http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-07-13T11:46:55-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/13/drew_clarks_spectrum_wars_now_online.php The National Journal has an excellent indepth overview of the current state of DTV spectrum and how we got here from February 2005 by Drew Clark (Spectrum Wars). Must reading. via Freedom to Tinker Dashlog... 6327@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-13T11:46:55-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/06/stifling_innovation_not_working_out_well_for_cellular_providers.php Business Week's Blogspotting has some interesting evidence of the failure of the closed network model for cellular service (Mobile Internet: a Story of Stagnation).What can we gather from this? The mobile industry, which has been breathlessly awaiting revenue growth from... 6302@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-06T14:36:34-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/03/more_crawfords_notes_on_the_history_of_telephony.php Prof. Susan Crawford continues her excellent notes on the history of telephony with another couple of great posts (History of Telephony and When Old Technologies Were New).For an entire generation after the telephone was introduced, the Bell system managers resisted... 6274@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-03T08:56:41-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/27/court_overturns_ninth_cir_upholds_fcc_ruling_in_brand_x_case.php via SCOTUS Blog:In a 6-3 ruling, the Court decided that cable operators offering high-speed Internet access have no legal duty to open their service to customers of all Internet service providers. In the cable case, the Court upheld the decision... 6228@http://importance.corante.com/ Telecomm 2005-06-27T07:36:46-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/27/where_ill_be_reading_about_grokster_and_brand_x.php Where I'll be reading about the decision:How Appealing is certain to have many links to coverageSCOTUS Blog is hosting a discussion: SCOTUS Blog: Discussion Archives: GroksterPicker MobBlogWilliam Patry Copyright BlogCopyfightFreedom to TinkerThe Wall Street Journal's Grokster Roundtable (free to the... 6227@http://importance.corante.com/ Copyright 2005-06-27T07:25:50-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/24/crawfords_notes_on_the_history_of_telephony.php Prof. Susan Crawford is doing something that I've always wanted to do: delve deep into the history of telephony. Good stuff ... hope she uses her blog to keep her notes (Telephony and We're Keeping Guard Over Your Loved Ones).In... 6212@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-24T23:47:16-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/24/eejd_roundup_on_community_broadband_act_of_2005.php The EEJD Blog does a great job rounding up various news and commentary links on the municipal wi-fi friendly Community Broadband Act of 2005 [the bill is not yet in Thomas] (Community Broadband Act of 2005 Introduced by Lautenberg, McCain).... 6209@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-24T23:11:52-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/24/grokster_brand_x_issues_of_openness_its_all_about_the_distribution_baby.php Prof. Michael Madison points to the debate over Brand X that is starting on Picker MobBlog (MobBlawg LiftOff). [Btw, Picker calls his site MobBlog. I like Madison's MobBlawg better.] Michael agrees with one of the MobBlawggers that Brand X may... 6199@http://importance.corante.com/ Network Law 2005-06-24T12:32:23-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/23/closed_satellite_networks.php Democracy in Media harshes on satellite for being inherently a closed network (Why Satellite Isn’t Compatible With an Open Network World). Read the whole thing. There is certainly some truth in the claim (i.e., two-way communication is a bitch). And... 6191@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-23T20:58:03-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/22/listening_to_radio_on_your_cellphone.php BusinessWeek has an an interesting article about radio for your cellphone (Dial R for Radio on Your Cell).Chances are radio services will be a hit with the 2 billion wireless subscribers worldwide. "Mobile phones are always with you," explains Nancy... 6160@http://importance.corante.com/ Telecomm 2005-06-22T05:59:04-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/21/thierer_on_big_media.php On Monday, Adam D. Thierer, Senior Fellow and the Director of PFF's Center for Digital Media Freedom (CDMF), wrote an essay on media ownership for Tech Central Station (What Ever Happened to the Big Media Boogeyman?). The article bashes those... 6159@http://importance.corante.com/ Telecomm 2005-06-21T23:44:54-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/21/point_and_snap_advertising.php WIRED reports on an interesting technology that is being rolled out for porn, but I think has some potentially interesting marketing possibilities (Porn Stores Turn Into Clip Joints).Vivid Entertainment, one of the leading suppliers of adult entertainment, has licensed a... 6155@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-21T22:25:21-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/21/die_cellphone_die_die_die.php Paul Resnikoff of Digital Music News muses about the future of the iPod in a world where cellular phones have increasing music carrying capabilities (Resnikoff's Parting Shot: The Future of the iPod). He doesn't think the iPod has much to... 6140@http://importance.corante.com/ Tools 2005-06-21T08:51:11-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/20/what_should_the_purpose_of_public_broadcasting_be.php Jeff Jarvis discusses the ongoing controversy over severe cuts in the federal budget for public broadcasting and offers his own solutions (Saving Public Broadcasting). I'm not so sure many of them would work, but I do agree that we need... 6111@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-20T09:27:47-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/20/no_decision_in_grokster_brand_x_today.php So, there I was, sitting in hot standby to blog the heck out of decisions in Grokster and/or the Brand X case, but the Supreme Court has held those decisions once again. From SCOTUS Blog (Court Decides Six "Second Tier"... 6109@http://importance.corante.com/ Copyright 2005-06-20T07:31:43-08:00