November 2008
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Ahead of time
I hate to sleep through history, but that’s the plan. I’m sitting here in a hotel in London at 10:20pm GMT with a connection too slow for video and barely fast enough for audio. Meaningful results won’t be coming in here until about 3am, which is when I’ll get up and try not to listen… Continue reading
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They oughta know
Fox News: A recently released report by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion contains a chapter entitled “Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter,” which expresses concern over the increasing use of Twitter by political and religious groups, the AFP reported. “Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists,… Continue reading
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Curseriver
Thanks to Jonathan MacDonald for pointing to Cursebird. Go there and watch the @#$% tweets flow. Continue reading
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Infinite play
If you get your Internet from a cable company, or from a phone company that connects you to the world through fiber, you’ll find your Net service is the third act in what they call “triple play“: phone, cable TV and Internet. Nothing wrong with triple play. Just something limited. Triple play reduces the biggest… Continue reading
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How do you make a U.S. iPhone work in E.U.?
One reason I got the iPhone was that it’s GSM. Meaning it should work outside the U.S. I also thought I had a plan with AT&T that allowed that. Well, now I’m in Europe and my iPhone just says “Searching…”. Did it in Frankfurt, and does it in London. Anybody have any clues for a… Continue reading
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Welcome to Frankfurt. Please be confused.
I got to use my minimal Deutsch this morning: “Der Bahnhof ist Kaput.” The train is broken. The only way to get from Terminal A to Terminal B was to go through security twice and passport control once. Then began the hunt for Gate 62, from which my connecting plane to London will depart, presumably.… Continue reading
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On the road again
Hitting the road for a long road trip, with just a brief visit back home in Boston next Friday. I’ll be hitting… VRM Hub, London Telco 2.0, London Internet Identity Workshop, Mountain View Public Media BarCamp, Santa Cruz See some of ya’ll in some of those places… Continue reading