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Another filing deadline, another blast of press releases about the Comcast “network management” debacle.
To quote the great philosopher Rodney King, “can’t we all just get along?”
No, really. This topic gets people in an uproar, whether it’s the good and well-meaning people at Free Press and Public Knowledge, who brought the complaint, or the folks at [...]

So, has anyone else been watching Wall Street do the 2000 style dot-com dance while the TechCrunch-watching, TechMeme-obsessed crowd throws parties like it’s 1999? I feel for the guys at Lehman and AIG, some of them my age, now out on the street. In fact, I feel even more sorry for them than I did for the guys caught in the dot-com bust.

‘ll admit it. I’ve been guilty of being mean to the cable company. Which is surprising since I’ve spent most of my life around Cable, as the son of two former FCC attorneys and one who spent a good part of his career representing cable before the FCC. Bite the hand that feeds me? Nah.

I spent most of my afternoon at a “blogger summit” hosted by NCTA CEO Kyle McSlarrow, where a bunch of us (including Dave Zatz, Art Brodsky from Free Press, and Josh Wein from my former employer Communications Daily) went over a plethora of issues ranging from liability for internet content, to the digital switch, to, yes, network management.

Awhile ago, Chris Brogan wrote a list of 100 Blog Topics he would like to see. When I read those, I started drafts on three of the topics and determined that I would mull them over for awhile and when I felt like I had something worthwhile to say, I’d contribute my thoughts on those [...]

So a big miscommunication happened today and when my wife returned an old Comcast modem to the Comcast center, they cancelled my internet access. I have a new modem. I’m returning a new one. Did I say cancel it? No.
So I call them back.
Wait on hold for 30 minutes.
Very nice tech helps me. HE has [...]

Lockergnome is reporting today, on a security flaw discovered in its Webmail feature. Apparently, the client allows for the possibility of ActiveX and Java scripts to be run, including remote malicious scripts. The biggest danger, I would think, would be in the possibility of remote execution of keyloggers.
Supposedly, this has been resolved, but users should [...]