Archive for October 25th, 2008
Act Now for Better Internet Access
There’s a good chance that on November 4th the FCC’ll do something really good to improve Internet and mobile phone access in the US: on that day the Commission is planning on voting on regulations to open huge swatches of idle but extremely valuable radio spectrum for open UNLICENSED use. There’s also a very good chance that special interests will succeed in delaying and/or killing this long overdue action. Your input to the FCC PRIOR TO TUESDAY’S DEADLINE FOR PUBLIC COM...
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Steve Garfield: New Media Tools for Journalism: Community And Conversation
“Looking at places on the web to find and engage in conversation.” Professor Garfield presented these slides to his class at Boston University College of Communication School of Journalism on Oct 23, 2008: New Media Tools for Journalism: Community And Conversation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: twitter facebook) from the blog post: Steve Garfield / New Media Tools for Journalism: Community And Conversation from his blog, Off On A Tangent. — Steve - t...
A Recession will be Good for Craigslist
With the “r” word (recession) slowly going from a whisper to a quiet roar, the spending habits of consumers are going to quickly change. If people are going to make purchases, many of them will be bargain-hunting - waiting for increasingly anxious retailers to have sales, or live without something new until they can afford it or their existing computer, jeans, car, etc. no longer works. Amid this consumer landscape sits Craigslist, which has supplanted eBay as the leading place onlin...
Thanks to Our GigaNET Sponsors
We’d like to say thanks to this month’s GigaNET sponsors: Volo Media: Download a free white paper on advertising insertion, measurement, targeting and campaign management for downloadable audio and video Peer1: ValuePro Managed Hosting Plan, $299/mo Ki Work: Take control of your online business Brain Keeper: Collaboration that works Rackspace Hosting: Experience fanatical support Acquia: Commercially supported Drupal Sun Microsystems: OpenSolaris meets the Web scalability of Amazon EC2 ...
HD Radio Increasingly Goin’ Mobile
Audi of America joined a growing list of car makers that will offer HD Radio as standard equipment in new cars. Audi will include HD Radio on many of its vehicles starting in calendar 2010 for the 2011 model year, it said. Other companies offering HD Radio as a standard feature in at least one model include Hyundai, Ford and Volvo. Other luxury car makers who offer HD Radio as an option include Mercedes Benz, BMW and Jaguar. Currently approximately 1,800 AM/FM stations broadcast in HD Radio and ...
Why did I Decline to Join Freedom2Connect Facebook Group?
Earlier in the afternoon I received an invitation from a good friend of mine, Carl Ford, to join a Facebook group called Freedom2Connect. In his invitation, Carl asked to Come help protect VoIP from retroactive regulatory models. I declined to… ...
HDTVs Sales Single End to STVs
Shipments of High-Definition televisions this year surpassed that of standard TVs, according to iSuppli, a leading market researcher. Significant price reductions and the increasing availability of content over multiple distribution channels are the key drivers behind HDTV sales. And don’t all sports events look better in HD? As a result, HDTV shipments are expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 20% from 97.1 million units last year to 241.2 million b...
Marathon Skype voice call: 66 hours 40 minutes
Guest post by Monty, a Palmdale, California, ham radio operator and computer geek. Monty blogs on LiveJournal, tweets, and is on Skype. Tuesday, 21 October 2008 4:08 AM. Chatting with Guthro. We’ve been connected for over 10 hrs 45 mins, wow! 8:02 PM. Attempting to have a single Skype call that lasts at least 24 hours, to see what Skype’s display shows after 1 day call duration 8:04 PM. Guthro’s PC crashed, so call duration only got to 22 hrs, 31 mins, trying again now thou...
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