June 15, 2006
Tom Evslin - Muniopolies
Tom Evslin talks about the quickening pace (and low price) of planned municipal WiFi networks.
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June 12, 2006
Tom Evslin - Global Warming – Too Important for Junk Science
Tom Evslin points out that the glaciers have been melting for fifteen thousand years – but that we still may have reason for immediate concern.
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June 01, 2006
Tom Evslin - Dynamic Clusters – Maybe You CAN Get There From Here
Tom Evslin talks about a couple of examples from his readers of how dynamic peer clusters CAN be formed and grow to critical mass.
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Tom Evslin - You Can't Get There From Here
Tom Evslin broaches two business ideas which could be hits for anyone who can figure out how to get to critical mass from a standing start.
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May 22, 2006
Tom Evslin - The Voice of AOL and Me
Tom Evslin explains why he heard David Lawrence’s voice twice in the same day. The second time was David interviewing Tom about his novel: that interview’s available for a quarter here. Two free clips are here and here.
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May 11, 2006
Tom Evslin - Why a Great Programmer is Worth Fifty Good Ones
Tom Evslin opines that a great programmer is worth fifty merely good ones.
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May 08, 2006
Tom Evslin - If You Liked FEMA, You’ll Love BellSouth
Tom Evslin answers BellSouth’s negative position on providing emergency service to its customers during disasters like Hurricane Katrina. BellSouth was responding to the Pulver/Evslin petition to the FCC.
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April 27, 2006
Tom Evslin - The Next Huge Thing – Base Assumption
Tom Evslin tells why he thinks that all American cities will have free WiFi available within three or four years.
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April 24, 2006
Tom Evslin - Instead of Foreign Aid
Tom Evslin thinks almost all foreign aid should be abolished – there better ways for the West to help the Rest. The success of China and India is a hint.
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April 19, 2006
Tom Evslin - Should You Go to Business School?
Tom Evslin thinks nerds and entrepreneurs don’t need an MBA.
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April 17, 2006
Tom Evslin - Amnesty for European Settlers
Tom Evslin is not sure his ancestors had a valid visa. He knows the people on the Mayflower didn’t. He supports amnesty for illegal immigrants who have worked and obeyed other laws and an immigration policy which avoids the incentive for illegal migration.
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April 13, 2006
Tom Evslin - Better Communication in Disasters – One Step Closer
Tom Evslin asks people to file comments on the petition he and Jeff Pulver filed with the FCC to try to assure that communications are better in the next hurricane than they were in Katrina. The form for commenting is here and you need to insert the code RM-11327 in the first line to identify the petition you are commenting on. The petition itself can be read here.
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April 05, 2006
Tom Evslin - Verizon PAYS Content Provider
Tom Evslin points out that Verizon is paying CBS for content despite the telcos claim that content providers ought to pay them to reach their users.
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April 04, 2006
Tom Evslin - Should The Internet Be Lawless?
Tom Evslin asks whether the should be law on the Internet.
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Tom Evslin - David Isenberg and The Rise of The Stupid Network
Tom Evslin explains David Isenberg’s historic paper on why “stupid networks” like the Internet are far better than the "intelligent networks” favored by telcos.
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March 31, 2006
Tom Evslin - Book Review – The Search
Tom Evslin reviews John Battelle’s book The Search.
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March 30, 2006
Tom Evslin - John Battelle’s The Search and Google Book Search
Tom Evslin quotes an interview he did with John Battelle about why John’s book The Search is not available on Google Book Search – not a decision John made himself or agrees with.
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March 29, 2006
Tom Evslin - Free Business Idea - Sponsored WiFi
Tom Evslin has an idea for a new business – sponsored WiFi.
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March 28, 2006
Tom Evslin - AT&T is Ripping Off American Soldiers
Tom Evslin claims that AT&T is overcharging American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan for calls home to the US and misusing its position as payphone provider at PXes to block cheaper alternatives.
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March 24, 2006
Tom Evslin - Never Again
Tom Evslin explains what he and Jeff Pulver petitioned the FCC to do to assure that families do not become unreachable the next time a catastrophe makes their physical phone lines unreachable.
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March 22, 2006
Tom Evslin - What Should Google Do About its Stock Price
Tom Evslin has some friendly but unsolicited advice for Google.
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March 20, 2006
Tom Evslin - The Blogobubble
Tom Evslin talks about the bursting of the blog bubble and makes some optimistic predictions about blogs and media.
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March 13, 2006
Tom Evslin - Advisory Capital – Comments, Discussion, and the Wikipedia Entry
Tom Evslin explains why he made a Wikipedia entry for advisory capital and discusses some of the comments on his recent post and podcast about this subject.
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March 09, 2006
Tom Evslin - Disrupting the Venture Capital Industry – Advisor Capitalists
Tom Evslin picks up on Stowe Boyd’s idea for making the advice and connections usually offered by VCs available separately from the money – especially for those who don’t yet need to raise money.
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March 08, 2006
Tom Evslin - VC Primer from an Entrepreneur’s POV – The Five Year Plan
Tom Evslin announces the good news that VCs no longer require entrepreneurs to prepare fictional five-year financial plans and tells you what to do instead.
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March 07, 2006
Tom Evslin - VC Primer from an Entrepreneur’s POV – Finding First Round VCs
Tom Evslin talks about finding first round VCs – providing you need at least $500,000 to launch your wonderful idea.
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February 28, 2006
Tom Evslin - VC Primer from an Entrepreneur’s POV – What About Angels?
Tom Evslin describes the role of angel investors and the different kinds of individuals you’ll find in this role.
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February 27, 2006
Tom Evslin - Freedom of Speech
Tom Evslin says that even Holocaust Deniers and those who speak against free speech are entitled to freedom of speech.
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February 23, 2006
Tom Evslin - VC Primer from an Entrepreneur’s POV – The Funds
This podcast distinguishes between VC firms and the different funds they raise and manage and why this all matters to an entrepreneur.
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February 21, 2006
Tom Evslin - VC Primer from an Entrepreneur’s POV – Source of Funds
First in a series by Tom Evslin on VCs from an entrepreneur’s point of view. This one deals with the types of VC funds and entrepreneur is likely to encounter
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February 16, 2006
Tom Evslin- It's My Mailbox; Pay Me
Tom Evslin reacts to the claim by AOL and Yahoo that they have to charge advertisers to reach us in order to protect us from spam.
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February 14, 2006
Tom Evslin - How MAPI Beat VIM
Tom Evslin tells a behind the scene stories from his days at Microsoft on how this API war was won.
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February 10, 2006
Tom Evslin - Fatah's Final Failure
Tom Evslin says that the election of Hamas was the final failure of corrupt Fatah. He hopes that most Palestinians voted for Hamas for domestic reasons rather than because they endorse terror.
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February 07, 2006
Tom Evslin - Internal Protectionism
Tom Evslin lists domestic industries like health care, education, communications, and government which are protected from international competition but which MUST be competitive in price and quality if the US as a whole is to be competitive in a flattening world.
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February 02, 2006
Tom Evslin - The NY Times When it's Right
Tom Evslin is very pleased with a NY Times article which points out “the broadband carriers of today provide service that attains negative perfection: low speeds at high prices.”
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January 31, 2006
Tom Evslin - It’s Time to Worry About RBOCs – Unwire!
Continuing to worry about the power of the baby bells, Tom Evslin describes the wireless antenna on his roof through which the local ISP provides Internet access to a few dozen of Tom’s neighbors who can’t get DSL or cable broadband access.
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January 27, 2006
Tom Evslin - It's Time to Worry About RBOCs
Tom Evslin worries about the growing power of the baby Bells now that they are no longer opposed by the lobbies of AT&T and MCI and now that we have a much less Internet-friendly FCC.
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January 24, 2006
Tom Evslin - Foodstuff Benefits
Tom riffs on what would happen if food were a corporate benefit like healthcare is today. “Preexisting cravings are not covered.”
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January 20, 2006
Tom Evslin - The Brand Bank
Tom says that, while at AT&T (the old one), he learned how a brand bank should be managed. He describes how the brand was essential to the launch of AT&T WorldNet Service and how WorldNet repaid the brand bank with interest.
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January 17, 2006
Tom Evslin - Relaunching the at&t Brand
Tom says that a billion dollars would be better spent promoting services which would actually benefit the users of at&t services than in pure brand promotion for the new, lower-case at&t. he gives some examples of what at&t could do.
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January 13, 2006
Tom Evslin - Full Ellipse
Tom describes the 14 year ellipse his family took from Vermont to Vancouver to Seattle to New Jersey and back to Vermont again.
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January 09, 2006
Tom Evslin - Evolution's not religion, and vice versa
The problem with the current debate is that Intelligent Design advocates claim that Intelligent Design is science AND that scientists and others are acting as if Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is a religion. The latter is as much a mistake and as much a hindrance to good education as the former, according to Tom Evslin.
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January 06, 2006
Tom Evslin - A service that needs to exist
Tired up signing up separately for every web service you want use? Or looking for a new business opportunity? Tom Evslin has a suggestion for a new service.
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January 04, 2006
Tom Evslin - Daddy, what's a channel?
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin suggests that cable companies unbundle channels and sell them separately to subscribers. Tom Evslin says channels themselves are obsolete.
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December 22, 2005
Tom Evslin - Book Review: Ordinary Heroes
Tom reviews another book about war, Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow.
This is the second in a series of Tom's reviews on books about war. To hear his thoughts on 1776, click here.
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December 16, 2005
Tom Evslin - Book Review: 1776
In this podcast, frequent VON Radio guest Tom Evslin chats up David McCullough's 1776.
This is the first of two podcasts from Tom regarding books about war...stay tuned for his forthcoming review of Ordinary Heroes.
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December 12, 2005
Tom Evslin - Don't Outsource Thinking
This is another podcast from frequent VON Radio contributor Tom Evslin, and a part of a series in his blog about lessons he's learned from AT&T. Particularly, this one is "A riff on the use of consultants at the old AT&T."
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December 08, 2005
Tom Evslin - The First Rungs of the Ladder
Tom Evslin, regular contributor to VON Radio, inspired by the recent events in France, signs on to discuss the necessity of bottom rungs on the ladder to success.
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December 05, 2005
Tom Evslin - When to go IPO
Another podcast from our regular contributor Tom Evslin, about how to know when to take the plunge and become a publicly held company.
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