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In light of Verizon’s decision to block text messages from NARAL for no reason other than their content, Public Knowledge has created an online form for submitting comments to the FCC.
This is an important telecom policy issue, and it would still be a problem if Verizon were blocking any messages due to their political content. [...]

I wanted to give a big welcome to David Karpf; we are very honored to have him here on our blog and we look forward to see him post some of the many brilliant little nuggets that I have come to expect to hear from him over our coffee talks together. Dave is a Phd [...]

Harris interactive released a new poll on Monday, indicating that 22 percent of American adults regularly read political blogs, meaning several times a month or more.  This is an astonishing number, both for what it tells us about the impressive penetration of blogging into political life and for the pervasive negative framing that it receives [...]

Apparently, the Air Force is sending DMCA takedowns to websites, including YouTube, for hosting commercials designed to recruit tech-savvy youth into the military branch’s Cyber Command.This is even though federal government documents are not subject to copyright protection. And as Wired explains:
 Air Force marketing chief Keith Lebling, who sent us the spot in the first place, [...]

Enter the ICHC online Poker Cats Contest!
Lol!

Over at Manifest Density, Tom has a couple interesting posts up arguing that the success of Blu-Ray in our marketplace should not be taken as proof that it’s a “better” technology than HD DVD, as many seem to have contended.
Megan’s right [as stated here] that I and a lot of my fellow nerds aren’t very [...]