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Normal Computer Users — Do You Know Any?

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Exploring the SOB Directory

Every week at about this time, I go exploring the SOB Directory. It’s my Thursday night reward to me. I get to read instead of write for a bit. I need to do that on Thursday nights, because Thursdays have this way of getting me down. Working at home I get aware that folks are getting things done and don’t need me bothering them. So I head off to go exploring to get me back on an upward swing.

I put my headphones on and head to the SOB Directory to read what you have been doing all week.

Sometimes I find that takes me to something that makes me laugh. Then I have to come back home again and tell you about where I’ve been, carrying with me links and all. [Read more…]

Net Neutrality 4-27-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’ve added these links to the Net Neutrality Page today.

Alyssa Milano Chimes In On Net Neutrality [via Jeff Pulver]

The Markey Amendment says that telecommunication and cable giants like AT&T and Verizon that provide broadband access have the obligation “not to block, impair, degrade, discriminate against, or interfere with the ability of any person to use a broadband connection to access, use, send, receive, or offer lawful content, applications, or services over the Internet.” The House Committee votes on the amendment today.

As it stands, the bill introduces the Federal Communications Commission to the issue requiring the FCC to address Net Neutrality complaints and levy fines of $500,000 against those found in violation.

Save the Internet.com, House Committee Vote Results: The Momentum Shifts in Our Favor

Ok, so the vote on the Markey amendment to protect the internet has happened, and it was voted down, 34-22. That is a big deal. It’s too bad we lost the vote, but we expected that loss. What we did not expected was the narrow margin. By way of comparison, the subcommittee vote was 23-8, which means we should have gotten blown out of the water.

And this Net Neutrality You-Tube link [via AskaNinja.com]

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

Great Find: Campfire Group Chat

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Well, it looks like a Great Find . . . I haven’t tried it. I don’t have that many friends who want to talk to me for extended periods of time. It sports and testimonial from Dick Costolo, however. I betcha he has more friends than I do.

“One chat with Campfire and you won’t remember how you got by without it.â€?
-Dick Costolo, President, FeedBurner

Great Find: Campfire Group Chat
Type of Tool: Simple Web-based group chat system
Permalink: http://www.campfirenow.com/
Target Audience: Small businesses and groups who want to meet online with password protected privacy and little hassle
Content: Campfire is a pasword-protected, multiroom chat system offers folks a place to meet online. It requires only an online connection and a browser–no download, no installation, no IT person to set up anything. Campfire allows folks to get together in real time to have online conversations, complete with transcripts, and to share files and preview images. It includes an outer room — the Lobby — the chat room, which holds up to 60 people, and a private room, which can be locked for an off-the-record chat — no transcripts are taken. To see more about Campfire, click the screenshot below.

Sounds like an functional program that small businesses could find real use for. Can’t possibly be Web 2.0.

Who’s going to be the first to try it and write a review for Successful Blog?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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New Internet & MSM Page

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Internet & Mainstream Media

Every little while a story will appear in the Mainstream Media about the Internet or Blogging that calls out to me. It calls either because it’s being touted as one thing when it’s another, or because it tells a story that invites analysis of a kind that I enjoy. They stories have tended to build on each other over time.

Internet and WiFi

April 25 Do You Trust Congress and AT&T to Run the Internet?

April 24 Net Neutrality Is in Jeopardy

March 18 Saving the Net–Doc Searls & Walter Cronkite

March 03 Who’s Reading Your Comments?

February 19 Chicago Goes Wi-Fi . . . What Does that Mean to Business?

Mainstream Media

April 22 If He’s a Pulitzer Winner, Call Me a Citizen Journalist

April 09 The Headline’s NOT the Story

March 15 Who’s a Citizen Journalist?

March 15 Financial Times Debate On–Should Old Media Embrace New?

March 12 Edelman Aces PR, NY Times Fails Research

March10 Tom Glocer Don’t Spin Stories to My Friends

March 07 Looking in the Right Direction — The MSM Isn’t. Are You?

March 06 Why MSM Are Afraid of Blogs–and Should Be

Blogs

March 03 Blogs: The New Black in Corporate Communication

February 28 Blogs Aren’t Mini-Websites. They’re Powerful Tools

Do You Trust Congress and AT&T to Run the Internet?

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Look at Your Stats

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How many of your readers own their own servers?

Where will your business be if the highway decides to bypass you?

It happened when the interstates were built.

If they repeal Net Neutrality, our blogs will be small towns way off the main interstate.

We’ll be back to one or two very expensive providers who offer us services we don’t need that do things we don’t like to get to product we don’t want.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Net Neutrality Is in Jeopardy

Net Neutrality Is in Jeopardy

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Net Neutrality

Brian Clark at Copyblogger defines Net Neutrality in way that we can all understand it.

All of your current Internet marketing plans depend on Net Neutrality. And likely a lot that you do online outside the scope of business depends on it too. Net Neutrality allows everyone to compete on a level playing field and is the reason that the Internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. —The Four Horsemen of the Internet Apocalypse

Why is Brian talking about Net Neutrality?

Because Doc Searls is . . . and so is Jeff Pulver . . . and so am I — on all three of my blogs. [Read more…]