saschameinrath: Philadelphia OTI collaboration funded by BTOP -- $6.4m to support digital literacy and public computing centers throughout the city!

saschameinrath: New York Times editorial excoriates Congress for taking bribes from telcos & pressuring the FCC not to oversee broadband: http://ping.fm/1sA

saschameinrath: Hosting Larry Summers at New America to announce spectrum reform; IEEE Spectrum OpEd on same issue came out this morning: http://ping.fm/l2F

saschameinrath: Just finished watching u.s. vs. Algeria world cup game. Legend... dary!

saschameinrath: FCC Chairman's secret meetings with Industry to set national telecom policy are finally coming to light: http://ping.fm/Lpoue

saschameinrath: Matt Wood and I officially won our debate this morning at ITIF on the woeful state of U.S. broadband, according to audience voting. Huzzah!

saschameinrath: I'm taking part in a live Oxford-style debate tomorrow at ITIF re: the U.S. international broadband ranking: http://ping.fm/eMInQ

saschameinrath: Woke up at 4am and spent 3 hours fighting with HDMI and DRM. Apparently, my stereo thinks it knows better than I what I want to listen to.

saschameinrath: Community technologist, Phil Shapiro, highlights community wireless summit and WasabiNet in PC World: http://ping.fm/4sA42

saschameinrath: @jameslosey #beyondbtop ...and in the NW of DC, broadband adoption is roughly 95% -- 60 points higher than the poor sections of the city.

saschameinrath: #beyondbtop DC CTO Bryan Sivak: municipalities have a responsibility to invest in the social life of their communities (e.g., broadband).

saschameinrath: T-Mobile to me: Your usage has reached the data threshold...Your speed has been reduced for the rest of this billing cycle.

saschameinrath: My colleague, Josh Breitbart, just publicly posted "Toward a Healthy Media Ecosystem for Philadelphia" -- great read: http://ping.fm/WIGDO

saschameinrath: Eavesdropping on cell phone conversations just got a whole lot easier: http://ping.fm/GEU5u

saschameinrath: At 5am on May 5th, after 5 days(!) of labor, Clara Alaine Swords Meinrath was born. All is well, though we're all a wee bit tired. Pix soon.

saschameinrath: FCC Chairman Genachowski leaning toward doing exactly what major telcos want -- nothing to fix broadband jurisdiction: http://ping.fm/Ygi0z

saschameinrath: Sunday and no baby yet... feels like Baby of Democles: http://tinyurl.com/267jlfq

saschameinrath: Great b-day! BBQ, microbrew, flourless chocolate cake, & scotch. Baby was quite accommodating, Faith's contractions started this morning.

saschameinrath: "Denial of Service" Slate.com article out today looking at the National Broadband Plan and woeful U.S. international rankings: http://ping.f

saschameinrath: Computer power supply died; replaced it, but that was DOA. Thought I was uber-unlucky, then found out it happened to others: http://ping.fm/