AT&T’s new toll-free data plan is a great idea. For AT&T. Everyone else, not so much. It’s been a bit since I’ve written about net neutrality (really, it’s been a while since […]
Net neutrality? It’s not complicated, AT&T
Trouble in Murdochland redux
A couple of months ago we noted that things were not going all that well in Murdochland, what with investigations heating up over allegations that phone hacking–that delightful pastime of hacking into […]
City Forward & Other Technologies Change Our Understanding Of Our Environs
<by Rafael Noboa y Rivera I’ve written in the past–whether it was about IBM’s Smarter Cities Challenge or City Forward projects–about the different ways that cities can serve as laboratories of government […]
Obama U-turn on net neutrality? Let's hope so…
A few days ago FCC Chair Julius Genachowski suggested that the administration was seriously considering abandoning the president’s uncompromising pledge to enforce net neutrality. Some suggested at the time that the comments […]
Nota Bene #91: No Joke
Well I figured I’d give you all a break
The Weekly Carboholic: Port of Long Beach powers BP supertankers with electricity
Port of Long Beach powers BP supertankers with electricity Most companies don’t mention climate change in annual reports Scotch distilleries to cut fossil fuel use Videos show human effects on Earth Dependence […]
Joe Nacchio, American Motherfucking Hero
Dr. Slammy offered up some thoughts the other day on Joe Nacchio, the prison-bound former CEO of Qwest. For the good doctor, the case is both public and personal. For my part, […]
Joe Nacchio heading to jail; Justice weeps anyway
Don’t call it schadenfreude. That’s the term for taking pleasure in the misfortune of others, and I’m not guilty of that. What I feel today, as I review the news that former […]
Good for Obama!
According to today’s NYTimes, President-elect Barack Obama is digging in his heels about giving up his BlackBerry. Good for him! I understand that there are security and legal concerns – cell phones […]
Meanings, pt. 2: a crisis of prevailing values
by Michael Tracey It isn’t just that there is an appetite for scandal, sex, sleaze, death narratives, it is also that feeding such appetites can be very profitable. The fact is that […]
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