Top ten lists
Do you have one for 2007? The top ten books, the top ten moments, the top ten surprises?
I enjoyed FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s Top Ten Predictions for the 700 MHz Auction:
# 10. AT&T will say the outcome proves network neutrality is not necessary.
# 9. Google will say the outcome proves network neutrality is necessary.
# 8. NAB will say the outcome proves the XM-Sirius deal should be rejected.
# 7. I will say the outcome proves the country needs à la carte.
# 6. Congress will spend the auction receipts 10 times over before we cash the checks.
# 5. No matter how fast the D Block licensee builds out the public safety network, Commissioner Copps will say it was too slow.
# 4. Even if AT&T and Verizon bid against each other, costing each other billions, Consumers Union will claim they conspired to rig the bidding.
# 3. No matter who wins the A, B, C, D, and E license blocks, they will all end up suing Vonage for patent infringement.
# 2. If anything goes wrong, I will blame the subprime mortgage crisis.
# 1. If anything goes wrong, everyone else will blame me.
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I love Jeremy Denk’s blog. Here’s a recent entry about a destructive doping scandal in the classical music world: Newsflash.
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Well, the top item was enunciated by a character in the latest Bill Gibson novel:
“See-bare-espace… it is everting.”
I think this is related to a top ten list by Mark Anderson:
http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2007/12/users-revolt-ne.html
The Denk piece is humor imitating life, as this, well, actually was a news story in 2004.
See: Better Playing Through Chemistry
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/arts/music/17tind.html