ConnectHome, a low income initiative by the Obama administration, will bring high-speed broadband access to over 275,000 low-income households across the US. According to the White House, the pilot program will launch in 27 cities including New York, Boston and Seattle, as well as the Choctaw Tri[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
June 7th, 2015 - 7:39 am § in Uncategorized
“The internet wasn’t designed for this”
We’ve recently been inundated with reports of data breaches, and the latest is a doozy: More than 4 million present and former federal employees had their personal information stolen by anonymous hackers possibly working for China’s military. As a CNN guest columnist puts it, not exactly[...]
June 3rd, 2015 - 9:02 am § in Misc.
Municipal Broadband in Seattle ?
Municipal Broadband in Seattle Municipal Broadband Lunch and Learn Impact HUB SeattleJun 17, 2015 12:00 PM Bertha Knight Landes Room at Seattle City Hall Jun 18, 2015 12:00 PM Christopher Mitchell is a national expert on community networks and approaches, having authored the most in-depth c[...]
February 26th, 2015 - 1:08 pm § in Politics
FCC Vote: Net Neutrality Wins!
The good guys won the epic fight for control of the internet. It still belongs to us. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler called today’s historic 3-2 vote in favor of net neutrality an “irrefutable reflection of the principle that no one — whether government or corporate — should contr[...]
January 27th, 2015 - 11:57 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: End of an era
Sports Illustrated lays off last remaining staff photographers sports-photography Jan 23, 2015 at 20:04 On the eve of the Super Bowl, legendary US-based sports publication ‘Sports Illustrated’ has laid off its remaining six full-time staff photographers. According to Sports Illustrated[...]
December 16th, 2014 - 11:37 pm § in The Ave Scene
CRAVE Blog .. recognizes PI.COM as major site for photojournalism
Seattle PI.com showcases its ‘pictures of the year’ Dec 14, 2014 at 13:10 Seattle PI.com, formerly the Seattle Post Intelligencer, was the first major metropolitan newspaper in the USA to go online-only. Since then, the website has gained a reputation for high-quality photojournalism, co[...]
October 16th, 2014 - 12:51 pm § in Misc.
An Offer To Pass on
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February 9th, 2011 - 2:10 am § in Uncategorized
Yemen: They are the Egyptian days.
excerpt from a post by Ghassan Charbel, in Dar al Hayat, commenting on Yemen (translated) Two years ago, I asked the president about the difficulty of ruling in Yemen, and he replied that “it resembles dancing on serpent heads”. A year ago, I asked the same question, and he answered: “The serp[...]
What is a VECTON?
WHAT IS A VECTON? The creativity of companies naming things is awesome. Now, an Israeli company. seems to have sold a super radar oven as something new. Is this hype? The company calls itself “Goji” as in the goji berries. I first heard about this from my brother Hugh who had an ex[...]