Day May 14, 2010

California’s broken proposition system

My recent article for the California Independent Voter Network uses the misleadingly named and just-approved for ballot California Jobs Initiative as an example of how the proposition system is broken. It was meant to be a way of exercising direct…

Net entrepreneur wants to give free wireless to Africa

FastCompany Paul English, who cofounded travel search engine Kayak.com, wants to blanket Africa with free and low-cost Wi-Fi by partnering with local telcos. JoinAfrica would have a free tier of servive with basic email and browsing but no heavy bandwidith…