Long Distance — Update No. 10
This is number 10 in a series of updates on “Long Distance”. What is long distance? When in Singapore or New Zealand or other parts of Southeastern Asia, you know you are a long way from New York — like 10,000 miles or so. Those places are a “long distance” away. But when it comes […]
Train Travel
Thanks to Wayne Jonas Bealer from Reading, Pennsylvania for forwarding a link to a very interesting study by the Christian Science Monitor about Amtrak. If you have any interest in train travel or the economics of train travel, you will find a lot of information on this site. You can click on a train route […]
Raising The Bar – Part 2
I don’t mean to pick on the telecommunications companies but they really make things hard to ignore. The day after the incident with Cingular, I received a letter in the mail from SBC saying "Your enrollment in the SBC EasyCharge program has been approved for the telephone number referenced above". Above my name it said […]
Raising The Bar
Cingular just sent an email with the bold title of "Raising the Bar". I wish. The email said "Your wireless bill is ready online. Account Number: ***-****7607. Phone Number: XXX-XXX-0000". The account number was not mine and the phone number obviously belonged to no one. But wait, it gets worse. My recent email from Vonage […]
The Long Tail
Chris Anderson from Wired talked passionately at Supernova about how the Internet makes it possible to exploit the "niche" portion of the demand for products, services, and content. His theory is that there is more total demand — revenue — from a large number of little known products that there is from a small number […]