Netflix faces an attempt to impose high bandwidth rates and AT&T customer will soon see limits on throughput. http://bit.ly/dIdcYc
Sep 26
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
Aug 10
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
Jul 26
“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.
Jul 24
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
May 14
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.