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Pittsburgh: Time to Make the Internet Open and Available to EveryoneThe Federal Communications Commission needs to help keep the Internet free of corporate gatekeepers and available to every American, witnesses and the public told the agency’s five commissioners at a ... Top Aide to ex-FCC Chair Powell Applauds Court's Reversal of Powell's Janet Jackson FineOf all the encomiums for the 3rd Circuit's overturning of the FCC's CBS/Janet Jackson Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction" fine, perhaps the most unexpected is this: “Perhaps it is time to ... Creative Voices Applauds Court Overturning of FCC's Janet Jackson FineCreative Voices applauds today’s ruling by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals that the Federal Communications Commission’s indecency decision and $550,000 fine against CBS in the Janet Jackson Super ... Now Hear This Newsletter, July 17, 2008There are increasing rumors the Federal Communications Commission is about to quietly ram through new rules written by wireless phone industry covering those ubiquitous early termination penalties they charge. The ... What's Wrong with Meraki? Black Box Technologies, Lock-In, & Hidden Costs.[UPDATE02] Once or twice a week I get the question, "I'm thinking about using Meraki's equipment, what do you think?" And I always start my answer much the same way. ... An Open Internet: Good for RepublicansDavid All, co-founder of the Republican activism site Slatecard.com, and Saulius “Saul” Anuzis, chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, are appealing to their party to support an open Internet.
In ... Beware of Cable Guys Making PromisesComcast can't seem to get it straight.
On the one hand, the cable giant blocks access to certain Web applications. On the other, Comcast executives extol the virtues of a ... Beware of Cable Guys Making PromisesComcast can’t seem to get it straight.
On the one hand, the cable giant blocks access to certain Web applications. On the other, Comcast executives extol the virtues of a ... Martin Wants FCC Yellow Card Against Comcast for Violating Net NeutralityProps to FCC Chair Kevin Martin for putting some very small enforcement teeth into the FCC's four Net Neutrality principles, which he had said at the time of adoption were ... Community Media: Selected Clippings - 07/13/08Seven-Year-Old To Use Cable Show To Protect Sound
by David Funkhouser
Hartford Courant (CT)
07/12/08
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Seven-year-old Daphne Tucker will be hosting a segment of her family’s ... Internet Users Stop Comcast, Net Neutrality Win on the HorizonFederal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is taking action against Comcast for illegally violating Net Neutrality, after a coalition of Net users and activists caught the cable giant blocking open ... America's Next Moon Shot: Internet for EveryoneAlmost every great public initiative in America's history, the electrification of rural communities, the creation of the interstate highway system or the 60s-era mission to the moon, started with a ... Internet Users Stop Comcast, Net Neutrality Win on the HorizonFederal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is taking action against Comcast for illegally violating Net Neutrality, after a coalition of Net users and activists caught the cable giant blocking open ... Transition in Trouble: Action Needed to Ensure a Successful Digital Television TransitionThe good folks at the the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights are out with a report that should be required reading for any government official involved -- or who should ... The Future of Policy Organizing at the Allied Media ConferenceCrossposted at Open Left and the Free Press Action Network.
Hey guys — I’m Hannah Sassaman. For the past six years I’ve been an organizer at the Prometheus Radio Project ... Canadian Privacy Group Raises Key Concerns on Google, Doubleclick and Threat to our PrivacyWe urge everyone to read the CIPPIC petition filed yesterday in Canada asking for a investigation of Google and Doubleclick. Among the key questions raised is whether the two companies ... Google’s Mobile Search Advertising Ambition: Control the MarketFrom Online Media Daily [”Google’s Mobile Ad Move Gets Everybody Talking.” Tameka Lee. September 14, 2007] excerpt:
The search giant “is acting fast to take control of the mobile search ... Peter Fleischer, Online Advertising & Privacy: More than PR is RequiredMr. Fleischer made news yesterday when he presented Google’s call for “global privacy standards” at a UNESCO meeting. Google endorsed the weak (”flexible”) APEC proposal as a model framework. Really, ... Keep Your Eye on Mobile Advertising, Marketing & Privacy, esp. Google, Microsoft and the CarriersThe online mobile space will be hugely important to civil society, communities, and the public. We have concerns about how the mobile marketing “ecosystem,” as its called by the industry, ... Google: Cash, not Quality, Redefines Top Paid Search PlacementAs Google changes its policies so it can dramatically broaden its reach for advertisers, esp. the ones with the deepest marketing pockets, it’s key to understand what it means for ... Google’s Ad Industry-related Job Openings: help us become the “definitive source of marketing intelligence”These three job announcements from Google are too good to ignore. They say a lot about where Google–and global society–are headed. I’ve excerpted from the complete ad (but links are ... Google and Yahoo! Among Largest Donors of Ad CouncilIn a full-page ad in today’s New York Times “Week in Review” section, the Ad Council lists its `who’s who’ of media and big brand donors. Atop its list is ... Video Ads Likely to Appear on Searches from GoogleThe evolution of Google from a system designed to provide the public with information into a full-blown data–collection broadband video platform promoting the interests of brands and marketers will make ... Knight Foundation and a Grant for Viacom’s MTV: Funding a giant on its Journalism advisory committeeWe have long had concerns about foundations funding media conglomerates to provide public service content. So, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s recent award of $700,000 to MTV ... Yahoo!’s Electoral Ambitions: Behavorial Targeting and BeyondYahoo! has unveiled an online targeting ad category for elections–raising serious questions about privacy and potential voter manipulation. Now, in addition to fast foods and cars, marketers can use Yahoo!’s ... Yahoo! Swallows Blue Lithium to Expand its Behavioral Targeting EffortThe ever-growing consolidation of control in the online ad market continues (something CDD and USPIRG warned the FTC about in Nov. 2006). Yesterday, Yahoo! acquired ad network and behavioral targeting ... For Sale on Ebay: Your Online PrivacyeBay is working with behavioral targeting technologies, including a test “retargeting” users (that means electronically shadowing) as they visit AOL, MSN, clients of Yahoo’s RightMedia ad exchange and other sites ... 