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Silly company. Google already does this to my AT&T number for $0.00 per month. Honey, look, I saved us $120 this year!

Still no word on tethering that was supposed to be available 6 months ago.

“‘It’s like I get these weird urges sometimes, and suddenly I’m tempted to go behind my friends’ backs and attend a megachurch service, or censor books in the school library in some way. Even just the thought of organizing a CD-burning turns me on.’”

Strong.

[Source: The Onion]

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Last Friday I went to check in via Foursquare on my iPhone 3GS here in Madison, WI. The suggested locations were odd. I opened up maps and Google put me in Neenah, WI, 100 miles NE of my current location. I did the normal troubleshooting with no luck.

I returned to the office and asked a friend to check his phone. Same result. I threw my issue out on Twitter, asking other Madison folks to confirm. Sure enough, multiple folks with iPhone 3GS in Madison have suddenly been re-geolocated 100 miles NE.

The solution? Disable 3G and your iPhone will correctly identify your location back in Madison. I understand in absence of a GPS signal the iPhone triangulates your position using AT&T’s network, as scary as that may seem. However,

a) Why does the phone apparently *not* use the GPS receiver when it *does* have a 3G connection?
b) Why is the 3G connection suddenly registering Madison AT&T customers 100 miles NE?
c) Why has it gone 4 days?

“We had no domestic attacks under Bush.”

Rudy Giuliani.

[Source: ABC News]

“After several years of dissatisfaction, we asked the jr. high principal to give our kids the worst teachers. Apparently, there was some confusion over what ‘best’ teachers meant.”

The wisdom, and wit, of Gary Stager.

[Source: @garystager on Twitter]

“We need FDR to remind us that we are discussing the basic right of a community to invest in its future. Communities must not be held hostage by an absentee company that knows it can overcharge and under-invest without consequence.”

Christian Long recently asked me “What is it that you actually do?” Even after a year and a half, it’s hard to explain. Christopher Mitchell writing at Ars Technica reaches back to a quote by FDR.

That where a community—a city or county or a district—is not satisfied with the service rendered or the rates charged by the private utility, it has the undeniable basic right, as one of its functions of Government, one of its functions of home rule, to set up, after a fair referendum to its voters has been had, its own governmentally owned and operated service.

In a sense, that’s what I do. Except it’s really hard to explain to people how the Internet works and the interests at work in this entire telecommunications industry.

[Source: Christopher Mitchell @ Ars Technica]

“‘New media don’t succeed because they’re like the old media, only better: they succeed because they’re worse than the old media at the stuff the old media is good at, and better at the stuff the old media are bad at.’”

Karl Fisch pointed us at this article this morning saying, “Combine that article with Disrupting Class and you have an interested discussion about schools.”

Thought for the Day: What if we, representative of the “old media” education, got good at the stuff that “new media” education stuff was bad at? Let me help. We know that, despite our love for the online connections, there needs to remain some degree of face-to-face interaction. It’s easier for “old media” education to learn “new media” than it is for “new media” education to aggregate our populations face-to-face. (I invite anybody that understands that last thought to make it more clear for everybody in the comments.)

[Source: Cory Doctorow]

“Marry, sir, my heartstrings do you tug;
They urinate upon thy damnèd rug.”

The Big Lebowski, Shakespeare remix.

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“AT&T today announced at its CES 2010 press conference that the company is finally pushing its lineup of Android based devices. The company will launch five new Android devices from Dell, HTC, and Motorola later this year.”

I’m still waiting for the tethering coming to the iPhone. Seriously.

[Source: Neowin]

“The first internet generation is old enough to spend money, go to work and build companies. Industries are being built every day (and old ones are fading). The revolution is in full swing, and an entire generation is eager to change everything because of it.”

I’ll add that our “internet generation” spawns make up a large part of your “elementary school” demographic. Remember that “digital native” meme of the past 10 years? It’s not just the students anymore. It’s the students and their parents.

Happy New Decade.

[Source: Seth Godin]

Joi Ito’s TEDxDubai presentation.

Three big nuggets.

1. Failure.
2. Sharing as part of the Internet “stack”.
3. Agile development.

TEDx Dubai 2009 – Joichi Ito from Giorgio Ungania on Vimeo.

David Jakes recently reminded me to review this video. Did you know?™ this was what we all used before Karl Fisch achieved rock star status? True.

Creative Commons video about shared culture.

[Source: YouTube]

I really like #2.

Everything since 1888. On a 160GB external hard drive.

[Source: National Geographic]

Thanks Finn!

“Blended/hybrid courses are courses where 20% or more of the traditional face-to-face classroom time is replaced by online assignments and activities. Students spend less time in the classroom and more time working and interacting online, providing greater flexibility regarding when and where coursework can be completed.”

Simple. A very nice place to start.

[Source: Tonya Joosten]