Declaration of Independents

Recent Articles

• Reversing the comms industry power ratio

  December 3, 2009 in Business, Ideas, Politics, infrastructure, problems

  Empowering the Internet One American at a Time is an excellent post by Erik Cecil, a battle-hardened telecom lawyer whose vision of the Big Picture and around all curves continues to delight me. …

• Liberating the Net from Telephony

  December 2, 2009 in Business, Future, News, Politics, Science, Technology, infrastructure, problems

  Yesterday the FCC released a public notice seeking comment on the “transition from circuit switched network to all-IP network.” (Here’s the .pdf. Here’s the .txt version.) Translation: from the phone system to the …

• What’s right with Wikipedia?

  November 30, 2009 in Blogging, Journalism, News, infrastructure, problems, radio

  Look up “Wikipedia loses” (with the quotes) and you get 20,800 results. Look up “Wikipedia has lost” and you get 56,900. (Or at least that’s what I …

• The Infrastructure Dynamic

  November 25, 2009 in Business, Life, News, Politics, Science, Technology, infrastructure, problems

  I just posted Rupert Murdoch vs. The Web, over at Linux Journal. In it I suggest that the Murdoch story (played mostly as Bing vs Google) is a red herring, and that the …

• WGBH and public radio’s future

  November 25, 2009 in Art, Berkman, Business, Future, Ideas, Journalism, Live Web, News, Past, infrastructure, music, problems, radio

  @robpatrob (Robert Paterson) asks (responding to this tweet and this post) “Why would GBH line up against BUR? Why have a war between 2 Pub stations in same city?” (In …