Matt Lee

I'm Matt Lee, one of the folks behind behind Foo Communications, a company/experiment in music and social media, including Libre.fm, a new social media platform that offers musicians exclusive promotion and play in exchange for licensing their music under a free culture license, and GNU social, a federated social networking project.

You have to see this…

IEEE Spectrum (engineering magazine) ran a story in February, reviewing telecommunications development in Africa, with a big section on Nigeria. The writer says that a fiber optic line was brought into Lagos three years ago, but few connections have been made to it. Shell Oil, and almost nobody else. Not the universities [who have to be heartbreakingly creative to keep services going], not the ISPs, not the major businesses, apparently not even the government agencies. Hard to understand - until these photographs arrived! ;o) Well, would you commute to work at the telephone company under those conditions?

I do want a monkey, but that place just looks scary as fuck. Hyenas? No thanks.