Friday, April 09, 2004

Jeff Skilling takes a walk on the insane side:  hoax or truth? 9:10:59 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

If you are in the market for storage or networking solutions, Dann's XLOG is tops.  IF you are selling those solutions, you should be talking to him (or advertising on his weblog). 9:08:48 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

ABC.  High casualties in the Fallujah offensive (even before US forces entered the populated areas of the city) is causing turmoil in the Iraqi government and is likely the reason for the attempt at a halt to operations there: Angry members of the US-installed interim Iraqi Governing Council have threatened to resign if American forces did not halt their bloody offensive in the Sunni Muslim town of Fallujah. Adnan Pachachi, widely seen as the most pro-American member of the 25-member council, was likewise incensed by the violence in Fallujah.  "We consider the action carried out by US forces as illegal and totally unacceptable," Mr Pachachi told the Dubai-based Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya. More from the Financial Times: The US-led administration in Baghdad was on Friday night fighting to keep Iraq's Governing Council intact after two ministers quit in protest at the US crackdown on Shia and Sunni unrest.  (NOTE:  the interior minister may have been forced to resign) 8:29:56 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

New Post to Global Guerrillas  Mercenaries Unbound.  The huge military services industry is largely without a regulatory or legal framework.  Here is a post on what is currently going on and what will likely happen.  With the recent murders, mutilations, and kidnappings of PMC employees, a definition of their legal status is more important than ever. 6:46:21 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

This BBC news item is off by about 7 years....  We already have it today. 2:03:50 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Personal TV Networks session at Bloggercon.  Nice.  Too long ago (1996), I wrote a big idea report while at Forrester on "Personal Broadcast Networks."  My preferred solution: an open distribution system (it was later redefined by Wired as "Push" which had a annoying in your face marketing element).  It's great to see this vision finally made real with RSS enclosures (which combined with weblogs provide easy access to content -- a marketplace and subscription mechanism) and BitTorrent P2P (which provides scalability and cost reduction). 10:47:38 AM    Comment_ Trackback []