Monthly Archives: December 2010
Distinguishing Between Mobile Congestions
In this post I suggest that the congestion faced by AT&T and other wireless providers has far less to do with data congestion than signal congestion, and that carriers have to own responsibility for the latter type of congestion. Continue reading
Publication – Digital Inflections: Post-Literacy and the Age of Imagination
“… [O]ne of the things about librarians is that they’re subversive in the nicest possible ways. They’ve been doing the Wikileak thing for centuries, but just didn’t get the credit for it. This is what we try to do all the time; we try to reduce the barriers and open up that information.” Continue reading
iPhone Promiscuity
In this short post I want to revisit two issues I’ve previously written about: the volume of information that the iPhone emits when attached to WiFi networks and its contribution to carriers’ wireless network congestion. Continue reading
Rogers, Network Failures, and Third-Party Oversight
Rogers Communications has a severely misconfigured network made possible by the control and surveillance equipment they have embedded in their network. What are the implications of prolonged accidental misconfigurations and how might an independent oversight board mitigate such accidents in the future? Continue reading
