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"The Promise of Municipal Broadband"Here's a good analysis on the state of municipal broadband -- from www.progressive.org/mag/aaron0808.html:
"The Promise of Municipal Broadband"
By Craig Aaron, August 2008
When Mayor John Street announced plans to ... McCain Says, "There is [sic] Too Many Ways...That People are Able to Communicate with One Another."I couldn't make this up if I tried. The full McCain quote in its full context is available here.
During his Saddleback Church presentation, McCain was asked how he would ... "Dismayed" Bipartisan FCC Chairs, Commissioners, and Officials Denounce FCC Indecency Decisions as "Victorian crusade"Former FCC Chairs Newton Minow and Mark Fowler, joined by other former FCC Commissioners and officials, have added their respected -- and "dismayed" -- voice to that of Creative Voices ... [UPDATE10] McCain's Tech Plan -- Initial Analyses.An interesting thing has been happening -- people are actually reading McCain's technology plan. The reviews are coming in (and they're not pretty).
Here's a synopsis (click on the author's ... Sizing up McCain's Technology Plans. A.K.A., Written by Lobbyists, Corporate Approved.I've finished reading through McCain's Technology Plan -- it's a quick read, about 50% as large as Obama's Technology Plan but with even less actual content. One telecommunications expert told ... John McCain's Tech Plan Coming Out Today.Hopefully, it will be out soon. I look forward to reading it over and seeing what he plans to do to support 21st century technology development. In particular, I'm hoping ... Now Hear This Newsletter, August 14, 2008While better than nothing, the early digital television transtion in Wilmiington, NC, next month will likely yield little more than false positive results. ... McDowell’s Scare Tactics Reach New LowFederal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell increasingly sounds like a man stranded on a desert island, willing to say anything to get a ride back to shore.
Yesterday, Commissioner McDowell stooped ... [UPDATE01]The End of the Meraki Mini $49 Mesh Router.Since posting several concerns with the future of Meraki's pricing structure I've heard that Meraki is planning discontinue their Meraki Mini $49 mesh router on August 12, 2008. If true ... AT&T Breaks the Law... Again... Targets PEG Stations.Back in March 2007, I wrote that "the worst state franchise bill I've ever read has just been introduced in Illinois". At the time, there was a united front among ... More on the Death of SynergyNearly six years ago, we hailed Jeff Bewkes, now the CEO of Time Warner, for honestly saying the claimed benefits of "synergy" -- using Big Media's chokehold over distribution to ... Creative Voices Podcast on Janet Jackson, Net NeutralityWe just posted a podcast from July 20, 2008 over on our podcast page. CV Executive Director Jonathan Rintels was interviewed by WINA-AM 1070 host Coy Barefoot for half an ... Don’t Scare Me with MeteringThousands of people heralded the FCC’s decision to punish Comcast for blocking Internet traffic last week, and for setting an important precedent for Net Neutrality. A small group of skeptical ... Who Shouldn’t Solve This Internet CrisisLast week in the Washington Post, Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell published an op-ed asking, “Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis?”
Based on that article and his lengthy, flawed dissenting ... Artists to SCOTUS: FCC fleeting expletives policy is f*ed upMatthew Lasar wrote on ars technica an excellent article on Creative Voices' brief to the United States Supreme Court to "send the Federal Communications Commission's tortured "fleeting expletive" rules to ... TKO of Comcast Sets Stage for a Better InternetThey tried to shut us out. Their flacks and shills tried to discredit us. Their media lapdogs tried to attack us. But nothing could prevent a people-powered movement from stopping ... Two Voices at the FCC for a Free and Open InternetIt's unusual for federal bureaucrats to achieve rock star status, but two commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission have amassed an enthusiastic fan base among the emerging "Open Internet" movement. ... Community Media: Selected Clippings - 07/13/08Seven-Year-Old To Use Cable Show To Protect Sound
by David Funkhouser
Hartford Courant (CT)
07/12/08
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Seven-year-old Daphne Tucker will be hosting a segment of her family’s ... The Future of Policy Organizing at the Allied Media ConferenceCrossposted at Open Left and the Free Press Action Network.
Hey guys — I’m Hannah Sassaman. For the past six years I’ve been an organizer at the Prometheus Radio Project ... Canadian Privacy Group Raises Key Concerns on Google, Doubleclick and Threat to our PrivacyWe 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 MarketFrom 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 RequiredMr. 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 CarriersThe 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 PlacementAs 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”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 CouncilIn 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 GoogleThe 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 committeeWe 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 BeyondYahoo! 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 EffortThe 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 PrivacyeBay 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 ... 