Cook’s Collaborative Edge

John Wilson generously volunteered to copy edit my forthcoming issue. I wanted to send something editable and found that i could export my final copy from Mac’s Pages into word. Sent John the word attachment. Asked him to turn corrections on. He asked me whether i could read the document […]

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 […]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:29:33PM -0800, Richard Bennett wrote: (pardon me if this message is not formatted correctly, T-bird doesn’t like this list)
I agree that this is not the proper venue for discussion of the politics of Internet regulation; the post I wrote for GigaOm has comments enabled, and many people with an […]

COOK’s Edge: Richard Bennett has been flaking the ITIF Foundations view on Net Neutrality for many months. He wandered into Nanog and very foolishly picked a fight there. The result at 8:39 this morning he wrote to Randy Bush

I didn’t bring this discussion over here, hippie.

COOK’s Edge: Not a wise […]

FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
On April 7th wired wrote “The FBI on Tuesday defended its raids on at least two data centers in Texas, in which agents carted out equipment and disrupted service to hundreds of businesses.
The raids were part of an investigation prompted by complaints from AT&T and Verizon about unpaid […]

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 […]

Update for clarity: the text that follows, except for the last line, is not mine but a direct quote from a Verizon customer who does not wish to be identified. A better story for Kafka was the way he put it.
“If you wondered; like Jobs at Apple, Ernestine *is* back from retirement…..and […]

David Lesher writes on Cybertelecom
Ge this one, folks. I have been told by Verizonal that they will NOT
provide DSL on a DSL-qualified assignment.
Why? Because I could instead get FIOS at twice the cost.
Fred Goldstein replies:
Alas, that is entirely legal nowadays. DSL is unregulated, not common carriage, so taking orders is strictly voluntary.
Of course when […]

Here is the Executive Summary of my just published June interview.
Our feature interview describes a multi year long streak of questionable practices by Verizon in New Jersey. We see the situation as a symbiotic relationship between politicians in state government who are happy to let Verizon continue to act as an unregulated free market […]

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 […]