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• A note to Comcast from a tiny minority

  November 7, 2009 in infrastructure

  Not long after I overheard a Comcast ad on a college football broadcast, the doorbell rang. It was a guy wearing a Comcast shirt and carrying a clipboard-type contraption with some kind of a phone-like …

• What’s wrong with this assumption?

  November 5, 2009 in Business, Cluetrain

  So I just went to look up Debora Spar’s Ruling the Waves, on Amazon, and was greeted by the above. Never mind that I wasn’t looking …

• Come on by

  November 5, 2009 in Events, Fun, UCSB, cits

  For my readers in Santa Barbara, I highly invite you to come over to the open house, Noon-2pm today at CITS — the Center for Information Technology and Society …

• Toward post-Journalism journalism

  October 31, 2009 in Journalism

  On Thursday, right after failing to get a root canal for the Xth time (saga here), I participated in a square-table discussion (I say that because we sat around a table with four corners) …

• The Meta 4

  October 31, 2009 in Ideas, infrastructure

  In response to my essay Framing the Net, on Publius, Rikke Frank Jørgensen has posted Metaphors We Regulate By. Her summary lines: “I have found four categories to be dominant …