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/2006/02/25/welcome_to_1966.php Another of those political-historical things. Move along, oh lovers of tech stuff. (That's the 1966 Buick Chevy Impala to the left.) It disturbs me when people ignore history, even the history they themselves have seen. Like Brit Hume today saying... 49310@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ History 2006-02-25T13:39:43-05:00 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/2006/02/14/yahoo_gets_lost_in_translation_baddaboom_baddabing.php Yahoo tried to draw some favorable press coverage today. (That's actress Charlize Theron, but she's very small, hard to recognize. That's deliberate, as you'll see.) In the wake of a scandal over the fact its Chinese affiliate cooperated with... 48566@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2006-02-14T14:37:40-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/10/the_return_of_political_spam.php Spam is back in politics. But this time, the industry insists, it's different. This time it's e-mail marketing. Leading the charge is an outfit called Advocacy Inc., headed by Roger Alan Stone (he uses Alan so you won't confuse him... 48302@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-02-10T11:36:02-05:00 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/2006/02/02/corruption_on_the_web.php Verisign CEO Stratton Sclavos is a big investor in incumbency. And he gets value for money. OpenSecrets.Org reports that he gave $84,000 in political contributions during the 2004 cycle, and has (with his wife) given another $24,700 in 2005. The... 47774@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Models 2006-02-02T13:31:42-05:00 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/2006/01/31/hipaa_worse_than_the_disease.php Info-Tech has a release out that says they analyzed the HIPAA law and found it useless. (The image is from the blog of David Hoffman.) HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It was signed by President Clinton... 47584@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ medicine 2006-01-31T11:58:35-05:00 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/2006/01/30/the_law_and_google.php Google has to obey the law. Doesn’t matter if the law is oppressive, as in China. If Google wants to do business in China, it must obey the law. Google can fight stupid laws, as in the EU Google can... 47470@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ law 2006-01-30T11:52:28-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/25/porn_fight_kills_the_email_guy.php Everyone hates spam. But there has been no political constituency potent enough to fight the well-organized Direct Marketing Association, which has successfully defended spammers from meaningful regulation for a decade. Now Matthew Prince, a young Chicago lawyer, thinks he has... 47076@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-01-25T08:27:48-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/24/alternative_energy_no_longer_an_option.php John Robb of Global Guerillas has posted a blog entry that should curl your hair. (The picture is from Drexel University.) The control over the price of oil is in now in the hands of global guerrillas -- the open... 46996@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ energy 2006-01-24T17:00:28-05:00