When I look at issues like Net Neutrality, a largely fabricated issue, I can’t help but observe (again) the serious disconnect between the two groups I’ll refer to as the Bellheads and the Netheads. The Bellheads are winning by the way. Sure the Netheads creat cool startups and think they’re making lots of money, but their revenues are generally peanuts to the Bellheads.
Need an example? Think about IM in the context of what it reall is…delivering text messages. How much revenue do you think the Netheads make from IM? Combine AIM, MSN and Yahoo all together. How much revenue do you think the wireless carriers make from text messagin? Who wins the revenue war?
That isn’t the only place the Bellheads win. Look to political process. I’ve often wondered about our own ranks. Jeff Pulver. David Isenberg. Tom Evslin. Several others. Leading voices fighting the battle from without rather than stepping into the political fray of politics to redirect the system from within. If we’re going to win some measure of control away from the Bellheads, there is only one way. The political power base needs to shift. Netheads have to become the influencers of policy, something we are clearly not today.
One way to do this is for many of use to run for office. To shift from the things we love to the things we want changed. Most of us are loathe to do so. I know I have no interest in political office. My passion for change isn’t so great that I care to make that change.
I personally have taken a different path. The grow your own Senator approach. My oldest son has intense political interests. He’s also in a different generation than I. The next generation of influencers. The next generation of leaders. The next generation of Senators. He doesn’t often talk of his personal politcal aspirations, but down inside, I know they exist. I do what I can to encourage that personal growth and pursuit of passion. And I try to help him bridge the gap to my generation by promoting new technologies and using technology from with the political process. For change. For new campaigns. For new public services. For good.
Today this appeared in the Daily Kos. Note this is a reference to my son, not to me -
Ken Camp’s The Revolution Has Begun looks at the use of newer technology - text messaging podcasts, etc. - in various campaigns.
I’d encourage the rest of you in my generation to chase your options. You can invest of yourself in making change, or you can foster change in the next generation of politics. Either will bring change. You can also blog about it, talk about it, post about it and whine about it. That will feel good perhaps, but it won’t bring change. Be an agent of change rather than a strident voice raging against the machine to no productive end.
This public service announcement brought to you by one too many cups of coffee after dinner.
Amended 15 minutes after I posted to add this link http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/25/233213/844
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Intel vende desde hace un tiempo un chipset para “WiMAX Fijo” llamado Rosedale, para el uso en módems residenciales. En la próxima conferencia del “Wireless Communications Association International” en Washington presentará el Rosedale 2, que tiene la capacidad de trabajar en ambos modos, fijo y movil, stándares IEEE 802.16d y 802.16e.
El siguiente paso es hacer un chip dual en cuanto a tecnologías, WiFi y WiMAX, llamado Ofer-R, el cuál estará listo antes de fin de año. Todo esto pues la movilidad será dominante al éxito de WiMax, en la opinión de Intel y la de todos los especialistas.
Intel ya ha cerrado acuerdos de cooperación con los principales vendors de WiMAX, entre ellos, Alvarion Ltd., Aperto Networks Inc., Proxim Wireless Corp., Navini Networks Inc y Alcatel SA, a los que les ha enviado estos chips para pruebas en equipos.
Intel tiene la idea de incorporar éste nuevo chip en todo tipo de procesadores, desde los que tienen los videojuegos hasta las cámaras fotográficas digitales, incluyendo reproductores de mp3, celulares, etc, cosa de que todos los dispositivos lo tengan ya preinstalado, y que si los “clientes” están allí, vendrán los operadores a implementar la tecnología.
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RELM Wireless Corporation, a company known for its two way communications equipment just unveiled a high end APCO Project 25 digital portable radio for field command and coordination tasks, the BK Radio DPH-CMD. This new Digital Portable Radio promises to...
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Microsoft ha confirmado que lanzará un reproductor MP3 dentro de su
nueva apuesta musical, Zune, que incluirá 'software' y
'hardware' para intentar competir con iPod de Apple. La
comercialización de este dispositivo podría llegar a finales de
año.
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Un grupo de científicos informó el viernes de lo que aseguran es la
primera evidencia científica de que la gente gesticula
inconscientemente con su voz. Este es un aspecto del lenguaje
que nunca ha sido explorado y podría permitir entender la
forma en que piensa la gente, dijo Howard Nusbaum, presidente del
Departamento de Psicología en la Universidad de Chicago.
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Si una voz en su contestador le avisa de que el banco ha congelado
su cuenta y debe llamar a un teléfono gratuito, no llame. Si recibe
un mensaje electrónico que le pide lo mismo, no lo crea. Si le
envían un SMS de bienvenida a un servicio que no ha contratado,
bórrelo y olvídese. Son las nuevas tácticas del fraude más
extendido en Internet, el phishing, que ha saltado del
correo electrónico a los teléfonos móviles y la voz sobre IP.
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The new Sony MEX-BT5000 car stereo marks the company's foray into an uncharted territory. This car stereo is the first Sony audio-streaming AM/FM CD receiver with wireless Bluetooth® technology. Which simply means that users can connect their mobile phones and...
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