Category Archives: Internet and Society

For Better Content, Go Local

By Greg Falken | Published: December 15, 2009
Beaver News There has been a lot of talk lately about the quality of information available online. The debate has centered around “content farms”, such as Demand Media and the current incarnation of AOL (oops, sorry, Aol.). Kicking off this round was Michael Arrington, who wrote in a post titled The End of Hand Crafted Content: On one [...]
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Help Coming for Rural Broadband?

By Greg Falken | Published: November 17, 2008
The Obama-Biden Transition Team has named two strong supporters of Net-Neutrality to be the FCC Review Team Leads. Susan Crawford is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, teaching communications law and internet law. She was a partner with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) until the end of 2002, when she left [...]
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Podcast on Community Wireless

By Greg Falken | Published: March 10, 2008
On IT Conversations, Jon Udell interviews Michael Lenczner, co-founder of Île Sans Fil, Montreal’s community wireless network. With over 150 access points and nearly 60,000 users, the project is a huge success, all the more so given that municipal wi-fi projects in other cities have failed to materialize. And yet, Mike questions the value of [...]
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Wow…just, wow

By Greg Falken | Published: June 7, 2007
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Everything is Miscellaneous

By Greg Falken | Published: May 22, 2007
Google Tech Talks has a new video by one of my favorite authors, David Wineberger, who’s new book is titled Everything is Miscellaneous. Although it’s kind of long (57:00), it’s well worth watching. Here’s the abstract: David Weinberger’s new book covers the breakdown of the established order of ordering. He explains how methods of categorization [...]
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Computer Education

By Greg Falken | Published: February 26, 2007
Usability guru Jakob Nilsen has posted a brief essay on Life-Long Computer Skills that I would love to see taught here in Tuolumne County. As a technology provider, I often see people frustrated by a lack of understanding of how their computer works below the surface of the desktop. There are many computer classes available [...]
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And it was always thus

By Greg Falken | Published: February 14, 2007
Medieval help desk:
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David Weinberger über Cluetrain

By Greg Falken | Published: February 13, 2007
Nice video interview with David Weinberger, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto. As David writes on his own blog: I blather on about Cluetrainy stuff, plus how to explain Net neutrality to “Aunt Tilly.” And because there are German subtitles, you can have the illusion that you are now fluent in that language. Note: the first [...]
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A picture is worth…

By Greg Falken | Published: February 8, 2007
Chris Anderson, over at The Long Tail, says this is the most inspiring thing [about the Internet] he’s seen all day. He’s right. Steve Weinberger, at Joho the Blog says: This video is a beautiful piece of work. It will be a classic statement. Don’t be the very last person to see it…
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