After posting this article on American broadband caps in perspective, it seems we’ve attracted a few angry responses.  Advocacy group Stop the Cap’s Phillip Dampier pulled out all the stops to denounce me and our executive director Jon Henke that we’re essentially selling broadband consumers out.  So what’s the reason for Dampier attacks?  It turns [...]

Update: We need to be reasonable about broadband usage caps Recently, Chiehyu Li and James Losey of the New America Foundation put out this comparison of Internet usage caps between the U.S. and Japan which paints a dire picture of how screwed up broadband in America is.  While there’s little doubt that Japan is way [...]

This debate over the use of cookies on government websites is important, but it strikes me as an easily resolvable matter. The OSTP blog outlines the administration’s interest in updating the rules surrounding cookies…

Our main goal in revisiting the ban on using persistent cookies on Federal websites is to bring the federal government into the 21st century. Consistent with this Administration’s commitment to making government more open and participatory, we want federal agencies to be able to provide the same user- friendly, dynamic, and citizen-centric websites that people…

We’re doing an all day conference today on the FCC Broadband Deployment Workshop live blog today.