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		<title>Cognative Surplus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good article here.  Go read it.
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		<title>Net Neutrality and the Internet as a Platform</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Net Neutrality debate has been stumbling along for several years now, and still there is no real consensus as to what, if anything, is needed as a course of action.
The inherent obstacle, from both a technical and business level, to an open access approach to broadband engineering is that the fundamental economics of broadband [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Assistance in Broadband Buildout</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A post on a WISP-oriented list directed me to maps of broadband availability in Tennessee.  This is a good example of government playing an essential role in economic facilitation.  A simple elegant , efficient way of introducing needs and opportunities to business investors.
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		<title>FCC 700 MHz Drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting inside look at some FCC wrangling here.
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		<title>The Death Star, Open Standards and Internet 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ipurbia.com/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said it once and I&#8217;ll say it again: too many tech startups spend way too much time ridiculing the big guys and too little time actually keeping a close eye on the competition and, well, competing.
AT&#38;T is rolling out voice over IP as part of its U-Verse offering.  This isn&#8217;t all that interesting: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of Illinois and Feds fight over Worker Verification Program (part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A comment to my previous post elicited an anonymous response by an individual who &#8220;works closely with E-verify&#8221; and took umbrage over my analysis that the program unfairly labels the person a criminal.  I am posting their full comment below at the end of this posting for those interested in it.
In general, their response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of Illinois and Feds fight over Worker Verification Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blurb is a little scanty, but while out and about this evening I caught a news clip on NPR about a fight between the Federal government and the State of Illinois over a worker verification program created by the Department of Homeland [Pseudo-]Security.
The jist of the program, called &#8220;E-Verify,&#8221; is that employers can run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of the craftsmen whose work is never done</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article on the concept of the &#8220;professional manager&#8221; versus the master craftsman. 

&#8220;The &#8216;professional&#8217; manager earns no respect from the workforce because he can&#8217;t show them how to build a product or to meet their immediate concerns,&#8221; Mr Protzman wrote in an e-mail to Kenneth and William Hopper, authors of the recently published management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whither Telecom?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ipurbia.com/?p=74</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter of Rad-Info recently blogged about the 10 things that he hates about telecom, a list that to some degree or another matches some of my gripes about the industry.  Most of his list centers around the CLECs and their lack of vision, innovation, or ability to compete in an industry that is no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Mystique</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ipurbia.com/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few years, I&#8217;ve been observing various ways in which ideas and concepts spread as it&#8217;s a highly critical aspect to launching a new product or service.  After all, if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around&#8230; (although, as Alex observed in a comment on the last post, [...]]]></description>
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