Thursday, December 1, 2005

You may already be a winner

Web 2.0 Bingo!

Area phone company offers to gift-wrap christmas packets

Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed — Some Say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer, says the Washington Post. Specifically,

William L. Smith, chief technology officer for Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., told reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for the opportunity to have its search site load faster than that of Google Inc.

Why did we trust these people with the Net?

Oh, I'm sorry. It's their Net. Forgot about that.

Thanks to Mike Taht for the pointer.

Humpty lives

The latest Gillmor Gang was truncated by some kind of tech failure; but yesterday Steve got the guest and one gang member other than himself (that being yours truly) together to wrap the show, which ran another half hour.

Steve stitched it all togeter, as he explains here.

Only 389 shopping days until next Christmas

It's December already. I hate it when that happens.