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Where They Destroy Packets…

Administrator — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:25:49 +0000

I never had a good memory for proverbs and quotes. However, this one (in bold below) by “Heinrich Heine” stuck in my mind when I heard it some 15 years ago while visiting north Germany (Wikipedia excerpt):

Among the thousands of books burned on Berlin’s Opernplatz in 1933, following the Nazi raid on the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, were works by Heinrich Heine. To commemorate the terrible event, one of the most famous lines of Heine’s 1821 play Almansor was engraved in the ground at the site: “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.” (”Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people.”) In the original text, Heine had been referring to the burning of the Quran during the Spanish Inquisition.

I’ve been trying to figure out a way to express the same idea but in relation to the Internet and the fact that it is being deep packet inspected and throttled and filtered and fire-walled. I’m not so sure I figured it out yet but I came up with this line:

“Where they destroy packets, they will ultimately also destroy people”

I like it. Any ideas on how to improve it?

ETECH report #1

Administrator — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:42:51 +0000

I’m just back to my hotel, looking on the blogosphere for some “early” analysis of the opening keynotes tonight. Only 2 posts on Technorati by now.

Because I must say I did not catch much of Bruce Sterling’s talk about “The Internet of Things”. Well, all I got is that it will happen in 30 years from now. We can’t name it today because we’re just in the middle of it. We (the ETECH crowd) can’t name it because we’re to close and too tech oriented to see the big picture. We only see the tech side of it.

“The Internet of Things” is not Web 2.0 because Web 2.0 is today. Web 2.0 formulates new mechanisms by which Web 1.0 guys can exploit new web stuff (I’m not so sure Mr. O’reilly appreciated this statement?).

I understood that “The Internet of Things” will be about searching, linking, ranking, sorting,… these entities he calls spimes: objects that are traceable in space and time.

Now I need to understand what all this really means. I’m sure I’ll find some great analysis tomorrow.

On the other hand, I found that the two organizers keynotes (Rael Dornfest and Tim O’Reilly) were not as punchy as last year. They repeated a lot of stuff for the new crowd (at least half of the attendees). They also did not focus much on the theme “Attention” which I did expect. Also a bit surprising that the main opening keynote was not related to this theme.

I’m still looking forward for tomorrow’s great line of speakers.

Technorati Tags : Etech, O’reilly, Sterling, opening, keynotes

Branding Méli-Mélo

Administrator — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:47:09 +0000

In french there is this expression “méli-mélo” that means something like a mish-mash, a mess or a mix.

Well I think I observed some pattern in “mixing” letters together to get a brand for a mobile media service. Have a look at these brands:

Melodeo : music service “integrator” for wireless operators
Modeo: Cowncastle mobile TV service for the US based on DVB-H
Movio: BT mobile TV service based on DAB

I should get the following trademarks: Mevio, Medeo, Molideo, my MeliMelo of course and why not Osolemio !!!

“About” this blog

Administrator — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:42:04 +0000

I just posted a first draft of the about section for this blog. I took it from another text I wrote some time ago. It is not precisely nor extensively what I understand under Broadcasting 2.0 but it’s certainly a good start. I’ll try to work on it in the coming weeks.

Tim Berners-Lee just started his blog

Administrator — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:58:31 +0000

Well, I ‘m certainly not the WWW inventor but I started my blog two weeks before him!

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