Category Archives: access
This is New York
Shot from the top floor of 14 Wall St. J P Morgan (the person, not the bank) used the entire floor as a piet de terre. Wonderfully surprised by the renovation of Alice Tully by Diller Scofdio + Renfro and … Continue reading
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Totally Late Post On A Post-Election Reflections
On November 5th, I noted an important turning point in my media, among all the celebration of electing Barack Obama. I didn’t watch any of the TV coverage on election night. I just had a few websites open to track … Continue reading
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A Fork In the Browser Road
Image source: flickr Well, the internet is buzzing with the discussions and reviews of Google’s recently release browser, Chrome. Nick Carr has some good thoughts on the subject, his key take aways: “To Google, the browser has become a weak … Continue reading
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Two takes on dancing
I’m not watching the various dancing reality shows (just not my thing,) although, a lot of people seem to be. However, here are two music videos that feature some breath taking dancing. Many, if not most, music videos have dancing. … Continue reading
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Carrier growing pains
I’m back from San Francisco and ready to post. More posts will be coming, but here on my two cents on AT&T’s censoring of anti-Bush lyrics during a webcast of a Pearl Jam performance that they hosted. AT&T shifted blame … Continue reading
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What’s it all about, Wi-Fi?
Images source: upgrade:travelbetter.com With all this Google and spectrum talk swirling the internet and news media, I keep coming back to Wi-Fi as a good way to contextualizing the importance of having open networks and services, as well as open … Continue reading
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Google gets 2 out of 4
Just a quick post on the upcoming 700MHz spectrum. Yesterday, FCC released guidelines on the auction. Google was pressing for 4 points on its policy blog: * Open applications: consumers should be able to download and utilize any software applications, … Continue reading
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Possible dangers of “quad play” services.
image source: flickr Sprint is partnering up with Google in a national rollout of WiMax. WiMax is a wireless broadband technology that is similar to the popular WiFi networks, except that that it has a range of miles versus hundreds … Continue reading
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Digital Television: who’s ready?
image source: marcelstvmuseum I admit that I watch very little television on a traditional set. Most of my viewing is on my laptop, via WebTV or DVD. However, millions of people in the US do watch on traditional sets. On … Continue reading
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Google planning to buy up spectrum
Google says that it is considering to bid in the upcoming auction of 700 MHz spectrum, which will be free when television switches over to a digital in 2009. It could all just be posturing to get the FCC to … Continue reading
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