Archives for September 2006
WSJ on Verizon’s Ultrawide bandwidth FiOS rollout
In a post from Sunday night I suggested learning everything you can about Verizon’s FiOS and AT&T’s Project Lightspeed. These are the two game-changing, bigger piped, ultrawideband internet connections (up to 50 megabits in Verizon’s case, although that gets pricey).
The Wall Street Journal just made getting information about FiOS a lot easier. A subscription is [...]
Short Post: More on Broadband, Verizon, etc…
KenRadio.com has some useful data on the ever-decreasing cost and ever-increasing bandwidth of home broadband. You can check it out here. Registration is free but required, and I recommend this publication as a handy source of daily data.
What the REAL “Web 2.0″ will look like… when it happens
I can’t be the only one to balk at calling the current wave of media innovation Web 2.0, can I? I’ve gone on the record previously saying that we are, at best, somewhere around Web 1.02. Yes, social media is a game changer for big media, and yes we’re living in an astonishing new world [...]
Shout out to the USC Writing 340 Students Looking at this today…
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I have a Facebook account, but I’m not an avid user, so I’m interested in what you think of all this. Go ahead and comment in the blog or poke me via Facebook and let me know. If you give me permission, I’ll publish some of your thoughts here.
The blogosphere [...]
More on Facebook: Community Becomes Mass Culture
I continue to find compelling both the Facebook fiasco of last week and the astonishing timing of the reputed Yahoo offer… just when Facebook loses, ah, face. And I’m still puzzling over why so many of the Facebook users cyber-picketed News Feed and Mini Feed. As I mentioned in an earlier post, Danah Boyd [...]
