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KIFR-FM (106.9) has a booming signal, but so few listeners that it is on the bottom of the ratings heap, down in 39th place for listeners over 12.
But the station just inked a three-year deal to broadcast the A’s season, one of the few FM stations to host a sports franchise. (San Jose’s KUFX-FM 98.5 [...]
Alfred Kahn deregulated airlines and trucking in the US, and he’s not feeling the love for net neutrality regulations:
Some 25 years ago, I thought it was logical to try to prevent cable television companies, as beneficiaries of exclusive territorial franchises, from discriminating against unaffiliated suppliers of programming in favor of their own by prohibiting broadcasters [...]
Broadcasting and Cable has this statement from Microsoft about that company’s dropping out of the ironically named “It’s Our Net, Not Yours” regulatory coalition:
“Microsoft has withdrawn its name from the It’s Our Net website for the pendency of the AT&T-Bellsouth merger proceeding based on a company decision not to engage the proceeding,” the company said [...]
Doc Searls is writing a follow-up on last year’s Saving the Net piece and he wants your suggestions:
So I just decided I’ll run a first aniversary follow-up on the piece, over at Linux Journal. But first I’d like to hear from the rest of ya’ll. Tag your posts savingthenet and I’ll find them.
Mine is simple: [...]
I was more or less 4 out of 8 in my pre-season baseball picks this year, as I had the A’s, Indians, and Yankees in the AL, and Giants, Cards, and Mets in the NL, with the White Sox and Astros for the wild cards. And in a great fit of home-town homerism, I figured [...]
David Eckstein was released by the low-class Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim two years ago without so much as a fare-thee-well, and tonight he pushed Tigger to the very edge of the cliff:
Eckstein drilled a liner toward the gap in left centerfield. Monroe dashed for it. It was an out, a fairly easy one, if [...]
Crazy Richard Stallman’s temper tantrum over GPLv3 threatens to split Linux into two warring camps. Forbes.com has the skinny:
Despite that utopian anticapitalist bent, Linux and the “open-source” software movement have lured billions of dollars of investment from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat and other tech vendors, plus corporate customers such as Wall Street banks, Google and [...]
I wish I’d said what Nicholas Carr said about Web 2.0:
Web 2.0’s economic system has turned out to be, in effect if not intent, a system of exploitation rather than a system of emancipation. By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over [...]
If Tigger loses tonight, we start singing “Turn out the Lights.” Is there anything to be done?
The big question now is this: Just what exactly is Jim Leyland, the crusty and wise old fart of a manager who talks like he is a Jedi master but looks like he just stormed Normandy, going to do [...]
The Guardian reports that Google has set up a PAC and a high-dollar lobbying arm to protect its network subsidies:
While Google would not be hit directly by a two-tier net, its recently acquired online video site YouTube would, and Google fears that splitting the internet could hamper the creation of other innovative businesses.
“Net neutrality is [...]
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