After our interesting discussion yesterday about protecting the future of the Web, it’s kismet that I would run into this article from the MIT Technology Review that speculates the future of the web, aka Web 3.0, and the groundwork being done now by the transition to the Semantic Web.
The article posits that the Semantic Web [...]

There’s a great post over at All things Daniel Haggard about the reason the powers that be are fighting so hard against Net Neutrality. To make a long story short– The internet is Changing The World.
These telecom companies are all preparing to evolve into media companies. What is a media company? It’s a company that [...]

Over on Threadwatch they were discussing the newest MSN seach parameter, which allows the parameter LinkFromDomain. Russ Virante, one of the commenters, posted his newest tool based on that parameter, which will show you which of your outbound links that are banned from Google, pretty useful if you want to weed them out, though it [...]

My friend, Vicki, sent me a link the other day. I hadn’t heard of the Music Genome project nor of their sister project Pandora. I don’t know whether I should kiss or kick Vicki for this one, I’ve wasted so much time playing with it! Pandora allows you to manufacture your own channels of music [...]

Last week it was Jon Stewart on The Daily Show spoofing on Senator Stevens‘ internet explanation. Now you know when the comedians start ragging on an issue it’s hit the big time.
But it gets even better– Just search on CafePress for “Internet Tubes” or “internet Stevens” and let everyone know how you feel about the [...]

I got a reply from Senator Rick Santorum today re one of my emails to him about Network Neutrality. I doubt he really read it very well, since he (or most likely one of his staff) went on and on about how the Stevens bill and COPE are going to make my TV viewing a [...]

Right now the future of the internet is being decided by Congress. Up until now, the only regulation of the internet has been the stipulation of Network Neutrality, which is one of the things that is now in jeopardy, and the main reason why the internet has been so wildly successful and revolutionary.
Network Neutrality is [...]

I’m happy that there has been progress on the Network Neutrality issue since Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has placed a Hold on the telecommunications legislation recently approved in committee. It’s also very encouraging that folks with prominence in the senate, like Senator Kerry are now speaking out on the issue. Having said all that, [...]

It’s time to get the Senate Judiciary Committee involved, since the amendment for Network Neutrality to the telecommunications bill (S. 2686) was defeated by a TIE vote of 11-11 in Committee. It amazes me that our government hasn’t learned yet that the minute they give in to the Telecomms the Telecomms no longer have the [...]

Up until recently I was pretty apolitical. But this whole RAPE of the US Taxpayer by the Telecomms has me so majorly pissed off that I’ve started watching what my legislators are doing (basically they’ve been up to no good, definitely voting for what’s best for the CORPORATIONS and not for what’s best for the [...]

I’m not sure if this is good news or bad news. I’m hoping it’s good news and that the Senators on the Committee realize that there’s more here than meets the eye. I’m hoping they end up delaying it long enough so that it doesn’t make it through voting before the Senate adjourns. I’m hoping. [...]

According to a blogpost at Save the Internet, Amazon.com’s Paul Misener handily defeated Mike McCurry — co-Chair of the telecom front group “Hands off the Internet” — in a debate over Net Neutrality at George Washington University on Friday.
The debate was videotaped by PoliticsTV, and downloads of the entire debate are available there.
I won’t make [...]

The telecomms keep pushing their lie– that there’s no need to add government regulations, insinuating that the incredibly innovative internet grew without any regulations. That just isn’t so. Net Neutrality has been in place since the beginning, which is WHY the internet has been so successful.
If Network Neutrality is voted OUT, then not only will [...]

I’ve been wading through the posts on this issue at Slashdot. This one has some of the best explanations on why the whole issue has been:

manufactured by the Telecomms in the first place.
grossly misrepresented by those same Telecomms.

The explanation of what was done, posted by Arivanov is this:
Traffic is carried between two autonomous systems on [...]

Now, this Stevens is the same guy who built a $223 Million Bridge to Nowhere on our tax dollars so fifty people could get to the hospital in the winter, and whose major campaign contributors, all Telecom and Cable Giants, are:
(first) News Corp.
(third) Verizon
(fifth) Viacom
(sixth) AT&T
(seventh) Walt Disney
(ninth) General Electric (NBC)
(nineteenth) Sprint Nextel
He’s the [...]