Cable is not a monopoly. You can choose from any cable company you want in America, just by moving your house. — Brad Templeton, at F2C
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March 31, 2008 in Uncategorized
Cable is not a monopoly. You can choose from any cable company you want in America, just by moving your house. — Brad Templeton, at F2C
July 3, 2009 in Events, Journalism, Life, News, Places, Travel
One of the best things about living in (or just following) Santa Barbara is reading Nick Welsh’s Angry Poodle Barbeque column each week in the Independent — one of the best free newsweeklies …
June 27, 2009 in Future, Ideas, Life, News
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Somebody I wish to discuss an idea here. It’s an idea about celebrity, and it follows …
June 27, 2009 in Blogging, Business, Gear, infrastructure, problems
Major props to Cox for cranking up my speeds to 18Mb/s downstream and 4Mb/s upstream. That totally rocks. I’m getting that speed now. Here’s what Cox’s local diagnostic tool says: TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.4.12 click START …
June 25, 2009 in Art, Life, Live Web, infrastructure
This twitter post, from @KNX1070 four minutes ago, says Michael Jackson is dead. Google News’ latest, from Fox, says he’s being rushed to the hospital. Here’s the latest Google search, as of …
June 24, 2009 in Places, VRM, infrastructure, problems
The idea was to take some down time in Santa Barbara and get work done in my own nice office, with my nice comfortable chair, surrounded by space and time, with soft sea breezes blowing …
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March 31, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Mark Kerrigan
Brad is right. Cable is not like switching cellular service, internet providers or a bank. If you get angry enough at any of the afore mentioned, you can change - though it does cause a bit of a headache. However, to change your cable service provider, you would have to change almost everything about your life: Your job, your friends, where your kids go to school, etc.
Become part of history! Check out how the conversation factor is changing customer service in the Facebook group The Conversation on Comcast!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10320222023
March 31, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Richard Bennett
Brad’s a member of the BitTorrent, Inc. board of directors as well as CEO of one of Comcast’s most vocal critics, the EFF. But behind all that beats the heart of a frustrated stand-up comic yearning to perform, so he spends the whole day at F2C making silly remarks in the chat room.
Give him a big round of applause and a cookie and maybe he’ll calm down.
April 1, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Doc Searls
Richard, are you here? I was hoping we could finally meet.
Let’s try to make that happen, if not today.
April 2, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Richard Bennett
Sorry, I was just attending by the miracle of the Internet. Let’s plan on meeting at Supernova, I’m on one of the Challenge Day panels.
April 28, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Brett Glass
Did anyone notice that once Brad joined the board of BitTorrent, his views — and those of the EFF — swung to favor BitTorrent’s interests (and his own, since he’s undoubtedly going to get stock and options as a result of being a board member)? He’s now steering the EFF toward an extreme viewpoint which favors legislation and regulation — measures that require ISPs to carry BitTorrent. It’s a gross conflict of interest.