• Banned by RedState for Exposing Astroturf

    October 6, 2009

    I like to think our issues are neither right nor left. Net Neutrality preserves freedom of speech from provider interference whether you are Glenn Beck or Michael Moore. Internet Overcharging costs conservatives as much money as it does liberals.

  • The Washington Post Needs to Come Clean on Net Neutrality

    October 5, 2009

    A Washington Post blog post published Monday hits on one central reason for making Net Neutrality the law.

  • Arguments Against Net Neutrality Grow Mold

    October 1, 2009

    What does the debate over Net Neutrality have in common with a zombie horror flick? As the phone and cable companies send out a brainless horde of shills and lobbyists, it's not hard to make the connection.

  • Journalism Crisis: A Way Forward

    September 28, 2009

    These days, it seems like every attempt at public policy gets called a bailout. But not all bailouts are good public policy, and not all good public policy requires a bailout. Sometimes, the public policy process is actually a way to create systemic change.

    It’s this sort of solution we need if we are to contend with our journalism crisis – not a bailout of the old guard media system, but a national journalism strategy aimed at bringing together government, activists, industry and the public to craft policies that will support quality journalism.

  • Industry Nonsense on Net Neutrality

    September 25, 2009

    The industry frenzy has begun. Big phone and cable companies are frantically grasping at anything they can lob against Net Neutrality since the FCC’s announcement Monday that it would expand rules to protect the principle.

  • More Newsroom Diversity

    September 24, 2009

    The following is a guest blog from Kevin Olivas, director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Parity Project.

    Much has been said by cable TV pundits and others about media diversity and news coverage of local communities. But there is a need to examine the media landscape and check out who is telling these stories, prompting the question: Do we have diversity in American media? For Latinos, as with other people of color, the answer is no.

  • Why Net Neutrality Is an Arts Advocacy Issue

    September 23, 2009

    I teach a course on “Cultural Policy and Advocacy in the U.S.” each spring for CMU’s Master of Arts Management program. As I begin prepping for the upcoming spring semester, I find it intriguing that the issue of “net neutrality” has not gained much buzz within the arts advocacy community.

  • Apple and Palm: Total Device Control

    September 23, 2009

    Are you one of those lucky people who’ve purchased a Palm Pre? If so, you may have been pleased to find that the phone -- which, slow sales aside, is the only mobile device that comes close to the coolness of the iPhone -- syncs with iTunes. In fact, it’s the first and only non-Apple device that does so.

  • Two Words for OneWebDay

    September 23, 2009

    The first word is Openness.

    As we pay tribute to everything the Internet represents in our lives, it’s worth remembering the work of those who, in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, laid the foundation for the Web we know today.

  • Report from Denver Forum on the Future of News

    September 23, 2009

    The following is a guest blog post from Steve Outing, a Boulder-based media consultant and columnist focused on reinventing news. Steve volunteered as a facilitator at the SaveTheNews.org forum on the future of journalism in Denver on September 16.

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