Daily Archives: April 4, 2006

… and now they’re a verb! Thanks, Beth… I never would have thought of that myself. The last sessions at Freedom to Connect featured Mark Cooper and Chris Sacca. Chris showed us what Google’s doing in Mountain View with wireless, among other things. Mark… well, I hope someone else blogged Mark’s session. The guy was [...]

Quotes Galbraith: The US has always been a country of private wealth and public poverty. Critiques privatized Iraq war, privatized health care… educational costs, tuition at public universities… “private Internet, that’s an oxymoron”… quotes Susan Crawford, calls her brilliant… 1997 WTO treaty has brought broadband to those countries that pay attention to it… the US [...]

Ron Sege (Tropos) sells muni mesh wifi gear. Esme Vos is a muni wifi evangelist. Jim Baller calls himself “the luckiest attorney in the world” because he gets to practice in this space. The back-channel is full of controversy around the issues of whether or not municipal government should sponsor this first mile access business… [...]

The Internet has reached its peak, hasn’t it? Ed has a blog – Freedom to Tinker. Pace of innovation IS ebbing. The market for spotless white lab coats has shrunk to nothing. Freedom to tinker with the end-point is equal to the freedom to connect. Biggest threat is the lawyer in his spotless white lab [...]

Gordon Cook recommends two books: America at the Internet Crossroads by Michael Bookey and Tom Vest’s The Wealth of Networks (internet ecology) Dave Hughes… “Dammit we have a RIGHT to communicate!” Dave presents his bonafides and darn if I don’t predate him in the world of datacom. There was a passion in Dave’s presentation that [...]