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No alley-oop for the maverick


Sent to me by a reader; an entry here on Mark Cuban’s blog titled How to Make US Broadband Competitive – Quickly and Cheaply, which discusses current problems with US broadband infrastructure and how that relates to Net Neutrality. Okay – let’s dispense with the obvious first – Mark Cuban has a lot more money [...]

Stay Naked Sunday


Another gorgeous day here in geishaland, and it’s Stay Naked Sunday too! Yay!
After an incredibly busy geekified week which saw me moving data around three different computers, getting my Linux workstation up and running, reorganizing the way content is presented here, culling the blogroll, doing a slash and burn on commercial [...]

Speak Up: FCC Coming to Harvard to discuss Net Neutrality


A public hearing on the future of the internet is scheduled to take place tomorrow at Harvard Law School where all five FCC commissioners will be in attendance to discuss the issue of Net Neutrality.
While Harvard University may be located in the heart of the People’s Republic of Cambridge, we shouldn’t underestimate the powerful telecommunications [...]

YouTube Tuesday: Pearl Jam and Net Neutrality


It was just about one year ago that I first became aware of efforts by the nation’s largest telecommunications companies to capitalize on a 2005 Federal Communications Commission decision which would have allowed these same telco giants, many which own the physical internet backbone and also provide internet service to millions of customers, to gut [...]