New Orleans Remember Wikileaks? Yes, I know that seems so “yesterday,” but even with Julian Assange under “luxury arrest” and Wikileaks itself supposedly at death’s door because of financial attacks by its donation enablers like PayPal, the reverberations for all of us continue in our own homes and offices, and not just on the front …
Month: November 2011
Occupy: A Movement or A Moment?
New Orleans Predictably as the weeks wear on and the weather hardens the city by city campers of the Occupy movement are now enduring the questions from near and far, high and low about how long they can hang in and hang on. Fair enough, perhaps, but we need to keep the radar ready and …
Is Cable Offer of Internet Access for Low Income Families Real?
New Orleans The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced with great fanfare a program that would supposedly reduce the “digital divide” between poorer families and the rest of the highly connected rest of the country. Sounds good, but reading the fine print on some of these deals, makes me pretty skeptical, or at least of a …