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Suicide Required
Posted on July 08, 2009There?s a lot of talk these days about the media. How we need to re-shape it, change it, reform it, renegotiate it, make it into nonprofit corporations, give it bail outs?ad-nauseum. But the truth is if we were really honest about the ?media? we would murder it and make it look like a suicide...
Fiber Recommended
Posted on May 28, 2009So I?m watching BBC last night and here?s this story on a fella on some rural farm in Japan and he is bragging about his 50 Mbps broadband speed and how he has more time for fishing because he no longer has to commute and can service all his clients from home and it sent me right into a self-righteous diatribe about how crappy broadband service is here in the US...
The "Look"
Posted on April 22, 2009When my kids were little they were quite adept at reading my facial expressions. Especially that expression that communicated to them that I was not pleased. Today they call it the ?look? as in ?remember when mom would give you the look?? I believe that moms are uniquely endowed with the ?look...
Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Posted on April 08, 2009Did you know it?s great to be in love? Love releases all kinds of chemicals in your brain, among them adrenaline, dopamine, fenylethylamine, endorphin and oxytocin. Adrenaline causes your pupils to get bigger, your heart to go up, your breathing get faster and reduces hunger...
Cardin Cans Constitution
Posted on March 27, 2009When I first heard about Ben Cardin?s (D-MD) bill to allow newspapers to become nonprofits, I said to myself ?you need to stew on that for a minute.? I felt I needed time to percolate the idea through my little brain and try to think of all the permutations of the impact of that legislation...
Where is the Bathroom, Please?
Posted on March 18, 2009I love international travel, or any travel for that matter. But going to a country where the culture is different, the language is different and the sites are different from what I am used to, is particularly romantic. The challenge, of course, is in the language...
The Ramifications of Various Legal Tendons
Posted on March 09, 2009There are 438 people who live in the town of Mecosta Michigan and boy, are they getting shtupped. The University of Minnesota report ?Statewide Video Franchising Legislation: A Comparative Study of Outcomes in Texas, California and Michigan? (March 2009) says so...
Comment On San Francisco
Posted on February 14, 2009Just in case you don't open up the comments at the end of my post...from Zane Blaney, ED of Access San Francisco...in the "You Gotta Be Frickin Kidding Me" Category of Comments...Zane Blaney, Access SF E.D. has left a new comment on your post "DIVCA?s Chickens Come Home to Roost":The SF Franchise Fee is about $8 million...
DIVCA?s Chickens Come Home to Roost
Posted on February 13, 2009I keep asking myself when will I stop being surprised, shocked and saddened by attacks on Public access television? I think the answer is never. I?ve mentioned before that I grew up in Fresno, California, but I don?t think I?ve mentioned that I spent my disco years running up to San Francisco...
Negative Social Trends Traced to DTV Transition
Posted on February 05, 2009Dateline: April 2010 Some interesting social trends are emerging across the country. A recent article in ?All Things Baby? magazine reported an enormous and unusual spike in births during the month of March. ?We?ve seen birthrates suddenly jump to an all time high,? said David Umpdefratz...
Blind to the Law
Posted on February 02, 2009at&t keeps making these ?presentations? in places they say they say they are going to build. They pull Public, Educational and Government (PEG) access managers into a room and extol the virtues of PEG on U-Verse. The infamous channel 99 ghetto for PEG channels...
LA Rips Red Carpet Out From Under Public Access Television
Posted on January 30, 2009Not long after Los Angeles stopped being a farming community and became ?Hollywood? the competition was on to outdo New York City. But now, even a century later, LA is still just the ugly stepsister that never can quite attain the sophistication, style and intellectual heft that is Manhattan...
Broadband Rolls Out, DTV Clams Up
Posted on January 23, 2009I have a brother in Missouri who lives on and works over 300 acres of land. He?s a cattle rancher. I rarely receive emails from him and I'm really careful about what I send him. No attachments, no embedded video or pictures, etc. If it?s not plain text, he can?t/won?t open them because it takes him forever and ever amen to download them...
First We Celebrate, Then We Mourn
Posted on January 05, 2009I am very excited about 2009. Personally I have some fun stuff planned. Professionally I will be expanding my business, adding a larger nonprofit component. As for telecommunications, there will be opportunities this year for modifying or overturning the harmful state legislation of the past few years...
Corporate Responsibility
Posted on December 16, 2008I am a loyal Comcast customer. Couple reasons. I would like to get FiOS, but I don?t want my twisted copper land line stripped out of my house and so far, Verizon isn?t offering an alternative. Also I just like their commercials, they?re funny. It pleases me to note that Comcast, like all the other cable operators, is taking the digital transition seriously and providing their customers with all
The Bottom Line
Posted on July 28, 2008I am a huge fan of persistence. There?s always more than one way to approach an issue and usually more than one way to reach a solution. But I have to take my hat off to at&t for the creative tricks they will employ to mislead, deceive and otherwise cheat local communities...
Yes, I Mean You
Posted on June 12, 2008It would be untoward of me to sit around in my little office in Columbia Maryland railing against the cable and telephone operators for the losses Public, Educational and Government access television has suffered over the last couple of years without doing some brutal finger pointing at the ?media reform movement...
Potemkin Village
Posted on May 22, 2008Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin was a bright guy who exerted an extraordinary amount of energy figuring out ways to get over on his boss, Catherine the Great. To prove that he hadn?t wasted blood and treasure in the conquering of the wasteland that was Crimea, Grigori constructed facades, moved sheep from fake village to fake village and even had roaring campfires burning, as he led Catherine on
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