Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I’ve been getting a lot of FriendFeed notifications about new people subscribing to my feed. Based on anecdotal comments from people I have talked with, it appears I am not alone and that makes me wonder what is happening that is suddenly causing a bump in activity. Could it be Facebook’s own efforts to do [...]
Seriously, there are times when I think that here we are in the 21st century and THIS is the best we can do for leadership in public service. This first story is about some hydrogen buses that the VTA (public transportation in San Jose, Santa Clara, etc.) has running. If I told you that new [...]
“As network and affiliates, we both have an interest in slowing down the explosive growth of DVRs. This is about combating DVRs. As we developed this at every stage, there was an agreement that however we put this together, disabling the fast-forward function was key.” [From Techdirt: Dear ABC, You Don't Compete With TiVo By [...]
I made this same point over a year ago. The same segment of the market that Blu-Ray is targeted at is also predisposed to online downloads insofar as technical capability (broadband) and willingness. If Netflix can ship over 1 billion DVDs, they can surely drive a boatload of downloads. But more on point is that [...]
This story in the WSJ about the Cuban government reintroducing golf to Cuba after Castro had the game effectively banned in the isolated country made me think about right of return rights. The Cuban dictatorship is guilty of stealing untold amount of property over it’s reign, do you think human rights activists around the world [...]
Several people have asked me what my thoughts are on prospects of Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig running for Congress. As it happens, Lessig would be running in a special election for the vacated 12th Congressional District, which recently deceased Tom Lantos held for… well, forever it seems. The 12th district is my district so in [...]
It’s kind of interesting that this didn’t get more widely reported on yesterday, it is a fairly significant event when you consider the size of the company and the number of web sites and publications that the company operates, which is somewhere in the range of 900. Reed is not a company that gets a [...]
This is a case of the plumber fixing the jiggly handle on the toilet while the sink shoots out water from a broken fixture. No doubt the City, and Cisco, is proud of it’s new high tech bus but without question most passengers would prefer the buses simply run on time. The erratic performance is [...]
If this trend continues we can resort to calling the Chronicle not a newspaper but a newsbrochure. My suggestion would be to give up the print edition completely and focus 100% of the efforts online… Beginning next week, the paper will institute three changes intended to reduce printing costs without compromising newsgathering resources or news [...]
Steven Pearlstein, a one-time reporter for the Post who now pens a column for the newspaper, wrote February 20 that “the best thing that could happen to our economy is for a dozen high-profile hedge funds to collapse; for investment banking to enter a long, deep freeze; for a major bank to fail; and for [...]