2010–2015 · 33 posts
Walk through any public area and you’ll see people glued to their phones, playing mobile games like Game of War and Candy Crush Saga. They aren’t alone. 59% of Americans play video games, and...
I have a new post out on Medium, "Like Uber for Wireless," about Google's wireless service. I think it's fascinating, and could help realize the immense potential of the Internet of Things.
Phil Weiser and I posted an essay responding to criticisms about improper political influence on the FCC's network neutrality decision.
I published a post over on Medium linking gamification and, of all thing, Bitcoin. I've been spending some time lately thinking about Bitcoin and is underlying block chain mechanisms, which are...
I’m returning from a packed event, hosted by the Progressive Policy Institute, on the FCC’s role in Internet interconnection. It was a good discussion. And I'm glad to see these issues getting the...
Tom Wheeler, the new Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, gave a speech today at Ohio State University. It was a good speech on his regulatory philosophy. But that's not so interesting....
Has anyone on the left suggested that Democrats unite around a set of process reforms for our broken political process? This would be the mirror image of the Republican "Contract With America" in...
A couple months ago I posted on teaching and performance. Here's another perspective on the same broad topic. I started writing it a while back, but never finished. It answers many of the questions I...
I'm participating in the #WWEOpen13 MOOC about open online teaching. For the first unit, we were asked to post our "teaching philosophy." These kinds of questions typically tie me in knots. They seem...
Teaching is hard. Some people are naturally good at it, and others are naturally quick at developing good teaching skills. For most of us, though, figuring out how to teach effectively is a real...
I finally decided to update my ancient blog template and make some other changes behind the scenes. Hopefully this will give me some motivation to start posting here again. Please pardon the mess...
We have a tradition in my family of using Christmas Eve as an excuse for a hearty home-cooked family dinner, usually followed by making a fire in the fireplace and enjoying games or a movie together....
Something fascinating is happening in America. It is still too early to hope that the 2012 election and Sandy Hook represent a policial realignment, but the possibility is becoming hard to ignore....
For almost 20 years now, I've been looking at how connected digital technologies change how we live, work, and interact with one another. That has sometimes taken me in surprising directions. What...
I was kind of in shock night. Ten days ago, the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia summarily dumped the school's popular president, Teresa Sullivan, based on mysterious "philosophical...
There is a new petition posted on the White House's "We The People" site, which calls for mandated public access to articles arising out of taxpayer-funded research. Please go sign it! Your support...
Gamification brings together the fields of game design, psychology, and management. Yet each of those communities is, for its own reasons, skeptical. When someone from one of those worlds dismisses...
My mentor Esther Dyson signs off her e-mails with the phrase, "Always make new mistakes." It's particularly appropriate if you know Esther, but insightful even if you don't. Mistakes are...
As I get ready for my massively open online course (MOOC) on gamification this summer, I've been following discussions about MOOCs with great interest. I think this new form of instruction may play a...
(Remarks prepared for the December 14, 2011 FCC Workshop, “The Telephone Network in Transition”) In her 1969 book, On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced an influential model for...
Here is what I wrote exactly five years ago today, on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. As I look back now to that tragic morning, the same thoughts still come to me. Five Years September 11, 2006 I...
NOTE: I did a piece on patent reform for my post this month on the Wharton blog network. They cut it significantly to fit their length requirements, so I'm posting the full version here. Last month...
Several news outlets today are covering entrepreneur Steve Perlman's DIDO technology, which claims to support "impossible" levels of capacity over wireless networks. It's heady stuff. The...
Today's official launch of Gig.U, a consortium of universities to facilitate next-generation community broadband opportunities, has tremendous potential. John Markoff has a story about the launch in...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The biggest threat to the Internet innovation ecosystem from network operators is not discrimination but terms of interconnection. Metered billing,...
Time Magazine's review of Bob Lutz's book about the car industry bothered me. It's easy to blame the MBAs and exalt the engineers. Yes, there are too many MBAs. And yes, we desperately need to...
The fascinating thing for me about Google+ is not the Circles, per se, but the strategic use of non-transparency. Circles are diffuse clouds of relationships. I can decide whether someone is a...
I'm intrigued and a bit perplexed by the recent announcement of the Open Networking Foundation and its vision of programmable networks. This quote crystallizes what I'm wondering about: "In the...
If you noticed that this blog suddenly disappeared two weeks ago, and was replaced by a generic Wordpress site, you'll also probably notice that the blog has been restored. Something went haywire...
It has been a busy week in U.S. communications policy, with an FCC meeting adopting important spectrum policy reforms, an FCC complaint about Comcast's approval policies for cable modems, and a...
I discovered that my blog was infected with malware that inserted spam text into the version displayed to search engines. So, the blog looked fine when accessed directly, but showed a bunch of...
I have a post about Why Network Neutrality is Good for Business on the Harvard Business Review blog.
My blog's RSS feed was hacked to display references for various erectile dysfunction products around my posts. I've re-installed Wordpress from scratch and attempted to remove all the spam from the...