Why David Carr and Warren Buffett Are Both Right
Today’s media self-examination section of the Times (always on Mondays) had two stories that tie neatly though invisibly together. First, David Carr glumly examined Huffington, the new online (or, more...
View ArticleMonday news
It looks as if the FCC is planning for the Verizon/Comcast deal of late last year to be approved. We don’t have many details, but Verizon is said to be swapping spectrum with T-Mobile (with more...
View ArticleThe sledgehammer of usage-based billing
Brian Stelter’s article today, “Sweeping Effects as Broadband Moves To Meters,” illuminates a part of the local cable monopoly story for high-speed Internet access and the consequences of this power...
View ArticleDerecho and deregulation
As John Schwartz’s excellent article today reports, nearly two million people in 10 states and the District of Columbia are sweltering after the recent derecho. If those people rely on high-speed...
View ArticleHuman rights on the Internet
The Human Rights Council of the UN has adopted a resolution supporting the equivalency of human rights online and offline – “in particular, freedom of expression, which is applicable regardless of...
View ArticleKeeping score: Comcast, Facebook, and the Olympics
Americans may remember watching the Olympics on television. : (“And .. the agony of defeat.”) : This was a collective experience. : There was the theme music, the graphics, the odd sports shown at odd...
View Article“Survey: Mobile App Privacy Fears Continue to Escalate”
That’s the title of a story yesterday. So you might ask: Well, isn’t the Federal Communications Commission the cop on the beat? The answer may surprise you: Because of the tsunami of deregulation...
View ArticleAT&T plan: Bigger and Better (for AT&T)
AT&T has now joined Verizon in announcing a shared data plan for wireless users. This is the moment that the two companies solidify their already crushing set of advantages over T-Mobile and...
View ArticleThe Cable Monopoly: Very Short Summary of 185 Pages
Imagine you’re a consumer sitting in your living room. You like sports. You like high-speed Internet access; in fact, you’ve gotten completely fed up with your DSL connection because it’s so awful and...
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Killing the copper and income inequality
A hundred years ago, America decided that everyone was entitled to an affordable telephone line. Now some Americans (thanks to muni bright spots and other efforts) are making the upgrade to a...
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Killing Program Access and Broadband Competition
Another Friday filing by the FCC: 146 pages on program access.It’s a classic on-the-one-hand-on-the-other item. This time around it’s even worse for the public, because the underlying competitive...
View ArticleThe Facts
This past week, the U.S. Conference of Mayors (“The Voice of America’s Mayors in Washington, DC”) gathered in Philadelphia for a summit on innovation. Philadelphia is Comcast Country; as the late...
View ArticleRemarks at US-Ignite’s Next Generation Application Summit, Chicago Cultural...
Thanks for having me; thanks particularly to Daniel X. O’Neil for the kind introduction. This is a milestone event, revealing some deep paradoxes – at a time when having ubiquitous high-speed Internet...
View ArticleWhy David Carr and Warren Buffett Are Both Right
Today’s media self-examination section of the Times (always on Mondays) had two stories that tie neatly though invisibly together. First, David Carr glumly examined Huffington, the new online (or, more...
View ArticleBig Telco uses shills to smear book about Net Neutrality and telcoms corruption
July 30 – BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow discusses his take on Susan’s detractors. “Susan Crawford is an eminent telcoms scholar, former government official (who resigned because of corruption in telcoms...
View ArticleNew Case Study: The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Evolution...
In 2012, when I was a visiting professor at HKS and HLS, I taught a course called Solving Problems Using Technology. (For the second term, my co-teacher was the wonderful Mike Hooper of Harvard’s...
View ArticleOneCommunity Broadband Hero Awardee, Susan Crawford
August 22 – Campus Technology’s Mary Grush references the influence of visionary leaders, like our very own Susan Crawford, on the landscape of broadband’s future. “Susan Crawford is one such leader....
View ArticleNYT
It’s the first day of school for me here in NYC, and I enjoyed talking to students about the truly excellent three-part NYT series on ESPN that ran this week. The articles were full of useful detail -...
View ArticleVerizon v. FCC: Why It Matters
Tomorrow, Monday, Sept. 9, the D.C. Circuit will hear argument in Verizon v. FCC. [FCC links here to filings in the case - scroll down. I was involved in the 'Natl Assn of Telecomms Officers Assn'...
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