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Jeez, you never know when you’ll be a bystander to some kind of warfare. It is reported in today’s Wired News that Six Apart blog platforms like TypePad–the host for FISpace–were down Tuesday because they are associated with an anti-spam company called Blue Security. Apparently Blue Security is figuring out how to deal with spam, and one powerful spammer launched ...

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (formerly Motorola Semiconductor) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for wireless, networking, automotive, consumer and industrial markets. The company provides original equipment manufacturers with chips to help them drive advanced cell phones, manage Internet traffic and to help make vehicles safer and more energy efficient. How many do you own? Chairman ...

We’ve been having some email discussion about marketing in online communities. Maybe a fresh perspective would be useful. So here’s a web site about “bottom-up marketing.” One aspect of this is to have change start out on the edge, get some adoption, and have the change pecolate into and up the organizaton. I hope FISpace and FICenter are like that. ...

Given that my IT department doesn’t support wi-fi in any way, shape or form, it’s illustrative and a tad frustrating to run across this CNet map of the municipal wireless and broadband projects in the works.  (Actually I was given a 14 ft. Cat 5 Ethernet cable, but that’s not my idea of being mobile.) The option I’m pursuing now ...