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One interesting fact, told on CNBC this morning, is that while most people are very pessimistic about the current economy most think things will get better in the next year or so. They will. That's because the present trends are pretty easy to reverse, and once reversed should stay that way.

Think of this as Volume 11, Number 21 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. All the economic problems of our time have a single root cause. (Cartoon by Thomas Nast, for Harper's Weekly.) Whether we're talking about the Internet, about wireless technology, or about energy, the cause is a lack of reason to produce more.

The Smear Campaign Against Larry Lessig And Free Culture Techdirt Tue, 04/29/2008 - 16:00 You may recall that I've had my run-ins in the past with the incredibly misnamed Progress & Freedom Foundation. While I tend to think that Adam Theirer does okay work for them, almost every other report that comes out of the "think tank" seems highly questionable.

The Vermont Public Service Department and the Vermont Telecommunications Authority have joined in an ex parte filing at the Federal Communications Commission urging that the Commission “move expeditiously to adopt the necessary technical parameters … and help make this promising technology [use of

We don’t do spring here in Vermont so now it’s summer although there’s still plenty of snow gleaming in the mountains. Time for me to work outside (at least until we get our obligatory late season snowstorm). My cordless phone is scratchy by the time I get out on the deck; it doesn’t like being that far from the base station.

Want a gig (1000 megabits per second) of Internet access bandwidth? Google says you could have it by the end of next year “from Manhattan to rural North Dakota (sic, I think they meant Vermont)” if their proposal to the FCC is accepted forthwith according to CNET’s newsblog.

On the heels of her splendid explanation of the outcome of the 700MHz auction, Susan Crawford explains Google’s proposal to the FCC for the “white spaces.” Here’s my take on her take. (The NYT also has a useful article.) (Note: All errors in the following are mine.

this morning’s post; Google outlines proposal for “Wi-Fi on steroids” “Google on Monday said it has a plan to have American consumers from Manhattan to rural North Dakota surfing the Web on handheld gadgets at gigabits-per-second speeds by the 2009 holiday season.” Hoo-Ha! Yeah! Gigabits per second!