Are Big Corporations Trying to Shut Down the Internet?

Netflix faces an attempt to impose high bandwidth rates and AT&T customer will soon see limits on throughput. http://bit.ly/dIdcYc

They’re coming . . .

Al Franken warns ‘They’re coming after the Internet’. http://r2.ly/8vxi

Digital Democracy

The Nation editors weigh in with a cogent explanation and argument for Digital Democracy aka Net Neutrality: http://www.thenation.com/article/154172/digital-democracy

Net neutrality v. Google-Verizon

Huffington Post describes Google and Verizon’s new “policy framework” — News of this deal broke this week, sparking a public outcry that’s seen hundreds of thousands of Internet users calling on Google to live up to its “Don’t Be Evil” pledge:” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-aaron/google-verizon-pact-it-ge_b_676194.html

“The First Amendment Issue of our time”

Democratic Sen. Al Franken weighed in on Net Neutrality over the weekend at Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas. Net Netrality simply put is the principle that Internet Service Providers should be prohibited from favoring certain content on the Internet.

GPO’s New Librarian to Digitize Government Docs

US GPO’s first Preservation Librarian will help move federal documents to digital format for future generations. http://sn.im/gpolibn

Net freedom threatened again

Under proposed national security legislation the White House could be given an Internet “kill switch.”  It’s enough to make you want to write your congressmen.  http://bit.ly/c3Gz6D

Tips for searching

A short tutorial on Google searching provides a few good tips to help searching on Google. Using wild cards and searching when you’re not sure what you’re looking for make this a great little tutorial by Mashable.com.