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Twenty Years of Blogging

Phil Windley

I started blogging in May 2002 , twenty years ago today. I wouldn't have started Internet Identity Workshop or been the Executive Producer of IT Conversations. And, of course, I've written a bit (402 posts so far, almost 10% of the total) on identity. I write to understand. Consequently, I write my blog for me.

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Netflix is justing giving DVDs away now

Vox

Netflix founder Reed Hastings holds up a few dozen DVDs headed to eager households in 2002, when the company had 500,000 subscribers. Back then, [Hastings] said that postage rates were going to keep going up and the internet was going to get twice as fast at half the price every 18 months,” Sarandos told Variety in 2018. “At

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Mobiles leapfrog the fixed internet in Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the many insights on this fascinating trip was how mobiles are leapfrogging the Internet across Africa. Across the continent, and even in relatively developed South Africa, fixed broadband Internet is difficult to access, expensive, and unreliable. Mobiles have already leapfrogged fixed line telephony across the continent.

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Global comparisons: Why bandwidth drives Internet participation - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

However the speed of Internet access varies substantially, by a factor of almost five across the countries covered. The second chart shows an unambiguous correlation between bandwidth and time spent online, underlining the debate in Australia and other countries about the impact of low bandwidth Internet access.

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Sharing my life story from a virtual perspective

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the things that happened there, that was just the time when the internet was being born. There was a group called TWICS, which was originally a BBS, a bulletin board system, for pre internet, just on dial up. This was the portal where I first was able to get onto the internet. There was a whole array of others.

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Seattle investor who worked — and rocked — with Paul Allen goes viral with his cover of a grunge hit

GeekWire

But the results are impressive, and the internet is responding. Hall, who moved west in 2002, wasn’t even in Seattle during the grunge hype that changed the city’s musical trajectory. The song and video he recorded in his Bainbridge Island, Wash., The song and video he recorded in his Bainbridge Island, Wash.,

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The evisceration of traditional media – advertising flows to digital - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

However Blodget continues to research the Internet industry on his blog Internet Outsider , where he has recently been writing provocatively titled posts such as Dead-tree media deathwatch: RIP Business 2.0 , Running the Numbers: Why Newspapers are Screwed , and T he Great Advertising Share Shift: Google Sucks Life Out of Old Media.