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I came across this preparing to visit Prof. Plott at my alma mater next week… here’s some snippets from one of his very latest papers; he’s been interested in information aggregation of late. DECENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT OF COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES: For several centuries, villages in the Italian Alps employed a special system for managing the common […]
Two years ago Trevor F. Smith wrote about the pronunciation of “Vannevar Bush”: Bush showed his own “spark of belligerency.” He was quick to take exception to things. Even his own first name, with its Dutch pronunciation (Vuh-NEE-ver), irritated him. “The strange name” was “a nuisance,” always requiring an explanation or a quick lesson in […]
BoingBoing in Wikipedia proves its amazing self-healing powers pointed us to The Isuzu Experiment, which goes like this: Joi Ito points to an ongoing discussion regarding the authority of wikipedia as a source of information and knowledge. The discussion was prompted by an article in the Syracuse Post-Standard that suggests, in part, that wikipedia “take[s] […]
David Longworth wrote an excellent piece, Grid Lock-in On Route To SOA, declaring that “vendor strategies to promote grid computing as the IT backbone for service oriented architectures are missing a vital element: standards.” Among his findings: Immature and incomplete standards for sharing grid computing resources could leave enterprises locked into vendors’ proprietary technology stacks: […]
Amit Patel wrote about a 1996 piece from Hal Varian on differential pricing: I had thought that charging customers different prices for the same thing was unfair and the result of pure greediness. But Hal Varian explains why “differential pricing” might be better than fixed pricing, especially in industries with high fixed costs. One of […]
A step in the direction of “decentralizing Akamai” — but still uses the “centralized DNS” to create an interesting distributed web caching network — is the Coral Content Distribution Network. Mike Dierken talks about the Coral CDN by quoting Gordon Mohr quoting Michael J. Freedman’s post to the p2p-hackers list: To take advantage of CoralCDN, […]
A long time ago, I wrote an article for a standards-policy seminar at UC Irvine on my experience with the development of the World Wide Web Consortium; I later presented to a cyberpolicy seminar in Georgetown. That was about it, until I started reflecting on the challenges in intiating a new Labs division for CommerceNet. […]
It would be really interesting to see the state-of-the-art in actual tagging technology. I have to admit, for being a lab focusing on the Now Economy, I haven’t actually held an RFID tag in my own hot little hands. (There was an InterMEC reader left behind in my cube when I moved in, though :-) […]
We’ve recently written a new position paper titled Agoric Architectural Styless for Decentralized Space Exploration. It’s been submitted to the 2004 Workshop on Self-Managing Systems (WOSS’04) to be held at FSE-12 in Newport Beach. it was originally based on some notices of intent (NOIs) for a NASA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) on innovative Human & […]
The following are only a few lines of excerpts from an extremely important argument about the “culture of design” surrounding software. It is a critical aspect of any effort to design “software that works the way society works,” to cite the credo of the decentralized software architecture crowd. It may have an important impact on […]