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June 12, 2006
Net neutrality at Vloggercon
Kudos to the organizers of this past weekend's Vloggercon event in San Francisco, which was buzzing with activity including raw enthusiasm, blatant profit-seeking, and an inordinate amount of attention paid to somebody leaving Microsoft or something. And, there was talk of network neutrality!
Sunday's network neutrality panel, of which I was a part, was really more of a learn-in, with lots of good questions and (I hope) some fairly objective and informative answers mixed in with the inevitable opinions. Matt Sherman, the so-called only Republican in San Francisco, has a good recap and I can only say "yea" in agreement with his assessment of our fellow panelists.
(Except that I really don't dislike the phone companies... think I even said a few times that they are only doing what their shareholders expect... I do get a bit heated when they stop making sense or try to deliberately obfuscate; but I see that as part of the journalist's job, to expose untruthiness...)
(Funny to also see from a couple recent posts that Matt and I agree to disagree -- see that he likes the Tauke interview on C/Net, and lauds the Washington Post editorial even though it conveniently ignores the fact that when the FCC counts broadband, it only needs one subscriber in each Zip Code to count the entire Zip Code as broadband-enabled. Ah well.)
One thing several people asked for was a list of where we get political and net neutrality info. Here's a starter sampler:
The Jeff Pulver Blog
Sure, he's my employer, but you will be hard-pressed to find another site that pays more attention or spells out the reality of the situation, with the nuances the MSM doesn't know or understand. One of our not-so-secret weapons is our man on the Hill, Pulver.com "wartime consigliere" Jonathan Askin.
The National Journal's Insider Update
Sometimes their Wall Street Journal-type politics creep in, but for the most part this squad of telecom-reg reporters is hard to beat for timely news and analysis.
Susan Crawford Blog
If you like the Internet, the human soul, and logic, you will love Susan's law-professor/real person take on the often complex and confusing state of telecom regulations.
David Isenberg Blog
Smart stuff about the stupid network. His paper on the stupid network is required reading for anyone interested in this debate.
Posted by paul at June 12, 2006 11:22 PM