Returned last night from a business trip to Boston, New York and Connecticut. It all went better than I had expected. Already mentioned my nice stay on Saturday at Tom Regan’s. Here’s the rest: Sunday: Spent the morning at a service in the Boston area, interviewing a file-sharing minister. Took Amtrak to Newark, NJ, Sunday […]
Blogging from the road
This is probably the only posting I’ll be doing from the road on my trip back east. Got into Boston from Oakland early this evening. Upon “deplaning,” I learned that the frail-looking fellow with the hearing aid in the seat in front of me was Huston Smith, author of The History of Religion, among other […]
Internet phones: A positive experience with VoIP
From Wired News: Minnesota regulators seeking to treat Vonage like a traditional phone company suffer a stinging setback at the hands of a federal judge. The ruling could boost Internet telephony nationwide. This might be a good time to give you a quick update on my own Internet phone experiment. In a word, wow! I […]
The blogger as citizen journalist
Blogger Lisa Williams: The blogger as citizen journalist. In which a blogger in the Boston area bemoans the lack of coverage given to local news topics by a chain of corporate dailiies, and offers suggestions on how local residents can take up the tools of community publishing. Among the topics covered: • What is a […]
Skype: Internet calls for free
NY Times: The two founders of Kazaa sold the company to Sharman Networks last year. But they have since hatched a plan that has a chance at causing another, potentially bigger uproar. They’ve reunited with the same team of Estonian programmers who wrote the code for Kazaa and have created a way to allow people […]