Wednesday, May 14, 2003

I don't even have a land line anymore... Mostly People Talking While Driving. More Mobile Minutes in the U.S. "Wireless telephone subscribers in the United States now spend, on average, more minutes talking on their mobile phones than they do on traditional landline phones, according to the Yankee Group's latest quarterly Wireless/Mobile North American Carrier Tracker. Mobile phone use has been growing rapidly - with the average U.S. subscriber logging 490 minutes of use per month - and surpassed residential landline use during 4th quarter of 2002." [infoSync] Now if the carriers would just get their acts together, we'd see an increase in text messaging, too. (Emphasis above is mine.) I realized something this weekend while I was in northern michigan.  I am just now getting with digital what I had 5 years ago with analog. Ubiquitus coverage.  I can finally go anywhere I go, and have a signal, something I lost when I switched from att digital/analog coverage to Sprint Digital.  I am now on a Att GSM network, and even in the boonhills up north I have a signal.  Finally. [The Shifted Librarian] 11:33:20 PM    Talk to me! []

One company town.... F.C.C. Prepares to Loosen Rules on Media Ownership. The proposed changes would allow networks to own enough local TV stations to reach 90 percent of the nation's viewers. By Stephen Labaton. [New York Times: Politics] Off course its a good idea to allow all the news available to people to be from one source.  After all, they just report, you decide.... 10:12:24 PM    Talk to me! []

Two clicks to regain your freedom..... It's So Easy that You Have to Use It to Make Your Voice Heard. Support the Freedom to Read "The ACLU's action center is running a campaign that lets you write to your congresscritter to ask her/him to endorse the "Freedom to Read Protection Act," which will restrict the ability to law-enforcement agencies to secretly and warrantlessly gather information on your habits at bookstores and libraries. Go ahead and ping your lawmaker -- let's get this bill passed and then take on the rest of the evil PATRIOT act. Discuss (Thanks, Pete!)" [Boing Boing Blog] [The Shifted Librarian] 9:58:58 PM    Talk to me! []

Power of the people? Huge Strike by Public Workers Paralyzes France. Workers throughout the public sector walked off the job to protest the government's plan to overhaul the country's pension system. By Elaine Sciolino. [New York Times: Business] 8:31:43 PM    Talk to me! []

Linux v. M$ Gartner's look at Alternatives to Microsoft. Discipline required [The Register] 7:59:11 PM    Talk to me! []

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