Tous mes voeux de succès et de bonheur pour 2007.
C’est peut-être l’occasion de méditer ce propos de Margot Wallström, vice-présidente de la Commission européenne, sur son blog :
The older I get – the less I am sure about knowing all the answers. The “higher-up” in my career – the more I need to be anchored in something practical/pragmatic. The more political responsibility I assume – the less I long to be in the spotlight……
Plus je vieillis, moins je suis sûre de connaître toutes les réponses. Plus j’occupe de hautes fonctions, plus j’ai besoin d’être ancrée dans quelque chose de pratique/pragmatique. Plus j’assume de responsabilités politiques, moins je tiens à être dans le feu des projecteurs.
Moi je dis qu’il est temps d’arrêter d’envoyer du personnel politique de seconde zone à Bruxelles 
There’s an old article by Bill Gates somewhere (an e-mail to Dave Winer if memory serves) where he doesn’t believe attempts to own the internet are likely to succeed. This doesn’t prevent a lot of people from trying, including some parts of Microsoft, probably. The candidate du jour are the telecom companies, since they own the pipes.
Susan Crawford has an interesting post on the subject. May I add that this discussion cannot stay on purely US-centric grounds (we’re not in 1995 anymore) and that what Susan describes as more important than some private interests is very near to what some European countries would call a public service?
Via John Robb:
The intentional disabling of these chips can cause supply chain disruption. The best method is to HERF (high energy radio frequency, usually microwaves) the chips using a small transmitter (read more about home made microwave weapons or herfing). The German branch (privacy activists) of the global guerrilla innovation network has developed a simple solution that converts a standard film camera into a short range RFID zapper.
More on the Global Guerillas blog (Networked tribes, infrastructure disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. An open notebook on the first epochal war of the 21st Century).
I’m looking for a news aggregator with the following features:
- feed priority. Face it, some blogs are high priority and I should read every post. others are nice to have in my reading list, but I won’t die if I don’t have time to read them.
- sophistication of the preceding feature : analysis of my reading habits to define priorities. I believe all work on antispamming tools could be leveraged here.
Given the time I have wasted with my “blogroll activity” feature in the sidebar, I believe there’s an artificial distinction between aggregators and blogging platforms. My aggregator has everything to gain from being public. You could even add your own feeds to it.
Maybe we’ll get this from the 2006 microbubble, which should be about attention. Or maybe that’s what Dave is working on (newsRiver.root)?
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