At a meeting on a completely different subject, I was interviewed
about
SpamRankings.net.
Here's
the audio,
and here's the blurb they supplied:
John S. Quarterman, long time Internet denizen, wrote one of the
seminal books about networking prior to the commercialization of the
Internet. He co-founded the first Internet consulting firm in Texas
(TIC) in 1986, and co-founded one of the first ISPs in Austin
(Zilker Internet Park, since sold to Jump Point). He was a founder
of TISPA, the Texas ISP Association.
Quarterman was born and raised
in Lowndes County, where he married his wife Gretchen. They live on
the same land where he grew up, and
participate in local community
and government.
Quarterman took some time during
Georgia River Network's
Weekend for Rivers
to speak with the Nonprofit Snapshot about spam-mapping and
small town politics.
More about
Elinor Ostrom's Nobel-prize-winning work on organizing the commons,
and
how that applies to SpamRankings.net.
The water organization has since been incorporated as the Georgia non-profit
WWALS Watershed Coalition:
WWALS is an advocacy organization working for watershed conservation
of the Willacoochee, Withlacoochee, Alapaha, and Little River
Systems watershed in south Georgia and north Florida through
awareness, environmental monitoring, and citizen advocacy.
-jsq
