Since October some subscribers to The Squid List have had problems receiving email from the list. Email subscriptions for The Squid List are handled by FeedBurner which converts the RSS feed to email. I tried deactivating and then re-activating FeedBurner’s email subscriptions service, but that just seemed to make the problem worse. There doesn’t seem to be any way to contact FeedBurner for support, so if anyone has any ideas how to get in touch with them, it would be greatly appreciated. In the meantime, you can always access The Squid List directly through the online calendar, get updates...
As expected, the FCC said today it will take up the issue of creating yet another wireless network, and set rules on cable pricing and programming, at its Dec. 18 meeting. As commenter Tom Evslin pointed out, the alternative wireless broadband network proposed is slow, will likely be filtered and will deliver yesterday’s technology in five or 10 years into the future. However, the rule-making on cable could be a win for consumers. The cable efforts have the potential to bring more independent channels to cable systems as well as create rules designed to halt the disputes that arise between...
…But were afraid to ask. This is the title of this very interesting 34-slide presentation on Google prepared by FaberNovel, a french consulting firm. It is hard to realize the real nature of this just 10 years old giant given the number of services it has continuously released, updated (and sometimes shut down) or acquired. This presentation gives a great overview of the company’s overall strategy and the reasons it has become what it is today. It addresses some key questions about the company’s future, presented in the slide above: how Google won’t be affected by the crisis (not so...
Many thanks to our outgoing guestblogger Dale Dougherty, who contributed a number of superb posts here over the past couple of weeks, and appeared in an episode of Boing Boing tv today. Thank you so much, Dale! We'd now like to give a big welcome today to our next guestblogger, Clay Shirky. I first met Clay, geez, like 10 years ago? When I was working with Jason Calacanis at Silicon Alley Reporter magazine in New York City. Back then, the internet media business was a dazzling, luminous orb we all stood around and gazed upon, all slack-jawed and doe-eyed...
Ken sez, Indymedia UK has info on an update to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. This amendment will make it an offence, punishable by up to ten years imprisonment, to publish or elicit information about any police constable "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism". Given the overreach of basically all legislation having to do with the Global War on Nouns, there's fear in blogging, independent journalism, and activist communities that this could make publishing information that the police finds disconcerting, embarrassing, or troublesome problematic (to say the...
Those of you who grew up during the N64 generation should be prepared to spend 1,200 Microsoft points tomorrow. That’s when Banjo-Kazooie comes out on Xbox Live Arcade. (I guess the release date was moved back a week? Oh, well, time better spent playing Street Fighter.) It’s pretty much a straight port, but with a 1080p resolution and a fully working Stop N Swop, the subject of entirely too much speculation these past 10 years. In fact, this is what the Stop N Swop unlock in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. Spoilers, mind....
Now, here's an idea that will give me nightmares for years: Guillermo Del Toro is going to direct the stop-motion feature adaptation of Roald Dahl's fantastic novel The Witches, where a small boy gets trapped in a hotel while the annual convention of witches is taking place. The brilliant Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men), was the original front runner for the director spot. But Cuaron told Empire Magazine he's stepped up to produce the feature, and Del Toro is now the director. Apparently the two started chatting about adapting about Dahl's story "Uncle Oswald" when they got on the subject...
Superfast train by 2018? Seems we're not all in agreement— following a Daily Cal story forecasting 2018 as a possible finish date, the LA Times' Bottleneck Blog called shenanigans, saying 1) show me the money, and 2) what do you have to smoke to see 400 miles of high-speed rail in 10 years? Not so fast, says California HSR Blog: there is money (maybe), and most of the track will be laid in non-urban areas, so it should be faster in coming. So there. But, uh, who else thinks 2018's so far away it could hardly be called too optimistic?...
Nothing, basically. My brother recently received the above e-mail from T-Mobile saying he’d be receiving a special gift in the mail for being a longtime customer. What he received for being with T-Mo for over 10 years was pretty underwhelming. Seriously? That’s what you send for being a longtime customer? Why bother e-mailing a patron saying they’re going to get a special gift? The pink bag tags were kind of cool. If you’re into that sort of thing....
Few have been spared the satire of Matt Groening's long running animated sitcom. Last night, The Simpsons took on Apple, or uh, Mapple for a full 6 minutes of lampoonery -- a pretty harsh ride at a two-joke per minute pace. It all starts when the Springfield mall gets its very own Mapple store, "it's so sterile," gasps Lisa upon entering. Perhaps the best exchange comes from Bart's dubbing of a Steve Mobs' product announcement in front of a crowd of gaping nerds, "You think you're cool because you buy a $500 phone with a picture of a fruit...
Image courtesy All right, now stop cryin’ about crisis and sinkin’ GDPs. Every pedantic MBA student in the last 10 years has been told that the chinese word for Risk means also opportunity (yes I have also been told that but no, I have never been pedantic). To be fair, the same concept of risk applied in finance is meant more to be related with the idea of variation, both positive and negative, thus supporting the ancient chinese wisdom. And also reality of the things is that, even in the dramatic period we are living in, with problems and...
