20070616Sat
Our nation is less than two weeks away from the arrival of the iPhone, but all is not well. Apple’s exclusive partnership with AT&T makes the iPhone a very difficult purchase to reconcile with nerd values.
20070606Wed
I’m not the only person to suggest that the very nature of the web challenges existing power structures, but harnessing that nature into specific projects that can be completed in a reasonable amount of time with limited resources requires more thinking.
20060807Mon
I spent several hours today trying to get my new Comcast High-Speed Internet Cable Modem connected. The experience really drove home the point that these bozos are not who we want running the internet and just how important passing net neutrality really is.
20060802Wed
It would be a great story if Senator Rick Santorum took his family to see An Inconvenient Truth and left the theater realizing that his Grand Old Party was defecating all over the world he was planning on leaving to his children, invoking in him a profound shift of character which culminated in his full [...]
20060712Wed
The telecoms must be scared; they’re already fighting dirty. Consider, if you will, these three news items:
Hands Off the Internet, a “grassroots” website against network neutrality.
Tom Giovanetti’s OpEd in the Mercury News, “Network neutrality? Welcome to the stupid Internet.”
Sen. Ted Stevens’ already infamous “The Internet is a series of tubes” speech.