I live in New Jersey and I’ve been following our new governor’s massive education budget cuts.  Everything from clubs and sports programs are being removed. Teacher’s are being let go and classes are being consolidated. The public school experience as we know it is changing dramatically for the worse. For those who want to know more about the issues in New Jersey you can read here and here. I’m sure that there are similar issues [...]

I took part in two panels panels last week.  The question of how broadband access can help enhance education came up on both panels. When the question was directed to me I told the audience about a post I had written before here where I talked about how i used free online services to learn iphone app development. Whenever I tell that story to people and compare the $99 developer fee to the start-up costs [...]

Click the image to watch the video from the event Yesterday I was invited to speak on a panel about this at the Politics Online Conference http://polc2010.com.   It was interesting to see the political world looking for ways to embrace the Internet.  There were vendors showing off online tools  and apps on Ipads. With sponsors like AOL and Microsoft I felt like i was at the Web 2.0 conference in San Fran but I was [...]

Trying something new today. Instead of writing decided to do an audio podcast. Let me know what you think

That’s funny! Glad to see your reading my posts. I’m sorry if my comments intimidate you because that is not my intent. My comments are direct because I believe these issues to be important but they are not malicious and there is a difference. My point is to simply point out the things that the facts support. The mobile industry is a proven one that is still growing and all media companies are looking at [...]

@Erik What facts are you basing this on? The Comcast case was about them slowing down BitTorrent traffic because it was hogging bandwidth from other users and giving them a poor experience. I can tell you from my experience managing a corp IT network that we constantly had to block sites like BitTorrent because they would bring our network to crawl. The other issue is that there has never been a case where any provider [...]

Infancy??? I’m sorry but where have you been? The mobile industry is one of fastest growing sectors out there. While smart phone penetration may not be high among African Americans yet, to say media outlets should not “jump in” and develop apps for this industry is just wrong. What do you suggest they do? Wait and be last to the game like they were in developing their web properties and social media strategies. I’m asking [...]