Lucky San Francisco

As John Battelle noted, Google has offered to cover San Francisco in WiFi for free.

Regardless of how it happens, WiFi internet access should be widely available for very little or no cost.

Although having the government arrange for public [Image removed]infrastructure seems to be a fairly universally lauded idea on the blogosphere, I talked to my dad the other day about it, and he said that he’d rather not have the government as his ISP.

Frankly, I can’t decide if that’s cynicism or sense. The US bureaucracy gets a lot of bad press for various reasons, but despite all that, people tend to think the postal service works fairly well. Of course, if the right private company gets to it first, it could become a moot point.