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De-captivating markets is my latest thinking out loud about the subject brought up in the post below. It begins, I just realized what’s been missing from Clayton Christensen’s rap about “disruptive technologies”: most of his attention is on the customer side of the marketplace. It’s great stuff, but it misses the potentially critical role played…

Damn! In San Francisco last week, I heard this and meant to blog it: Does anyone else find this weird: The National Security Agency helps sponsor Metro Traffic, which feeds traffic information to one of the two great NPR stations in SF — KQED. Why is the NSA funding (albeit indirectly) NPR? [Lessig Blog] It…

No surprise to anyone familiar with this blog — I’m quite involved in technology strategy for Democratic campaigns. That said, I enjoy a spirited debate. In that vein, the latest advertiser here is Illinois House Republican Leader Tom Cross. Thanks to Tom and his office for their support. If you’re interested in advertising here, click…

In his post from the Personal Democracy Forum, David Weinberger writes of panelist Ron Wyden: Wyden was running for Congress for the first time. My wife called his office with a question about one of his stands, and dang if Wyden himself didn’t call back and talk with my wife for 20 minutes. So, she…

AP – Strip club owners are putting a little bada-bing in the presidential campaign by asking patrons to turn their eyes away from the stage for a moment to fill out a voter registration form — and then vote against President Bush. [Yahoo! News – Politics] There are plenty of other bad puns to make…

Absolutely the best commencement address ever. Funny, poignant, and told for the students and not anyone else. Excellent.

The cover on my Treo cracked again (I had the 270, it replaced a 180 which had a screen crack). I’m not traveling as much these days, so a smart phone with e-mail access isn’t as important. I’m primarily interested in long talk/standby time, and the ability to sync with my PC. Beyond that, anything…

Had a thoroughly engaging dinner last night with Ross, Jerry Michalski, and Peter Kollock. Peter asked Jerry for a demo of Personal Brain, a personal mind mapping kind of product that is quite interesting. (Jerry advises TheBrain Technologies Corporation, the company behind The Brain.) I had heard about the product before, but never seen it…

Prof. Yabut has divined the Bush Administration’s exit strategy for Iraq. My sidenote to Iraq, if the good Professor is on to something: Be careful what you wish for. The Devil you know, and all that jazz. Just sayin.

Don’t know how I missed it, but the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology published its fifth and final issue last month. (I founded JOLT while a law student at the University of Richmond.) The site is now as attractive as it is substantive. (The same couldn’t be said of our first issue, which was…