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Yochai Benkler's is the definitive word, "The Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan, announced last week, is aimed at providing nearly universal, affordable broadband service by 2020. And while it takes many admirable steps — including very important efforts toward opening space in the broadcast spectrum — it does not address the source of the access problem: without a major policy shift to increase competition, broadband service in the United States will continue to lag far behind the rest of the developed world."
March 2010 Archives
Tweets she, "I'm 24 today, so u know what that means? Let's raise a glass to 30 more years of writing music and videos for my beautiful little monsters.X"
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HE KNEW: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope and archbishop in Munich at the time, was copied on a memo that informed him that a priest, whom he had approved sending to therapy in 1980 to overcome pedophilia, would be returned to pastoral work within days of beginning psychiatric treatment. The priest was later convicted of molesting boys in another parish.
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The Cambridge, Mass.-based startup introduced SafeReader, a feature that reads messages aloud for drivers, eliminating the need to take their hands off the wheel.
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Mobile data bits traveling around the world outnumbered voice traffic for the first time during December of 2009, according to wireless equipment vendor Ericsson
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Says Fallows, "you cannot look at this "news" coverage and consider it other than outright political activism... For the sake of sanity, precision in language, self-respect, and any other desirable quality we can think of, let's drop the pretense about what's coming across on Fox."
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Steve Safran: Affiliates will get their programming directly from production studios. You used to need syndicators for this process, and now you don’t. Can you think of any reason why a local affiliate shouldn’t be able to program its own lineup? Radio stations do it. Newspapers aren’t beholden to a master plan. It’s only TV, with its ancient DNA, that doesn’t take advantage of the new opportunities.
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Surprisingly good early results from trial using cell phone in math class in rural north carolina.
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FINANCE REFORM IS COMING: financial markets move quickly and democracy moves slowly. The crash of 1929 happens in 1929 in Glass-Steagall, which reforms Wall Street in a radical way, doesnt happen until 1933. There aren't even proper hearings on Capitol Hill about the crisis of '29 until I think late '32.
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#HCR PASS OR FAIL 2: here's how we got to today.
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#HCR PASS OR FAIL 1: here's how we got to today.
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3D-printable Gothic Cathedral playset -- you can print and add as many segments as you'd like and assemble a church to your specification.
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"I’m here at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, for a press conference called by the Google-owned video website. In a room reminiscent of a U.N. meeting, a group of speakers from YouTube, Google, Stanford, Berkeley, and the California School for the Deaf (CSD) are about to speak on YouTube and accessibility..."
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Twitterers mostly consume news, MySpace users want games and entertainment, Facebookers are into both news and community and Digg’s audience has a mixed bag of interests.
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The university is on high alert about the mental health of its students after the apparent suicides of three of them in less than a month in the deep gorges rending the campus. The deaths, two on successive days last week, have cast a pall over the university and revived talk of Cornell’s reputation — unsupported, say officials — as a high-stress “suicide school.”
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Easier than photoshop!
Courtesy of the students who created it in the LITC Media Lab. Bobcat Anthem:
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[This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk] Citation: boyd, danah. 2010. "Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity." SXSW. Austin, Texas, March 13.
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In the last six months, Apple and Google have jousted over acquisitions, patents, directors, advisers and iPhone applications. Mr. Jobs and Mr. Schmidt have taken shots at each other’s companies in the media and in private exchanges with employees.
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On the limits of "Big Data" intelligence: "This phone knows just where I am, within a few feet. It knows the exact time, within a split second. And it can't figure out when and where No Left Turn rules apply?" Challenges with micropayments: "Sorry, sir, your credit card has been declined. Do you have another?" Huh? Next 20 minutes on the phone with Visa, only to learn: a sequence of 75-cent charges had been flagged as probable fraud.Come on, guys. I can't be the first person to try to read newspapers on the Kindle.
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In defending Glenn Beck on ABC, Ailes described him as something like Fox's political id, rather than its whole personality. It is somehow fitting, then, that Sigmund Freud's great-grandson, Matthew Freud, might help put mainstream American journalism back in touch with its collective superego.
This year, Freud, a public relations executive in London and Murdoch's son-in-law, condemned Ailes in an interview with the New York Times, saying he was "ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard" of proper journalistic standards. Meanwhile, Gabriel Sherman, writing in New York magazine, suggests that Freud and other Murdoch relatives think Ailes has outlived his usefulness -- despite the fact that Fox, with its $700 million annual profit, finances News Corp.'s ability to keep its troubled newspapers and their skeleton staffs on life support.
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It is my view that, here in America, our Age of Trauma began with the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. In horrifyingly demonstrating that even America can be assaulted on its native soil, the attack of 9/11 was a devastating collective trauma that shattered our customary illusions of safety, inviolability, and grandiose invincibility--illusions that had long been mainstays of the American historical identity. The economic meltdown and the fall of iconic companies and financial institutions inaugurated a second wave of collective trauma.
My favorite version...
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According to a new report from the iSuppli research firm, the television industry will soon experience “an acute undersupply” of LEDs, the solid-state lighting source used in LCD TVs to create superior video imagery compared to standard LCD TVs, which use fluorescent lamps.
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Oftentimes, opponents of Public Knowledge suggest that our calls for a balanced copyright is really a call for everything to be free. First off, this is wrong. Balanced copyright is an attempt to find a way to promote creation without restricting innovation or creativity (or “balance” the rights of the creators of the past, creators of the future, and the public), not make everything free (for the 2 page handout version of PK’s take on balanced copyright, click here (PDF)). Second, and what really annoys me, is the implication that there is no real value to works once they are in the public domain. While this is kind of an ongoing pet peeve of mine, two articles related to the new Alice in Wonderland movie from Sunday’s New York Times really drove it home.
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In response to a request on Wed., Feb. 24, 2010, from the chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations Higher Education Subcommittees, today University System of Georgia (USG) Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. submitted documents detailing how the USG and its 35 colleges and universities would manage an additional $300 million in reductions to state appropriations in the upcoming Fiscal Year 2011 budget.
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Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. Cable carriage, network airwaves, newsstand distribution and printing presses... The web changed all that and promised that economics in the media business would be driven by content and intent: the best content will win, driven by the declared intent of consumers who find it and share it. Search+Social was the biggest wave to hit media since the printing press. And the open technology to make better and better experiences has been on a ten year tear: blogging software, Flash, Ajax, HTML 5, Android, and more and more coming... But the iPad, just like the iPhone, is designed for vertical integration and distribution lock in... It's an old school, locked in distribution channel that doesn't want to play by the new rules of search+social.
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Nora interviewed danah boyd and William Deresiewicz about the nature of friendship online — whether social networking has changed what we mean when we say ‘friend,’ and how digital tools like Facebook and MySpace ask us to define, categorize, and list our friends.
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