By Steve Song, on February 18th, 2009
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So, I’ve moved on from righteous indignation yesterday to outright disbelief today. News this week that the South African communications regulator (ICASA) have sent their enforcers in to confiscate Dabba’s WiFi equipment in Orange Farm makes me angry enough to spit.
If you read this blog, [...]
By Steve Song, on January 9th, 2009
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Imagine an alternative history. Imagine that in 1995, when Microsoft launched their walled-garden MSN service, which they fully expected would, for all intents and purposes, put the Internet out of business, imagine that they succeeded.
So today when you connected to the network, you connected to [...]
By Steve Song, on September 18th, 2008
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Work has finally begun on the Mesh Potato. The Shuttleworth Foundation has completed agreements with David Rowe and Elektra and they are now hard at work on the production of a Mesh Potato proof-of-concept. David has just posted a fairly detailed kick-off post on [...]
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