Agence France Presse AlterNet: Media and TechnologyOctober 30, 2009. Technology and media stars, pundits and entrepreneurs joined the Internet's father to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-changing child.
Art Brodsky, Public Knowledge. September 21, 2009. It looks like the battle for net neutrality is finally gaining some momentum. This will be the biggest telecom fight in more than a decade.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. September 8, 2009. Obama's nefarious plan for the nation's genitals? His evil designs on your children? Here are the most absurd right-wing assaults on the president -- and logic and reason.
Megan Tady, AlterNet. July 20, 2009. "I want an Internet that gives everyone an opportunity to create their own content, and go wherever they choose on the Web."
Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. July 13, 2009. Famous in analog. Mourned in digital. In death the King of Pop inspired the greatest online eulogy in human history.
David Bollier, On the Commons. June 30, 2009. The digital communications apparatus is crowding out deeper relationships and more deliberative modes of thinking.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. June 25, 2009. No legislation in the U.S. prevents the government from employing technology that monitors everything that goes through the Internet.
Don Tapscott, Edge. June 17, 2009. There is a huge clash between the model of learning offered by big universities and the natural way that young people who have grown up digital learn.
Agence France Presse June 16, 2009. The State Department asked Twitter to delay maintenance plans in order to allow Iranians to communicate while their government banned other media.
Deanna Zandt, DeannaZandt.com AlterNet: World. June 15, 2009. It's less about celebrity and more about connection, humanity and the ability to inject values into the wider culture in a populist way.
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: Media and Technology. May 15, 2009. I'm all for putting people in jail for violating the law, whether they violated it on the Internet or somewhere else. But this is too far.
Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: Media and Technology. May 2, 2009. There is a disturbing possibility that President Obama has put his excellent open media and network neutrality platform at risk.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 23, 2009. A shill group is taking up the fight to legitimize attempt by cable giants AT&T and Time Warner to price-gouge for Internet service.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 22, 2009. Despite Time Warner's epic fail with metered billing, AT&T has refused to abandon its usage caps program -- and the AT&T version is even worse.
Megan Tady, Internet for Everyone. April 14, 2009. Even in some of our most tech-savvy wired cities, millions of people do not have high-speed Internet in their homes or businesses.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 7, 2009. Time Warner's strategy for managing increased Internet use -- ripping off customers -- has not been very popular.
Stan Cox, Prairie Writers Circle. March 20, 2009. The feds are spending $18 billion to stimulate the Internet -- and that means a huge increase in energy consumption.
John Nichols, TheNation.com. March 3, 2009. MoveOn's new director says the group has other priorities than telling Obama he's wrong on Afghanistan. This is a mistake.