http://jr-holmes.com/blog Observations on the Web, Technology and Privacy Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:08:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! http://jr-holmes.com/blog/?p=1 Great article about 10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006.  The first item alone warrants spreading the word about the article.  Combine this with the mentioned item 5 (treating the mobile web as a different entity) and ... http://jr-holmes.com/blog/?p=2 I'll admit that, as a life-long reader, I've always been looking for some way that I can conveniently take a book or two with me during my commute.  Paperbacks have filled that role for almost all of us ... http://jr-holmes.com/blog/?p=3 In John Dvorak's December 21 article, he examines Microsoft's onrushing venture into software subscriptions as a revenue source.  What he is missing is the reason that Microsoft is doing so.Dvorak points out that Microsoft built a large part ... http://jr-holmes.com/blog/?p=4 Excellent article by Sallie Hofmeister of the LA Times highlighting her predictions for the coming year.  Whether you agree with any of her predictions or not, there are several in the article which are well-worthy of attention from ... http://jr-holmes.com/blog/?p=5 This is the second part of my commentary about the excellent article by Sallie Hofmeister of the LA Times.After the initial part of the article about Google, she goes on to talk about Microsoft's actions in the wake ... http://jr-holmes.com/blog/?p=6 It looks like BellSouth is pressing forward with their plan to establish tiered Internet service. The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that it is currently in negotiations with a movie company and with an Internet gaming company to deliver their services at a higher priority. This is something that ... http://jr-holmes.com/blog/?p=7 And astonishingly insightful essay and editorial detailing some of the history and benefits of municipal competition to entrenched monopolies. The recounted comparisons between municipal electrification in the early 20th century to the present-day considerations of municipal broadband are ... http://jr-holmes.com/blog/?p=8 Ran across an excellent article about the need for neutral flow of packets on the Internet.  But this article isn't just the latest in the normal doom and gloom of how bad things will be.  Rather Richard Bennet finds the balance to recognize that regulating the Internet at all carries ... http://jr-holmes.com/blog/?p=9 We haven't heard much from the world of turkey guts in recent months.  Late in 2003, a company called Changing World Technologies received a lot of science press coverage for their pilot plant in Philadelphia that was converting organic waste from a turkey processing plant into a high quality oil.  ... http://jr-holmes.com/blog/?p=10