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Press release: “Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), the ranking Democrat on the Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today introduced the Eliminate Warehousing of Consumer Internet Data Act of 2006 designed to strengthen consumers’ Internet privacy and prevent companies from storing personal information for indefinite periods of time…Rep. Markeys …
Follow-up to Preserving an Open Internet through Net Neutrality, see this hearing today: Net Neutrality, Full Senate Commerce Committee, Tuesday, February 7, 2006. Member and Witness statements (in PDF, including those from Vinton Cerf and Lawrence Lessig), are available here. Washington Post: Verizon Executive Calls for End to Google’s ‘Free Lunch’
Yes, that would be a reference to all the librarians, researchers, info pros, information specialists, etc., who deserve a big collective shout out for all the terrific services they provide each and every day, in all arenas of the profession. Take a moment to read this article, and enjoy (I sure do miss Monty Python …
Follow-up to posting yesterday, Gallup Internet Poll Reports E-mail Remains Dominant With Blogs Making Decent Showing, related news and statistics on the State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth.
Press release: Mail and News Are Main Internet Attractions Some e-commerce picking up; blogs still marginal, by Lydia Saad: “A recent Gallup Poll examining Americans’ online habits finds e-mail use almost universal among the three-quarters of U.S. adults who use the Internet. Checking the news and weather ranks second on the list of 13 Internet …
Follow-up to February 2, 2006 posting, Commentary on Forces Competing to Determine “Digital Destiny”, this related article from the UK Times Onlines – Rumours mount over Google’s internet plan, by Benjamin Cohen: “Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by …
Good Fences Make Bad Broadband – Preserving an Open Internet through Net Neutrality, 2006/02/06, A Public Knowledge White Paper, by John Windhausen, Jr.: “This paper analyzes the Net Neutrality debate in more detail. The paper is divided into four parts…Part I is a reference guide on the Net Neutrality issue; Part II makes the case …
Congressional Human Rights Caucus Members’ Briefing: Human Rights and the Internet – The People’s Republic of China, Wednesday, February 1, 2006: “China has one of the most sophisticated content-filtering Internet regimes in the world. The Chinese government employs sophisticated methods to limit content online, including a combination of legal regulation, surveillance, and punishment to promote …
The End of the Internet? by Jeff Chester: “The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online…According to white papers now …
Press release: “A task force of global and European publishers organizations, led by the World Association of Newspapers, has agreed to work together to examine the options open to publishers to assert their rights to recognition and recompense, and to ultimately improve the relationships between content creators/producers and news aggregators and search engines.”
National boundaries have survived in the virtual worldand allowed national laws to exert control over the Internet.
Declan McCullagh reported that Judge James Ware, US District Court, Northern District of California, has calendered Gonzales v. Google, Inc. for February 27, 2006.
