More information: www.savetheinternet.com/=boston The question before us is simple: Will we have a closed Internet controlled by a small handful of giant corporations, or an open Internet controlled by the people who use it? With so much … [Read more...]
Globe Smears Internet
Let's go right to the big example of falsehoods promulgated about a candidate:During the 2004 race, a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth aired television ads saying that Kerry, the Democrats' presidential nominee, had made … [Read more...]
Tell the FEC To Rule For ActBlue!
But ActBlue lists any Democratic candidate running for state or local office, without picking or choosing, or endorsing. As such, they really are not acting like a PAC. In fact, ActBlue has been instrumental in jumpstarting more individual … [Read more...]
This One Story Shows Why Burma Has To Stay In The Headlines.
One story that was posted from Europe stunned me considerably. It's about the ongoing cremations the Burmese government continued long after the first wave of riots stopped, literally, as they burned the evidence of dead monks.<a … [Read more...]
Introducing The Burma NewsLadder
NewsLadder will work for the bloggers because it will drive traffic to their sites. You can't read the posts on NewsLadder, you can just see the links and the comments and the rankings of the posts. All bloggers can post links to their … [Read more...]
Obama on LinkedIn
I am not so fond of Barack Obama, but whoever is running his Internet campaign is brilliant. Asking an open question like this will give the 1365 people who already answered it, many more who will, and way many more who just read it, like I … [Read more...]
An Expensive Series of Tubes
Cross posted at: http://mattomalley.b...The so-called netroots have been particularly useful for my brand of politics, slightly center/more so left-leaning. After years of being out-gunned and out-maneuvered by our better organized GOP … [Read more...]
Sen. Durbin collaborates with blogs on broadband
This is very cool: Sen. Dick Durbin is reaching out to the netroots to craft a national broadband strategy that would create affordable, universal broadband access. Unequal access to broadband is a big problem even in tech-heavy … [Read more...]
Important breakthrough on net neutrality
Good news today on the net neutrality front: as a condition of being permitted to merge with BellSouth, AT&T has agreed to adhere to net neutrality for two years, or until Congress passes a net neutrality bill. Short version, from … [Read more...]
Where’s Savoy?
The post, I mean, not the town. We had a nice discussion going, and all of a sudden the link disappeared from the right-hand column. I was hoping to see some more thoughts on this important issue of universal access to telecom services. … [Read more...]