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Net Neutrality on Deck [1]There's been heavy traffic over the Net Neutrality wires since the November 4 Election of Barack Hussein Obama, and it's not just because the president-elect was so outspoken in support ...
Net Neutrality on Deck [3]There’s been heavy traffic over the Net Neutrality wires since the November 4 Election of Barack Hussein Obama, and it’s not just because the president-elect was so outspoken in support ...
Telecom and Space Conference -- November 13, 2008 in Washington, DC. [5]pMy good friend, Marvin Ammori, is hosting the University of Nebraska Space amp; Telecom Law Program's Telecom and Space Conference in DC tomorrow. It's an all-star lineup and certain to ...
New America Hosts Google CEO Eric Schmidt -- November 18th. [7]pNew America Foundation is hosting a Qamp;A with Eric Schmidt in DC on November 18, 2008 at 1pm. Thought some of my readers might be interested in attending (and hopefully ...
Obama Wants Your Media Reform Ideas [9]Day two of President-Elect Barack Obama’s transition to the White House, and already he came out strong for media reform. Yesterday he laid out his science and technology agenda, prominently ...
Now Hear This Newsletter, November 6, 2008 [11]There were some huge votes and non-votes at the Federal Communications Commission on Election Day this past Tuesday, all of which could have major implications for consumers. And the FCC ...
Supreme Court Hears Fox Profanity Case [13]Alas, the Supreme Court skedded our indecency case on, wouldn't you know it, Election Day. Choosing between Voter Protection in Virginia and the Supremes, we chose Voter Protection and thus ...
Media Ownership Challenge Moved To Third Circuit [15]The appeal of the FCC's latest attempt to lift reasonable limits on ownership of media will be heard in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, the same court ...
The Other Vote -- Victory at the FCC [17]Big Win for an Open InternetYesterday The Seattle Times Published my op-ed on "white spaces." Read it here. I was on Democracy Now! in the morning talking about the anticipated ...
A Landslide Win for White Spaces [19]The Federal Communications Commissions voted late Tuesday to approve the unlicensed use of “white spaces” — empty airwaves between television channels — for high-speed Internet access nationwide. The landslide vote ...
Activists and Bloggers Want White Spaces [21]Just as the sun set on the official comment period on white spaces at the FCC Friday, activists and bloggers injected their voices on the future of the Internet. Fifty-six ...
White Spaces for the People [23]Brian Beaudet lives in what’s locally called a “holler” in rural Marshall, N.C. “It’s very secluded but my family likes the privacy and the nature that surrounds us,” he says. ...
C-SPAN Will Broadcast Same Bad Words That Got Fox Fined [25]C-SPAN has asked the Supreme Court for permission to air tapes of the oral argument in Fox v. FCC after the argument concludes on Nov. 4. If the Court grants ...
Canadian Privacy Group Raises Key Concerns on Google, Doubleclick and Threat to our Privacy [27]We urge everyone to read the CIPPIC petition filed yesterday in Canada asking for a investigation of Google and Doubleclick. Among the key questions raised is whether the two companies ...
Google’s Mobile Search Advertising Ambition: Control the Market [29]From Online Media Daily [”Google’s Mobile Ad Move Gets Everybody Talking.” Tameka Lee. September 14, 2007] excerpt: The search giant “is acting fast to take control of the mobile search ...
Peter Fleischer, Online Advertising & Privacy: More than PR is Required [31]Mr. Fleischer made news yesterday when he presented Google’s call for “global privacy standards” at a UNESCO meeting. Google endorsed the weak (”flexible”) APEC proposal as a model framework. Really, ...
Keep Your Eye on Mobile Advertising, Marketing & Privacy, esp. Google, Microsoft and the Carriers [33]The online mobile space will be hugely important to civil society, communities, and the public. We have concerns about how the mobile marketing “ecosystem,” as its called by the industry, ...
Google: Cash, not Quality, Redefines Top Paid Search Placement [35]As Google changes its policies so it can dramatically broaden its reach for advertisers, esp. the ones with the deepest marketing pockets, it’s key to understand what it means for ...
Google’s Ad Industry-related Job Openings: help us become the “definitive source of marketing intelligence” [37]These three job announcements from Google are too good to ignore. They say a lot about where Google–and global society–are headed. I’ve excerpted from the complete ad (but links are ...
Google and Yahoo! Among Largest Donors of Ad Council [39]In a full-page ad in today’s New York Times “Week in Review” section, the Ad Council lists its `who’s who’ of media and big brand donors. Atop its list is ...
Video Ads Likely to Appear on Searches from Google [41]The evolution of Google from a system designed to provide the public with information into a full-blown data–collection broadband video platform promoting the interests of brands and marketers will make ...
Knight Foundation and a Grant for Viacom’s MTV: Funding a giant on its Journalism advisory committee [43]We have long had concerns about foundations funding media conglomerates to provide public service content. So, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s recent award of $700,000 to MTV ...
Yahoo!’s Electoral Ambitions: Behavorial Targeting and Beyond [45]Yahoo! has unveiled an online targeting ad category for elections–raising serious questions about privacy and potential voter manipulation. Now, in addition to fast foods and cars, marketers can use Yahoo!’s ...
Yahoo! Swallows Blue Lithium to Expand its Behavioral Targeting Effort [47]The ever-growing consolidation of control in the online ad market continues (something CDD and USPIRG warned the FTC about in Nov. 2006). Yesterday, Yahoo! acquired ad network and behavioral targeting ...
For Sale on Ebay: Your Online Privacy [49]eBay is working with behavioral targeting technologies, including a test “retargeting” users (that means electronically shadowing) as they visit AOL, MSN, clients of Yahoo’s RightMedia ad exchange and other sites ...

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