Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Monday, August 29, 2005
Why U.S. cities need to work for fast broadband
Asia Times Online :: Korea News and Korean Business and Economy, Pyongyang News: "In South Korea, a country where more than 75% of homes have broadband Internet connections, the high-speed Internet is becoming as ubiquitous as electricity, and most household subscribers surf the Web at speeds of up to 5 megabits per second, considered blazingly fast in most of the world"
Why can't I get this kind of service for $32/month without moving to Seoul?
Wired News: Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off!
Flickr was bought by Yahoo. Now Yahoo wants to migrate Flickr users to its registration process and to open Yahoo accounts. Some of the most popular Flick photographers are threatening to leave when the switch goes on.
This brings up questions of the psychology of our virtual selves, copyright uneasiness because Yahoo once claimed copyright of all the material on a system (Geocities) that it bought out.
Will techies come to the rescue? Will the Flickr folks calm fears of the users? Why is it that Google has a better rep than Yahoo?
These are surface disruptions that signal deeper transformations and ripples in our culture.
Flick off
Blogoteers: Research on blogs and bloggers
Posted on my other blog, with some interesting findings about blog reader/user behavior, including this one: "50 million U.S. Internet users visited blog sites in the first quarter of 2005. That is roughly 30% of all U.S. Internet users and 1 in 6 of the total U.S. population."
Blogoteers: Research on blogs and bloggers
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