2013 WCSU Macricostas Entrepreneurship Lecture

On April 25, I will be speaking at the Constantine S. Macricostas Lecture Series at Western Connecticut State University.  The event will be in the state-of-the-art, 122,000-square-foot science building on the Danbury campus at 181 West Street (see directions to the campus). My topic will be about healthcare in the Internet age. The dawn of the Internet age […]

Wikimedia

Most of my philanthropy is directed toward health care, affordable housing, music, the arts, and education.  However, I believe the work of the Wikimedia Foundation deserves annual support as well.  I buy in to the idea that wikipedia should be freely available for everyone everywhere in the world.  Wikipedia is not perfect, but I believe it […]

My Doctoral Journey – Part 5

I really appreciate the support from my friends and family for my decision in August 2010 to begin the doctoral journey. Having completed 70% of the coursework, it was time to attend the third (and final) residency in Atlanta this past week. I have been an Internet advocate for almost twenty years. My basic tenet has […]

Media Companies Fighting for Fees — Correction

Thanks to Michael in Alameda, California for catching an error I made in the post about media companies fighting over fees.  The company I referred to as Aero is Aereo.  I use a website called phenom.aero, so I must have had aero on the brain. I have corrected the original posting.  My apology goes out […]

Media Companies Fighting for Fees — Who is Fighting for Consumers?

Earlier this month, 20 million American homes that are subscribed to DirecTV, suddenly could no longer watch Nickelodeon, MTV or Comedy Central.  Viacom owns the content and rents it to DirecTV for a fee.  Their contract was about to expire and Viacom said DirecTV should pay 30% more.  DirecTV said that based on their size, […]