advocates freeing up low-frequency spectrum globally for wireless broadband and unlicensed applications - Kevin Werbach, David Isenberg, Andrew Odlyzko, Clay Shirky
Global Voices Manifesto
most of us who are born on third base think we hit a triple.
isen.blog - Benjamin Barber shakes things up
David opens by arguing that freedom to connect is a political issue. The Democrats don't like it because they're in the pockets of Hollywood. The Republicans don't like it because they're in the pockets of the incumbent telcos. We need to get political, h
Watching Google over the years, I've not seen a violation of this principle. Surely Google has huge power (see, for example, Jeff Jarvis' recent rant), but as long as it earns my trust in its use of that power, I'll remain a customer.
RIAA: Copyright law is about control. Other Guys: Copyright law is about encouraging innovation. RIAA: Copyright infringement is immoral and is destroying small songwriters. Other Guys: The content industries should embrace online business models.
Some people say that corporate social responsibility, or a "Don't Be Evil" ethic, are actually unethical because to forgo revenue in pursuit of ethics shortchanges the shareholder. I think Google has shown that maybe a "Don't Be Evil" approach is the on
"The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
isen.blog - Free Weekend WiFi Nix
Like the real Soviet ministries, these technology middlemen too often believe they can decide better than the market what goods consumers need . . . U.S. carriers are exercising far too much control over the flow of new technologies into users' hands . .
via http://isen.com/blog/2005/06/consulting-his-higher-father.html "Wow, they let this (quicktime) on Leno!?!"
Appalachian Railroads
[Senate Bill 1294 is] a Senate bill introduced last Thursday by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.). The Community Broadband Act of 2005 (.pdf) says "no state can prohibit a municipality from offering broadband to its citizens."
Brand X will slow the growth of U.S. broadband services even further; we will long for the day when U.S. ranked only 16th in broadband per capita among nations. Unfortunately, the CapEx will already have been exed, e.g., on Verizon's FIOS and Cablevision'
Suggestion: The telcos, cellcos and cablecos should kick in and buy Skype, then hire somebody to run it badly enough that computer-to-computer voice gets a rep for poor quality, insecurity and unreliability. Deliberately create some high visibility faux p
I can't believe that some of my friends, otherwise intelligent people who seemed to get the major impact of the Internet revolution, still think that Global Climate Change is some kind of liberal plot. From corresponding with two of them, I have collected
This post highlights the essential dilema: these people are incompetent because they're set in their jobs. No competition. Pension. How do you make any large organization competent? Ralph Grabowski has a point (http://tinyurl.com/bdozo)
Who will do for government what Dan Gillmor did for the press? That is, who will effectively "break" the story that citizens know more than government officials, can act faster, cheaper, more effectively, in a better-targetted way . . . ?
"But under a permission-only legal regime, the Katrinalist.net volunteers would have had to contact every site with listing data and ask for authorization to use the information first. With dozens of sites popping up in the days following the storm, getti