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NYC Misses Clue Train
Q: Why did the New York MTA miss the ClueTrain?A: Because it couldn't find a train schedule anywhere!The New York Times reports that the MTA considers any use of its public train schedules that it...
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Benoit Felten in Washington DC
One of the more thoughtful infrastructure analysts in the business, Benoit Felten, has a free evening in Washington DC on September 8. If you're trying to understand the Eurofiber scene, Benoit's your...
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Highly unusual meeting . . .
Forbes reports[Yesterday there was] a highly unusual joint meeting of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, the Maine Public Utilities Commission and the Vermont Public Service Board. The goal...
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FairPoint to renege on deal
The Concord (NH) Monitor reports:FairPoint Communications told regulators yesterday that it will not meet its commitment to expand broadband internet access to 75 percent of its access lines by the...
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BTOP Reviewer Isn't a Reviewer Yet
There's a new blog in town, BTOP Reviewer, by Mike O'Connor that documents his experience as he applies to be a reviewer for the NTIA's Broadband Technology Opportunity Program. As a reviewer, he would...
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Ai Wei Wei, censorship, earthquake, protest, police brutality, surgery, the...
Was Ai Wei Wei, the awestriking artist from mainland China I met at the DLD conference in 2007, beaten by Chinese police for protesting the deaths of thousands of school children in Chengdu when...
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Texting & Driving, Killer App!
Are cellcos complicit in our nation's 42,000 traffic deaths and 2,500,000 injuries every year? Let's talk about the Last Mile . . .This morning's "News" story on the local Disney-GE-Time-Warner-Fox-TV...
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Verizon throws 18 states under the progress train
I am a happy Verizon FIOS fiber-to-the-home customer in Connecticut, I admire the long view Verizon took to build its FIOS infrastructure, and I appreciate the substantial punishment that Verizon took...
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Are Colleges Obsolete?
Zephyr Teachout, of Dean Campaign fame, has an Op-Ed in last Sunday's Washington Post that builds an intriguing disruption scenario from several trends in college education. Her central claim is...
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OneWebDay, an excellent Op-Ed
The Op-Ed quoted below, in yesterday's Burlington (NC) Times-News, by Janna Quitney Anderson, hits the very core of the spirit of OneWebDay.This is a hot time for the World Wide Web in North Carolina,...
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Making Network Neutrality Sustainable, Revisited
Today FCC Chairman Genichowski announced that the FCC's Network Neutrality Proceeding is entering the rule-making stage. This is a historic milestone, worth celebrating, but the milestone is on a road...
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Just saying . . .
Net Neutrality will be small potatoes if the U.S. Supreme Court expands corporate personhood. The carrier could become just-another-biased-intermediary rather than a trusted, neutral...
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Flash!!! Global Crossing discovers Ethernet
I was going to leave a comment on the Global Crossing blog posting entitled The Safe Bet Seems to be Ethernet, but that blog's comments are temporarily disabled.The post's author, Jeff Smith, Global...
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Quote of Note: Blair Levin
"Broadband is a way that people connect to the Internet."Blair Levin, Executive Director, Omnibus Broadband Initiative, as interviewed by David Weinberger here. Why I care.Technorati Tags:...
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Happy Birthday Norton Buffalo!
Norton Buffalo, harmonica player extraordinaire, turns 58 today.Not all that big a deal, except that he's just been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, and it has spread into his brain.Norton has...
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Wrong on the "Exaflood," Wrong on Network Neutrality
In 2007, Johna Till Johnson, president of Nemertes Research, published a paper that hyped a so-called "Exaflood" -- a kooky Discovery Institute idea about how the Internet would drown in its own...
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New Rules? Not here.
The new FTC rules about disclosing quid pro quos, business relationships and other possible ulterior motives will not affect this blog.I've always disclosed facts that might influence my opinion about...
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Nobel Prize honors fiberoptics
Woods Hole, my home town, has six scientific institutions and a year-round population of under 1000. As Gloucester is to fish, as Pittsburgh was to steel, as Palo Alto is to venture capital, so is...
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Mood Messages
UPDATE: Problem solved! Thanks to Phil Wolff and Anonymous. The key is:Skype Preferences>Advanced>Disable Mood Message ChatDoes anybody know how to block "Mood Messages" in Skype?If so, please...
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Ten riskiest foods regulated by the FDA
A is for Afghanistan, B is for Budget, C is for Climate Change . . . down the list somewhere there a government role for food safety. [The free market hasn't done a very good job under laissez...
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Meatloaf as content
Ethan Z reports a BIF-5 talk by Don Tapscott about learning from your kids, who said hewas invited to spend an hour on national TV, surfing the web. His son refused to watch the show – when they talked...
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Rachel in Woods Hole
I've known since I was a child that Rachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring, did much of her biological work in Woods Hole. A current friend's father was Carson's station chief at what we used to...
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The long tail of live music
Maybe it's just me, but at age 60 I've stopped having fun at big-room music events. For the last decade I've been running on fumes; I've been to maybe three big-room events that were memorable. For two...
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I've joined the FCC National Broadband Plan team
Yesterday at blogband.gov it was announced that I've joined the FCC's National Broadband Plan Task Force. I'm delighted to be helping Blair Levin and his team on this important mission. The Plan is due...
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