PSoTD

Swampland's Karen Tumulty experiences Life In These Internets.

Be careful with that thesaurus!

Who knows when this will show up in the Harrisburg area, if ever, and what Comcast will charge for it, but it does sound like a big environment changer for the Internet...

Brian L. Roberts Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Comcast Corporation Keynote Remarks 2008 Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas, NV January 8, 2008

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RYAN: Wait a second – I know about “broadband,” of course, but not “wideband.” What’s that?

BRIAN: It’s cable's next big thing – a huge technological breakthrough called DOCSIS 3.0. It takes us to a whole new level of speed and bandwidth.

RYAN: So how does it work?

BRIAN: Today, when we deliver broadband, we’re using spectrum on our cable system that’s equivalent to one 6Mhz analog television channel. That lets us provide broadband speeds of up to twelve to sixteen megabits per second using our unique PowerBoost™ technology. Now, using DOCSIS 3.0, we can bond together four or more of those standard analog channels. This will let us deliver speeds of up to 100 megabits per second over the next two years.

Let me go on record now, I think this effort by Technorati's David Sifry isn't going to be used much. At least legitimately:

In 3 months it will be only used by spammers, thank you very much David and Martin... One couldn't expect any less from you...

Interesting data site concerning web site traffic.

I see a national market brewing for heavy internet users that will want to tell any provider that changes from flat rate to usage rate charging a big FO.

After all, it was those very heavy users that really provided a base in the first place to expose "light users" to the benefits of higher speed. Likely to be hurt the most by a practice of billing high-speed Internet subscribers based on their amount of usage rather than a flat fee: small businesses that use the Internet to expand their viability.

Finally, here's the big question - what kind of reduced price is Time Warner going to give the light users that don't meet whatever usage threshold they are going to use? I don't see how they can argue that today's price is the minimum, if they're blaming 5% of the client base for 50% of the network bandwidth and plan to charge them for that, then the other 95% ought to see a reduction in cost.

Otherwise, it's just a plan to jab for profit.

There are still a lot of pretty stupid ideas having considerable money spent on it basically because people think the Internet will somehow change how people interact with the concept even though it is clear that in reality THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED. They need a label.

I suggest they be considered This Year's CueCat, or something like that.

I don't know about you, but the past two days have seemed like "dialup" slow at times.

This is very unethical on their part. If you whois a domain on Network Solutions, they reserve it in an effort to force you to buy it at their exorbitant prices. Total ripoff.

They do not deserve yours - or anyone's - business. Nor do they deserve the privilege of being a domain registrar any longer.

Complete BS on their part. I hope one of the other registrars sues them.

maybe one of these days I'll want to add a sidebar of videos, apparently I could use Vodpod for that.

Every once in a while I save these kinds of things, thinking I'm going to post them for reference, but then never find time. I found HTML Tags sometime last year and held onto it for just that purpose.