Keep up the good work w LJ.

I see a Progressive Insurance ad on TV , the series with the white background and the cute brunette, where the Progressive brunette provides a hand held scanner to the insurance customer guy so he can “tell” Progressive how much he wants to pay for the boxed insurance they provide.

The cute brunette says “power to the people” !

Is this a step toward your VRM model ?

We should speak.

I made a note along the way about a country music article from the Linux Journal, do you remember it?

So, I Googled “Doc Searls Linux Journal” and found the “Giant Zero” YouTube that I started watching last year…I will watch it through.

I think I have a Linux Journal CD around here somewhere and a big pile of LJ Magazines. I will look there next.

ideas…

I haven’t been addressed as Doctor Dave in thirty years (except by a few Olde Ones who knew me back in the century).

There is no collection, far as I know. I mean, I usually look up a word string on Google and hope for the best.

I would love to have somebody gather up just my Linux Journal pieces and make a book of them. But it’s a low priority for pretty much everybody, including myself, hate to say. Looking forward and all that.

I have followed and share your interest in content delivered to internet consumers bypassing traditional content silos as the net infrastructure moves forward.

You have a great understanding of the traditional broadcasting model and have written many pieces on the subject from the past, and your vision of decentralized broadcasting going forward.

Some of these articles are here, some are at the Linux Journal.com, and some are in the printed version of the Linux Journal.

Do you have a index of the wealth of different articles you have written on broadcasting?

Thanks for all of what you do.

BTW the particular math abstract you cite is relevant to my day job, which involves map and location content data management and the data products and services that result. Partitioning large (and typically spatial, but not always) data sets and ensuring confidentiality of (let’s call it) user shared location data keeps coming up over and over. So I’m going to share this…

I did pretty well in college math, but that’s years and years ago (I’m close to your age cohort) and have some trouble understanding abstracts like this too, but a long careful slog can sometimes be rewarded, especially if/when the writer takes the effort to tie an (ahem) “executive summary” to the actual mathematics as they are being exposed. In my experience, some do, and some don’t.