Monthly Archives: April 2006

Keep Net Neutrality Non-partisan

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 30, 2006

Doc says… “For example, I’m concerned right now that Net Neutrality, a complex issue (which I think has to do with a definition of the Internet) is turning into a left vs. right issue (left for, right against). Most voters are neither all-right nor all-left. Most issues aren’t, either. But it seems that most people [...]

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RESPECT

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 30, 2006

Thanks to Steven Stehling (Standards and Grudges) for the link to Pomme & Kelly’s winning entry in the Google Idols video competion! It may not be Numa Numa, but it’s fresh.

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Quick Link

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 29, 2006

Before bed, gotta point you to Kansas City’s Pitch, where Ben Paynter writes this week about the reality TV winners and losers from the heartland.  Have you heard of Real World?  Me neither, but Ben spins a story about locals who made good, or not, on that and at least a dozen other reality TV [...]

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Larsen Road

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 29, 2006

Wish I had a camera yesterday… four turkeys crossing Larsen Road, strung out in a line  reminding me of John, Ringo, Paul, and George.

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A Blalk in the Blark…

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 29, 2006

We bloggers like to create neologisms. We like the neologism that reshapes an older term in our new and hypercreative anguage-blay. We call these BLOGOLOGISMs, not neologisms, which is the old word for the new word we made up to cover this concept. I offer this prefatory comment as an explanation for the title of [...]

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George Gilder, Michael Milken, and the imp of the polymathic perverse

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 28, 2006

David Weinberger participated in a panel at the Ninth Annual Milken Institute Global Conference this week, and it rankled me. Rather than ask him what he was doing hobnobbing with billionaire felons, I sought the answer elsewhere. I think I found it in George Gilder’s book: Telecosm – the World after Bandwidth Abundance. George Gilder [...]

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Wisconsin Whip

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 28, 2006

[cross posted at Wisconsin Coalition for Network Neutrality] Network Neutrality legislation is already convoluted. It frames the conflict between the telcos and the cable companies, with AT&T and friends seeking a legislative mandate for competition in video distribution markets that cable companies currently dominate. Public utilities franchises, the Commerce Clause of the constitution, rules governing [...]

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Fighting Duckies!

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 28, 2006

At this time of year, I like to watch the birdies fighting. They fluff their feathers at each other and then comes the squawking and close-in pushing and pulling and then, and then… well not much happens then, but all that feather ruffling and pushing and pulling is quite exciting for me. I like to [...]

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