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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Broadband: US Continues To Lag The World
Information Week has an update on the state of broadband connectivity in the US, relative to the rest of the world. Some highlights:
- Broadband growth rates are much higher in other countries
- OECD: the US is 12th in broadband adoption rates
- ITU: the US is 21st in broadband penetration rates
- We pay more for less
Thankfully, the reporter included criticism of the rosy FCC report from July 2005. That report defined “broadband” as 200 Kbps in at least one direction and considered a zip code to have 100% penetration if it had only one active broadband line. This is inflating the data.
But why is 200 Kbps a bad measure of “broadband”? From InfoWeek:
Help Evaluate Congressional Web Sites
Have an extra 10 minutes to spare? Consider helping the Sunlight Foundation conduct a review of Congressional web sites. It’s easy (if the web site is logically organized) and informative (I discovered some unknown-to-me info that Congressmen have to disclose).
One potential flaw: it looks like each web site will be reviewed by only one person, which could introduce error. For example, I marked one question incorrectly on Part 1 of the survey — but was able to correct it when I ran across that bit of information later in my search of the web site. What if I had not done so (either found the info or figured out how to make the correction)? The Congressional web site would have received an erroneously low score, because of a coding error.
Nevertheless, it’s an interesting application of the distributed labor / open-source software model. In an earlier project, the Foundation tracked 1753 of the 1810 earmarks in the House Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill and 477 of 553 earmarks in the Housing and Urban Development Bill.
Free Conference Calls
The latest twist on internet disruption of telephony is a free online conference calling service called Foonz.com. Create an account and then you can organize a conference (group) call by having Foonz alert the participants (invitees) by e-mail, IM, or text message to a cellphone.
Once you create an account, you’ll get a phone number to call to set up your group call. Each person on the call phones in to a central number, just like a regular telephone conference call. Foonz links the calls.
Frankly My Dear, I Need a DAM
An Introduction to Digital Asset Management
Learn how to determine your DAM needs, requirements, and budget, analyze a range of software solutions and explore the world of “meta-data,” which is how we make non-textual files searchable.
The first in a series of three digital media workshops offered by the UW Dept of Communication.
