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The Last Day of (Full Power) Analog TV And Our Post Transition To Do List.
Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory
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2009-06-12
Well, here it is at last. Finally, more than 13 years after the 1996 Act created a scheme to transfer us to digital television by giving all existing broadcasters $70 billion (at the time) in new spectrum rights, the great day of reckoning is here... |
IGP calls for US led international agreement on ICANN
Brenden Kuerbis
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IGP Blog
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2009-06-08
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Appeals court puts VeriSign and ICANN back on the antitrust hook
Brenden Kuerbis
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IGP Blog
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2009-06-05
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Big Low Power FM Win!
Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory
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2009-06-05
Back in 2007, the FCC issued an Order to try to address some of the problems impacting the low-power FM (LPFM) service. You can find out more about how amazing LPFM is, and why Congress needs to pass legislation to remove the artificial restrictio... |
Beyond Broadcast 2009. Beyond overwhelmed.
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-06-04
I’m having a blast at Beyond Broadcast despite fighting off a bad cold. The organizers have done a great job of moving beyond the usual suspects and bringing in people I’m thrilled to listen to, like Nouneh Sarkissian of Internews Armenia, talking about the innovative work her group is doing linking Georgian, Armenian and Azeri [...] |
Local Perspectives at Beyond Broadcast 2009
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-06-04
The opening panel discussion at BeyondBroadcast is titled “Local Perspectives” and it invites citizen media innovators from around the world to show off their work. Unfortunately for the schedule, the panel includes six terrific speakers, roughly twice as many as could fit in the allotted time. Myoungjoon Kim of MediaAct in Korea, a community media [...] |
Beyond Broadcast ‘09 - Sandra Ball-Rokeach on Ethnic Media
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-06-04
Sandra Ball-Rokeach, professor at USC Annenberg, is interested in the ways in which communities use media to tell stories to themselves and to others. In introducing her, Dean Wilson notes that she refuses to look at one media at a time - instead, she looks at complex communications infrastructures and their interaction with “geo-ethnic communities”, [...] |
Important DC Cir Opinion on Boring Procedural Stuff for the FCC,And Why We Should Care.
Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory
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2009-06-02
Every now and then, the fact that I am a lawyer leaks through here. OK, it leaks through a lot — including my insatiable tracking of the minutia of the D.C. Circuit and how it impacts things FCC. Which brings me to last month's opinion in... |
What percentage of the Internet is in English? In Chinese?
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-06-01
I gave a talk at the New Museum in New York City on Saturday, along with Omar Wasow, the co-founder of Black Planet. It was good fun - Omar and I are nerds of the same generation, and as he showed slides of his beloved VIC-20, I found myself throwing devil horns in a gesture [...] |
CIRC09 - Mapping, Circumventing, Translating, Sharing
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-05-27
I’ve written in the past about my friend and colleague John Kelly’s excellent work visualising connections in different blogospheres. His best known research is on the Persian-language blogosphere, where his analysis of linking behavior showed clusters around liberal and conservative politics, but also around poetry. Subsequent analyses have seen clustering around different factors. Russian blogs [...] |
CIRC09 - Censorship and surveillance on the Chinese Internet
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-05-27
Liao Hang Teng of the Oxford Internet Institute is interested in ways that Chinese internet authorities are mediating between chaos and control. He introduces us to two terms - zhi and luan 亂. Zhi means “order, governance, control or cure”, while luan means “disorder, instability and chaos”. People in China talk about history in terms [...] |
2009 Chinese Internet Research Conference
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-05-27
I’m at the 2009 Chinese Internet Research Conference at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. My colleague Hal Roberts and I are presenting some of our research on circumvention tools this afternoon, and I’m enjoying the chance to catch up on research in a field I don’t know a ton about [...] |
Proposal for ICANN/RIR scenario planning exercise
kc
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According to the Best Available Data
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2009-05-25
Internet infrastructure economics research”, and how to do reasonable examples of it, has come up a lot lately, so i’m posting a brief description of an academic+icann community workshop i’ve been recommending for a few years, which has yet to happen, and (I still believe) is long past due, and specifically more important than passing [...] |
FCC Begins Inquiry Into Arbitron Portable People Meter
Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory
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2009-05-18
Sometime back back, I noted the flap over the Arbitron Portable People Meter and the Petition by the Minority Media Telecommunications Council (MMTC) for the FCC to take action. The FCC put the Petition out on public notice last September, and ha... |
Harry Potter Readers' View of the News Media?
Sharon Black (noreply@blogger.com)
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CommPilings
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2009-05-15
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The assassinated lawyer, the arrested Twitterer - corruption, whistleblowing and protest in Guatemala
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-05-14
SI USTED ESTA LEYENDO ESTE MENSAGE ES QUE YO RODRIGO ROSENBERG MARZANO FUI ASESINADO por el Secretario Privado de La Presidencia GUSTAVO ALEJOS Y SU SOCIO GREGORIO VALDEZ, CON LA APROBACION DEL SEÑOR ALVARO COLOM Y DE SANDRA DE COLOM. That’s the beginning of a three-page letter written and signed by lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg on May [...] |
What We Learn From the VZ-Frontier Deal
Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory
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2009-05-14
Verizon is selling 5 million access lines to Frontier. I expect the deal will go through — after all, a dominant carrier is getting smaller, there is no place where VZ and Frontier compete, etc., etc. What makes the deal interesting is what ... |
CellAntenna Still Plugging Away on Cell Phone Jamming — And Why They Must Not Succeed.
Harold Feld's Tales of the Sausage Factory
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2009-05-13
I've been following the adventures of CellAntenna, the company that wants to sell cellphone jamming devices in the U.S., for awhile now. As lots of folks would love to jam cell phones — from hotels that hate losing the revenue from charging ... |
David Bollier on the principles of the commons
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-05-12
Drive around Boston in the wintertime and you might see an unusual sight - a shoveled-out parking space occupied by a lawn chair or a garbage can. Move that can or chair and park at your own risk - it’s possible that your tires will be slashed. These parking spaces are a form of commons, David [...] |
Twitter and social graph analysis
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2009-05-11
One of the best things about being an academic (or even, like me, a psuedo-academic) is how easy it’s become to collaborate with people you don’t know well… or at all. I posted some data a few weeks back about the use of the #pman twitter tag to organize, report on and debate a set [...] |