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Net Neutrality 12-20-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

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

Statemate Keeps At&T-BellSouth Merger Off of FCC’s Agenda (Washington Post)

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin said yesterday he did not know how soon it would consider AT&T’s proposed $86 billion acquisition of BellSouth . . .
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One of the main obstacles is disagreement over whether to require a “net neutrality” condition that would bar AT&T from asking different Internet services to pay different prices for using its lines.

The entire story is available at WashingtonPost.com.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The Mic Is On: What’s Your Favorite Food?

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

open mike night

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

What’s food do you love? You are hungry – aren’t you?

We might also talk about

  • foods we hate
  • our favorite recipes
  • foods we have never tasted
  • our traditional holiday foods

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Skinny Moose.

I Love Watermelon

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: We’re Eating! Well, We’re Talking About Food We Love!

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I Love Watermelon . . .

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YES, the mic will be open again tonight. So start collecting your thoughts. Remember, you get to bring what you want to talk about.

The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight we’re eating — or at least talking about food we love . . .

We might also talk about

  • foods we hate
  • our favorite recipes
  • foods we have never tasted
  • our traditional holiday foods

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Skinny Moose.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The Mic Is On: We’re Misbehaving! Well, Sort of…

Net Neutrality 12-19-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

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

Use the Internet to Save the Internet

Together we won the first round in the battle for Net freedom. But the phone and cable giants are launching a counterattack. We need to raise the alarm and send a clear message to our new Congress: Make Net Neutratlity the Law in 2007!

via AlterNet, thanks to Thoughts and Philosophies

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Paul Sanchez Is a B.A.D. Blogger!

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Blogger A Day Call: Hello is Paul there?

When was the last time you rode your bicycle 10,000 miles? Yeah, me too.

Sunday I was on the phone with Paul Sanchez. He rode his around the entire United States of America. Paul rode his bike for his kids with dyslexis and other learning differences. Paul has 8wishes — he’s hoping to earn $1,000,000 so that he can give 100 kids each $10,000 to use to go to college.

Would you be amazed to find out that a blog that was started on December 11th had 15,000 hits on December 15th? I know I was. That’s the kind of guy that Paul is. When he has a cause behind him, Paul makes sure that things are happening. We talked about what he had going on so far. He mentioned the letter from Governor Schwarzenegger, the support from Katie Couric, the Fox News Live Interview, the two times his MySPace site was Digg’d. Then he started listing his sponsors, a list that gets longer every day.

This young man knows how to get attention for the kids he’s working for.

Paul said that the money that he’s collecting will go to the Dyslexia Resource Center. We talked about the process for awarding scholarships. He said the process wouldn’t be fully revealed until the $1million was collected. I asled to see the page where the process was described. I couldn’t help, but make suggestions. He offered to let me edit. I took him up at his offer. It was nice to do things for the kids.

Paul is one guy who did all of the riding alone in the 8wishes videos. Despite his own dyslexia, Paul writes many of the blog posts and all of the personal emails. This is a man who is on a quest to help kids get to college. He’s one of the examples of people who make the most of this new medium to do something special.

One man, 10,000 miles, one bicycle. It’s a remarkable story.

B.A.D. Blogger Quote

I’m just now starting to talk to bloggers. They’ve all been so generous.–Paul Sanchez

Stop by Paul’s Blog, 8wishes, and watch some videos!

Thanks, Paul, you B.A.D. Blogger!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar