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The Giant Zero
The world of distance Fort Lee is the New Jersey town where my father grew up. It’s at the west end of the George Washington Bridge, which he also helped build. At the other end is Manhattan. Even though Fort … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Broadcasting, Ideas, infrastructure, Places, Politics, privacy, problems, Technology
Tagged Books, Giant Zero, internet, telephony
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Speeding on the Subway
At the uptown end of the 59th Street/Columbus Circle subway platform there hangs from the ceiling a box with three disks on fat stalks, connected by thick black cables that run to something unseen in the downtown direction. Knowing a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geography, infrastructure, Internet, Personal, Photography, Places, Technology, Travel, VRM
Tagged @Ookla, @TMobile, infrastructure, internet, mobile, new york, research, RF, speedtest, subway, telephony
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Thoughts on privacy
In Here Is New York, E.B. White opens with this sentence: “On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.” Sixty-four years have passed since White wrote that, and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Business, Cluetrain, Future, history, Internet, Links, News, Past, Personal, Personal clouds, problems, Technology, VRM
Tagged Fourth Amendment, internet, privacy, privacy by design, VRM
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FiOS is in my street. Can I have some?
[4 December: I got a call from Verizon and an answer. For that, skip down to *here.] We have a new apartment in Manhattan. Washington Heights. Verizon FiOS is here. FiOS trucks roam the streets. They set up little tables … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Call center hell, Personal, Places, problems, Technology, VRM
Tagged fios, internet, Manhattan, new york, verizon, Washington Heights
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Hey Verizon, show us some upstream FiOS love
If you want to get the most out of your Verizon FiOS (fiber to the home) Internet connection, here are your top two tiers: I have the one on the left, and that’s what I’m paying for it. The service … Continue reading
Posted in Business, infrastructure, Places, Technology
Tagged fios, internet, upstream, verizon
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Purple Reign Ends
Prince, to the Mirror: “The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fun, music, News
Tagged "David Weinberger", breaking news, Copyright, internet, Mirror, MTV, music, News, over, Prince
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Reliable old blogging
So here I am on a street in Saverne, France, getting on the Net over a rare open wi-fi hot spot. I was going to tweet something about it, but Twitter is down. So here we are. There’s one Net, … Continue reading
How the Internet becomes the Content-o-net
The Cinternet is Donnie Hao Dong’s name for the Chinese Internet. Donnie studies and teaches law in China and is also a fellow here at Harvard’s Berkman Center. As Donnie sees (and draws) it, the Cinternet is an increasingly restricted … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Future, infrastructure, Journalism, music, News, Places, Politics, problems, Technology
Tagged "Net Neutrality", Ars Technica, Big Content, China, Cinternet, Content-o-net, Donnie Hao Dong, encirclement, fcc, france, google, Hollywood, intermediary liability, internet, ISP, MPAA, Net, Rebecca MacKinnon, RIAA, self-discipline, U.S.
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The Infrastructure Dynamic
I just posted Rupert Murdoch vs. The Web, over at Linux Journal. In it I suggest that the Murdoch story (played mostly as Bing vs Google) is a red herring, and that the real challenge is to free the Web … Continue reading
Posted in Business, infrastructure, Life, News, Politics, problems, Science, Technology
Tagged "Bob Frankston", "Dave Winer", "Net Neutrality", Bing, Business, dynamic, google, infrastructure, internet, Krakatoa, Montserrat, Net, News, oxygen, Pompeii, suckage, The Regulatorium
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