Mar 4

3 things - Walled Gardens, Blog Editors and Releases   Posted by sharps, tagged with identity javaes netneutrality performancing roller

It's been a busy week and didn't get time to blog (maybe I'm becoming a weekend blogger). If I had, here are 3 things I would've blogged about :

First - here's the most lucid argument for net neutrality I've read in a while . According to Tim Berners-Lee (and he should know), the success of the web and the applications we've come to rely on is a direct result of it's open nature. Nobody has to seek permission before they launch the next killer app.

This question should scare the heck out of anyone who's experienced the dismal state of the US cell phone networks (currently stuck in the 1990's) :

"What if the Internet wasn't designed the way it was? What if it worked more like cell phone or satellite TV networks do here in the United States?"

Just thinking about this sends shivers down my spine. 

Turn this around - what if the networks (cable and cell) worked like the Internet - what if I could get to Vodaphone, Verizon or Comcast content from my Cingular TTUP (Thing That Used to be a Phone). Who wouldn't win in this ideal world ?

Second - I seem to have given up on Performancing (for Firefox) - I'm now using the native Roller editor - AFAIK it does everything Performancing does and I no longer have to modify posted entries to add tags and remove unwanted breaks. 

Third, Sun announced the fifth release of Java ES (official  blurb here). Pat and Don cover some of the Identity Management Features and Alexis has the full skinny.