Category Archive: General

F2C09 Chat Archived

The chat is now archived at http://freedom-to-connect.net/2009/chat/. You can also check the twitter stream for #F2C while it’s around. Thanks all!

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Covering the Conference

Some of our attendees are blogging the conference: David W: http://www.johotheblog.com Photos from the conference are at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akma/tags/f2c09/ (AKMA) http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/sets/72157616205843715/ (Doc Searls) We will be reviewing the speaker presentations and video streams to see if we can post that shortly. Conference Notes from Philip M. Neches From: Philip M Neches Subject: F2C Conference, part 1 …

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The Local Low-Down

Guest post by Lynn Hughes (Thanks!) Welcome to all of you coming to the Silver Spring area for F2C. I’ve put together some suggestions on places to eat and/or hang-out while in town. I hope you all find this helpful and take no responsibility if your taste buds don’t agree with mine! Downtown Silver Spring …

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Gov asks: Help us help you

F2C speaker/moderator Geoff Daily has an informative and exciting article NTIA/RUS/FCC To Public On Broadband Stimulus: “Help Us Help You” in App-Rising.com. He attended a meeting with several government agencies to talk about the future of broadband in America. The joint NTIA/RUS/FCC meeting yesterday was a historic moment for our country: it marks the moment …

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F2C Musician Wins Grammy!

F2C Musician in Residence John Jorgenson just won the “Country Instrumental” Grammy for playing in a seven-guitar collaboration entitled, “Cluster Pluck.” Such a song is a superb fit in a Washington DC based discussion of Internet policy. The other six guitar players included Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, and Albert Lee. According to the Redlands (CA) …

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Announcing More Great Speakers

Friends and Colleagues, Announcing  . . . (drum roll) . . . More high-powered speakers for F2C: Freedom to Connect March 30 & 31, Washington DC. (Register now: Price goes up February 28!) The speakers announced below join already-announced speakers such as the CIO of San Francisco, the CTO of Seattle, the Chief Technologist of …

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Broadband Superhighway: We can build it, but will they come?

F2C speaker Sascha Meinrath and The New America Foundation is in the news again with a report entitled Building a 21st Century Broadband Superhighway: A Concrete Build-out Plan to Bring High-Speed Fiber to Every Community. In this report, the authors describe a fundamental commitment to building an open and accessible high-speed links, allowing a multitude …

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Live Blogging PTC '09 Conference

I’m live-blogging part of the Pacific Telecom Council Conference (PTC ’09 in Waikiki, Hawaii, over the next four days at ManyMedia. Topics I’ll be covering include the state of the undersea fiber cable industry, emergency communications management, satellite, and policy and regulatory changes. For more information on the conference, check the website.

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Update on F2C 2009: Freedom to Connect

Friends, Colleagues, Critics, All who care about the future of the Internet, F2C: Freedom to Connect 2009 will be held F2C: Freedom to Connect, March 30 & 31, 2009 in Washington DC. You can still register at the Very Early Bird price of $295 as long as the calendar says 2008! On 1/1/2009 it will …

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Plug into the Emerging Internet Economy…

. . . at F2C: Freedom to Connect, March 30 & 31, 2009 in Washington DC. Details at http://freedom-to-connect.net (here). Extremely early price, $295 in effect through 12/31/08. Register here. F2C: Freedom to Connect 2009 presents the people of the Internet who enable economic growth, strengthen democracy, facilitate creativity and innovation, make the Earth greener …

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