If you’re a broadband/dsl user, it’s easy to take for granted that, for a nominal fee, we have unlimited access to all sorts of wonderful content.
The net as we know it is not owned nor controlled by any particular group–that’s Net Neutrality.
Today, Congress meets to discuss Net Neutrality and it may all be gone by tomorrow–if Big Telcos such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast have their way.
Save the Internet.com is a grassroots, non-partisan coalition aimed at educating the public about Net Neutrality and is lobbying Congress to not listen to the special interests of Big Telcos and to keep the Net free of their control. Take a moment to check out what they have to say on the matter…
Also, CNet offers their analysis on the Net Neutrality issue.
April 25th, 2006
Hello, Citizen Media people. Onward with the cause. (Tish, any further word on integrating with the Media Giraffers?) I report with disapointment that I will miss this weekend’s Bowling for Bloggers event (strike two, to mix metaphors), but I report with enthusiasm that I am giving a poetry reading on April 25 in Easthampton. The details are on my blog.
April 13th, 2006
Mark Glaser’s Mediashift post yesterday offers some very intriguing analysis of the questions that arise when a critical mass of citizens want to be journalists.
April 7th, 2006
I know this isn’t blog/c.j. oriented, but I thought some folks might be interested in this organization: Books Building Bridges:
Books Building Bridges is a community-building project developed in order to acknowledge and foster a common human desire for learning, authentic connection and a healthy society while transcending political divisions in the United States and the geographic and social distance between the United States and Iraq
they have some family-friendly events coming up, too. Check out the website.
April 3rd, 2006