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  1. Lesson for Next Time: Small is Beautiful

    Lesson for Next Time: Small is Beautiful

    Fractals of Change - Dec 2, 2008

    Antitrust law needs to be updated to include "too big to fail" as a criterion for dismemberment. The alternative is pervasive regulation and/or government ownership of institutions which control huge swathes of the

  2. Free, Slow, Censored Internet – A Bad Idea

    Free, Slow, Censored Internet – A Bad Idea

    Fractals of Change - Dec 1, 2008

    The FCC is looking for an organization to provide free, slow, and censored Internet access. The censorship apparently would include email as well as websites. According to an article in today's Wall Street

    Tagged: web tech, telecommunications, net neutrality

  3. Time for the Citi to Sleep

    Time for the Citi to Sleep

    Fractals of Change - Nov 30, 2008

    It's easy to believe that Citibank is a tottering tower whose collapse would endanger us all in the canyons below. However, keeping a financial corpse walking further endangers every other financial institution. When

    Tagged: current affairs, unscientific economics

  4. Thanksgiving Poem

    Thanksgiving Poem

    Fractals of Change - Nov 27, 2008

    Over the river and thru the wood, To grandmother's house we go. The GPS knows the way To guide us today, Even if traffic is slow, oh. Over the river and thru the wood, We're always in the know. My new Dash

    Tagged: web tech

  5. No Thanks, Mr. Paulson, We’re Repairing Our Balance Sheets

    No Thanks, Mr. Paulson, We’re Repairing Our Balance Sheets

    Fractals of Change - Nov 26, 2008

    The newest push-on-a-string plan from Treasury Secretary Paulson is to force more federal money into consumer credit. The idea is that we can then max out our credit cards to new limits, buy houses and cars with too

    Tagged: unscientific economics

  6. The FCC White Space Regs – Pretty Good at First Look

    The FCC White Space Regs – Pretty Good at First Look

    Fractals of Change - Nov 25, 2008

    My comm prediction #3 is that LTE and WiMAX are toast. The new great thing will be WRANs (wireless regional area networks). WRAN's will extend and eventually subsume WiFi. The detailed regulations which implement the

  7. Removing Obstacles to Obama’s Job Growth Plan

    Removing Obstacles to Obama’s Job Growth Plan

    Fractals of Change - Nov 24, 2008

    Given current "environmental" legislation, it will be impossible to create a meaningful number of jobs except for engineers and lawyers by next summer no matter how much federal money we allocate to this worthy

    Tagged: current affairs, unscientific economics

  8. We Are ALL Part of the Change We Need

    We Are ALL Part of the Change We Need

    Fractals of Change - Nov 23, 2008

    Tim O'Reilly blogged yesterday on the need for those who supported Obama in the election to stay involved and help the new administration but, more importantly, the country succeed. Those of us who didn't support Obama

    Tagged: current affairs

  9. A Time Without Exits

    A Time Without Exits

    Fractals of Change - Nov 22, 2008

    Marooned on an island; adrift on a ship; locked in a seedy, spooky deserted mansion; lost in a cave – these are all staples of fiction. And these are all descriptions of the times we live in from an entrepreneur or VC

  10. Mobile Trumps Fixed Broadband – Comm Prediction #2

    Mobile Trumps Fixed Broadband – Comm Prediction #2

    Fractals of Change - Nov 21, 2008

    "80% of Web users will choose mobile broadband over fixed by 2013" is the headline of a Total Telecom interview with John Cunliffe of Ericsson. I agree with the conclusion although I think Ericsson will be unpleasantly

    Tagged: television, web tech, telecommunications

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