|
|
we are a member of:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Headlines
The Royal Reading of the Reports |
Source: http://blog.lextext.com/blog/index.xml - Mar 29, 2006 1:35:24 |
 The ICANN "Public" Forum begins, as usual, with the Royal Reading of the Reports and the announcement, as usual, that today's public forum must end early and tomorrow's public forum will begin late.
As you scroll through the list below, note the place of high importance that the Board has placed "open microphone." Here is this afternoon's agenda: President's
Report; Supporting
Organization & Advisory Committee Reports; ccNSO
Report; GNSO
Council Report; ALAC
(At-Large Advisory Committee) Report; Public
Comment on President's Report & Supporting Organization &
Advisory Committee Report; Nominating
Committee Report; Ombudsman
Report; Public
Comments on Nominating Committee & Ombudsman Reports; Break; Morocco
2006 Meeting Hosts; Brazil
2006 Meeting Hosts; Presentation
on President's Strategy Committee; Public
Comments on President's Strategy Committee & Open Microphone. |
Videocast: ICANN Confronted by Angry Users |
Source: http://blog.lextext.com/blog/index.xml - Mar 28, 2006 21:12:42 |
 Here's a video snippet from tonight's welcoming ceremony by the host country. It's big....about 20 megabytes....and only a minute in length. It's the video capture from my digital still camera. Worth watching though.
On her weblog, ICANN Board member Susan Crawford observes: "Although it was hard to see over all the heads of the people in front
of me, I believe that Vint Cerf participated this evening in some kind
of warrior ritual involving (not by him) shouting, stamping, and waving
spears. Gentlemanly as always, he was very game."
From what I understand, video capture of public events like this is illegal in Bulgaria.
|
Blog Metrics |
Source: http://blog.lextext.com/blog/index.xml - Mar 28, 2006 19:14:14 |
Several people have asked me this trip how many people read my weblog and listen to my podcasts. Short answer: I don't know. I have a guess that the weblog is read regularly by about 500 people and that the podcast is downloaded (I can't measure listens, only downloads) by less than half of that. Here are the stats from Blogware for the month so far, which would make it seem like the actual readership is substantially higher than my guess.
|
|
| Stat |
March 27, 2006 |
March |
| Distinct hosts served |
2,711 |
66,973 |
| Bytes transferred |
729.2MB |
17450.5MB |
| HTML requests |
6,584 |
164,312 |
| XML requests |
4,563 |
126,353 |
| Total page views |
11,147 |
290,665 |
|
ICANN Inflation |
Source: http://blog.lextext.com/blog/index.xml - Mar 28, 2006 5:24:29 |
Open the Draft of the ICANN Operational Plan, turn to page 15, and then look at the column titled "Resources Required." This is the cost of a new gTLD application. At the public forum on the Operational Plan, I said that this looked like about $250,000. The answer was that $250,000 was about right, but the actual number will depend on the outcome of the GNSO policy process. This is five times higher than the application fee required from Afilias and Neustar and Global Name Registry and the other new registries accepted in November, 2000. If you're interested in this, you ought to participate in the new gTLD policy processes (and perhaps comment on the ICANN Operational Plan). The cost of a new gTLD application will be directly proportional to the complexity of the new gTLD evaluation process.
|
ICANN, Meet Dave Winer |
Source: http://blog.lextext.com/blog/index.xml - Mar 27, 2006 23:14:01 |
He's here to help. Dave writes: "I'd like to do an unconference for people who do conferences. The
topic? How to improve conferences, to make them more valuable to the
people who participate, to actually enable problem solving, moving the
discussion from the hallways into the conference room."
ICANN needs this. We have the smartest audience in the world, and we need to find better ways to involve them in the discussion with the Board. I'm dreading the next few days when the formal ICANN meetings begin with the royal "reading of the reports." Reading to people who can read -- and have fifteen hour plan flights to reach the conference in which to do so -- is a waste of valuable time.
I lightly moderated an unconference in the ALAC on Sunday on new gTLDs. It was fantastic. Meeting notes are here. We need more of this. The ICANN meeting planners should attend Dave Winer's unconference on the unconference for people who hold conferences.
|
Speculation on the Speculation |
Source: http://blog.lextext.com/blog/index.xml - Mar 27, 2006 22:22:18 |
MarkMonitor White Paper on the .EU Landrush: "With more than a million new .eu domains expected by the end of this year, .eu is expected to be the most important new domain extension since .com....During the Sunrise phases, the demand for .eu exceeded that of all previous TLD releases at launch, and it is now expected to become the second largest domain extension behind .com. In fact, some experts are projecting that ultimately 60% of .com domains will be registered in the .eu space."
|
Handbag/purse based combination electronic gadgets |
Source: fresh patents - Mar 27, 2006 19:18:06 |
| In present invention, a way to combine the applications and convenience of several electronic devices into a handbag/purse while preserving the fashion is presented. The much bigger screen in present invention, as compared to those in |
Handbag/purse based combination electronic gadgets |
Source: fresh patents - Mar 27, 2006 19:18:06 |
| In present invention, a way to combine the applications and convenience of several electronic devices into a handbag/purse while preserving the fashion is presented. The much bigger screen in present invention, as compared to those in |
Handbag/purse based combination electronic gadgets |
Source: fresh patents - Mar 27, 2006 19:18:06 |
| In present invention, a way to combine the applications and convenience of several electronic devices into a handbag/purse while preserving the fashion is presented. The much bigger screen in present invention, as compared to those in |
Handbag/purse based combination electronic gadgets |
Source: fresh patents - Mar 27, 2006 19:18:06 |
| In present invention, a way to combine the applications and convenience of several electronic devices into a handbag/purse while preserving the fashion is presented. The much bigger screen in present invention, as compared to those in |
Handbag/purse based combination electronic gadgets |
Source: fresh patents - Mar 27, 2006 19:18:06 |
| In present invention, a way to combine the applications and convenience of several electronic devices into a handbag/purse while preserving the fashion is presented. The much bigger screen in present invention, as compared to those in |
Handbag/purse based combination electronic gadgets |
Source: fresh patents - Mar 27, 2006 19:18:06 |
| In present invention, a way to combine the applications and convenience of several electronic devices into a handbag/purse while preserving the fashion is presented. The much bigger screen in present invention, as compared to those in |
Handbag/purse based combination electronic gadgets |
Source: fresh patents - Mar 27, 2006 19:18:06 |
| In present invention, a way to combine the applications and convenience of several electronic devices into a handbag/purse while preserving the fashion is presented. The much bigger screen in present invention, as compared to those in |
Handbag/purse based combination electronic gadgets |
Source: fresh patents - Mar 27, 2006 19:18:06 |
| In present invention, a way to combine the applications and convenience of several electronic devices into a handbag/purse while preserving the fashion is presented. The much bigger screen in present invention, as compared to those in |
Handbag/purse based combination electronic gadgets |
Source: fresh patents - Mar 27, 2006 19:18:06 |
| In present invention, a way to combine the applications and convenience of several electronic devices into a handbag/purse while preserving the fashion is presented. The much bigger screen in present invention, as compared to those in |
Handbag/purse based combination electronic gadgets |
Source: fresh patents - Mar 27, 2006 19:18:06 |
| In present invention, a way to combine the applications and convenience of several electronic devices into a handbag/purse while preserving the fashion is presented. The much bigger screen in present invention, as compared to those in |
|
|
|
| Did You Know? |
| A Japanese porn company offered $3 million to purchase the Napster trademark and web site from the bankrupt company. This could be a case of a name being worth more (or less?) than meets the eye. |
|
