I had a lttle comment fun with Andy Timithy over on BFD, but I took him up on coming by last night. Fortunately, it was a slow Saturday night and we had a chance to talk about wifi and the goal of Tremont Wifi Neighborhood and the future plans of goi… more »

In the old blog site, I posted about the lousy job of planning events and RTA repair schedules. Well, here we are with one of the biggest events in Cleveland (as far as bringing in outside tourists) the Grand Prix and all the major highways into the ci… more »

I read in the Public Technology Institute's email that Skype has video conferencing! Skype Technologies' strategy of welcoming third-party vendors is spawning extensions to its internet telephony service. Its now branching into videoconferencing, data… more »

If you missed yesterday's Capitalist Cleveland interview of Sarah Wilson-Jones on AM radio, here is a link to the mp3. Warning: it is the whole show and 50MB! Sit back and have a Phoenix coffee while it downloads. more »

Don Iannone has recently used this term and I just saw it on some Texan Televangelist show (Joyce something or other). Anyway, like most good ideas, this one got me to thinking about how much I appreciate those businesses and private citizens that keep… more »

Hey, if you are like me and like to get up early to suck down some dark liquid intelligence and check email in your underwear (if you wear any), tune to WERE 1300 on your AM dial and listen to the SuperBarrista herself, Sarah Wilson-Jones, on Don Larson… more »

As I advocate for community wireless internet with a near to zero price for the consumer in the name of public good, I usually use the anaolgy that restaurants have bathrooms but don't directly charge their patrons per sheet of TP they use. Well, in… more »

Was Einstein the orginial BuJu? This quote from Jeff Shuler blog makes me think so. A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from t… more »

In my midlife crisis, one of the things that I want to do is taken from one of my favorite films,"The Tao of Steve" and not because the title has such a good ring. In the film, Donal Logue as Dex expounds on the steps to get the girl as shown by the al… more »

This quote I got from a Time magazine article their theater section about African-American playwright, August Wilson. It was about his mom. August Wilson's mom, a cleaning woman trying to raise four kids in the Pittsburgh slums, won a radio contest on… more »