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SOB Business Cafe 07-14-2006

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SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Another Blogger offers a fresh look at 9 things we should all understand about who we are and who we write for.

9 Things Every Blogger Should Understand

Case Notes from the Artsy Asylum delves into and analyzes the latest press about David Sifry’s Interview and changes at Technorati.

Workout4Bloggers reminds us to take care of our own parts that can breakdown while we work.

The New Flatness goes deep in considering the huge importance of web presence and it’s impact on our future.

Related ala carte selections include

Shards of Consciousness reminds us that people and stars are made of the same stuff.

Whos the Star of Your Story

Cuileann McKenzie offers a creative solution for keeping track of fleeting ideas.

Do I Need a Tin Foil Hat

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like.
No tips required. Comments appreciated.

Have a great weekend!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Net Neutrality 7-14-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding these links to the Net Neutrality Page.

Broadband competition? Not so much

In the first part of this year, the US average for cable modem service was US$39.45 a month, while DSL was slightly less expensive at US$35.38. . . .

The report does note that these are standalone prices, and allows that there might be more competition between the two technologies if bundling deals are taken into account. Both the cable industry and the telcos are offering substantial discounts to customers who sign up for multiple services from the same company, and both have the ultimate goal of providing Internet, telephony, and video services.

. . . It’s because consumers don’t have many options that some form of Net Neutrality provisions are necessary, according to the group’s Art Brodsky. “Federal Communications Commission (FCC) statistics showing that just about everyone who has broadband gets it from either the telephone company or the cable company,” he writes. “The FCC has affirmatively pursued the policy of creating this situation, and it’s one of the main reasons we need a Net Neutrality policy. There is no real choice.”

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Net Neutrality 7-13-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

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

Jon Stewart Lampoons Sen. Stevens’ Net Nonsense

Jon Stewart teed off on Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens’ instantly infamous speech about Net Neutrality, in which the 85-year-old in charge of regulating Internet commerce betrayed a stunning ignorance of Net fundamentals.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

Sebastian Prooth Interviews Dennis Madalone

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Seb Prooth with Stunt Man Turned Song Writer

Our own Seb Prooth has a great interview at his blog with Dennis Madalone. Dennis gave up his career as stunt man and one of Hollywood’s best known stunt coordinators, walking away from television credits with Star Trek and Without a Trace, to become the known as “the artist with most downloaded music video on the Internet.” I’ll let Seb tell you the rest. Click the title to get there.

Seb Prooth America, We Stand As One

He’s even got the YouTube video.

Good going Seb!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Net Neutrality 7-12-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding these links to the Net Neutrality Page.

Skype and WildBlue – A Case for Citizen (Network) Journalists

The sudden failure of Skype over WildBlue on May 15 and the recent sudden recovery may be a good case for citizen journalists. It MIGHT have implications for the Net Neutrality debate.

Users on the WildBlue Uncensored! Forum report that, starting two weeks ago, they regained the ability to connect to Skype and complete calls. Some of them also report usable call quality. As I posted previously, users say they had generally acceptable VoIP and Skype performance over WildBlue prior to May 15. I wasn’t using WB then so have no firsthand knowledge.

Why did Skype suddenly stop working over WB? Why did it suddenly start again? Did WB block or deprioritize Skype or VoIP packets? Or did a Skype update loose the ability to deal with the extreme latency (delay) expected when a satellite is used? . . .

Feltecomplexities of Network Neutrality n’s paper on the

Ed Felten — the Princeton engineering prof who led the effort to crack the Secure Digital Music Initiative and did yeoman work on the Sony BMG DRM fiasco — has published a fast, ten-page white-paper on the complexities of Network Neutrality. Ed describes the many ways in which Neutrality is hard to enforce, and the ways in which tiered, discriminatory service is likely to have grave outcomes: . . .

. . . Network management is complicated, and many management decisions could impact jitter one way or the other. A network provider who wants to cause high jitter can do so, and might have pretextual excuses for all of the steps it takes. Can regulators distinguish this kind of stratagem from the case of fair and justified engineering decisions that happen to cause a little temporary jitter?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The Mic Is on in Search of Pirates!

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It’s Like Open Mike Only Different

Here’s how it works.

The rules are simple — be nice.

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.

Some things we might talk about could include

  • .pirates.
  • crayons and legos
  • uban legends
  • vacations.

AND THE EVER POPULAR,

What are the code-writing donkey and the drinking moose doing tonight?

A link anyone to was a member of the DCI related to one of the points above.

Keep an eye our for the Jolly Roger!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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