Twlight Zone in America
by Lucky7Star © January 4, 2007
I’ve been looking at some interesting cycles over at ZDNet and enjoying the New Year discussion between Mitch Radcliff and ZD’s editor.
Rational Rants On-The-Ether: Google’s place in the world, with Dan Farber by ZDNet’s Mitch Ratcliffe — Dan Farber rang me up to discuss my Rich Skrenta’s Google’ dominance posting, my response and follow-up of this morning. You can listen to discussion here. Join the discussion by calling “godsdog” on Skype. It’s a social medium, after all, so let’s talk.
What’s really an interesting points concerns Google’s demise in the Internet market (roomers of my death overated:), when it seems obvious they have almost by proxie become the Internet. Then compare this to what Mitch Radcliff describes as the marginal sucess of ATT. I was a bit taken back by this remark and wanted so just say “Ya know Mitch when you say that ATT was not really “THAT” successful at market dominance… That’s a little like saying Ford was not very good at building cars. If government had not stepped in with the anti-trust laws and ATT lost their case against FreeBSD, I sincerely doubt we would even be having this discussion (well maybe on our leased computer from ATT perhaps:).” Dan Farber goes on to elaborate on the point that we may have reached market maturity which is indicated by the process on means and application… But if Google secures the help from governement enties such as the “Office of HomeLand Security” in order to solidify its market share by selectively prescribing what is a legal search and what is not… The would make Ma Bell look like a red headed step-child of your long lost second or third cousin… That is of course if that sort of search is legally allowed by Google or not. If deemed not a legal search, by the Google Guard Dogs, you might even discover that your Red Headed Stepchild never even exisited at all… Yikes!!! Chew on those apples
Apache Sighted “Exception that Proves the Rule” by ZDNet Blogshpere Reads–Precisely my point… I’ve got friends who are writes who are got to the Airport only to be handled and harassed by officials of the TSA and handed back their computer notebook in pieces or key components of their luggage gone missing. I can speak personally from my vintage flags gone missing from recent trip which was my most important game of the college football season. Then when I post something about the incompetence of those of involved my site all of a sudden gets hacked for the very first time and my email disabled along with the domain name hijacked which that I’ve had for years. I’m inclined to think this could all be some sort of really weird set of coincidence if it was just happening to me but something tells me that its not… Talk about your strange pattern. Some serious eroding going on besides the concerns other than our collective aging hairline. BTW Mitch ole friend not to be rude… But about those Apache you keep seeing… Ya might want to keep you head tucked down a bit lower… Couple of close calls no doubt:)
January 4th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Dude, I wasn’t talking about the pre-1984 Ma Bell but the company’s efforts in the 1990s to dominate the Internet with proprietary infrastructures, like General Magic’s Telescript, and acquisitions of data carriers at inflated prices….
Next time, call me and let’s talk for the podcast.
January 13th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Okay, Mitch, fair enough, but ya know with their take over of Bellsouth. That has to be one of the greatest combacks of all time. How did ATT do that??? Its a little strange but I suppose not as weird as some of the weather we’ve been getting of late. BTW Best of luck with the podcast but with all the spam and hack attacks that my sites have been taking lately I just have decided to keep it simple. But with spam which claims to be from Paris Hilton “Gotta pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues, and ya know it don’t come easy” Ringo told us that they’d be day’s like this:)