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| Thursday, May 4, 2006 |
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Please wait in the lobby 
| | Netcompetition.org, "an e-Forum Promoting Internet Choices for Consumers", is a public lobbying effort by the cable industry that is slick in the extreme and a "positioning" effort of a high order. "Government Regulation vs. Competitive Choices" and "Net Neutralty vs. Net Competition" are two of its sound bite slogans. |
| | Forget the irony of pro-market rhetoric by creatures that have lived so long in a government-managed regulatory habitat that they wouldn't survive in a truly open and free marketplace. What matters now is that the Net has become politicized in an unfortunate way: with its advocates on the losing side of a business vs. government sportscast, and the carriers providing most of the quotable color commentary. |
Heard it through the skyvine
| | So I'm driving along, showing J.B. (who's sharing my ride) how Sirius Satellite Radio works, tuning to Channel 103, where Gillmor Daily is running, it turns out. With... whoa: me. Kinda surreal. |
| | I'd point to the source on the Sirius site, but it loads like dial-up, even over a T-1 here at a Starbucks. Plus the site (Sirius', not Steve's) is self-promotional beyond endurance, so fuggit. Anyway, there it is/was. Back to the road. |
Sorry about Wednesday
| | Didn't get a chance to blog yesterday. Which is actually still today, but the blog is on Newfoundland time or something. |
| | Christine Herron took remarkably good and complete notes on my Monday talk. Plus lots of other talks at the show. Regretably, she's one of the few people I didn't get to talk to at the show. (As I recall, anyway. But then, I spent some time looking for my glasses in the car this morning before finding them on my face.) |
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