Wishing
Rick Whitt of Google has a fine post up today.
Google's letter of last Friday gives a tremendous shot in the arm to optimism. Optimism had really been suffering lately, sort of moping around trying to see the bright side of things. This FCC/Google story won't necessarily have a glowing ending, but it's been nice to have a few days of thinking that change might be possible. Thanks for that, Rick and Google.
The presidential debate just finished, and according to the NYTimes liveblogging site most of the candidates just look relieved that it's over. A good day for online video? From the Times:
8:50 p.m.: Cynicism Mr. Obama just offered a good
summary of many of the questions in this debate. Almost every question,
he said, reflected “cynicism” about the capacity of any of the
candidates to change the country.
Who has any capacity to change anything around here? We've got an enormous digital divide, Paul Krugman points out today that the French have a saner telecommunications policy than we do, and Jeff Jarvis says the debate was a huge disappointment. We can't even do that right.