This article on Cellular Carterfone is a humdinger! In Information Week.
Meanwhile, I’ve noticed several well-done criticisms of my wireless paper, along with a few funded attacks. All will be answered in version 2.0 of the Cellular Carterfone paper (also known as Wireless Net Neutrality).
Now in Cambridge visiting famous fiver Devon Curtis.  Walking into King’s College for evening service was startling; the fan vault roof is unlike any other I’ve ever seen.
Incidently I’m in Barcelona.
Not exactly on the Gaudi tour. Mostly hanging out with famous fiver Diana (above), drinking and watching films in her screening room, or at least that’s what she calls it. Saw Porky’s (the forbidden sensation of our youth), my fist Yony Jaa film,
and 24 Hour Party People, about Joy Division, Manchester and so on.
A note on Net Neutrality in Europe.
Europe, unlike the US, has largely maintained open access policies — that is, linesharing rules — for DSL. It also has general anti-discrimination rules for telecom, though their operation is complex. For that reason there is much less temptation to adopt new or separate NN rules, since such rules indirectly accomplish the same purposes, using competition to fight discrimination, instead of just a rule.
However there is some chance that Europe’s approach may backfire, as compared to the combo of no linesharing plus NN rules which is the de facto and partially de jure state of affairs in america.
Europe may end up with limited fiber buildouts, limited cable internet yet STILL have certain forms of discrimination resulting from reliance on linesharing as a bulwark against discrimination.
This is just a blog post, though a well thought through point. But it is a possibility. Ten years hence we’ll know.
In Germany, I was at special conference on commons theory for young scholars.
Despite my relative lack of years, I was actually not one of the young scholars. Instead a co-host with Larry Lessig; our job was to give feedback on papers on commons theory.
Commons theory, while not really new, is surely one of the most interesting areas of research, period. What makes a commons work? When do they fail? What are the merits of property systems?
Some great presentations on such questions from Brett Frischmann (from who I borrow alot from; he is really, really sharp), Stefan Bechtold, a promising young German theorist who organized the conference, plus his co-authors,, James Grimmelman, interested in moderation, Filomena Chirico, who spoke on Net Neutrality in Europe, Guy Pessach, on cultural preservation, David Schorr, Rosa Castro, Clara Sattler, and many commentators.
Larry is working on new and interesting things which he may not want divulged; in addition to being a genius, his presentation abilities are so unusual in academia (if not to say journalism and politics) and remain unequaled among academics I’ve seen.
Spoke at the New Yorker conference in the Gehry building on 18th st. in NYC. Great views of the Hudson river, but on the whole the building on the inside is nowhere near as quirky as on the outside. Somehow I thought there’d be no right angles or something.
The conference was great fun and very fancy. Much fancier than academic, industry, or DC policy events. It was sort of a glamor conference — the New Yorker even hired what in industry we used to call booth bunnies.
Jeff Toobin interviewed me for the conference, here’s the video.
The truth is with a great interviewer you can sound way better than you really are. I’d like to do all my presentations as interviews, or as a team, actually. Ideally like the Marx brothers.
Doing long solo presentations on academic topics can be tough or boring unless you are larry lessig.