Obama has appointed Julius Genachowski to head the FCC, which I think is pretty good. Genachowski is on the record as supporting network neutrality. Also, there’s a fair amount of eco-friendliness and tech-savviness in his background — he headed up the Obama team’s internet campaig...

New Zealand’s collective student debt is approaching NZ$10 billion!! Lets take a look at the cost of living for a student in Dunedin per week and get an idea of how crappy this situation is. Weekly cost of living Rent = $100 p/w Energy, Internet and telephone = $75 p/w Health = $20 p/w Food = ...

In December 2007, the New America Foundation released an in-depth report and analysis of the Philadelphia Wireless project. This New America Foundation report focused on productive interventions and potential opportunities for community organizers and decision-makers, but was met with hostility by W...

So Sunshine and I have lived in Dunedin NZ for 2 years now. That’s a long time in my mind, but it seems I have a lot more time to go before I can say that we’ll feel connected here In Australia, I felt quite connected in my profession - even though I was only in it for a similar amount o...

I first saw Andrew Odlyzko’s article Content is not king in Vol 6 Num 2 of the journal First Monday. First Monday has consistently delivered many a mind altering experience for me, and even 6 years later it is worth revisiting this Feb 2001 article. In it Andrew makes an almost prophetic argum...