Daily Archives: September 22, 2006

Some attention is probably better than no attention…

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 22, 2006

I’ve been mulling the almost infra dig treatment that One Web Day received. Oh, there were a gaggle of Berkmanites, past and present, who touted it and seemed genuinely jolly about the prospect. David Isenberg rolled out a nice party in Vienna! But in general it didn’t seem to get the broad positive attention that [...]

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Josh Wolf again, and Pia Lindman (Fascia)

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 22, 2006

After that lame jumping-on-the-bed reintroduction, Ms. Congdon has served up three for three interesting pieces.

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OneWebDay

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 22, 2006

Ironic that the ICANNographers would declare a “OneWebDay” to create, maintain, advance, and promote a global day to celebrate online life. HTML and DNS are a swell combination, but people who conflate the Internet and its magnificent potential with the World Wide Web have blinders on. Is September 22, 2006 the day that the revolution [...]

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Natural Selection

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 22, 2006

Irony or conspiracy? How likely is it that an organic food company named Natural Selection would deliver e coli 0157:H to the dining tables of millions of Americans at precisely the same time that the Pope was defaming muslims worldwide? Not likely. No, these seemingly unrelated events are obviously part of a vast global christian [...]

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