http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-27T16:05:49-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/27/the_legend_of_dennis_hayes.php Those of you under 30 may never have heard of Dennis Hayes. But once he was somebody. I knew him. His was one of the first tech stories I wrote in Atlanta, back in 1982. Dennis Hayes made modems. His... 49433@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ History 2006-02-27T16:05:49-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/23/no_such_thing_as_free_wifi.php Earthlink is busy turning all those dreams of free municipal WiFi into broken promises. Both the municipal deal they signed in Philly and the one they’ve joined in San Francisco (with Google) carry user price tags. In Philly they say... 49179@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ 802.11 2006-02-23T15:23:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/22/the_internet_as_a_political_issue.php Generally, political issues involving the Internet are handled by elites. Voters don't understand things like the "Brand X" decision, or the ICANN mess. All they care about is that the resource is there when they want it, at some price... 49117@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-02-22T16:02:36-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/15/show_trial.php During Mao's Cultural Revolution, show trials were used to cover-up the evils of the regime. Innocent parties were brought in, tried without justice, then either killed or sent to "re-education" camps. The U.S. House held its own version of such... 48648@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-15T12:30:34-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/a_world_of_rationed_liberty.php If you want to launch a lynch mob against the "Chinese Communists," I'll probably be there with a pitchfork. I'm an American who believes in ordered liberty, after all. Of course, when Congress tried to get the leaders of the... 47776@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-02T14:16:12-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/01/st_google_and_the_dragons.php Change is the one business constant. Those who embrace it succeed, those who resist it fail. But change also dislocates. Workers threatened by change organize unions and seek protection from government. The Luddite movement was a call by workers to... 47713@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2006-02-01T20:33:14-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/30/the_internet_necessity.php A few years ago some wags talked about people having a "right" to Internet service, and they got laughed at. Let's try it another way. America's economic future requires every citizen have access to Internet resources, and full freedom to... 47524@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-30T21:11:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/24/a_curious_theory_of_conservatism.php In his latest diatribe against a la carte cable pricing Capitalist Tool Adam Thierer of the "Progress and Freedom Foundation" claims that arguments by his opponents in this debate represent "a curious theory of conservatism." I couldn't let that go... 46992@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Economics 2006-01-24T14:29:44-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/21/railroaded.php NOTE: The following entry is being mirrored at the new Infrastructure Held Hostage blog. We live in an uneasy relationship with the past.Photograph courtesy RPI.) The whole past is available to us, there to teach us lessons, to give us... 46892@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2006-01-21T12:51:43-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/18/the_video_fiction.php Video is NOT the future of the Web. (This picture, by the way, comes from a fine student project at the University of North Carolina on Webcasting rights. Go Tar Heels.) It’s part of the future, no doubt. It’s even... 46644@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-18T15:11:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/09/the_watermarking_of_the_web.php The news business is going to try cracking down on the Web this year. Already, I'm seeing all news pictures, even common mug shots of celebrities, given labels. They're small, usually in a corner. They read AP or AFP or... 45768@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-09T16:02:55-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/09/congress_passes_blatantly_unconstitutional_law_against_internet_speech.php If Congress thought Netizens were angry before, now we're furious. Declan McCullagh revealed today that buried inside some must-pass legislation from last year is a provision from Sen. Arlen Spector, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that bans all anonymous... 45801@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-09T14:33:43-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/28/om_mane_padme_wrong.php I always wanted to write that headline, and finally got the chance today. Om in this case is Om Malik, whose broadband blog has become one of my regular stops in daily newsgathering. Om's view? Speed doesn't matter. Who cares... 44980@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-28T09:58:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/27/memo_to_soros.php George Soros (left) has emerged as one of the primary boogeymen of the Right Wing. Not only do the Warbloggers invoke his name in order to justify their continuing to wear Vast Leftwing Conspiracy tinfoil hats, but so do corporate... 44928@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2005-12-27T11:18:49-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/22/the_social_generation.php A posting from Bernie Goldbach in Ireland helped remind me of just how much progress we've seen in the last decade. The best way to see it is through the eyes of people who are growing up. I've got two... 44696@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-22T13:17:18-05:00