darn thee european internet
I’m in Switzerland. The internet is atrocious and hella expensive so I won’t be online (or handling much email) this week. Bear with me.
Update: Conference center has reasonable WiFi but no power… Figures.
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 My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I spend 1/3 of my time in Cambridge, MA, 1/3 in New York, NY, and 1/3 in the air. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.
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Been there, done that. Especially if you’re in Basel. But you’re probably in Davos. And that was last May. Beautiful country, beautiful friendly people. Most of my ‘net time was scarfed where my wife was working at. Hey, I wasn’t getting paid for being the network/system admin work I was doing anyways.
That would be at the conference focussing on “collaborative innovation” I assume.
And I live here, just imagine!
Unless you just made this up in order to undisturbedly enjoy our wonderful mountainscape, I’m willing to provide free internet and electric power in exchange for a chat about social networking in Switzerland.
Go to sweden. 100 Mbit LAN-connection for a very reasonable price. I’m a very happy swede ^^
It is a tough job but somebody has to do it!
BTW…nice job on the Frontline special!
Come to Sweden, the Internet’s fine
and so fast you get a breeze when the screen changes.
Let me ask you, since you give yourself the right to insult not only a foreign country but a whole continent: how many times have you visited Europe? Do you think this gives your the right, not only to insult but even pass judgment on the quality of the net there?
If so, this tells enough about the relevance of your other posts.
For your info: it shouldn’t be darn ‘European, not even Swiss nor Davos but probably’ the-place-you’re-currently-staying-in connection to the net.
Weren’t you mocking the usual grossly over-reacting American cow-boy, once out of his Mudville? If not. . . Well: you did.