ian andrew bell

http://news.com.com/2100-1033-982130.html

By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 27, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

Read more about VoIP

A group of telecommunications giants is quietly pushing a proposal that could create hang-ups for up-and-coming Internet-telephone rivals.

At stake are rules used to divvy up the 5.2 billion unassigned phone numbers set aside for use in North America, one of the biggest potential markets for Internet, or voice over IP (VoIP), telephone services.

VoIP technology allows people to make phones calls that travel over the Internet rather than solely across wires owned by long-distance phone companies. Such calls can be made from telephone systems that tap into the Internet, and from PCs.

The cost of making such calls is significantly less than that of basic long-distance service because the calls bypass the phone companies’ lines. As a result, many large corporations and tech-savvy consumers are using VoIP to make long-distance calls.

Net telephony providers such as Vonage and Net2Phone enjoy an unfettered stream of new numbers passed down from other carriers, which they can hand out to customers as they wish. Now, Verizon Communications, BellSouth and Qwest Read More

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Amy Lennon <@yahoo.ca>
> Date: Tue Sep 2, 2003 5:23:08 PM US/Pacific
> To: Ian Andrew Bell
> Subject: @F Al Jazeera English website
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> for anyone interested in learning about the Arab
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> version website: http://english.aljazeera.net/
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> AMY LENNON amylennon2003@[spam]yahoo.ca
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http://www.heritagehockeyclassic.com/

he Edmonton Oilers Hockey Club has announced further details of its 25th Anniversary season, which will include the first ever NHL regular season game played outdoors. The game, to be titled “The Heritage Classic”, will be the centerpiece of a year-long celebration commemorating the Oilers 25 seasons in the NHL, and will take place on Saturday, November 22, 2003, at Commonwealth Stadium. The date of November 22 is significant, as it also marks the 86th Anniversary of the National Hockey League, which was formed in Montreal on that day in 1917.

The Heritage Classic will feature two of Canada’s premiere “heritage” teams - the Edmonton Oilers with five Stanley Cup Championships, and the Montreal Canadiens with 24 Stanley Read More

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Owen Byrne
> Date: Mon Sep 1, 2003 5:23:45 AM US/Pacific
> To: fork [at] xent [dot] com
> Subject: Mayberry Machiavellis
>
> is a nice turn of phrase. The quote from Mr. R. Glenn Hubbard gave me
> the biggest laugh I’ve had in a while.
> Owen
>
> *http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 030915&s=conason*
>

On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 08:20 PM, Pablo Shiladitya Bose wrote:> On a road trip through Washington State, Oregon, California,
> Utah and Nevada, I got asked if I was Filipino, an “Ah-rab”, Mexican,
> and even Nigerian.

Pablo… you’re Nigerian? Do you have an important business proposal for me concerning the deposit of 23 million dollars wired to my account to protect it from the corrupt Nigerian secret police? If so, please allow me to forward my banking details.

-Ian.

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-Ian.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cidR8&ncidR8&e=2&u=/ap/ 20030828/ap_on_hi_te/webcasting_suit

Online Music Broadcasters Sue RIAA 36 minutes ago

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By RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - An alliance of online music broadcasters sued the recording industry in federal court Wednesday, alleging major record labels have unlawfully inflated webcasting royalty rates to keep independent operators out of the market.

Webcaster Alliance, an organization claiming some 400 members, filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming the major labels and the Recording Industry Association of America ( news -web sites ) have maintained a monopoly over their music.

The suit alleges the negotiations for arriving at royalty rates to broadcast songs over the Internet violated federal antitrust laws and seeks an injunction that would prevent the major labels from enforcing their intellectual property rights and collecting royalty payments.

The current royalty rate for broadcasting music over the Internet is 7 cents per performance for each listener accounted for, a rate that has kept small webcasters from entering the market, said Ann Gabriel, president of Webcaster Alliance.

Gabriel’s organization would like Read More

http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2003/08/21/ what_should_google_do.html

What Should Google Do?

What good is a blog if we can’t use it to opine on how people smarter, busier, and more successful than we are should do their jobs?

Actually, the point of What Should Google Do? (my free PDF) is to show all of us how easy it us to unbox our thinking if we really want to. I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to share it all you like.

I bet you could do the same for just about any company you can think of, even yours…

Posted by Seth Godin at August 21, 2003 09:23 PM

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1022027,00.html

Arrogance of empire Paul Foot Wednesday August 20, 2003 The Guardian

In hospital last month for a (literally) nerve-wracking operation on my back, I was lucky enough to have with me an advance copy of Robert Harris’s novel Pompeii. At one level, the book is a thriller that kept me going through the entire sleepless night before the operation. At another, it is a thinly disguised satire on the arrogance of an empire that extended itself by force of arms so far across the world that it ignored elementary social and environmental problems at home. The fact that Pompeii before the eruption of Vesuvius was home to the richest Roman exploiters adds to the irony.

At the beginning of the book, Harris quotes, quite irrelevantly so it seems, the statistic that ancient Rome provided itself with more water than New York City did in 1995. Whether he chose this city by chance I do not know, but over last weekend, just a week before Pompeii was published, millions of citizens of New York and other US cities were plunged into darkness and chaos. They were obliged to suffer at least Read More

This one’s for Jeff (Pulver).

-Ian.

—— http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cidR8&ncidR8&e=2&u=/ap/ 20030819/ap_on_hi_te/blackout_ham_radio Ham Radios Came to Rescue in Blackout Tue Aug 19, 1:14 PM ET By STEPHEN SINGER, Associated Press Writer

HARTFORD, Conn. - When technology failed on a massive scale last week, some old-fashioned broadcasting stepped into the breach as ham radio operators took to the airwaves to reach emergency workers.

For millions of people in the Northeast and Midwest, the Aug. 14 outage took access to e-mail and the Internet with it. Landline and cellular telephones were jammed by a crush of calls.

But the ham radio, which came into being in the World War I era, connected firefighters and police departments, Red Cross workers and other emergency personnel during the most extensive blackout in the Northeast since 1977.

Ham operators are not dependent on a server or cell tower, and with battery backups can operate when grids can’t.

“When everything else fails, the ham radio is still there,” said Allen Pitts, a ham operator in New Britain. “You can’t knock out that system.”

The radios are operated by a network of volunteers organized by Read More