2003 8:57 AM
Venture Capital Conference
The web services summit doesn't begin until this afternoon. This morning's event is a venture capital conference hosted by Cadence and the State of Utah. The idea is to showcase Utah companies in front of some valley VCs. Cadence... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 25, 2003 9:53 AM
eGovernment in Rhode Island
Jim Willis, the Director of eGovernment for the Secretary of State in Rhode Island, is talking about the use of open source in the Rhode Island's eGovernment projects. The eGovernment project is in the Secretary of State's office and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 17, 2003 2:19 PM
Federal Enterprise Architecture
I'm at Susan Turnbull's Universal Collaboration workshop. Interestingly enough, the NSF has been kind enough to provide a wireless network, so I'm connected. Right now, Bob Haycock of the federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office is speaking right at... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 14, 2003 9:54 AM
Part II of the Digital State Survey
Utah received a #3 ranking in the Electronic Commerce & Business Regulation category of the Center for Digital Government's annual Digital State Survey. This is up from a #8 ranking last year in the same category. The departments of Tax... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 2, 2002 5:47 PM