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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Brough Turner says Network Neutrality is the wrong fight – I strongly agree – we should have been fighting for Common Carriage all along! This is a point I’ve been making for some time now.
However, the best way to fight is for communities to deploy their own networks and to interconnect them.
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
I found this statement of Natalia Ginzburg’s – after a friend suggested her work: “The Little Virtues”
“I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but a love of one’s neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.”
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Funny how the other night, WTTW/Chicago Tonight covered 4G wireless communications and there was no historical reference to City’s intention (or interest) in establishing a city-wide wireless network several years back. We get stuck on the totemism of the new technology and don’t discuss any deeper issues of collective investment in our common destiny. This is the City where we privatize everything, and sell off (or sell out?) our future first.
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Today is Media Democracy Day —- I was really looking forward to participating and making the case for what I think is important in establishing shared resources and common infrastructure for local, community and democratic media here in Chicago – and the social benefit sector as a whole — but alas, am on the road on a family matter. Best wishes to all.
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