2 – Online Technology

What Verizon’s Change on NARAL Text Ban Reveals

October 9th 2007

In an unbelievable move, last week Verizon briefly rejected a request from an abortion rights group to make its network available for a text message program. The timing couldn’t have been worse. It vividly demonstrated that online, cable and wireless services are immune from non-interference regulations that apply to phone services just as the national […]

Online Maps Reveal of State Secrets and Security Lapses

October 7th 2007

Dan Twohig, a deck officer with the Washington state ferry service was using Microsoft Virtual Earth to review real estate on the west side of Puget Sound. Instead he found a state secret, a photo showing the secret propeller design of an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine. He posted the publicly available image on his web […]

Web 3.0 – Envisioning the Web’s Next Big Change

October 2nd 2007

The definition of web 2.0 is still like a bit like pornography, that is, we know it when we see it. That aside, I’d like to start a discussion of a set of forces which I believe promise to create change on the web greater than web 2.0. I’d appreciate any thoughts you might add, […]