http://bottomline.corante.com/ en-us info@corante.com 2005-10-07T09:01:09-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2005/10/test_entry.php Testing technorati with redirects [Technorati Tags: test blogging]... 36884@http://bottomline.corante.com/ admin 2005-10-07T09:01:09-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/taking_a_break.php I'm going to take a break from this blog for a couple of months. Maybe come back in June. People are still talking about the economics of telecom and spam and the impact of the Internet on various business models,... 29966@http://bottomline.corante.com/ admin 2004-03-18T17:26:31-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/moores_law_and_military_techno.php Five years ago, Ray Kurzweil predicted that we would see military aircraft the size of birds by the year 2009. Based on this article by Phil Carter, it would seem that Moore's Law seems to be moving faster. AeroVironment's MicroAir... 29965@http://bottomline.corante.com/ Moore's Law 2004-03-15T13:02:03-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/biotech_and_sports.php I argue that we should not think of biotechnology solely in terms of sports metaphors. sports are a peculiar facet of human experience. They are inevitably zero-sum in character. For every winner, there is a loser. Each tournament has only... 29963@http://bottomline.corante.com/ future technology and growth 2004-03-12T06:56:04-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/ill_take_ohio.php Steve Clemons praises the taxpayer support of high-tech research in New York state. New York has already invested $620 million of a planned $1 billion to create an imaginative network of research and development incubators - dubbed "the Empire State... 29962@http://bottomline.corante.com/ business models 2004-03-10T18:14:35-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/email_innovation.php Has anyone tried any of the products from Stata labs? It looks like they have a spam-filter proxy server, which I assume works something like popfile. Also, they have a search engine for email (I know, I know, anybody who... 29961@http://bottomline.corante.com/ spam wars 2004-03-10T17:56:16-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/99cent_ripoff.php Brother Ernie wonders how Apple can convince people that an iPod that can store thousands of songs should be filled at a cost of 99 cents per song., Something's got to give. I don't think that it will be digital... 29960@http://bottomline.corante.com/ Moore's Law 2004-03-10T16:15:00-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/if_brad_delong_called_me_stupi.php I wouldn't brag about it. Certainly not if the topic were international macroeconomics. Regardless of where you are politically, I think that it is safe to say that when it comes to the relationship of savings and the trade deficit,... 29959@http://bottomline.corante.com/ economic essays 2004-03-09T12:30:39-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/red_sox_technologies.php My essay on technologies that perennially disappoint. Micropayments E-books Speech Recognition Video Conferencing Social Networking Software Virtual Classrooms ...The engineers, tinkerers, and inventors who are still working on Red Sox technologies all labor under the illusion that all that is... 29958@http://bottomline.corante.com/ business models 2004-03-09T08:24:07-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/true_lies.php After reading Weinberger's Law: whatever people most emphasize about themselves is the biggest lie they tell. If your boss tells you that he's all about teamwork, then he's all about himself. If Nixon says that he is not a crook,... 29957@http://bottomline.corante.com/ social software 2004-03-07T09:27:33-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/news_of_my_death_reprise.php I wrote about the coming death of newspapers quite a while back. One of my points was that the decline in young readership spells doom. Vin Crosbie has more data to buttress that view. Minnesota Opinion Research Inc. (MORI), presented... 29956@http://bottomline.corante.com/ economics of content 2004-03-04T16:52:38-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/the_inquisition.php In this essay, I draw parallels between the way Congress treats economists and the way the inquisition treated Galileo. Imagine that you were invited to a party held at a bar. You show up, and you give $5 to the... 29955@http://bottomline.corante.com/ economic essays 2004-03-04T07:22:54-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/gilder_the_fcc_and_the_court.php The worst thing you could do to telephone regulation is to turn it into a state and local regulatory circus, which is what the FCC proposed to do last year, due to Kevin Martin's treachery. I have no idea what... 29954@http://bottomline.corante.com/ telecom, FCC 2004-03-04T06:57:27-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/declan_on_privacy.php Declan McCullagh draws a distinction between private snooping and government snooping. If you don't like Safeway's discount card, shop at Whole Foods, which doesn't offer one. If Amazon.com's recommendations about books based on your previous orders are annoying, try barnesandnoble.com... 29953@http://bottomline.corante.com/ transparent society 2004-03-01T16:21:32-05:00 http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/clay_on_voip.php A couple of excerpts from his latest. If Plan A is "Replace the phone system slowly and from within," Plan B is far more radical: "Replace the phone system. Period." ...Where Plan A is a fight between incumbent and upstart... 29952@http://bottomline.corante.com/ telecom, FCC 2004-03-01T07:28:16-05:00