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Latino Freedom is Internet FreedomTwo separate, but intertwining trends -- the intense political activism of country's nearly 50 million Latinos and the historic fight to keep the internet as it is: free, flat and ... City of Edmonds moving ahead with municipal broadband plans. What's Seattle doing?Good news from our neighbor to the north, Edmonds, WA:
Edmonds Council votes to pursue customers for its broadband businessThe Edmonds City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday night to ... Is the FCC Reading from the MMS Playbook?If you haven’t already, take a few minutes to read this piece that ran today in the Washington Post. Really, do it. I’ll wait. This is me waiting.
“How the ... In Minnesota, Hundreds Urge FCC to Protect Net NeutralityIt was standing room only at South High in Minneapolis on Thursday night as more than 750 people turned out to show their support for Net Neutrality and free speech ... Sen. Al Franken: We Have a Free Speech ProblemSen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) warned a packed house Thursday night in Minneapolis that the corporate takeover of our media, and the government's failure to stop it, is one of the ... The Internet Must Remain in the Hands of the PeopleThe recent announcement that Google and Verizon believe Internet and wireless providers should decide what kinds of online content they allow customers to access should spur the FCC to immediate ... Chairman Genachowski. Can You Hear Us Now?News last week that Google and Verizon had reached consensus on a "legislative framework" for Net Neutrality was met with near universal disdain.
read more ... Chairman Genachowski. Can You Hear Us Now?News last week that Google and Verizon's had reached consensus on a "legislative framework" for Net Neutrality was met with near universal disdain. Not only was the deal slammed by ... Canadian Privacy Group Raises Key Concerns on Google, Doubleclick and Threat to our PrivacyWe urge everyone to read the CIPPIC petition filed yesterday in Canada asking for a investigation of Google and Doubleclick. Among the key questions raised is whether the two companies ... Google’s Mobile Search Advertising Ambition: Control the MarketFrom Online Media Daily [”Google’s Mobile Ad Move Gets Everybody Talking.” Tameka Lee. September 14, 2007] excerpt:
The search giant “is acting fast to take control of the mobile search ... Peter Fleischer, Online Advertising & Privacy: More than PR is RequiredMr. Fleischer made news yesterday when he presented Google’s call for “global privacy standards” at a UNESCO meeting. Google endorsed the weak (”flexible”) APEC proposal as a model framework. Really, ... Keep Your Eye on Mobile Advertising, Marketing & Privacy, esp. Google, Microsoft and the CarriersThe online mobile space will be hugely important to civil society, communities, and the public. We have concerns about how the mobile marketing “ecosystem,” as its called by the industry, ... Google: Cash, not Quality, Redefines Top Paid Search PlacementAs Google changes its policies so it can dramatically broaden its reach for advertisers, esp. the ones with the deepest marketing pockets, it’s key to understand what it means for ... Google’s Ad Industry-related Job Openings: help us become the “definitive source of marketing intelligence”These three job announcements from Google are too good to ignore. They say a lot about where Google–and global society–are headed. I’ve excerpted from the complete ad (but links are ... Google and Yahoo! Among Largest Donors of Ad CouncilIn a full-page ad in today’s New York Times “Week in Review” section, the Ad Council lists its `who’s who’ of media and big brand donors. Atop its list is ... Video Ads Likely to Appear on Searches from GoogleThe evolution of Google from a system designed to provide the public with information into a full-blown data–collection broadband video platform promoting the interests of brands and marketers will make ... Knight Foundation and a Grant for Viacom’s MTV: Funding a giant on its Journalism advisory committeeWe have long had concerns about foundations funding media conglomerates to provide public service content. So, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s recent award of $700,000 to MTV ... Yahoo!’s Electoral Ambitions: Behavorial Targeting and BeyondYahoo! has unveiled an online targeting ad category for elections–raising serious questions about privacy and potential voter manipulation. Now, in addition to fast foods and cars, marketers can use Yahoo!’s ... Yahoo! Swallows Blue Lithium to Expand its Behavioral Targeting EffortThe ever-growing consolidation of control in the online ad market continues (something CDD and USPIRG warned the FTC about in Nov. 2006). Yesterday, Yahoo! acquired ad network and behavioral targeting ... For Sale on Ebay: Your Online PrivacyeBay is working with behavioral targeting technologies, including a test “retargeting” users (that means electronically shadowing) as they visit AOL, MSN, clients of Yahoo’s RightMedia ad exchange and other sites ... 
