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Workers of the World, Unidas
Happy May Day, comrades.
The international day of workers' solidarity, a true American holiday born in Chicago -- you thought, maybe, on Red Square? -- 120 years ago. And while this is Labor Day most everywhere in the world, hereabouts, May 1 is something nasty called "Law Day." (Although right-thinking Americans may also commemorate it as Mission Accomplished Day.) Labor Day, of course, is a historically meaningless holiday in September that marks nothing but the end of barbeque season and the beginning of football season.
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04:00 PM May 01, 2006 -
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Bare Knuckles For Network Neutrality
We don't usually do our bloviating about actions-you-need-to-take-right-now. That's the job of people who use our stuff.
Network neutrality is different. This is some serious stuff.
The House Commerce Committee earlier this evening approved a bill that would permit ISPs to play favorites when delivering content -- a practice directly antithetical to the functioning of the Internet. Had this behavior been permitted a decade ago, the "walled garden" online model might have prevailed over the open, fluid and innovative information infrastructure we enjoy today. If this behavior is permitted now, it could do a scorched-earth number on the online world many of us take for granted. Will it hurt you? Only if you're a search engine user, innovator, iPod user, political group, nonprofit, small business, telecommuter, vacationer or blogger. Or, you know, anyone who consumes any sort of web content, from stock tips to dirty pics.
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11:00 PM Apr 26, 2006 -
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Bare Knuckles For Network Neutrality
We don't usually do our bloviating about actions-you-need-to-take-right-now. That's the job of people who use our stuff.
Network neutrality is different. This is some serious stuff.
The House Commerce Committee earlier this evening approved a bill
that would permit ISPs to play favorites when delivering content -- a
practice directly antithetical to the functioning of the Internet. Had
this behavior been permitted a decade ago, the "walled garden" online
model might have prevailed over the open, fluid and innovative
information infrastructure we enjoy today. If this behavior is
permitted now, it could do a scorched-earth number on the online world
many of us take for granted. Will it hurt you? Only if you're a search engine user, innovator, iPod user, political group, nonprofit, small business, telecommuter, vacationer or blogger. Or, you know, anyone who consumes any sort of web content, from stock tips to dirty pics.
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10:30 PM Apr 26, 2006 -
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Save the Internet, Win $1000
Here in DC, the subways have been plastered with ads for weeks now that urge Congress to "save the Internet" by discarding the critical principle of Net neutrality in favor of either the cable industry, or the telecom industry. (One guess who's been paying for the ads.)
Well, one netizen is fed up and is putting his money where his mouth is: Jeff Pulver is holding a contest with a grand prize of $1,000 for the best 30 or 60 second "viral" spot promoting the Commie pinko idea that Net neutrality is actually a good thing.
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04:30 PM Apr 21, 2006 -
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P2P Fundraising Beta Test Through Marla Ruzicka's CIVIC
There are causes one works with in which one becomes uncommonly
involved. We pause this week to recognize the Campaign for Innocent
Victims In Conflict (CIVIC). Our Executive Director, April Pedersen,
recently sent this to some of us:
On the road from the Baghdad airport one year ago this week, my dear friend, Marla Ruzicka, was killed by a suicide bomber while advocating on behalf of victims of the war.
Before she died, I promised to keep CIVIC going should anything happen to her.
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