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Net Neutrality 11-07-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

No Room for Neutrality on Net Neutrality

Myth: Net Neutrality would, for the first time, regulate the Internet.
FACT: Massive innovation on the Internet since its creation occurred under pre-2005 Net Neutrality protection. . . .

MYTH: Net Neutrality is a solution in search of a problem.
FACT: There are numerous examples of network providers engaging in content or user discrimination that will only grow without Net Neutrality. . . .
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MYTH: Network operators are protecting consumers.
FACT: Like any monopoly or oligopoly, network operators want to maximize their profits and minimize competition at the consumer’s expense. . . .

MYTH: Net Neutrality will cause broadband networks to be abandoned.
FACT: Net Neutrality promotes broadband development by increasing Internet services and applications that generate new consumer demand. . . .

MYTH: Net Neutrality will cause broadband networks to be abandoned.
FACT: Net Neutrality promotes broadband development by increasing Internet services and applications that generate new consumer demand. . . .
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MYTH: The Stevens Bill already ensures Net Neutrality.
FACT: The Net Neutrality provision included in S. 2686 merely requires the FCC to conduct an annual study about how information is flowing over the Internet, but provides no teeth to protect the free-flow of information. . . .

Want to know what you can do?
MA Bell Monopoly Versus the Free Internet — Tell the FCC Net Neutrality Is Not Negotiable

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Bookcraft 2.0: Why Bloggers Choose Better Titles than Authors

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books

In a conversation with Phil early this morning, we realized we are ready for the collaboration part of this endeavor. Here’s how it will work:

  1. Phil will choose two days or evenings per week we can meet via voice.
  2. He’ll arrange his time so that after each call he has a block of writing time.
  3. I’ll arrange my time so that before each call I have prep time. I’ll send a list of the pages we’ll be talking about.
  4. When we talk we’ll cover 3-8 pages in one section, discussing what rewrites they might need to flow together.
  5. Phil will do the rewrites immediately after.
  6. Phil will hold all of the rewrites until we’ve been through the entire first pass of the book.

Now the book is shaping up as a whole. We’ll be looking at how things fit together and flow. One of the relevant key word strings in Phil’s working title is “practical tips.” On the pages, we made a rule that each page has a real-life application of what Phil has described. During our two phone calls each week, we’ll be testing each tip to make sure that there are no repeats, that all of them can be done, and all can be called practical.

We’ll revisit the working title even more often than we already were.

The cover and the title are a promise of what is inside of the book. So we are careful to constantly revisit the title to make sure that the choices we make are in keeping with what our goal is.

This is where bloggers outshine the average off the street author. Bloggers know the value of relevant key words. They know readers search for important terms.Bloggers understand from their daily publishing that they should call a book what it is, not something clever that readers won’t understand.

We’re scaffolding down to a manscript that is beginning to be more like a book.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
If you’d like Liz to help you find or make a book from your archives, click on the Work with Liz!! page in the sidebar.

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11.4: Rajesh Setty — The Outer Game

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Life as a Contact Sport

Rajesh

On Wednesday, Raj discussed The Inner Game and the Five Ls. He explained how attitude and philosophy toward life, career, and ambition can lead a professional to focus and improve personally. He calls the topics for self-improvement the “Inner Game” and characterizes it with the Five Ls — Learn, Laugh, Look, Leave a Lasting Impression, and Love.

Today, Raj speaks to how positive interaction with others contributes to professional and personal success. In his book, Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps! Raj calls that “The Outer Game.”

Some folks might argue that the Outer Game — Leverage, Likeability, Listen, Lead — can’t be learned, that what you’ll get is manipulation. How would you answer them?

Life is a contact sport and no man is an island. Outer Game covers those practices where there are some external dependencies. For example, you have to learn to be likeable by someone ELSE. Here is the basic premise for each chapter of the Outer Game.

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Net Neutrality 11-06-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

Battle over ‘net neutrality’ arrives in Canada

. . . “Right now, the internet is almost a perfect, universal democracy,” says Pippa Lawson, the executive director of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Law Clinic.

“The smallest bloggers can be accessed as easily and as quickly as the websites of major corporations.”

There’s clear incentive there for those who have the economic interests to discriminate. That’s why it’s necessary to ensure that there’s a level playing field and you have to do that legislatively.”

Lawson said Canadian companies want exactly what American companies want — to control the web and make a lot of money doing so.

“There’s a big push in Canada right now to allow those sorts of discriminatory practices,” Lawson said.

“The companies that own the pipes of the internet — the telecom companies — haven’t liked sitting back and watching big content providers like Google and Yahoo make billions of dollars. They want a piece of the pie, and they want to be able to favour their own content or the content of the corporations that would pay them big money.”

Want to know what you can do?
MA Bell Monopoly Versus the Free Internet — Tell the FCC Net Neutrality Is Not Negotiable

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Bloggy Life Question 28 — The Prince and the Pauper in the Blogosphere?

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From the A to the Z List

For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life hypothetical question. . . .


You went to school with a blogger who happens to be on the A-List. Everyone knows his name. Even mention it and folks get excited to hear that you know him.

Last night you had dinner with your A-Lister friend. He said that he was tired of the constant complaining about A-Listers not linking to people. He tried to make a case that A-Listers blog the same as everyone else. You tried to explain all sides of the issue without taking a stand.

Your A-Lister friend called today to say that he was about to make a free blog. He planned to put up a few posts on his usual subjects and comment where he usually does under an unknown name to see whether people treat him differently.

How do you respond?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Sunday Comics . . . 30 Links You Won’t Want to Miss

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I've been thinking . . .
I woke up this morning with a touch of nostalgia for the days when I was a child. I grew up about 85 miles from Chicago in a town of 20,000 people. Our hometown paper came out six days a week. It had about 12 full-sized pages or maybe 20. I don’t remember.

But I remember the Sunday papers. We’d get the big ones from Chicago — The Tribune and The Sun-Times. They had a Sunday Comics Section as big as our whole newspaper and they were in color. Sunday comics were so cool!

I’d lay the papers out on the living room floor and read them while my mom cooked Sunday lunch. The only things that made it even better were Flash Gordon on TV and the invention of Silly Putty.

So in honor of Sunday Funnies and great memories I offer you these links. Enjoy!

  1. Amazing Spiderman
  2. Annie
  3. Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
  4. Beetle Bailey
  5. BC
  6. Alley Oop
  7. Being Five
  8. Blondie
  9. Calvin and Hobbes
  10. Cathy
  11. Dog Eat Doug
  12. WulffmorgenHaler
  13. Bassist Wanted
  14. Soup — The Comic Strip
  15. Dick Tracy
  16. Dilbert
  17. Doonesbury
  18. Garfield
  19. Gaping Void
  20. Life on Pause
  21. Nancy
  22. Snoopy
  23. Tank McNamara
  24. Tumbleweeds
  25. What the Duck
  26. Ziggy
  27. Old Comic Strips Listing at As Our World Turns
  28. Stu’s Comic Strip Connection — a listing of syndicated comic strips.
  29. Create your own comic strips at Commix.
  30. Comic Strip Generator

Imagine the hundreds of blogging ideas you could find here!

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