A conversation with Pete Ashton at SXSW about Birmingham’s woefully inadequate and probably very expensive wifi solution, compared to the ‘everyone just make their connections free’ model that Austin has.
It’s excellent here - if Birmingham wants to be a ‘digital’ city it needs to get with the programme.
Around the same time
- Why Andy Burnham’s plans for censoring websites with film-style age certificates won’t workWriting · 2008
- Ben made a wish and it came trueWriting · 2008
- Xela — In Bocca Al LupoMusic · 2008
- Helios — CaesuraMusic · 2008
Earlier in writing: Talking coworking, xml facial expressions and other randomness with Alex Hillman and others. Later in writing: A great conversation with Shawn Morton from Profilactic.
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