McD is doing an analysis of the OSI reference model in the context of net neutrality and he’s doing a pretty good job of it too!

Hey McD. We’re never going to be famous technorati bloggerambos if we keep trading links like this. The algorithm is biased against anything that smacks of gaming the system or deep echo chamberistics. That’s why it’s scientific and we’re not.

Right Kevin Marks? (Kevin, the link to “Frank Paynter” in the honored position adjacent to Andrew Odlyzko on your blogroll is now two generations out of date, and while I do forward traffic, and the old Sandhill sites are more fun than a grocery bag full of comic books on a blanket on the lawn on a hot summer day, you should update the link so my technorati rating so it is easier for you to get here and enjoy the simple open faced sandwich that is Listics-earth.)

http://listics.com  - openly link whoring so you don’t have to.

Vote early.  Vote often.

ze Frank, who has totally sold out by providing a “commercial link” following the show, explains the “sell out” concept in more detail.  Here is an edited transcription with the funny parts taken out:

“Selling out doesn’t have to do with actually having money, it has to do with the perception that your pursuit of popularity and potentially making money has caused you to sacrifice your core values…”

“It’s too late now but you could have started out with a transparent agenda to become rich, then if it happened people would call you a genius and not a sell-out.”

“Why don’t I take a poll and see what the community wants me to do?”

“That’s called pandering to the audience, that’s even worse than selling out.  And listening to polls?  Not even the president…”

None of this answers the question, “If a ducky and a baby rabbit fought to the death, who would win?”  But I’m thinking not Amanda Boom-boom.