During the discussions that PK has been involved with around the National Broadband Plan, video has been a reoccurring theme. Everyone seems to agree that the next big thing to drive broadband (adoption, speeds, capacity, whatever) is the delivery of video over the internet. Someone will point to Netflix streaming, to Hulu, to Amazon, to [...]

Connected Nation, the big-telecom and cable front group, has won a lucrative broadband mapping contract in Florida by buying off the company that protested CN getting the contract.
When we last left Connected Nation near the end of August, the big-telecom and cable front group had won a big contract for the state of Florida, despite [...]

I am in the process of sorting through a bunch of my stuff to give away some things for donation. I can’t always decide whether I should keep things or get rid of them.
Here are some of the guidelines I’m trying to follow about whether or not to give stuff away:

Does it fit me right now? [...]

There once was a band called the Twin Bed Exchange. They drew small crowds to some of the clubs in the city, but broke up just before they were to start recording. Perhaps none of them had the right bedroom furniture. Then again, they had all moved from different places, finding each other through Internet [...]

When Dora first moved to the East Village in New York City, she had never gotten a tattoo. It wasn’t until a few months later that she met some friends and became interested in the art of tattooing. Just after getting her first, she waited to see how she felt about it, but soon Dora [...]