After a decade with Speakeasy, I switched to Qwest for my DSL. From what I understand, Qwest has fiber running to the my block with copper the house. Additionally as I understand – this switch from copper to fiber means Qwest is no longer compelled to make bandwidth available to resellers like Speakeasy. The copper …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Where’s My eBlotter?
– John Scalzi – Shmuel
AT&T Also Betting on WiFi?
I’ve got a long bet that WiFi will take over our telecom. Voice, video, everything. It’s cheap, it’s unlicensed, it’s nearly ubiquitious and both 802.11[a-z] and the wired broadband to those wireless points is getting faster and faster. For years now I’ve been a fan of T-Mobile’s HotSpot@Home program where calls originating within a WiFi …
Like Fail
Emphasis mine. “The Refresh Project accomplished everything a social media program is expected to: Over 80 million votes were registered; almost 3.5 million ‘likes’ on the Pepsi Facebook page; almost 60,000 Twitter followers. The only thing it failed to do was sell Pepsi.“ “It achieved all the false goals and failed to achieve the only …
Working at it
“In fact, to the extend that the future is shaped by human action, it is not much use in trying to predict it – it is much more useful to understand and work with the people who are engaged in the decisions and actions that bring it into existence” – Saras D. Sarasvathy “The instant …
My Reaction to the NYTimes Announcement
Today, the NYTimes announced their digital subscription offering. In reading through the 6 major bullet-points describing the subscription offering, my initial reactions as a reader are: This sounds hard and complicated. Can I become a home delivery subscriber and opt out of receiving the paper? Earlier this week, Elko pointed me to NYTimes Chrome – …
Goodhardt’s Law: Web Advertising Edition
When a user visits one of these …. sites, the Web page launches dozens of pages that are hidden from the computer user. These hidden sites are filled with paid links to legitimate websites. Unbeknownst to the user, software built into the …. sites forces the user’s computer to click on these links, sometimes hundreds …
Towards a Modern Weblog Architecture
“It should be as easy-to-install and easy-to-use as WordPress — easier, actually, would be better. Not-requiring a database at all would be awesome. To be successful, like WordPress it would probably have to be done in PHP, since PHP remains the commonly-installed scripting system on shared webservers.” – Brent Simmons I’m still using WordPress personally, …
undead
“The drive-by technorati are well-informed, curious and always probing. They’re also hiding… hiding from the real work of creating work that matters, connections with impact and art that lasts.” – Seth Godin
Consistent for Whom?
“A lot of Twitter’s success is attributable to a diverse ecosystem of more than 750,000 registered apps. We will continue to support this innovation. We are excited to be working with our developer community to create a consistent and innovative experience for the many millions of users who have come to depend on Twitter every …