Look who came riding in behind the Bad Boys of Writing. It’s the Bad Boys of Business. They’re just as seductive as their counterparts, and like their writing friends, they do damage. Get these con guys in your head and they can blow your productivity.
Meet their point man, Bad Boy 1: That’s Not Real Work. You’re wasting time.
I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.
Jon Stewart Lampoons Sen. Stevensââ¬â¢ Net Nonsense
Jon Stewart teed off on Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevensââ¬â¢ instantly infamous speech about Net Neutrality, in which the 85-year-old in charge of regulating Internet commerce betrayed a stunning ignorance of Net fundamentals.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Our own Seb Prooth has a great interview at his blog with Dennis Madalone. Dennis gave up his career as stunt man and one of Hollywood’s best known stunt coordinators, walking away from television credits with Star Trek and Without a Trace, to become the known as “the artist with most downloaded music video on the Internet.” I’ll let Seb tell you the rest. Click the title to get there.
He’s even got the YouTube video.
Good going Seb!
–ME “Liz” Strauss
I’m adding these links to the Net Neutrality Page.
Skype and WildBlue ââ¬â A Case for Citizen (Network) Journalists
The sudden failure of Skype over WildBlue on May 15 and the recent sudden recovery may be a good case for citizen journalists. It MIGHT have implications for the Net Neutrality debate.
Users on the WildBlue Uncensored! Forum report that, starting two weeks ago, they regained the ability to connect to Skype and complete calls. Some of them also report usable call quality. As I posted previously, users say they had generally acceptable VoIP and Skype performance over WildBlue prior to May 15. I wasnââ¬â¢t using WB then so have no firsthand knowledge.
Why did Skype suddenly stop working over WB? Why did it suddenly start again? Did WB block or deprioritize Skype or VoIP packets? Or did a Skype update loose the ability to deal with the extreme latency (delay) expected when a satellite is used? . . .
Feltecomplexities of Network Neutrality n’s paper on the
Ed Felten — the Princeton engineering prof who led the effort to crack the Secure Digital Music Initiative and did yeoman work on the Sony BMG DRM fiasco — has published a fast, ten-page white-paper on the complexities of Network Neutrality. Ed describes the many ways in which Neutrality is hard to enforce, and the ways in which tiered, discriminatory service is likely to have grave outcomes: . . .
. . . Network management is complicated, and many management decisions could impact jitter one way or the other. A network provider who wants to cause high jitter can do so, and might have pretextual excuses for all of the steps it takes. Can regulators distinguish this kind of stratagem from the case of fair and justified engineering decisions that happen to cause a little temporary jitter?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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We interrupt this series on Telecommunication Pricing to bring you an important message. According to a story in Saturdayââ¬â¢s NY Times, Federal District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan is considering major modifications to the already accomplished SBC/AT&T and Verizon/MCI mergers. Weââ¬â¢re going to mash that up with a quote from Vint Cerf who is now at Google.
ââ¬ÅThrough the eyes of a layperson, the mergers, in and of themselves, appear to be against public interest given the apparent loss in competition,” the Times reports Judge Sullivan wrote. “In layperson’s terms, why isn’t that the case?ââ¬Â
. . . follow the link to read the mash up.
A net neutrality movie: It Happened to Jane (1959)
Unlike the movie, we don’t have a Doris Day to charm “the meanest man in the world.” So it comes down to congress and the FCC in the United States, and similar government organs in your country. Grassroots activism seems the only course since it’s nigh on impossible to out-lobby phone and cable companies.
So:
What will you do for the Internet this week?
How will you defend your right to call unimpeded? And in private?
Who will you call?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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If you went to business school, you probably learned about organizational development, but the world is changing and organizations are changing with it — at least the ones that have hopes of lasting. Listen in on this post by Gautam Ghosh.
The goals of OD in the the last century were to make workplaces more open transparent and honest. The focus was on generating authentic and non-threatening conversations. About creating workplaces where people were not merely ‘resources’ or ‘talent’.
Sounds a bit like blogging doesn’t it?
Yet, Gautam goes onto say that
However, the overall culture of organizational life never let these concepts come to fruition. Most organizations were and still are, places where your goals are set by others, your performance is judged by others, and your rewards are measured by others.
That’s where today’s enterprise loses the entrepreneurial spirit.
Gautuam goes on to make some great points about what today’s organizations are facing. You can check out his post by clicking the title.
Thanks Guatam, for this analsis.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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