Cook’s Collaborative Edge

According to David Petraeus when he visited a year ago the country of his father and was asked about it in a lecture in the Peace palace (International Court of Justice building), 90% of global warfare is about oil and gas. When power generation would be shifted to different sources (solar, nuclear and other alternatives) […]

I have borrowed Harold Feld’s title for his outstanding assessment of the FCC Chair. I will copy the first big chunk here…. but PLEASE follow the link and read the WHOLE thing. SPREAD THE WORD
Genachowski’s Fast Fading Star — And How He Can Still Salvage His Term As Chairman.
By Harold | August 3, […]

It is not often that I see such delightful news. The public interest is protected in California even as it is abused in Washington DC.
Ever since the NTIA mapping program became a topic of discussion on my mail list and Sara Wedeman saw and critiqued the work of Rachelle Cong and her project manager […]

Hat tip to Peter Ecclesine. The FCC National Broadband Plan Policy Framework was issued today. Grab it read it and send ex parte comments.
There are three public notices 2517, 2518, and 2519 that need comments by December 21, 2009.
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation is the locus of where […]

For the past year I had some hope that the election of BHO would truly make a difference. That hope is gone. BHO is business as usual not change one can believe in.
When I read Art Brodsky’s December 14th piece on Connected Nation in Colorado yesterday I was outraged. But then this […]

Verizon is allowed to run itself like an Atlantic city casino where the house odds are reward the investor at the same time you give the CEOs and division presidents princely salaries while you with drawn from local tax obligations, sell off rural lines to a gullible Fairpoint in such a way as to send […]

I am not yet allowed to to put all our cards on the table but it seems more likely to happen. And when it does it will be more disgusting proof of what Art Brodsky has been documenting with his continuing commentary of mapping that shows Larry Strickling unable to stand up for the […]

The gaming of the broadband stimulus is going on in full force.
Consider Rachelle Chong’s testimony from last Thursday’s hearing on the ARRA deployment.

Chong: In 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had the foresight to form a blue
ribbon Broadband Task Force, on which I served. The Task Force performed a
broadband mapping exercise and brought recommendations to […]

From Hendrik Rood in The Netherlands
This brief explanation in a comment to an article by the Economist on economic populism, takes a priceless summary of the workings of recent private equity take-overs in terms of Adam Smith’s well known example of a manufacturer of widgets …
Typical scenario for the last 18 years:
January -
Private Equity Investor […]

They speak of taking bad mortgages off the books. Problem is they can’t do that…everything is securitized, Sliced and diced good with the bad and then credit default swapped ten times…. ten layers of so called insurance. The total in mortgages is about 5 to 10 trillion. 700 billion will be […]