Category Archives: Technology

Facebook and Regulation

Posted on 06/14/2018 by Pete Resnick

Facebook’s recent debacle with Cambridge Analytica may seem like just another one of a long list of security incidents in which the personal data of millions of people is compromised from large web sites. However, most of the reports we … Continue reading →

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21st Century Slavery, Electronic Style

Posted on 11/14/2013 by James Kilgore

Somewhere in the middle of a November night in 2009 I got a phone call from my then 95 year old mother. She said she had chest pains, had already phoned 911 and thought she was having a heart attack.  … Continue reading →

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internet.org Business Models Will Put NSA Equipment Vendors Out of Business

Posted on 10/03/2013 by Brian Duggan

Today (August 21, 2013), Facebook and a private surveillance gang of seven announced the latest innovation in advertising, internet.org The group includes the closed-source web browser developer, Opera, and the Microsoft puppet cell phone manufacturer, Nokia. Opera and Nokia are … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon to a Police Department Near You: Unmanned Aerial Drones

Posted on 03/02/2012 by Alex Cline

Raven. Predator. Reaper. Over the last decade, we’ve heard the news reports about the Pentagon’s cutting-edge unmanned aerial platforms flying missions over Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Iran, and Somalia. Used for reconnaissance as well as search-and-destroy missions, the United … Continue reading →

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Technology and African-American History

Posted on 02/23/2011 by Noah Lenstra

As the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) $30 million high-speed Internet infrastructure is constructed throughout Champaign-Urbana, we must come together as a community to find ways to use this technology to support all sectors of our local population. eBlackChampaign-Urbana is a … Continue reading →

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UC2B and the Digital Divide in Champaign-Urbana

Posted on 02/23/2011 by Laura Allured

In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about universal access to and affordability of high-speed internet services. In the 2009 stimulus package, $7.2 billion was allocated for broadband development and employment in underserved (rural) and underserved (generally … Continue reading →

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Open Invitation to the Follow-up Meeting of the eBlack C-U Campus-Community Symposium

Posted on 01/27/2011 by Noah Lenstra

The eBlack CU Symposium was a great success, with over 180 people attending or all part of the event. The full record of the Symposium is available online for anyone to access at: http://eblackcu.net/portal/symposium. We need to do more to … Continue reading →

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Volunteers Bring Open WiFi Network to Detroit

Posted on 01/27/2011 by Brian Duggan

On December 8, volunteers Brian Duggan and Chris Ritzo of CuWin (Community Wireless) and the UCIMC Tech working group traveled to Detroit, MI to help build a community mesh wireless network. In four days, Duggan and Ritzo and members of … Continue reading →

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eBlack Symposium Builds Connections Between Campus and Community

Posted on 11/05/2010 by Noah Lenstra

ALTHOUGH WE WERE TOLD “SYMPOSIA” and “conferences” were too academic in nature—the eBlackChampaign- Urbana project team stood by the knowledge that community groups have conferences all the time (Canaan Baptist Church held two in the past year; Glory Center International … Continue reading →

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eBlack Project: Online and In The Community

Posted on 07/05/2010 by Noah Lenstra

The history of African-Americans in Champaign-Urbana has gone virtual! A new project, called eBlackChampaign- Urbana, is working to bring together the documentation of this important history online to find new ways to celebrate, remember and use it into the present … Continue reading →

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Makerspace Urbana Brings Tech Knowledge to UC-IMC

Posted on 01/04/2010 by Brian Duggan

An unusual group for Urbana-Champaign has begun meeting at the IMC recently. They plan to forge a new model for creating and democratizing technology within the community. Urbana-Champaign has been fortunate to have community groups and workshops capable of teaching … Continue reading →

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Announcing the IMC Computer Help Desk

Posted on 01/04/2010 by Brian Duggan

The Urbana-Champaign community has had a deficit of realistic personal computer support options since Prairienet faded away. The existing options for computer support in Urbana- Champaign are limited to Best Buy’s Geek Squad, two or three local businesses and UIUC’s … Continue reading →

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No Room for Neutrality in Net Neutrality

Posted on 10/25/2006 by Victor Pickard

Imagine the Internet as being like cable television. To access websites of your choosing, you’ll have to pay extra to your Internet service provider (ISP). To put up your own website or blog, you’ll have to pay an additional surcharge … Continue reading →

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Napster Didn’t Hurt Music Sales

Posted on 03/08/2002 by Jason Pitzl-Waters

I would like to thank the public i for running the article by the wonderfully talented Rose Marshack. Her insights into the music business were very interesting and informative. I do, however, have one point to make, and that is … Continue reading →

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