If you are tired of your choices of internet providers and want something faster, you are probably tired of waiting for some huge telecom company to install something faster, since they are perfectly happy making money off their old, slow connections. But a group of rural farmers in England took matters into their own hands, […]
© Tony Auth Is social media really changing what is politically possible? I hope so.
As someone who has been working with the Internet since close to the beginning, I almost blew a gasket yesterday when I read an article in the Wall Street Journal by Gordon Crovitz claiming that “Contrary to legend, it wasn’t the federal government” who invented the Internet. The article was meant as a slap against […]
© Matt Bors I don’t know about the Matrix, but the big question about the Internet is how long it will take for corporations to figure out how to co-opt it, the same way they did the media, restaurants, and rock & roll.
Despite Jon Stewart poking fun at us for trying to take credit for the relatively peaceful revolution in Egypt, I really do have to wonder what role the Internet played in all this. Is free exchange of information making it more difficult for dictators to control their populations? I hope so.
Level 3, who operate one of the Internet backbones, issued a press release today about Comcast, one of their customers. Here is an excerpt: On November 19, 2010, Comcast informed Level 3 that, for the first time, it will demand a recurring fee from Level 3 to transmit Internet online movies and other content to […]
Scientific American presents an interesting example of how even seemingly small politically-based decisions can have far-reaching and significant consequences. Ten years ago, the US ranked at or near the top in most studies of broadband internet price and performance. But in 2002, the FCC (dominated by Bush appointees) made an strange decision. They classified broadband […]
© August J. Pollak On the internet, everyone is an expert.
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