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Carrie Underwood

So, maybe she can really sing.  I admittedly, am a music snob and intentionally love music that everyone else hates in order to prove my superiority.  But...

First, I have an unproven theory that the real push behind the telcos non-netneutrality (another example of why we need a better word) is primarily about a desire to control the full cycle of information dissemination from invention to sale.  In order to do this, they can't be just the pipes through which the information runs.  They must also own the process of creation as well as the information itself.   

Network Coding and NetNeutrality

So, I really wish that I could write a super intelligent post on this topic but since I con only just barely understand what Network Coding is I can only have some very loosely joined opinions about it's implications.  Here goes.  There is a great article from the Scientific American that got me thinking about this. 

clipped from www.sciam.com Breaking Network Logjams An approach called network coding could dramatically enhance the efficiency and reliability of communications networks. At its core is the strange notion that transmitting evidence about messages can be more useful than conveying the messages themselves By MICHELLE EFFROS, RALF KOETTER and MURIEL MÉDARD

Comcast Flexing its "Information Services" Muscle

The basic argument against NetNeutrality is that 1) telecommunication company's need to have the flexibility to innovate in response to a rapidly changing industry which correlates to; regulation = bad. 2) Companies won't invidiously block or filter content because it is bad for business.

I have blogged on this in the past a bit.

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com

Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic

By PETER SVENSSON

The Associated Press Friday, October 19, 2007; 6:32 PM

 

NEW YORK -- Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.

TechNet Innovation Summit

Just sat sat through a taping of the Charlie Rose Show at Zellerbach Hall and sponsorred by TechNet and billed as an Innovation Summit. Participating were John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems; John Chen, Chairman, President and CEO, Sybase; and Laura Tyson, Professor Haas Business and Public Policy Group, UC Berkeley.  I was stunned by the broad agreement on two things: 1) K12 education is broken and it must be fixed, 2) social networking, web2 tools represent the next wave of innovation that will increase productivity in the neighborhood of 5%.