May 22, 2007 – MichaelZimmer.org

Libraries and Privacy: Following up with the ALA

Posted by Michael Zimmeron May 22, 2007in Libraries, Privacy1 Comment

Following up on recent posts on libraries and privacy here and at Chronicles of Dissent, CoD contacted Deborah Caldwell-Stone, a Deputy Director at the American Library Association, for reactions of some of the issues we've been discussing. Regarding concerns about…

US high-speed Internet is…slow

Posted by Michael Zimmeron May 22, 2007in Internet2 Comments

Is this the inevitable consequence of privatizing access to the NSFNet backbone? From Press Esc: The average broadband download speed in the US is only 1.9 megabits per second, compared to 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea,…