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Fri Nov 13 09:08:57 PST 2009

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FCC Mulls Broadband Network for Public Safety, Internet News
Work on broadband plan continues as commission hears from first responders on how to address shortcomings in critical infrastructure.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/DFZjDMmtVu0/3848281
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

I've joined the FCC National Broadband Plan team, ISEN
Yesterday at blogband.gov it was announced that I've joined the FCC's National Broadband Plan Task Force. I'm delighted to be helping Blair Levin and his team on this important mission.
http://isen.com/blog/2009/11/i-joined-fcc-national-broadband-plan.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm

New Staff Bring Deep Experience to National Broadband Plan, FCC
I’d like to take a few minutes to introduce Blogband readers to some of the great leaders we’ve hired for the broadband team in recent weeks.
http://blog.broadband.gov/blog/index.jsp?entryId=15112
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm

Feds Give Broadband Stim Funds a Speed Boost, Ecommerce Times
Two federal agencies are charged with disbursing broadband expansion stimulus money, but critics say they've been stuck at dial-up speed since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed by Congress earlier this year. So on Tuesday the agencies
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/68615.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm

Federal Register Notice: Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and NTIA Joint Request for Information, NTIA
RUS and NTIA released a joint Request for Information (RFI) seeking comment on further implementation of the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). The input the agencies expect to receive from this process is intended to inform the second round of funding.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2009/FR_BIP_BTOP_RFI_091109.pdf
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm

NTIA, RUS want your feedback on next round of funding, MUNI
The NTIA and RUS are seeking public comment about the next round of funding. There will be only one more round, not two, and the agencies want to know how they can streamline the process. This is after all the “stimulus” funding and it’s meant to stimulate the economy. Given that we are already in year 2 of the economic crisis and neither agency has given out any
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/Fh0os2zto7E/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm

AT&T 'Sets The Record Straight' On Verizon Ads - And continues to give Verizon additional free advertising..., dslreports
AT&T and Verizon's fight over 3G coverage maps just keeps rolling along, with Verizon recently running new ads that mock AT&T's wireless network, and AT&T lawyers working very hard yesterday to get those advertisements pulled by the courts. The decision to fight the ads doesn't seem to be all that wise, given the debate has simply managed to push the ads (and
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Sets-The-Record-Straight-On-Verizon-Ads-105481
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w3g.htm

Why Free Wi-Fi Marketing Is Smart, Gigaom
Maybe we should chalk it up to the upcoming season of jolly, but lately it seems like everyone wants to give away free Wi-Fi access to travelers. Well, free as long as you watch an ad or a promo for whichever company is sponsoring it, such as Yahoo, Microsoft and now Google. But while we might roll our eyes at what looks
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/TztBoslW8Mo/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

Wi-Fi hotspots are hot again, Muni
Everything old is new again, like leg warmers and tie-dye scarves, and . . . Wi-Fi hotspots. Research firm In-Stat says hotspot usage will “increase in 2009 by 47 percent, bringing total worldwide connects to 1.2 billion.”
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/tAslkV_CMvQ/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

Google adds lock to SafeSearch, Safe Kids
Google has long allowed parents a SafeSearch filtering setting that keeps kids from using the search engine to find inappropriate sites like those with explicit sexual images or text.
http://www.safekids.com/2009/11/11/google-adds-lock-to-safesearch/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

Google Provides A Lock For Safe Search, Inside Internet filtering
Yesterday Google announced a new locking feature for Safe Search.  Here is a video on how it works:
http://www.insideinternetfiltering.com/2009/11/google-provides-a-lock-for-safe-search/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

Grants Can be Used for Bully Prevention Programs in Schools, iKeepSafe
As the Center for Social and Emotional Education (CSEE) works with schools to improve school safety, they are entrenched in the latest and greatest of school funding opportunities. They have compiled a list of grants that can be used to enact bully prevention programs in schools and promote safe student behavior.
http://ikeepsafe.blogspot.com/2009/11/grants-can-be-used-for-bully-prevention.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

Filters for classroom management?, Net Family News
No. Really not a good use for filters, writes instructional technologist Bud Hunt at St. Vrain Valley School District in northern Colorado, where they've been filtering less since the beginning of the school year. Hunt's thoughtful response to requests from teachers and other staff to block resources that are distractions in the classroom is that "we will no longer use the Web
http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/11/filters-for-classroom-management.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

Net safety conference to call for digital citizenship, Safe and Secure
A Washington, D.C., gathering of Internet safety advocates will call for a change in the way we approach Internet safety.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10388202-238.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=SafeandSecure
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

Let's End Anonymous Comments, Poytner
I'm not going to tell you who I am until the end of this essay because I want to prove a point to you. Knowing who I am -- who the author is -- matters. Yet, in our new age of electronic media, this crucial fact is vanishing from much of the information we consume.
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=173048&sid=26
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Sneaky Way To Get Past Section 230 Safe Harbors To Force Content Offline, Techdirt
We all know the importance of Section 230 safe harbors that protect a service provider from actions done by its users. While there have been a few cases that chipped away at those protections, on the whole, they're quite solid. However, Eric Goldman brings us the story of how some lawyers seem to be dealing with this. They've stopped suing the sites directly, but
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091111/0203216890.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm

A Reminder of What “Net Neutrality” Is Really About, Cabletechtalk
More than a year ago, I put up a post expressing my pleasure about how the “net neutrality” discussion had evolved over time . Specifically, I focused on the comments of Vint Cerf between 2006 and 2008, when he seemed to move from arguing that the Internet must be “open and neutral,” to saying that “the real question… is not whether [broadband networks] need to be managed, but rather how.”
http://www.cabletechtalk.com/network-neutrality/2009/11/13/a-reminder-of-what-net-neutrality-is-really-about/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

ISOC President Lynn St. Amour:      Keeping the Internet open for innovation, ISOC
The end of October marked the 40th anniversary of what many consider to be the birth of the Internet.
http://isoc-dc.org/wordpress/?p=1440
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Odlyzko on Net Neutrality, Price Discrimination, PrivacyFail, Search & Cloud Neutrality, Tech Lib Front
The latest call for "search neutrality" and "cloud neutrality" comes from Andrew Odlyzko of the University of Minnesota's School of Mathematics & Digital Technology Center--and probably among the top ten most influential academics in Internet policy. In his latest Review of Network Economics article "Network Neutrality, Search Neutrality, and the Never-ending Conflict between Efficiency and Fairness in Markets," Odlyzko shows (discussed by Ars) just how slippery the slippery slope
http://blog.pff.org/archives/2009/11/odlyzko_on_net_neutrality_price_discrimination_pri.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

AOL lays off 100 employees ahead of spinoff, Wash Post
Internet company AOL LLC, which will soon be spun off from parent Time Warner Inc., laid off about 100 full-time employees Tuesday.
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=f361cac58174d25e75706e674b125cd8
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/aol.htm

Study: Newspapers Need to 'Shed Legacy Costs' to Capture Online Ad Spending, Poytner
A new study by two leading analysts of media economics sketches a stiff challenge for legacy news organizations: equipping themselves for what the authors project will be a dramatic tilt of ad spending to the Web.
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=173357&sid=26
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Will the FCC Censor Its Own MySpace Page?, Tech Lib Front
Oh my.  So today, as part of its ongoing effort to look like the hip new regulatory agency on the block, the Federal Communications Commission decided to launch a MySpace page.    Really. Big. Mistake.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/guWT9yQf9NA/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

Government Will Release Some Telco Wiretap Lobbying Documents - Though they'll protect AT&T and Verizon company identities, dslreports
A Federal Judge has demanded, three times now, that the Obama Administration hand over documents that highlight how major phone companies AT&T and Verizon lobbied for legal immunity for their involvement in the government's warrantless wiretap program. The government, with no real legal footing to stand on, has now tried to delay that release three times in
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Government-Will-Release-Some-Telco-Wiretap-Lobbying-Documents-105420
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm

How to DDOS a federal wiretap, CW
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they've discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U.S.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140717/How_to_DDOS_a_federal_wiretap?source=rss_news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm

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