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Google, Verizon, and Getting Real
Greetings. Reactions to the Verizon-Google Legislative Framework Proposal have been splattering around the globe ever since the two firms announced the plan earlier this month. The proposal has some clearly worthwhile elements, yet is problematic in other aspects. Much more...
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"Ground Zero Mosque" - Ron Paul vs. Sanjay Gupta on CNN
Greetings. This evening, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviewed Congressman Ron Paul regarding the controversy surrounding the proposed building of the Cordoba House community center and mosque ("Park51") in New York City. It's hard not to feel somewhat embarrassed for Dr....
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Half a Century: The "NYC Mosque" and "A Raisin in the Sun"
Greetings. Earlier this week, in Google Buzz Meets the New York City Mosque Controversy, I noted how Google Buzz was proving invaluable in discussing the controversies surrounding the New York City Cordoba Community Center and mosque project. That thread, which...
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Google Buzz Meets the New York City Mosque Controversy
Greetings. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I'm using Google Buzz more and Twitter less. An ongoing thread in Buzz, on the topic of the controversial Muslim community center and mosque to be built two blocks from the...
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Competition vs. Net Neutrality
In today's New York Times, Eric Pfanner suggests, in essence, that vibrant broadband competition can obviate the need for Net Neutrality per se. In fact, it's basically axiomatic that widespread, effective competition -- of the sort that dominant ISPs have...
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"You Can't Always Net What You Want" - With Apologies to Mick And Keith
Greetings. Now that the recent Google/Verizon proposal has moved the spotlight firmly back onto Network Neutrality and Open Internet issues, with reactions that are -- to say the least -- running on high, I feel inspired to present -- oh...
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Civility, Neutrality, and Google
Greetings. It's now four days since Google and Verizon published their joint policy proposal for an open Internet. Today, Google posted an additional document, addressing what they view as the misconceptions being promulgated in various negative reactions to the plan....
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Some Perspective on Reactions to the Google/Verizon Joint Policy Proposal
Greetings. Unless you're living under a rock (and perhaps even then) you no doubt are aware of the many rather strident reactions to the Google/Verizon joint policy proposal that the firms announced yesterday during a conference call (and that I...
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Quick Summary and Thoughts on Google/Verizon "Net Neutrality" Conference Call and Announcement
Greetings. A joint (very short notice) conference call between the Google and Verizon CEOs has completed. Very brief nutshell from my notes: 1) The firms vigorously deny that they made any carriage or related deals. They declared recent reporting to...
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Google, Net Neutrality, and Fairness
Greetings. In Evil or misunderstood? Google and net neutrality posted earlier today, David Megginson speculates that a key issue in the now widely-known (but little understood) recent "secret" meetings between Google and Verizon might have been discussions regarding giving particular...
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New Comments by Google's CEO Eric Schmidt Trigger Privacy Concerns
Greetings. I have enormous respect for Google's CEO Eric Schmidt. Among his various positive attributes is his ability and willingness to openly speak his mind on controversial topics. Occasionally though, Eric's remarks (which of course do not unilaterally represent Google...
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Google, Verizon Deny Deal -- and Why I Have No Comment (For Now)
Greetings. A lot of people (including various media) have been banging on my inbox and phone wondering why I haven't so far specifically commented on the New York Times Google/Verizon Internet Deal story (and similar articles in other publications), and...
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FTC in Charge of Net Ads? -- and Opt-In vs. Opt Out
Greetings. Word is that the U.S. FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is seriously toying with the concept of establishing some sort of Internet "do-not-track" list to ostensibly control Web ads that involve behavioral targeting and/or user tracking. Outside of the fact...
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ICANN Touts DNSSEC As Tool to Fight "Internet Criminals"
"ICANN said the DNSSEC would eventually allow Internet users to know 'with certainty' that they have been directed to the Web site they sought. 'This upgrade will help disrupt the plans of criminals around the world who hope to exploit...
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Why I'm Using Google Buzz More and Twitter Less
Greetings. Without any conscious effort to change my patterns of applications usage, I've noticed of late that I'm using Google Buzz much more and Twitter considerably less -- this despite the fact that I'm (for now, anyway) following fewer people...
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Our Responsibilities on the Web That Never Forgets
Greetings. The New York Times has published an important article on the subject of the Net's long memory, and the impacts on reputations and other aspects of people's lives when previously posted materials exist essentially forever online. Regular readers know...
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Trusting Your Friends -- and Trusting the Cloud
Greetings. Internet "cloud"-based services, both for data storage and as computing resources, are expanding rapidly, and have become a flash point of controversy among some persons in the computer science and privacy fraternities. On various discussion lists and forums, dialogues...
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The Google Search "Secrets" in Plain View
Greetings. As I've mentioned previously, I tend to receive several hundred e-mails daily that relate to Google one way or another, many of which contain requests for advice regarding perceived or real Google-related issues. I try to help when I...
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Truth via Captions: "What's Under Their Kilts?"
Greetings. A few weeks ago in Why Web Video Captioning Is So Important, I mused on the importance of captioning to Web videos, and emphasized why YouTube users should take advantage of various YouTube captioning tools (automated and manual) to...
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ICM Registry and Deceptive Dot-Ex-Ex-Ex Polls
Greetings. One of the techniques that ICM Registry has been using to try demonstrate public demand for a dot-ex-ex-ex top level domain (TLD) has been touting various "poll" results. Right now they're pushing a new CNN "poll" that seems to...
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