This is the type of thing we fought for so long ago with The Personal Telco Project. Is this fight still alive? It was a hard message for many to either grasp or care about. What's the 2x4 that needs to be used upside the head to remind people that a communities power comes from openness, accessibility, and the knowledge to create and control their means of communication. "Most communities that are disadvantaged are still trying to win on networks that they don't own and will never control. Most of us are still cheering when the most powerful voices in culture and society embrace closed networks, instead of properly criticizing them for doing so."
- Aaron Baer
the OMG sentence snip of the day. "which provides cloud-based corporate phone services"
I noticed a significant disruption today around 1pm that I can't determine the cause. Another function that I can't explain yet is that directly dialing 1800 numbers out of the account seems to be disrupted as well. It might take a day or so to determine if service have really changed. Anyhoooo.. good stuff .. good stuff..
- Aaron Baer
After my monthly billing for my Internet and Phone service rose $25 dollars in one month I decided that it was time to buckle down and work on something that I had been thinking about for a long time. Zero dollar per year phone service including long distant. The goal was building a highly functioning [...]
- Aaron Baer