Lots of cities are hoping Google chooses them for its plans to provide complete fiber-to-the-home and develop a superfast municipal Net system - I’ve mentioned Burlington before, but Portland, Maine (Press-Herald story) and various Massachusetts cities (Globe story) are trying, too.
I don’t know of any New Hampshire submissions to this effort - which is defined [...]

Burlington, Vt., likes to think of itself as a cutting-edge place among small cities - which isn’t always a good thing, as its innovative city-owned fiber Internet system is tied up in a snarl of financial and regulatory hassles - so I’m not surprised to see it being very public about applying for what the [...]

Comment spam on blogs has gotten quite sophisticated, with algorithms that create comments similar to real sentences, stealing terms from the post itself. They’ve gone way beyond the “Great post! I learned a lot!” stuff.  All of them include a link to a commercial site, to generate in-links that fool search engines
But in the past [...]

I’m not sure, but I think Comcast is the dominant Internet provider for homes in my portion of southern New Hampshire, if not by customer numbers then geographically (it’s the only non-satellite option available in many scattered portions of exurbia).  So when it does something interesting, it can affect a lot of non-ubergeeks.
I was intrigued [...]

I can’t do justice to this item from the Improbable Research blog, so I’ll just link to it (right here!) and swipe a bit:
Bowlingual: iPhone app translates what your dog barks, posts it to Twitter
How society survived without this for so long, I can’t say …

A question has arisen out of the new state Twitter service alerting drivers to problems on I-93 (if you missed the post, here it is), and here’s the answer:
Under the new state law banning texting while driving, you can read Tweets behind the wheel - as long as you do it one-handed. The law (HB34) [...]

“Blogging is for old people, Pew report finds” is the wonderful - but kind of painful - headline on this San Francisco Chronicle story on a survey. Here’s part of the story:
The results indicate blogging has become so 2006, when 28 percent of the two groups studied, teens 12 to 17 and young adults 18 [...]

During my period of volunteering here in Florida, I like to listen to NPR most of the time. However, I’m in an area that would be best described as ‘fringe’. FM radio works fine for screaming rock, shouting religious evangelists and country and western music. Not even close to what I want to listen to. [...]

My apologies for dragging politics (ugh) into GraniteGeek, but here is an interesting commentary in the Washington Post that says the surprising win of Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race was partly a reflection of a strong use of social media like Facebook and Twitter - which is anathema to traditional political [...]

Content delivery network Akami claims that in the third quarter of 2009, the average Net speed in New Hampshire was 5.9 Mbps, making us the second-fastest networks in the country.  Here’s a story about it; Akami sells its “State of the Internet” report, so no freebie link to the details.
The company says NH’s average just [...]

Very interesting article in the Sunday Burlington Free-Press (read it here) about as $75 million plan to bring fiber-based broadband to 22 towns scattered throughout central Vermont, with a total population of 46,500, or less than half of Manchester, N.H. It will be run by a nonprofit, pseudo-governmental group (official site here).
The article is interesting [...]

Traditional media is, as they say, in transition - a term that means “watching its business model explode and trying not to be killed by the shrapnel” - and lots of cool journalism is being created (like this blog). But to nobody’s surprise, a study done by a journalism think tank finds that virtually all [...]

If you like clever, intriguing visual displays of data, you have to play with - I mean, analyze - this New York Times online Javascript mapping that shows the most popular Netflix rentals by Zip code. It covers only major cities, so the Boston area is as close as it gets to New Hampshire, but [...]

No, it’s not me - it’s Ken Gallager, who carefully and systematically patrols a couple thousand NH articles on wikipedia. Or so says this brilliantly written, incisive, prose poem of an article in the Sunday Telegraph.

I have a  piece in today’s Telegraph (here) about the free downtown WiFi, with an emphasis on a truncated IP-over-powerline system that makes it possible. I say truncated because it can’t cross transformers, so it’s strictly for inside a building, but it still makes all the difference. The article is thin on geeky details, I’m [...]