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Net Neutrality 7-24-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

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

Telco Wars and Net Neutrality

Let me start of by saying reading this post by James Enck may cause your heart to skip a few beats if you work at Level3 or are a customer who relies on them, or has built budgets and pro-formas based on how Level3 charges you.

But it goes much deeper and you MUST read through the various links that other bloggers have gathered to get the whole picture. . . .

The line from Gordon Cook sums up a lot:

Net Neutrality is a skillful diversion to draw our attention there while Qwest, ATT, Verizon and BellSouth still the knife in at the court and PUC level and kill off the remaining services they don’t control.

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–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Bloggy Question 16 — Customer Feedback

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What Do They Think?

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 Blogging Question.

A friend comes to you and says she wants to know what folks really think about her blog and her business. What advice would you give her to help her find out?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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I Fought the Law and . . . I need Bob

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Need Some Advice?

Do you know your rights? Even more, do you know the rights of others? Are you sure you can use that photo, that quote, to advertise your business? What would you do if someone started writing untrue things about you or your business?

Mike Sigers suggests that you might want to ask Bob Silber — Bob is internationally known as one of the world;s most respected authorities on Internet marketing law. Click the title below to find out more about Bob and what he does.

Got a Legal Question about Blogging?

Thanks, Mike!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Net Neutrality 7-23-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

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

Jon Stewart Revisits Net Neutrality

Jon Stewart from the Daily Show revisits net neutrality, with another brilliant explanation of what it is and how it works. This new segment is in addition to the clip discussed last week. With educational material of this nature is it any wonder that so many people turn to Jon Stewart these days?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Net Neutrality 7-22-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

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

Wiretapping, Net Neutrality and Mergers: PhoneCo Power Grabs

In 1974 the US Justice Department initiated a historic lawsuit against what was then commonly known as “The Phone Company.” Eight years later AT&T was forced to divest itself of local phone businesses which were transformed into 7 regional “Baby Bells.” AT&T then focused on long distance services with two new competitors: Sprint and MCI. Today that trend is on the way to reversing itself.

Recent and pending phone industry mergers are threatening to hurt consumers and bring us back to the monopolistic pre-1974 days (see diary below). In addition, the phone companies are allowing the Bush administration to spy on Americans and we’ve seen them team up to claim such efforts are beyond judicial control. Finally big corporations and the phone companies are trying to grab corporate control of the Internet by eliminating Net Neutrality and making it into the modern day equivalent of television.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Bad Boys: You’re Losing Your Memory

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What Was I Going to Say?

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I’m ready to write something and as I sit at the keys, it’s gone. It was a spectacular idea. I know it was. Damn. It’s the second time this week, or is it the third? Suddenly I’m forgetting things — things that I’ve never forgotten before.

I used to be known for this memory of mine. Some folks even steered clear of it, feared it. They knew it could track details for decades and offer them back at lightning speed. Now what? A brain of mush has moved in where the razor sharp memory was. . . .

-Stop-

That’s the voice of a Bad Boy of Business. Bad Boys are negative messages, bad tape recordings, in our heads. Bad boys are ideas that we tell ourselves that undercut our success and productivity.

The bad boy here is “You’re losing you’re memory.”

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