For this episode Dave, Mark, and myself linked up using Skype after a busy week. There were also a lot of items tagged with "thawt" on delicious, quite a few of which were first quarter results. This triggered a discussion based on a telephony online report on troubling times for telcos and more disturbing news.

Other links discussed included:

Sprint good news, Sprint bad news

David Pogue's report on Sprint's high-speed wireless

Reports dealing with first quarter earnings from:
Fairpoint, Vonage, CableVision, Charter, Dish, Sprint

Congress approves farm bill

Wireless is good for Vermont, go figure

Verizon gets big contract as part of Networx

D Block auction take 2

Are you Hyperconnected? This couple is.

Games with a purpose help computers learn.

Addictive Lufthansa game -- can you beat Dave's score?

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