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3 February 2003
Filed under:Current Affairs (US) at6:28 pm

The (rather self-importantly-named) Institute for Public Accuracy does a point by point rebuttal of the State of the Union Address. It is something you can only really do effectively on the Internet – you can juxtapose Bush’s words not just with commentary but with links to more in-depth analysis of each given item.

Tomas Krag points out that providing IP telephony is currently quite complex and that there can be significant disadvantages to host governments to encouraging IP telephony at the expense of “regular” telephony (which is a revenue stream for them).

Don Cameron (donhome (at) mudgeeab.com.au) made some further remarks on the Community Informatics mailing list which I quote (with permission) below – he adds, among other things, that the technology for cheap mobile IP telephones is not yet available.
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Tripod, one of the leading purveyors of easy to create web pages, has launched a DIY blog service (currently only available to paying Tripod subscribers, however). AOL is clearly interested as well. Can Microsoft and Geocities be far behind?

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