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Click-to-Call VoIP As a Political Tool

Advomatic got a great press hit today that we’re happy to share with you. VoIP News, a niche news and information publication dedicated to covering all aspects of the VoIP and Internet Telephony marketplaces wrote about our Click-to-Call system.… Read more

July 28, 2008 by Fred Gooltz

How Social Networks Think

I’ve had difficulty explaining my networking concepts without resorting to some exasperated cliche like, “that’s just how I think about it.”

Well, turns out that scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health are coming to the conclusion that that’s … Read more

March 15, 2007 by Fred Gooltz

Societal Culture and the Internet’s Clusters

China’s internet users number 130 million – and are growing 30% every year. Second only to the U.S., China is installing broadband everywhere, and internet cafes are the size of K-Marts and as abundant as Starbucks.

In 2005, Dr. Guo … Read more

March 10, 2007 by Fred Gooltz

RFK’s “We Dissent” Speech

It is not enough to allow dissent. We must demand it. For there is much to dissent from:

…We dissent from the fact that millions are trapped in poverty while nations grow rich.

…We dissent from the conditions and hatreds … Read more

January 4, 2007 by Fred Gooltz

What if Coke Saved the Planet?

Considering how Copyright laws are so strictly enforced, and multinational corporations the size of Coca-Cola & Company have such control over governments, I discovered how Coke could save the world with a single piece of paper.

How you ask?

File … Read more

December 25, 2006February 19, 2021 by Fred Gooltz

Contemplative Prison Films As Zeitgeist

Socio-political Film Studies was one of my favorite things from College. Here is the newest of my regular series.

There were so many Prison Dramas in the 70s that are of a certain similar flavor, it bears noting how and … Read more

December 13, 2006 by Fred Gooltz

The Final Shot of Three Days of the Condor – NSA Considered

In 2004 The New York Times sat on a bombshell story about George W. Bush’s warrantless NSA wiretapping until AFTER his reelection. Why? Because the criminal who was exposed in the story (President Bush) asked them not to print the … Read more

August 31, 2006November 25, 2025 by Fred Gooltz

The Final Shot of The Conversation – The Third Man considered

Strangely, it wasn’t the recent NSA ruling by a Federal Court smacking down Bush’s illegal spy ring that got me to netflix one of my old favorite Watergate-era films.

What got me going back to my favorite time in film … Read more

August 26, 2006August 11, 2016 by Fred Gooltz

The Internet as Third Place

Ray Oldenburg is an urban sociologist who writes about the importance of informal public gathering places. In his book The Great Good Place, Oldenburg demonstrates why these gathering places are essential to community and public life. He argues that … Read more

July 26, 2006January 22, 2025 by Fred Gooltz

Bombs Away

—AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl
—AZ-01: Rick Renzi
—AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth
—CA-04: John Doolittle
—CA-11: Richard Pombo
—CA-50: Brian Bilbray
—CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave
—CO-05: Doug Lamborn
—CO-07: Rick O’Donnell
—CT-04: Christopher Shays
—FL-13: Vernon Buchanan
—FL-16: Joe Negron
—FL-22: Clay Shaw
—ID-01: … Read more

October 29, 2005 by Fred Gooltz

Socio-Political Film Studies: America 1970s

The late 1960s was a time of radical change in the world of film. The Hollywood studio system was in decline, while the European art film movement created a new aesthetic standard for filmmaking. This industry transformation, encouraged by the … Read more

April 27, 2005March 11, 2016 by Fred Gooltz

Memory, Alienation, History

The play Mnemonic begins with a monologue about the location of memory processes in the brain and continues on to contemplate the genealogy of humankind:

“Anyway, our job, the job of remembering, is to reassemble, to literally re-member, put the … Read more

January 14, 2004 by Fred Gooltz

Open Thread

The forecast is chance of brainstorms: 100%.

January 17, 2001 by Fred Gooltz