Sonia Arrison, one of the Internet’s foremost thinkers, writes an article in CNET on Why it’s time to rein in ICANN

If you haven’t yet seen the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, check it out. this one chronicles BridgePath from its inception through 2002.

Others:
* Old Summations
* Ye older versions of the Internet Herald (a web zine i used to run back in 1996)

this site … actually … is pretty scarry ….

Eric Engel, my good high school friend, recently starred in a short movie that won Best Screenplay and Best Movie in the 48 Hour Film Project in Boston (Eric plays th CTO of a failed Internet company). It is amazing what people can put together in just 2 days.

The movie might take a long time to download (it is 25MB), but it is worth viewing.

Eric writes:

As you may know, I was in a short film last month as part of the 48 Hour Film Project (www.48hourfilm.com). Well, we won both Best Screenplay and Best Movie!

The task was to make a movie, from scratch, in 48 hours. Each team picked a genre (ours was mockumentary) out of a hat at 7pm on a Friday, and was told to incorporate three things into their movie – a sled, a Boston landmark, and a psychic named Bill Lattell – other than that there were no rules. We then had to concept, write, cast, costume, secure locations, film, score, edit, and deliver the final cut by 7pm on Sunday. This was a test of speed and ability to make a quality piece with very limited editing, sound, effects, etc., which you just don’t have much time for in 48 hours. Normally one would take weeks to produce a film of this length!

We now go on to the finals – an international competition taking place in Austin, TX in March.

If you would like to watch the movie, it is available at http://pizza4utogo.com/. Note that it is pretty big (25MB) and you may need to upgrade to the newest version of Quicktime (www.quicktime.com) to view it.

The Social Software Weblog

Jason McCabe Calacanis’s weblog on social networks software is the most comprehensive news site on the industry … period.

i’ve recently got turned on to the the site but now i will be sure to read it every day. Calacanis gives very detailed information and he is remarkably accurate and informed with rumors in the space.

Feedster :: RSS Search Engine

I’m probbly a bit behind the times — but this site is very useful. It is a Google for RSS — a very good search tool for blogs.

Main Page – Wikitravel

WikiTravel (in the spirit of Wikipedia) is a collaborative travel site.

It has just started but it is pretty amazing — I encorage you to check it out.

Monster To Debut Networking For Job Seekers

I know this is old news for many of you, but Monster.com is going to soon add social networking to its offering. Of course, I think they should just buy Ryze.

Over the last five years, I have had many discussions with the folks at Monster (and some of their competitors) about promoting social networking. I’m a big fan of Monster and I hope they are successful with this.

Why Blacklisting Spammers Is A Bad Idea

interesting article on Roland Piquepaille’s blog

Privacy, Economics, and Price Discrimination
on the Internet

Andrew Odlyzko, of the Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, wrote a compelling paper about how the Internet is allowing some businesses to charge higher prices to different customer segments.

(This short paper was referenced in the recent Economist and is very compelling).

Check out:
CIA – The World Factbook — Rank Order – GDP – per capita reveals a ranking of 231 territories/countries and their rank order in terms of GDP per capita.

Luxemberg is first with $44,000 … followed by the U.S., Bermuda, Cayman Islands, San Marino (a random country of 28 thousand located within the borders of Italy), Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada, and Belgium.

The lowest GDP is East Timor (with $500) … followed by Somalia, Sierra Leone, Gaza Strip, Mayotte (near Madagascar and run by France), Burundi, Congo, Tanzania, and Malawi.

The New York Times Magazine published another interesting article:

The Futile Pursuit of Happiness

definitely worth reading — the article tries to answer questions about our expectations of happiness. will that BMW make us happy? researchers have found that it will probably not make us as happy as we expect. will a death of a loved one cause us incredible grief? maybe, but the long term effect of a death will make us less sad than we suspect.

according to the article, humans tend not to predict very well the gradation of happiness.

Scientific Formula for Love

Can we create love in a laboratory? This interesting article (from the San Francisco Chronicle. This story originally appeared on Monday, August 26, 1991, p. D5) is a gem.