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Mainstream Media’s Trashing of the Presidential Primary

04/25/08, 2:01 PM

I knew there was a reason I threw out my TV ten years ago. Yesterday I was over a friend’s house and he had the news on, I’m not sure which network, but some talking heads were discussing how Obama is “off his game” and how Hillary still has a shot. The conversation went on […]

Bullying, is YouTube or MySpace to blame?

04/12/08, 7:50 AM

The major media attention being paid to the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay is, as usual, putting a lot of attention on YouTube and MySpace.
From a recent NY Times article on the prosecution of the 8 kids who were indicted in the beating:

“For whatever reason, this MySpace, my-you, this YouTube has gone too far,” said […]

Sustainability and The Oil Economy

04/11/08, 1:34 PM

Night before last I was reading through the comments on Slashdot on the Report about the Bakken Formation, and how it’s now economically feasible to extract oil from it and opening up drilling there would increase the US oil reserve tenfold. One comment on that post has stuck in my mind, because it’s so true, […]

Mainstream Media ignores Torture Memo

04/4/08, 8:52 AM

The only Big Media outlet giving the Torture Memo any play is the New York Times, which is the BEST argument going for not letting Wall Street into their Boardroom. Wall Street has benefitted ridiculously from Bush and Company’s wholesale deregulation and resultant bailout after the predictable meltdown it caused, and Big Media outlets owned […]

WiMax, Rural Broadband, the Spectrum Auction and the USDA

03/30/08, 9:28 AM

Om Malik is reporting a MAJOR investment by the USDA in a mystery company called Open Range Communications. The company secured USDA financing to the tune of $267 million for the purpose of rolling out BroadBand to Rural Areas. This announcement comes fast on the heels of two other news events– the wrapup of the […]

Spend $16 Billion and Learn how to Share. Mr. Rogers would be proud.

03/28/08, 9:27 PM

How much you wanna bet there are a bunch of former AT&T and Verizon Legal Weenies out there looking for work, since they missed the Devil in the Details that allows Wireless Microphones to operate in that UHF Spectrum Range they just spent Megabucks by the tractor trailer full to purchase? Wet Machine has the […]

Republicans are not representing their Constituents

03/13/08, 9:50 AM

At the Congressional Hearing on March 11, it was very obvious that outside of the halls of Congress, Net Neutrality and Internet Free Speech is very much a Bipartisan Issue. PCMag covered the Net Neutrality hearing, which resulted in this incredible quote by Michele Combs of the Christian Coalition, “The Christian Coalition and NARAL agree […]

Net Neutrality Debate

03/11/08, 5:13 PM

Today VonTV.net had a great panel discussion on Net Neutrality, and one of my favorite bloggers, Harold Feld of WetMachine (also VP of Media Access Project) was one of the Net Neutrality Proponents. Marvin Ammori
General Counsel at Free Press, was also on the Proponent side of the table. Ken Ferree of the Progress & Freedom […]

Picture worth a Thousand Words.

03/9/08, 12:18 AM

What a HOOT! So I just went blog visiting and caught this perfect moment at Wetmachine. Click on the thumbnail to see True Market Power!

Technorati Tags: Comcast, Market Power, WetMachine

CNN framing the dialog on FISA

02/28/08, 4:43 PM

This morning CNN ran a story about President Bush’s comments about the Economy and the FISA bill. Needless to say the dialog after the story, the one in the comments, was just as interesting as the story. And there were some gently dissenting viewpoints.
However, and here’s where it gets interesting– I have commented numerous times […]

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