PennPIRG has posted an article reporting that the AT&T/Cingular network is blocking calls to free conference call services such as FreeConferenceCall.com. This free conference call service competes directly with Cingular’s pay for play conference calling service. The free conference call is a legal and legitimate service. The access numbers are legal and legitimate access numbers […]
Without satellite broadband, people like me who live outside cities and need to run online businesses are usually up a creek to put it politely - it’s pretty hard to do that sort of thing using dialup (it CAN be done, but it’s NOT easy).
In fact, I did it on dialup (on 30+ year old […]
In his darkly humorous way, Carl Hiassen, has, in his recent Miami Herald article entitled We Have Seen the Future and It’s Not Pretty points up the problem with today’s “new New Journalism”.
But this is the new New Journalism, which is steered by a core belief that people would rather be smothered by seedy gossip […]
Though there was very little notice of the meeting itself, and the venue wasn’t announced until the very last minute, over 300 people still turned up at the third of the six promised FCC Public Hearings on the subject of Media Consolidation to voice their concerns over the current state of the Media. Further media […]
Eric Klinenberg, author of “Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media.” has been getting a lot of attention. Why? Because he’s put together an impressive body of empirical evidence that shows that Media Consolidation is harmful, sometimes quite literally. His book, Fighting for Air, chronicles his fact finding, and paints an alarming picture […]
In the MIT Technology Review today, there’s another Net Neutrality article. What amazes me is that the writer, Wade Roush, still doesn’t totally GET IT, which is truly amazing being as he’s in Tim Berners Lee country. Roush writes this:
The single biggest future barrier for advocates of strict network neutrality could be simple technological change. […]
Click on title to see video of Markey’s speech at the NCMR.
Tim Wu of Columbia U has written a very cogent article entitled Ma Bell is back. Should you be afraid? with much historical information about the result of the Ma Bell breakup and what we can expect and should fear now that most of Bell is reassembled again. He states, “So, should you be afraid? […]
Remember that FCC scandal at Martin’s reconfirmation hearing, when Senator Boxer outed a couple documents the FCC had buried that contained studies proving that Big Media Mergers and Consolidations were harmful to the diversity of the media? There was an investigation ordered, and a couple media watchdog groups, including the Media Access Project filed a […]
Net Neutrality advocates still have work to do, since there’s a 24 month limit on the Net Neutrality provision in the AT&T Merger conditions that Whitacre just put forward as his compromise, but this is HUGE. First, by making this compromise in order to get the merger approved, Whitacre is directly contradicting his earlier statement […]
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