One lump or two?
I spent a portion of my early afternoon explaining that it takes the Folgers seats (price point < $10/mo) plus the Latté seats (price point > $40/mo), that's narrow-band plus broad-band to the caffine impaired and/or tea drinking demographic, to make user-centered (and therefore possibly "progressive") policy proposals to States Legislatures for data networks. It was a recitation (with a wicked temporal offset) from what I wrote at Larry Lessig's blog the day after Howard Dean wrote off the urban and rural demographics in his quest for activist mindshare in the primary phase of the last cycle. Reruns.
I spent another portion of my early afternoon explaining that, in Maine at least, if you want to form an effective coalition to keep Verizon from ripping off (a) the State, and (b) the subscribers, and (c) the CWA, and (d) the independent telcos and finally (e) the Maine ISPs that form the Maine ISP Association, that it is wicked useful to talk to (d) and (e), especially (e), rather than say, just stylish advocacy groups and the CWA (most of who's employees in Maine work for Verizion or its rip-off successor in the Northern New England wire-line market).
Translated from the geek, it means page bloat sucks, the digital divide is real, and if you can't get little-r-republicans (half of whom are business owning Dems) on the theory of competition vs monopoly, then you loose, with or without an extra helping of Progressive Vangardism.
How were your hours between lunch and tea?
