When: Sunday Night at 7pm Chicago Time — that’s tomorrow here.
Where: In the Comment Section at Successful Blog
What: We’ll be naming our favorite books on writing — how-to, philosophy, and every other kind.
It’s a great way to compile a monster list of writing books. Stop by be a part. Add your favorites to the list.
It’s our Bloggy question this week.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
I’m adding these links to the Net Neutrality Page.
It’s Saturday. Check out this music video . . . it’s cool.
Even though Mike McCurry is AT&Tââ¬â¢s mouthpiece, not Verizon or Vonageââ¬â¢s, does it make a real difference? His credibility (mind if I mislead you?) has been challenged by Michael Masnick from Techdirt. Why? Because ââ¬Åhe asserts that Googleââ¬â¢s access to bandwidth doesnââ¬â¢t cost the company a dime.ââ¬Â
Guess what? No matter which side of the Net Neutrality issue you may be on – you just had smoke blown up your arse! Howââ¬â¢s it feel?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.
That leads us to the first number today, 60. Thatââ¬â¢s how many votes Stevens needs to round up before he can bring his bill to the floor. Senate rules require 60 votes to cut off debate on legislation. Otherwise, practically speaking, the bill is dead. So, the Senate leadership has told Stevens he must have the votes in hand to cut off debate before the bill will be brought up for debate. . . .
[snip]
The flip side of the issue is our second number, 41 (corrected from the earlier mathematically challenged version.) Thatââ¬â¢s how many Senators are needed to keep the bill off of the floor. The objective of those favoring Net Neutrality is not to kill the bill. Rather, we want to fix it and make it better, but the chances of that happening are better if negotiations take place and agreements are reached before the bill gets to the floor than after it gets to the floor. . . .
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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You might recall that Chartreuse’s Prince Campbell put down his own money, which was added to by the Blogging Times, the Blogging Herald, and KnowMoreMedia, to send a film and interview team to New Orleans. The crew of three who will be going was announced today on a post on Chartreuse (BETA). The team of three includes:
Mishikea Brathwaite: From Los Angeles, Calf., Travis Campbell: A New Orleans native who now lives in San Francisco, California, and Loren Feldman: From New York, New York. They will be helped when they get there by New Orleans resident, Candice Quates, friend and reader of Succesful Blog.
As Prince said about the trip:
The three people will be meeting in New Orleans on Friday August 11.
There is a Thrifty rental car reserved for them at the Airport.
They will be staying at the Avenue Garden Hotel on St.Charles Ave. in the Garden District of the city. (One of the main reasons I chose it is because of Internet Access. High Speed is not available in some of the hotels I checked.)
Though they will be mostly on their own there are already interviews set up with people in a 150 mile range. These are people who supposedly have first hand knowledge of some of the atrocities mentioned in the email I received.(They will have to do some travelling but this isnââ¬â¢t a vacation.)
The point of this trip is to find out the truth. And to give us a first hand view of whatââ¬â¢s happening in the city and the outlying areas.
We’ll be keeping an eye on their travels to hear the stories of what is happening to the real people living in the aftermath of Katrina. Bloggers have the power to make things happen in the most tangible fashion.
Never forget the power of blogging. We can make things happen.
ME “Liz” Strauss
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I’m adding these links to the Net Neutrality Page.
Stevens Scrambling for Anti-Net Neutrality Votes
Stevens is still trying to force a vote on his inaptly titled telco give-away bill, the Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 (S. 2686). But he’s not having much luck so far. . . .
he article singles out Santorum, DeWine, and Chafee as resisting efforts to push the bill to the floor before the elections. Not only are they hearing from constituents on this issue, they are raking in some serious cash from moneyed interests on both sides of the debate. They really don’t want to have to vote on this before the election. . . .
AT&T’s Whitacre: ‘Nobody Gets a Free Ride’
ââ¬ÅThis thing is growing at a rate that nobody would imagine,ââ¬Â [AT&T CEO Ed] Whitacre said of the market demand for bandwidth. He said AT&T networks are now handling 5.6 Petabytes of data every day. ââ¬ÅThereââ¬â¢s more and more content, and you need more and more bandwidth, and somebodyââ¬â¢s got to build it.”
ââ¬ÅIf you build it, you have to make a return on that,ââ¬Â he continued. ââ¬ÅNobody gets a free ride, thatââ¬â¢s all.ââ¬Â
This kind of language, of course, leaves open the possibility that AT&T will (or already does) offer some of its customers a better ride across its access networks in exchange for fees. But it doesn’t necessarily mean the provider would block content that it disagreed with, which is a fear that most net neutrality backers discuss the most.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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If you read the beginning (7.1) of this interview you know that Cat Morley has been a few places and done a few things in her career as a World Designer. If you came to this week’s open comment night, you also know that Cat had a major role in Wizard of OZ written just for her.
Tonight a little more about the many things Cat has had going on in her life.
Cat, how did you end up as a blogger?
Iââ¬â¢m a crusader with a hot spirit. When LogoWorks started showcasing logos that were remarkably similar to many, many other designers’ logos, I was swept into blogging along with others. Of course there were some bits that had to be in place first. I just happened to be test driving blogger for a client when it all came about.
Cat tells the story of how she started to blog on Creative Latitude. It’s called Blogs, Podcasts and all that stuff.
Here’s how the story starts . . .
If you asked me a month ago about spending my precious time updating an industry or personal blog, Iââ¬â¢d say, “Never!” Sure, I have a business blog (now sadly ignored) which Iââ¬â¢ve spent time on, but Iââ¬â¢ve always pooh-pooed jumping in and keeping a blog just for the love of it.
Many times on “The About,” (About.com’s graphic design forum) Iââ¬â¢ve passed a verbal grin in Chris Gee’s direction when he went on and on about the wonders and power of blogging on his blog thepreparedmind.com. Not for me. I felt I had better things to do with my spare time.
I’m really glad she changed her mind.
Next: wait until you hear about Cat and the Queen of England!
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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