Shelly’s Blog

I just finished a radio interview with Kitty, a very nice talk show host somewhere in the Midwest. We did five minutes on “broadband.” She started by telling her audience that she had recently been on Twitter tweeting about her radio show and she got, “some kind of message about Twitter being over capacity.” She Continue Reading →

What is a war? The dictionary says it's an "armed conflict between nations." The dictionary does not say what they have to be armed with. What is Cyber-Terrorism? What is a crime? Continue Reading →

In my last article, entitled: “Cyber-Terrorism vs. Cyber-Warfare: Defending The United Networks of America,” my goal was to set the stage for a way to think about America’s place in the Information Age. Will we be a super-power, Cold-warriors, a sovereign nation, a first-world or a third world entity in the 21st century? Before we Continue Reading →

As a Jobsian supplicant and an Apple acolyte, I really, really want to love the iPad. No one on Earth has made me buy more stuff I don’t need with money I don’t have than Steve Jobs. He’s my hero. One writer who came to visit me in my home office looked around and observed, Continue Reading →

Over the next few weeks, the FCC is going to ask people to weigh in on a very important topic: The National Broadband Plan. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 directed the FCC to submit a National Broadband Plan to Congress by February 17, 2010 that addresses broadband deployment, adoption, affordability, and the Continue Reading →

It seems that Twitter, Facebook and even LiveJournal were victims of DoS (denial-of-service) attacks this past week. Actually, DoS attacks are a daily occurrence in the information age. This one got some headlines because Twitter is the site de jour. The technical descriptions of all the hacker tactics that are commonly called DoS attacks lie Continue Reading →

As most of you know, I am not an iPhone lover. I bought my first one right when they came out and, then, immediately brought it back to the genius bar to ask why the speakers didn’t work. My iPhone version 1.0 story is chronicled in two articles from July 2007. The first July 7, Continue Reading →

“Hacker Croll,” an eponymously named hacker, was able to get access to some very sensitive business documents from Twitter’s Google Apps account this week. It was a very high profile hack, and quite embarrassing for Twitter. People familiar with the incident say that the hacker was able to easily figure out the security question to Continue Reading →

Twitter is the topic de jour. And, as far as I can tell, most people don’t have it quite right. While it is true that Twitter is a social network. And it is also true that Twitter is filled with much more ambient noise than curated knowledge. The power of Twitter is, first and foremost, Continue Reading →

This past week we lost two of our dearest pop-culture icons. Farah Fawcett, the subject of the best selling poster of all time and Michael Jackson, the musical force behind the best selling album of all time. Their untimely passings brought their extraordinary achievements into focus, making me wonder, will anyone ever sell 12 million Continue Reading →