Alec writes up Dave Winer’s Share Your OPML (is it a good sign that it’s down at the time of writing?) and doesn’t get the buzz – me neither. I understand the concept of a social network for feeds, but I’m not having any trouble finding content that’s generally popular and I don’t need one-stop […]

I posted ages ago on developments in rural broadband in Canada. Over the weekend the NYT had an excellent piece on local government involvement in providing broadband where the usual providers fear to tread, and AP reports today that AT&T is about to launch a satellite broadband service to reach parts of the rural U.S.

Ellen Roseman posts on some of her recent experiences helping Star readers with customer service problems – unsurprisingly, she notes that things move faster when the media gets involved. Companies may claim to take customer complaints very seriously, but it’s a little like the behaviour of unruly children – often, nothing happens until they know […]

Mathew recently covered Apple’s $.99 song victory and noted that it’s not clear that we’re much better off with a dominant retailer setting price strategy. It’s a very good point – domination being domination (but one that Techdirt, obtusely or deliberately, doesn’t seem to get). On one hand, it’s perhaps a good thing that there’s […]