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Michael Best on Liberian storytelling
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-07-15
This post is from a MacArthur foundation sponsored workshop organized in Abuja, Nigeria to support Nigerian civil society organizations in using the internet. Mike Best of Georgia Tech studies computing in post-conflict environments, countries recovering from civil war, genocide or other disasters. These countries are almost always low resource areas. In Liberia, where Mike has worked [...] |
CellAntenna Scam Continues To Gain Momentum — Bummer.
Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory
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2009-07-14
Regular readers may recall that I find CellAntenna's continuing effort to leverage the problem of contraband cell phones to get the law changed so that they can sell cell phone jammers legally in this country not merely obnoxious and offensive, bu... |
When You Hear “Security,” Think “National Sovereignty”
Hans_Klein
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IGP Blog
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2009-07-13
The Obama administration is making security a high priority. However, prioritizing security goes contrary to Internet privatization, multi-stakeholderism, civil society, and even international cooperation. |
Under pressure from trademark interests, ICANN undoes the GNSO reforms
Milton Mueller
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IGP Blog
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2009-07-13
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Why Is Your Smart Phone Is So Stupid?
noreply@blogger.com (Rob Frieden)
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TeleFrieden
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2009-07-09
Brian Caulfield of Forbes magazine wrote a short piece posing the question: Why Is Your Smart Phone Is So Stupid? See http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/08/iphone-ericsson-mobile-intelligent-technology-iphone.html?partner=telecom_newsletter. He answers the question by reporting that the carriers disable the handsets in an attempt to prevent revenue drainage which would occur, for example, if iPhone |
New CEO stresses ICANN's role in cybersecurity
Brenden Kuerbis
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IGP Blog
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2009-07-09
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My Latest 5 Minutes: The Newspaper's Lame Blame Game
Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory
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2009-07-08
I propose the radical notion that not only is changing the copyright law to preserve existing newspapers a bad idea, it doesn't address the problem and won't work. The New York Times needs to get with the times and get over themselves. Of note,... |
Activist media and selective amplifiers
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-07-07
Those of us interested in social media and political organizing have had a lot to pay attention to in recent weeks. Demonstrations in the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities have apparently been squelched, but #IranElection still remains a popular tag on Twitter (roughly a tenth as popular as during peak days of the [...] |
An Appreciation For Commissioner Adelstein
Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory
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2009-06-30
Like everyone else in the telecom world, I'm pleased and relieved the Senate finally confirmed Julius Genachowski and reconfirmed Robert McDowell. But I need to echo Commissioner Copps' sentiments that seeing Commissioner Adelstein go makes this p... |
Fragmentation Games: Playstation Gets “Boxeed,” TV Anywhere Gets More Content.
Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory
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2009-06-29
In the latest twist in the broadband fragmentation games driven the overlap of MVPDs and broadband access providers, users of PlayStation 3 can no longer access Hulu. As some may recall, Hulu tried a similar trick with Boxee.tv, resulting in a goo... |
Notes and reflections from the Open Translation Tools Summit 2009
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-06-26
If you want to know what people around the world are thinking and feeling, you need help from a translator. Recent events in Iran are a reminder that the internet and citizen media aren’t enough to give us access to events throughout the world - we need tools and strategies for bridging language gaps as [...] |
Twitter and the news cycle, perfect together
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-06-25
It’s nice to be listened to. I guess. Maybe. Though I now find myself wondering whether I wouldn’t be better off shutting up. I saw the first reports of Michael Jackson’s death on Twitter around 6pm. I ran a little script I threw together some weeks ago called “twitcent” to see just how many tweets would [...] |
My Five Minutes of Fame: “Why My 21st Century Cellular Network Has A Princess Phone.”
Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory
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2009-06-19
This week, on “Five Minutes With Harold Feld,” I cover handset exclusivity, my iPhone envy, and the inevitable “I'm a Mac/I'm a PC” joke. Also, I want to point out the “schlumpy” is a fine look, thank you! ... |
Testimony on the Consumer Wireless Experience
noreply@blogger.com (Rob Frieden)
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TeleFrieden
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2009-06-19
The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing that examined wireless handset exclusivity, as well as limitations on consumers' access to functions available from wireless devices, and downloadable software applications. While no one disputed the likelihood that smart phones will increasingly operate like small personal computers. However, wireless subscribers do not have the same freedom to attach |
The EU officially weighs in on the ICANN transition
Milton Mueller
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IGP Blog
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2009-06-18
The EU today issued a "Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and Council" that addressed the internationalization of ICANN and related Internet governance issues. We found this statement encouraging in part, but mostly disappointing. While its analysis of the problems of U.S. unilateralism and of ICANN are often valid, it makes no concrete proposals that move the debate forward, except that EU and US should negotiate (privately). |
Chris Csikszentmihayli and a complex vision of citizen media
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-06-18
Chris Csikszentmihayli opens the morning’s session at MIT’s Knight News Challenge conference with an overview of his view of the world - “It’s my view from MIT - MIT wouldn’t endorse it, they’ve been quite specific about that,” he quips, a reference to the university’s unfortunate decision not to grant him tenure. Chris is now [...] |
Iran, citizen media and media attention
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-06-18
It’s been an interesting few days for people who study social media. As the protests over election results have continued in Iran, and Iranian authorities have prevented most mainstream journalists from reporting on events, there’s been a great deal of focus on social media tools, which have become very important for sharing events on the [...] |
Business models and the future of media - MITKNC
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-06-17
MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media is hosting the annual meeting of Knight News Challenge winners at MIT. In typical MIT fashion, we’re given technical goodies to play with - nametags that include a massive QR code and small, flashing devices designed to remind us that we should make sure to mingle and “spread our [...] |
Beth Kolko and Design for Digital Inclusion
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-06-16
Beth Kolko manages the Design for Digital Inclusion research group at the University of Washington, a group that includes undergrads, grads and faculty across fields, focusing on a wide variety of topics: technology in Central Asia, non-instrumental uses of techology, technology and autism, games for development, and other topics. Uniting her work is a basic questions [...] |
How China blocks the letter “F”
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-06-12
My friend and colleague Hal Roberts is one of the internet’s top censorship and filtering researchers. When Chinese authorities announced that a client-based piece of filtering software called GreenDam would be required for installation on new PCs, Hal downloaded the software and spent a good chunk of this week trying to understand how it works. [...] |