September 2010

NETWORK NEUTRALITY

THE FCC WINS
[SOURCE: Investing Daily, AUTHOR: Jim Fink]
[Commentary] The Internet is an essential service that should be regulated by the Federal Communications Commission in order to ensure fairness to all. Currently, only dial-up Internet is considered a common carrier service. The FCC's recent move to regulate broadband Internet as a common carrier service wouldn't have been needed if the telecommunications industry hadn't tried to unfairly discriminate among Internet users. But they did. The broadband Internet industry shouldn't have abused its "information service" regulatory classification. Now it's going to pay the price with more stringent common carrier regulation. Network neutrality regulation will not mean that broadband network operators have no power to manage their networks. Nobody wants the FCC to follow the destructive practices of New Zealand and Great Britain, which imposed overwhelming and self-defeating network regulations on their incumbent telephone carriers.
benton.org/node/41641 | Investing Daily
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TV OVERHAUL FUELING NET NEUTRALITY DEBATE
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Cecilia Kang]
The way we watch television is undergoing a major overhaul. And that has investors, analysts and public interest groups scrambling to set the stage for how businesses will be able to make a footprint in the competitive and nascent market. In the second quarter, the number of paid television subscribers to cable and other services dropped for the first time on record. But investors and analysts expect that growth to explode. Amid this activity, a battle is underway over Federal Communications Commission rules that may shape how broadband providers such as Comcast, Verizon Communications and AT&T respond to the growing industry for Internet video. "The bottom line is that investment in infrastructure is expensive and there is still no economic model for making money off video on the Internet. That means carriers need flexibility," said Gillis Cashman, a general partner at M/C Venture Partners. Such flexibility could include tiered pricing -- or charging consumers by bandwidth consumption. Carriers also want the ability to make money from deals with content firms and applications companies. "The problem here in its barest form is that there could be anticompetitive behavior," said Matt Wood, an associate director for Media Access Project, a nonprofit group advocating for media reform. "How can you ensure a carrier won't prioritize their own content or those of a partner to shut out a competitor online?"
benton.org/node/41640 | Washington Post
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ANTI-NEUTRALITY LOBBYING
[SOURCE: The Hill, AUTHOR: Sara Jerome]
Broadband providers will send their chief executives to Capitol Hill next week to argue that network neutrality rules are not necessary and could hurt job creation. The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) will fly in the leaders of more than 15 companies to meet with House Commerce Committee leaders, including Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Rick Boucher (D-VA), the chairman of the House Communications Subcommittee, and members of the Federal Communications Commission. The CEOs will come from companies such as AltaCom, Tellabs and Alcatel-Lucent, among others. Jason Goldman, counsel for telecommunications and e-commerce for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said his group would be talking to many of the same folks, as well as reaching out to the grass roots. Marc-Anthony Signorino, director of technology policy for the National Association of Manufacturers, said they would be talking to stakeholders and "putting out good karma to the universe" on getting their way on the broadband issue.
benton.org/node/41639 | Hill, The | Broadcasting&Cable | CongressDaily
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NET TRAFFIC PRIORITIZATION
[SOURCE: ars technica, AUTHOR: Matthew Lasar]
AT&T has set off yet another net neutrality firestorm, claiming that a crucial Internet standards-making body gave its blessing to ISP priority access deals way back at the beginning of it all. In the late 1990s, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) added the "DiffServ" field to Internet Protocol (IP), AT&T insists, "to facilitate paid prioritization as a means for encouraging the further growth and development of the Internet." Paid priority access "was fully contemplated" and even "expressly contemplated" by the IETF decades ago, the telco has told the Federal Communications Commission, and is "fully consistent" with that body's standards-making discussions. Baloney, insists the IETF's current chairman. "AT&T's characterization is misleading," Russ Housley told National Journal several days later. "IETF prioritization technology is geared toward letting network users indicate how they want network providers to handle their traffic, and there is no implication in the IETF about payment based on any prioritization." Obviously this is a hot historical debate, given that limiting content prioritization is central to the FCC's proposed net neutrality rules, as well as the Google/Verizon open Internet manifesto. AT&T and various reform groups have been going at it for weeks over the issue. So who is right here? And what is this DiffServ talk anyway?
benton.org/node/41638 | Ars Technica
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ISPs COULD LIMIT ACCESS
[SOURCE: Detroit Free Press, AUTHOR: S. Derek Turner]
[Commentary] You probably take the open Internet for granted. When you go online, you go wherever you want and do whatever you want, anytime. The Internet is the modern town square -- and the beauty of it is there are no gatekeepers, tollbooths or walled gardens getting in the way. All of this openness is made possible by the principle of "network neutrality." But now, companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon want to end net neutrality and create fast and slow lanes for content and users. They want to decide which Web sites and services work best -- based on whom they can cut a deal with. They want to end the free and open Internet as we know it. That means Comcast could decide to slow down YouTube in favor of Hulu, or favor Google over Bing. We've seen what happens -- from the meltdown on Wall Street to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico -- when industry is allowed to regulate itself. It's time for the FCC to step up and take action. Smart policies, starting with clear net neutrality rules no matter how you access the Internet, are the best way to protect consumers, promote investment and create new jobs.
benton.org/node/41563 | Detroit Free Press
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INTERNET/BROADBAND

CAPITOL HILL, THE INTERNET, AND BROADBAND
[SOURCE: ars technica, AUTHOR: Matthew Lasar]
When the Obama administration came to Washington in January of 2009, it promised a new era of accountability, transparency, and change. The marquee issues were health care and financial reform, but federal policies regarding broadband and the Internet clocked in at a very close third. Besides net neutrality, the new causes include privacy rights for social network users, device openness for mobile phones, pro-fair-use changes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, easier line sharing access to the big cable and telco networks, spectrum reform, consumer protections for mobile phone users, and, perhaps most importantly, a national strategy for getting high speed Internet into the homes of most Americans. Eighteen months later, it is clear that all these reforms are still at play, but their full or even partial enactment is by no means guaranteed. While we believe that a variety of Internet-related changes are in the offing, substantial political- or interest-based roadblocks stand in the way of most of the major reform causes.
benton.org/node/41637 | Ars Technica
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EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

D-BLOCK LEGISLATION
[SOURCE: CongressDaily, AUTHOR: Juliana Gruenwald]
The National Governors Association is turning up the pressure on Congress to pass legislation that would re-allocate a controversial chunk of spectrum to public safety officials for the creation of a nationwide interoperable broadband communications network instead of auctioning it off to commercial bidders as the Federal Communications Commission has proposed. In a letter Sept 9 to House and Senate leaders, Govs. Martin O'Malley (D-MD)and Jan Brewer (R-AZ) urged Congress to pass legislation offered by Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller (D-WV) that would re-allocate the D-Block of spectrum to public safety officials, but also would direct the FCC to establish standards that allow public safety officials, when not using the network, to lease capacity on a secondary, but preemptible basis, to commercial users or others. The governors and some public safety officials say the FCC plan does not adequately address their needs because it does not provide them with adequate spectrum.
benton.org/node/41636 | CongressDaily
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CYBERSECURITY

CYBERSECURITY BILL?
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Diane Bartz]
Capitol Hill staffers have made progress stitching together cybersecurity proposals into a huge bill, aides said, with Senate leadership putting it on their short list for passage this year. But stiff industry opposition and partisan tensions still make it unlikely comprehensive legislation will pass in 2010. The legislation would require companies who sell the government $80 billion in hardware and software each year to bake in a certain level of security -- a potentially expensive prospect. The bill is a priority because leaps in technology have increased industrial productivity, but also left businesses and the U.S. government vulnerable to foreign spies. Apparently, Senate Majority Harry Reid has put the measure on his list of top-priority bills to get through the Senate this year.
benton.org/node/41635 | Reuters
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PRIVACY

I-AWFUL LIST
[SOURCE: CongressDaily, AUTHOR: Juliana Gruenwald]
NetChoice, an Internet industry group, has released the latest version of its i-AWFUL list of legislative proposals that it says could hamper the growth of e-commerce and the Internet. Included on this list is the draft privacy bill offered by House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-VA)and a similar bill from House Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL). NetChoice Executive Director Steve DelBianco said by conflating personally sensitive information such as financial or medical data with marketing data collected about Internet users for the purpose of targeted ads, the Boucher and Rush measures would "constrain one of the few growth industries," online advertising. Among the provisions the group finds particularly onerous include one in Rush's bill that would provide users with a private right of action, language in Boucher's draft that would require consumer consent before a company could send follow-up e-mails to consumers and legislation in the measures giving the FTC rulemaking authority. "If the bills move forward, they will make [Internet] advertising more expensive," DelBianco said.
benton.org/node/41566 | CongressDaily
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DIGITAL CONTENT

APPLE TO PUBLISH GUIDELINES
[SOURCE: Associated Press, AUTHOR: ]
Apple will publish the guidelines it uses to determine which programs can be sold in its App Store. The move follows more than two years of complaints from software developers about the company's secret and seemingly capricious rules, which block some programs from the store. Developers have had little guidance from Apple, meaning they often had to complete their programs only to find them blocked by the company. The company has been known to block applications because of sexual content, because they contain political satire, and because they just don't do much. Apple will lift restrictions imposed earlier this year on using third-party development tools that "translate" code written for another platform. That means developers who work in Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash or Oracle Corp.'s Java language can convert their programs into iPhone apps without rewriting them.
benton.org/node/41567 | Associated Press
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FACEBOOK INCHES PAST GOOGLE
[SOURCE: Associated Press, AUTHOR: ]
US Web surfers are spending more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore Inc. In August, people spent a total of 41.1 million minutes on Facebook, comScore said, about 9.9 percent of their Web-surfing minutes for the month. That just barely surpassed the 39.8 million minutes, or 9.6 percent, people spent on all of Google Inc.'s sites combined, including YouTube, the free Gmail e-mail program, Google news and other content sites. U.S. Web users spent 37.7 million minutes on Yahoo Inc. sites, or 9.1 percent of their time, putting Yahoo third in terms of time spent browsing. In July, Facebook crept past Yahoo for the first time, according to comScore. In August of last year, Web surfers spent less than 5 percent of their online time on Facebook, about the same percentage of their time on Google and almost 12 percent on Yahoo. In August 2007, Facebook captured less than 2 percent of U.S. surfers' total minutes. Google accounted for less than 4 percent, and Yahoo for just over 12 percent.
benton.org/node/41643 | Associated Press
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OWNERSHIP

EBAY WINS LAWSUIT
[SOURCE: Financial Times, AUTHOR: David Gelles]
Ebay has prevailed in a bitterly contested lawsuit against Craigslist, the online classifieds site in which the auction group owns a significant stake. In a ruling by the Delaware Court of Chancery on Thursday, Ebay won back a 3.55 per cent equity stake in Craigslist, which is privately held. The two companies were once allies. Ebay acquired a 28.4 per cent stake in Craigslist for $32m in 2004. But Craigslist called foul three years later when Ebay launched its own classifieds site, Kijiji, saying it has used its board seat to obtain proprietary information it then used to start a competing site. Craigslist then diluted Ebay's stake to 24.85 per cent, stripping it of its board seat, which soured relations between the two companies. The ensuing trial resulted in colorful and often scathing testimony from top executives from both companies. During the hearings, it was revealed that Ebay hoped to acquire Craigslist outright at one point. In his opinion, William B Chandler III, a Delaware chancellor, wrote that "[Craigslist chief executive Jim Buckmaster] and [Craigslist founder Craig Newmark] breached their fiduciary duty of loyalty by using their power as directors and controlling stockholders to implement an interested transaction that was not entirely fair to Ebay, the minority stockholder".
benton.org/node/41644 | Financial Times
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TELEVISION

TIME-SHIFTING BOOSTS VIEWING
[SOURCE: MediaPost, AUTHOR: Wayne Friedman]
A new report from media agency RPA shows that for all time-shifted viewing -- live plus seven days of DVR playback -- total viewing among viewers two-plus increased 4% to 96.8 million program minutes (using Nielsen NTI data) in the 2009-2010 season. Even 18-49 viewers -- the key buying group for TV advertisers -- improved 1% to 41.07 million program minutes versus the year before. RPA notes that DVR penetration was 36% for the year versus 30% the year before and 23% in the 2007-2008 year. Looking at C3 ratings -- commercial ratings plus three days of DVR playback, a measure that TV advertisers use as the currency of their TV purchases -- viewing for total viewers was up 3% to 86.1 million program minutes. Adults 18-49 were down 1% in this category to 35.7 million program minutes. Total viewing for all viewers was up in two other categories: live program same-day viewing, 2% higher to 93.1 million program minutes, and commercial ratings-plus-same-day-DVR-playback ratings, up 2% to 84.0 million program minutes.
benton.org/node/41565 | MediaPost
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DTV LICENSES UP FOR AUCTION
[SOURCE: Broadcast Law Blog, AUTHOR: Brendan Holland]
Interested in a brand new full power digital television station in Atlantic City, New Jersey, or Seaford, Delaware? Then the Federal Communications Commission has just what you're looking for, provided that you're ready, willing, and able to build the station from the ground up and don't mind a low VHF channel. The Commission issued the first auction notice regarding Auction No. 90 for the auction of two new full power commercial television stations. Having amended the DTV Table of Allotments earlier this year to drop in DTV Channel 4 at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and DTV Channel 5 at Seaford, Delaware, the Commission has moved quickly to the competitive bidding stage and starting the process to offer these new channels to interested parties. Today's Public Notice is the first step in the auction process and seeks comment on the rules and procedures for the auction, including the proposed minimum opening bid amounts that it has set for each station, namely, $200,000. The auction rules proposed by the Public Notice are consistent with those used in other recent broadcast auctions and don't really offer any surprises. The Commission does not propose a date for the proposed auction and that will be set by a future auction Notice. Comments on the Commission's proposed auction procedures and minimum bid amounts are due by September 30th, with replies due by October 15th.
benton.org/node/41642 | Broadcast Law Blog
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EDUCATION

FACEBOOK AND STEM
[SOURCE: The Hill, AUTHOR: Gautham Nagesh]
Facebook sent a letter to key lawmakers emphasizing the company's support for strong investments in science, technology and mathematics education for children. The letter refers to the America Competes Act, which is awaiting reauthorization in the Senate. A version of the bill has already passed the House. In the letter, Facebook argues improving science and math education is vital to protecting America's economic security in the 21st century. "The shortage of students entering STEM careers has long been recognized in Washington, Silicon Valley, and beyond. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. high school seniors recently tested below the international average for 21 countries in math and science and fewer American students than ever are graduating from college with math and science degrees," the letter states.
benton.org/node/41634 | Hill, The
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SOCIAL MEDIA BLACKOUT
[SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed, AUTHOR: Steve Kolowich]
On Monday, information technology officials at Harrisburg will block access to those popular social media tools from computers using the campus network. They will also disable the wiki and chat features in the university's Moodle-based learning management system. The barriers will remain in place for one week. Students, who will be asked to write essays reflecting on their time in social-media exile, will not be the only ones affected. Faculty and staff will also be unable to visit the sites -- at least not through the campus network. The experiment was not born out of a curmudgeonly antipathy toward Facebook and its social media kin, says Darr. The five-year-old Harrisburg University is, by mission, a pro-technology institution, and many within the faculty and the administration have embraced Facebook, Twitter, and Moodle-based collaboration tools. "It's not that, as an institution, we hate Facebook," says Darr. Rather, it is about pausing to evaluate the extent to which social media are woven into the professional and personal lives of the people on the Harrisburg campus, and contemplating what has been gained and what has been sacrificed, he says. That colleagues with offices 300 yards apart communicate predominantly via the Web is interesting, Darr says, and merely talking about it does not dig deeply enough. "I wanted to make it real for people -- not to make it an intellectual exercise," he says.
benton.org/node/41626 | Inside Higher Ed
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RESEARCH

MORE ON R&D CREDIT
[SOURCE: ComputerWorld, AUTHOR: Patrick Thibodeau]
Even if the timeframe for the R&D tax credit proposed by President Barack Obama was clear, there is still ambiguity about whether Congress will approve it, particularly in the weeks leading up to the mid-term election. But the fact that the president has pitched this tax break may be enough to prompt some IT managers to take a second look at some of their purchase plans, said Joseph Pucciarelli, program director of technology financial and executive strategies at IDC. An announcement of a major tax incentive for 2011 capital investment will cause a reduction in discretionary IT spending, equipment and system upgrades for the balance of 2010, said Pucciarelli. The tax proposal "will definitely cause borderline projects to be deferred, if the CFO believes that this proposal has a possibility of being implemented," Pucciarelli said. If the investment write-off is approved, Pucciarelli estimates that it could increase IT spending anywhere between 7 percent and 12 percent. IT hardware purchases are forecasted this year by IDC to reach $135 billion.
benton.org/node/41564 | ComputerWorld
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POLICYMAKERS

STATE-SILICON RELATIONSHIP
[SOURCE: nextgov, AUTHOR: Dawn Lim]
State Department Policy Planning staff official Jared Cohen announced this week that he would be leaving the administration to head a new "think/do tank" at Google, a move that cements the growing link between Silicon Valley and the State Department. "I view my departure from government not as a farewell, but as a continuation of the friendships, partnerships, and collaborations that I have been so fortunate to enjoy in the past four years," he wrote in his parting e-mail to State colleagues. In his four years at State, Cohen has been a vocal advocate for "21st century statecraft." That's the department's all-time buzzword for the use of social media and telecommunications to promote diplomacy and development abroad. Cohen has staged meet-ups between bureaucrats and tech heavyweights such as Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt. He's recognized as the guy who asked Jack Dorsey, Twitter's chairman, to delay site maintenance that would bring the social media network down at the same time as the Iranian postelection protests last year.
benton.org/node/41631 | nextgov
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JOURNALISM

ADVICE TO NEW JOURNALISTS
[SOURCE: Public Notebook, AUTHOR: Jay Rosen]
Here's the great event we are living through today: the breakup of the atomized "mass" audience and a shift in power that goes with it. What would happen today if someone on television did what Howard Beale did? Immediately people who happened to be watching would alert their followers on Twitter. Someone would post a clip the same day on YouTube. The social networks would light up before the incident was over. Bloggers would be commenting on it well before professional critics had their chance. The media world today is a shifted space. People are connected horizontally to one another as effectively as they are connected up to Big Media; and they have the powers of production in their hands. The people formerly known as the audience wish to inform media people of our existence, and of a shift in power that goes with the platform shift you've all heard about. Think of passengers on your ship who got a boat of their own. The writing readers. The viewers who picked up a camera. The formerly atomized listeners who with modest effort can connect with each other and gain the means to speak -- to the world, as it were. Because the people formerly known as the audience have arrived, the journalists formerly known as "the media" are here, too. And this is what you -- the next generation of professional journalists -- have a chance to define for the rest of us. The digital revolution changes the equation. It brings forward a new balance of forces, putting the tools of production and the powers of distribution in the hands of the people formerly known as the audience. And so you have the opportunity to become the journalists formerly known as the media, carrier class for a new understanding of the people "out there" on the receiving end of what journalists make. I say "new," but it is really just another chapter in the long struggle to make good on the idea of a public that knows what is happening because it pays attention, informs itself and argues about what should be done.
benton.org/node/41627 | Public Notebook
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COMMUNITY MEDIA
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[SOURCE: , AUTHOR: Lacey McLaughlin]
Mississippi Public Broadcasting Executive Director Judy Lewis has resigned, Mississippi Authority for Educational Television Chairman Bob Sawyer said. The statement tout's MPB's success over the last year, but offers no details on why Lewis resigned. While serving as executive director, Lewis was involved in MPB's July 8 decision to pull the nationally syndicated show "Fresh Air," for what it deemed "inappropriate content," after comedian Louis C.K. answered questions from about wearing his shirt during sex. On July 27, the station announced it would return "Fresh Air" to its radio schedule in a new 9 p.m. time slot. Lewis, a native of Morton, Miss., served as executive director of MPB since August 2009. Prior to working at MPB, she was a communications professor at Mississippi College. Lewis received her master's and bachelor's degrees in education and speech communication from Mississippi College, and her doctorate in higher education from the University of Mississippi.
benton.org/node/41562 | Jackson Free Press
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PACIFICA RADIO IN TALKS TO AIR AL JAZEERA IN MAJOR US MARKETS
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Paul Farhi]
Pacifica Radio, the nonprofit organization that runs the nation's oldest public-radio network, is in talks with the Al Jazeera Network to put the Persian Gulf-based news service on its five stations, including WPFW-FM in Washington. If an agreement is reached, Pacifica would become the biggest American broadcaster to air Al Jazeera, whose news reports have at times drawn criticism from Western governments, including the Bush administration during the early days of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Al Jazeera is perhaps best known for being the first network to broadcast video communiques from Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
benton.org/node/41561 | Washington Post
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THE COMMUNITY MEDIA FUND THAT NEVER WAS
[SOURCE: The Tyee, AUTHOR: Steve Anderson, Lindsey Pinto]
Last April the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission conducted a hearing to review a two per cent cable levy (bringing in roughly $120 million a year) that four family-controlled cable monopolies -- Cogeco, Rogers, Shaw and Vidéotron -- have been mostly using as their own media slush fund. These corporations already earn a 25 per cent profit margin amounting to almost $2 billion each year, and both Rogers and Shaw have raised cable rates by more than 68 per cent in recent years.
If you haven't heard about this large community media fund, it's because it appears to have been mismanaged and put towards what many consider to be commercial television endeavors.
benton.org/node/41560 | Tyee, The
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THE LIBRARY: ARE YOU A CARD-CARRYING MEMBER?
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: John Kelly]
[Commentary] There are not many things in this world that will enable you to travel without leaving your easy chair, to slip into the mind of another person, to expose yourself to the educational, the inspirational and the subversive. A library card is one of them. When you get right down to it, which would you rather be without: a library card or a credit card? I know which one gets me in more trouble. September is Library Card Sign-up Month. In honor of that, I wanted to go to that beacon of learning, the Library of Alexandria. But since it burned down about 2,000 years ago, I instead went to the Alexandria Library on Duke Street.
benton.org/node/41559 | Washington Post
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HATHAWAY BROWN DISCOVERS THE POWER OF MEDIA LITERACY FOR STUDENTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
[SOURCE: eSchool News]
Today, globalized media has the potential power to replace parents and schools as socializing agents for children. Media literacy instruction helps students "filter" media messages through accepted community norms, and prepares them to evaluate risks, make wise choices, define their own ethical principles, and participate as members of a democratic society. Critical thinking skills are the central tools through which to acquire and apply content knowledge in the disciplines. With its inquiry-based and process-oriented pedagogy, media literacy offers a systematic framework for acquiring new knowledge across all disciplines. Media literacy helps students acquire the critical thinking skills they need to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and participate with the powerful images, words, and sounds through which much information is delivered in the 21st century.
benton.org/node/41558 | eSchool News
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September 2010

New Funds Support Rural Hospitals' Switch to Electronic Health Records

September 10, 2010 (The Battle over Net Neutrality is Over: The FCC Wins)

Tracking Songs All Over

Ebay wins lawsuit against Craigslist

Facebook Inches Past Google For Web Users' Minutes

For Sale to Highest Bidder: New DTV Stations in Delaware and New Jersey

The Battle over Net Neutrality is Over: The FCC Wins

TV overhaul fueling battle over network neutrality

Network neutrality foes to label policy a 'job killer'