links for 2007-03-06
Berto: Philosophy Monkey: Principles of Economics, Translated
Choices are bad. Choices are *really* bad. Eat that, Chris Anderson.
(tags: humor Economics videos)
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March 2007
FCC chairman: how to promote broadband adoption?
His line: remove tariffs, price controls. In his words, “remove legacy regulations.” He cited broadband uptake numbers and then credited the removal of these regulations as the cause for it, as well as the “increased innovation.” Problem: post hoc ergo propter hoc. I think I’ll ask him about Benkler’s book.
He cited policies around 911 connections [...]
Kevin J. Martin @ UNC, an intro
From the bio they left on the table:
Chairman Martin joined the Commission from the White House, where he served as a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and was on the staff of the National Economic Council. [...] He also served as the official U.S. government representative to the G-8’s Digital Opportunity Task [...]
links for 2007-03-05
Drug Dealers vs. Geeks
(tags: humour drugs geeks)
Six cool things you can build with OpenID
(tags: social technology openid)
FCC chairman speaking tomorrow (Monday) at UNC
http://law.unc.edu/Calendar/CalendarDetails.aspx?ID=2676
Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin J. Martin will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at noon Monday (March 5) in the first event of the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy.
Martin’s talk will be in lecture hall 2603 in the Knapp-Sanders Building, home to the UNC School of Government.
The talk [...]
your ID, please?
We’re moving toward a police state. Call your senators, call your representatives.
links for 2007-03-03
the show with zefrank
<3 zefrank
(tags: forgiveness video)
links for 2007-03-02
For Want of a Dentist - washingtonpost.com
via Mark Turner
(tags: health policy dental insurance)
remixes for ray
Most of you probably already know about the video for Ray project on Ze’s site, but I had to share anyway. Free culture like this blows me away. It made my day brighter, so I thought I’d broadcast that fact.
Video of ray talking about the whole experience:
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/02/022807.html
Remixes for Ray:
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/whipass/
The “goose extended remix” whips^Wkicks [...]
Cory Doctorow at UNC — talk available online
We had some trouble getting the talk off the minidv tape. Long story short: don’t try to get 90 minutes out of a 60 minute tape and expect an easy time with digitizing. Praise and kudos to Joey for saving our butts.
ANYway, the video is at the ibiblio speaker series website. A torrent is forthcoming.
