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August 20, 2008

07:50
Obama's Wide Web
With less than three months to go before the election, Triple O -- Obama's online operation -- is the envy of strategists in both parties, redefining the role that an online team can play within a campaign. read more
07:50
Obama's Ads in Key States Go on Attack
Sen Barack Obama (D-IL) has started a sustained and hard-hitting advertising campaign against Sen John McCain (R-AZ) in states that will be vital this fall, painting Sen McCain in a series of commercials as disconnected from the economic struggles of the middle class. read more
07:49
FCC's Martin wants broadband across USA
High-speed Internet access is so important to the welfare of people in the US that America can't afford not to offer it -- free of charge -- to anybody who wants it, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin says. read more
07:48
FTC Commissioner Tackles Ads for Kids
A Q&A with Federal Trade Commission commissioner Jon Leibowitz who was particularly outspoken in a recent FTC study on marketing to children by food and beverage companies. He urged marketers to do more to regulate themselves and saying that if they don't, the FTC could step in and do it for them. read more
07:47
Capturing The Bush Legacy Online
The Bush administration will soon be packed and gone, but part of its legacy will live on in cyberspace. A consortium of government and nonprofit agencies plans to capture snapshots of every federal government Web site before Jan. 20, 2009. read more
07:45
Groups Challenge FCC Wireless Auctions
Ten prominent national civil rights, public interest, and women and minority groups joined forces with six small wireless businesses, including minority-owned businesses to file an Amicus Curiae Brief to challenge Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction rules. read more
07:44
$2 Million Digital Media & Learning Competition Focuses on Participatory Learning
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Duke University and the virtual network HASTAC, announced today a second annual open-call competition that will provide $2 million in awards to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. read more
07:43
$500K Grant for Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media received a $500,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation for digital-media education. That is on top of a $250,000 grant the group got from MacArthur last year, all of which is being used to plan and execute a media-education campaign to help kids deal with both consuming and producing an increasing range of digital media. read more
07:43
Virtual Worlds Get Real About Punishment
Virtual worlds have often been called the digital equivalent of the Wild West, where animated alter egos can live in a fantasy frontier. But in some of these universes, a sheriff has come to town. read more

August 19, 2008

17:58
Georgia cuts access to Russian websites, TV news
Georgian authorities have blocked most access to Russian news broadcasters and websites since the outbreak of the conflict with Moscow. read more
17:57
Verizon: Network Neutrality fans suffer from 'paranoia'
Verizon Chief Technology Officer Dick Lynch spoke at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's annual summit in Aspen (CO) Tuesday. He urged a "change in mindset on the part of policymakers to acknowledge the realities of the 100-megabit world" and suggested that other industry participants be pragmatic as well. read more
17:51
Oklahoma on wrong side of digital divide
According to the Communication Workers of America, Oklahoma lags behind other regions with average broadband download speeds of 1.86 mpbs. That's 40th among all the states and the District of Columbia. read more
17:48
FCC to warn TV viewers: 'This is only a test'
If you watch an older TV hooked up to rabbit-ear antennas and your screen goes snowy for a moment this November, replaced by a message telling you to call a toll-free number, do not be alarmed. read more
17:46
US consumers buying fewer cell phones
US consumers have been buying significantly fewer cell phones but paying higher prices for them, says NPD Group, a research firm. 28 million cell phones were sold in the United States in the second quarter, a decline of 13 percent from the same period a year ago. read more
17:44
Dempsey Nominated for Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
President Bush announced his intention to nominate Center for Democracy and Technology Vice President for Public Policy James X. Dempsey to serve a five year term on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. read more
17:43
Implementing the America COMPETES Act
President George Bush has assigned John H. Marburger III, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, to convene a National Science and Technology Summit and submit a report to the Congress detailing the results of the summit, as mandated by the America COMPETES Act. read more
17:42
Right Venue, Wrong Message
At a time when the country desperately needed the boost, the Olympics have turned out to be a regular festival of uplift. Given the context, the largely negative political work is downright depressing. read more
11:10
Participate in Discussion of FCC Policy on Net Neutrality
Network neutrality is a hot policy debate right now, and the Benton Foundation is bringing you an opportunity to discuss it and provide a comment to the Federal Communication Commission on this important issue. read more
07:29
WSJ: The FCC Plays Racial Landlord
Among the conditions extracted by regulators before approving the Sirius XM satellite radio merger earlier this month was the company's promise to set aside a share of channels for minority programmers. read more
07:28
FiOS' Future Depends on New Broadband Applications
In many ways, the long-term success of FiOS will depend on what new services are developed that will take advantage of the vast bandwidth of the fiber and how much customers will pay for them. read more