Cisco's Chambers: Networking Is Back

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Chambers: Networking Is Back

Chambers: Networking Is Back 05/13/2004 10:40 PM

Cisco's Chambers headlines N+I

Cisco's Chambers headlines N+I 05/12/2004 11:00 PM
Cisco's charismatic chief executive officer uses his keynote speech at Networld+Interop tradeshow to say customers are more confident than he has seen them in a long time.

Cisco's Chambers Cashing In at Right
Time

Cisco's Chambers Cashing In at Right
Time 11/14/2003 02:53 PM
TheStreet.com Nov 14 2003 1:43PM ET

N+I: Cisco's Chambers sees confidence

N+I: Cisco's Chambers sees confidence 05/13/2004 07:48 AM
ZDNet May 13 2004 11:56AM GMT

Cisco's Chambers: U.S. falling behind in
education

Cisco's Chambers: U.S. falling behind in
education 04/18/2005 01:56 AM
bizjournals.com Apr 18 2005 6:01AM GMT

Cisco's Chambers would welcome Nortel
partnership

Cisco's Chambers would welcome Nortel
partnership 06/17/2004 07:40 PM
Cisco Systems Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers said Thursday he would welcome a partnership with telecommunications equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp.

Cisco's Chambers cites customer
confidence

Cisco's Chambers cites customer
confidence 05/13/2004 07:48 AM
ZDNet May 13 2004 12:22PM GMT

Kroc gives NPR $200M; Cisco's Chambers:
'Positive signs'; Yukos' Shakhnovsky
loses immunity

Kroc gives NPR $200M; Cisco's Chambers:
'Positive signs'; Yukos' Shakhnovsky
loses immunity 11/06/2003 01:26 PM
Forbes Nov 6 2003 12:55PM ET

Galvin aids Motorola; Johnny Cash wins
awards; Cisco's Chambers upbeat; Kroc
gives NPR $200M

Galvin aids Motorola; Johnny Cash wins
awards; Cisco's Chambers upbeat; Kroc
gives NPR $200M 11/06/2003 07:19 PM
Forbes Nov 6 2003 5:45PM ET

Cisco's Q2 Networking Revenue Seen
Strong

Cisco's Q2 Networking Revenue Seen
Strong 03/29/2005 11:26 AM
Forbes Mar 29 2005 3:02PM GMT

Does the Net promote echo-chambers?

Does the Net promote echo-chambers? 01/28/2004 02:33 PM
Steven Johnson questions the conventional wisdom that the Net fragments us into like-minded micro-communities.  (FYI, the seminal elaboration of this viewpoint is Andrew Shapiro's The Control Revolution.) 

I generally agree with Johnson's view.  The Net gives us many tools to filter information and to spend our time in closed communities.  But at the same time, it exposes us to far more diversity than any previous medium.  Those filters are never perfect.  And there is a countervailing pressure toward aggregation, which works against the fragmenting effects of filters.  Google and Yahoo aren't echo chambers, because their value comes from their breadth and scale. 

Furthermore, even when online communities and information sources are narrowly tailored to a specific viewpoint, that doesn't mean the people participating in them are hermetically walled off from one another.  Communities overlap.  If I'm a dog owner, a libertarian, and a fan of Sex and the City (for the record, I'm none of the above), chances are the people and content I interact with will differ from me along at least one of those dimensions.  Some people may vote based on a single issue, but no one is ultimately defined by a single interest.  The more specialized the commuity, the more likely its members will differ on other matters.  Spill-over is inevitable.

The final point is that the Net is still largely an open platform.  There is always room for another community or information source.  Traditional media has never been open in the same way.  With consolidation and the rise of politically polarized news, it is becoming even less so.  At a dinner the other night, I talked with Mark Walsh, a former exec at VerticalNet and AOL, and technology advisor to the Democratic Party.  He is launching a liberal talk radio network called Progress Media in eight cities in March.  Perhaps, on radio at least, there is still some room to challenge the dominant opinion current.

Communities and echo chambers

Communities and echo chambers 02/14/2004 01:24 PM

Shelly asks the question "What part of you, the writer, is part of a community? Where, within yourself, does community leave off and you begin?" and says, "But I guess we're accountable to each other, and that's the most dangerous censorship of all -- it's the censorship of the commons." This is an interesting question that Shelley has pointed out to me and I have been thinking about. In the comments on Shelley's blog, Doc ties it to the notion of the "echo chamber," the effect where we're all just talking to each other oblivious to the outside world. Many people blame the failures of the Dean campaign to this "echo chamber" and point to this "echo chamber" as a problem that is prevalent on blogs. I do see the risks, but I don't think criticizing the existence of communities or friendships is the solution. I think that communities and friendship are the foundations of trust and love and I do not agree that an aggregate of facts and single voices are the solution to finding the "ultimate truth" in writing.

I believe that communities and the feeling of community are an essential part of the equation, but that the goal is to bridge many communities and try to expand one's notion of community the the largest possible size.

For instance, I believe that you can feel your ultimate loyalty to your family, company, city, state, race, religion, nation, type of government or the world. I believe that by putting your loyalty at the highest level allows you to be a global citizen and helps you recognize the importance of whistle-blowers who are often betraying local loyalties for a higher good. I believe that the whole notion of civil rights is a struggle to elevate and increase the emotional size of the community we identify with.

One way to increase the size of the community one identifies with is to participate in multiple communities or to include members from others communities. This is an important part of the "caring problem" that Ethan and I often talk about. I often quote Jack Kemp who once said that, "it doesn't matter what you know if you don't care." One of the problems that mass media faces is that they can report on Iraq, Iran and Africa, but most people don't identify with the people there and they don't care. Salam Pax showed that a single blogger with a voice can increase the caring. Salam Pax is part of our community and we are proud of him and we care about him. Through his eyes, we see Iraq as part of our world and because of him, other Iraqi bloggers have joined our community.

I think the key is to understand that it's not just like a high school. In high school, there is group of friends and everyone spends all of their time concerned about being in that group or not in that group. My life is a jumble of relationships and memberships in a great variety of sometimes conflicting communities of all different sizes and doesn't feel like high school to me. As Ross has pointed out, these can be roughly groups into three sizes. Big power-law shaped groupings, which are political, medium sized groupings which are social, and smaller groups which are strong-tie/family/close-friend groups. My sister used the word, "Full-Time Intimate Community".

The behavior at each of these levels is quite different and it is when we collapse the context that we get in trouble. Comments made between intimate friends are different from the comments that are suitable for a discussion at a cocktail party. Comments made at a cocktail party are often not suitable for a public speech. One of the problems we have on blogs is that all three of these contexts are often collapsed into one blog.

On the notion of "censorship of the commons," I guess I'd disagree with Shelley. I think censorship by a minority of people with influence over the majority is much more dangerous than "censorship of the commons." If the commons represents a general consensus of the views of the community you choose to participate in, they should have some influence over you. I think censorship is really bad when it is exercised from a position of authority, especially one that has the ability to assert such authority through force. I am personally pulled in many directions from all of the communities I participate in and these tensions are interesting and useful. I see them less as censorship and more as points of view that help me triangulate. My traditional Japanese community, my crypto/security community, my feminist friends, my liberal political community and my latte-drinking, orkut-loving, IRC-addicted community all have opinions about what I write. I think about what their opinions will be when I write and I find that this helps me look at any issue from a variety of perspectives. They are each echo chambers in their own way, but I try to escape this echo chamber not by denying their existence or their influence over me, but by recognizing them and using a combination of communities to help me and my readers triangulate.

Chambers coach on charges

Chambers coach on charges 02/12/2004 04:51 PM
Dwain Chambers' coach Remi Korchemny is indicted on charges relating to distributing steroids to athletes.

Chambers: CEO Celebrates As Cisco Turns
20

Chambers: CEO Celebrates As Cisco Turns
20 05/26/2004 12:14 PM
Forbes May 26 2004 3:39PM GMT

Chambers faces drugs charge

Chambers faces drugs charge 02/19/2004 12:00 AM
Dwain Chambers faces a secret hearing on Thursday which will decide his athletics future.

Chambers maps out stock strategy

Chambers maps out stock strategy 09/20/2004 06:42 AM
SiliconValley.com Sep 20 2004 10:39AM GMT

Chambers: Options Inspire Innovation

Chambers: Options Inspire Innovation 12/17/2003 07:16 PM
Business Week Dec 17 2003 6:00PM ET

Procket Deal Official, One Day After
Chambers Explained Why They Didn't Need
It

Procket Deal Official, One Day After
Chambers Explained Why They Didn't Need
It 06/17/2004 11:50 AM
A week ago we wrote about the rumored deal that Cisco had bought massively overhyped router startup Procket for $80 million. All week long, no announcement came, and rumors started flying that there was no deal, or that others were trying to top the deal. Yesterday, there was even more speculation that there was no deal when Cisco CEO John Chambers claimed they didn't need any additional routing products or technology, though he snuck in one important caveat: saying the opportunity to acquire talented engineers might make an acquisition worthwhile. Basically, this was his way of spinning the Procket acquisition in a way that didn't make it looks like Cisco's own new router technology was a complete dud. Today, they made it official. Cisco has acquired the company that raised approximately $300 million and was valued at $1.55 billion for a whopping $89 million... for the engineers, of course. Update: Procket founder Tony Li gives his thoughts in an interview where he says the price is a steal, but buying Procket is definitely going to upset Cisco engineers, who will feel it's a sign that they didn't do a very good job on the CRS-1 router (though, he also thinks Cisco "missed the market" with the CRS-1).

Security demands big-picture view,
Chambers says

Security demands big-picture view,
Chambers says 05/13/2004 08:00 AM
LAS VEGAS -- Highlighting security as a key case in point, Cisco Systems Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers told a full house at Networld+Interop on Wednesday evening that networks need to be built with an overall architecture instead of with a series of point products.

Apple fights internet's echo chambers

Apple fights internet's echo chambers 03/28/2005 12:56 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Mar 28 2005 4:57PM GMT

MMUG London with Grant Skinner and Mike
Chambers

MMUG London with Grant Skinner and Mike
Chambers 05/21/2004 09:54 AM
Flashmagazine - MMUG UK May 2004 The London Macromedia User Group has an enviable track record of attracting world class speakers. In the last...

Mike Chambers picks up the stick on
ActionScript documentation

Mike Chambers picks up the stick on
ActionScript documentation 03/11/2003 11:53 AM
This is something I discussed with Jeremy Allaire and possibly also Mike Chambers two years ago - At FlashForward in NYC 2001. The PHP documentation...

Chambers: Government hinders computer
network development

Chambers: Government hinders computer
network development 04/04/2005 07:03 PM
San Jose Business Journal Apr 4 2005 10:58PM GMT

As Cisco Turns 20, CEO Chambers Sets
High Goals

As Cisco Turns 20, CEO Chambers Sets
High Goals 05/25/2004 04:34 PM
'What we're attempting to do is lead in all categories,' Jon Chambers says, focusing on the company's powerful CSR-1 router set to debut this summer.

Chambers Inaugurates First Middle
Eastern Cisco Technical Support
Organisation at Estarta Solutions in
Jordan

Chambers Inaugurates First Middle
Eastern Cisco Technical Support
Organisation at Estarta Solutions in
Jordan 09/13/2004 01:08 PM
MENAFN Sep 13 2004 5:04PM GMT

Cisco's biggest bet

Cisco's biggest bet 05/24/2004 07:42 AM
ZDNet May 24 2004 11:57AM GMT

Efficiency is Cisco's

Efficiency is Cisco's 02/06/2005 03:13 AM
CBS MarketWatch Feb 6 2005 6:22AM GMT

Cisco's Comeback

Cisco's Comeback 11/14/2003 04:08 PM
Business Week Nov 14 2003 3:13PM ET

Keeping Cisco's defenses up

Keeping Cisco's defenses up 04/15/2004 06:32 AM
CNET Asia Apr 15 2004 10:49AM GMT

Cisco's plan: Ban insecure PCs

Cisco's plan: Ban insecure PCs 11/18/2003 07:47 PM
ZDNet Nov 18 2003 6:48PM ET

Cisco's new incentive offer

Cisco's new incentive offer 01/02/2004 08:24 AM
News Today Jan 2 2004 7:44AM ET

Cisco's $500 million router

Cisco's $500 million router 05/25/2004 07:23 PM

Cisco's Job Shocker (washingtonpost.com)

Cisco's Job Shocker (washingtonpost.com) 05/12/2004 12:45 PM
washingtonpost.com - Silicon Valley, prepare for an earthquake.

Cisco's new router uses IBM chip

Cisco's new router uses IBM chip 06/09/2004 08:52 AM
ZDNet Jun 9 2004 12:47PM GMT

Cisco's Secret Weapon

Cisco's Secret Weapon 05/14/2004 04:50 AM
Business Week May 14 2004 9:06AM GMT

India and Cisco's future

India and Cisco's future 04/01/2005 01:57 AM
Economictimes Apr 1 2005 5:56AM GMT

Cisco's SWAN Song

Cisco's SWAN Song 11/13/2003 01:46 AM
Unstrung.com Nov 13 2003 0:55AM ET

Cisco's at the (WLAN) Switch

Cisco's at the (WLAN) Switch 11/18/2003 12:12 AM
eWeek Nov 18 2003 0:01AM ET

Cisco's stolen software to cause no
damage

Cisco's stolen software to cause no
damage 05/22/2004 08:15 AM
Cyber India Online May 22 2004 11:48AM GMT
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