Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

So I get an email from Blogher this morning telling me about a survey they want me to take. It is to narrow down the issues they want to focus on in the coming Presidential Election. There are questions that ask me to choose from this list which issues I think they should focus on […]

In typical “letter of the law but not the spirit of the law” fashion, AT&T will now give customers the $10 a month aDSL, called FastAccess DSL Lite, that was mandated by the FCC as a condition of the merger with BellSouth. Problem is that very few people have succeeded in actually signing up for […]

There’s a post over at the Washington Post blog that begins an analysis of the Cheney Vice Presidency and how it has impacted the Reign of Terror(ists) called The Bush Presidency. Personally I can’t wait for the rest of the series, and the way it analyses the trashing of our Constitution and chronicles the abuse […]

Jason, at WebProWorld, has clued us in on Google’s Comments re Net Neutrality (pdf) that have been filed with the FCC. His analysis of Google’s Net Neutrality comments points up the importance of Net Neutrality with the market reality of broadband as it exists in the US today, “. . . clueless politicos have been […]

There’s a very interesting post over at Blogher. The question posed was what women bloggers think the top issues are that Presidential Campaigners should be focussing on. There’s a LOT of meat to chew on in the comments, from the cost of healthcare and daycare, Iraq (of course), the Environment and Global Warming, political accountability […]

So the other day I pointed out that there was new legislation being introduced in North Carolina that would take away the ability of a City to build out its own broadband network in the absence of Cable or Telecomm action, a bill called The Local Government Fair Competition Act, which is anything but local […]

Can we say, “PISSED OFF” ??? That’s the feeling that seems to be coming through with the roughly quarter MILLION comments submitted to the FCC re the upcoming Spectrum Auction Rules, which will determine the existence (or not) of a third Broadband pipe which will have the ability to reach rural areas. This many comments […]

Not only has McCain come out against Net Neutrality and even come close to saying that ISPs should be able to control Internet CONTENT (geez, just what we need, more Bud TV and the Home Shopping Network) but he’s also said that in Iraq we need to field MORE troops, not less, and certainly not […]