Hillicon Valley reports that Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) will introduce legislation dealing with online privacy next week. The legislation will provide an “opt out” for individuals that do not want to allow advertisers to track them.

Renesys who conducts real-time web studies has posted their real-time video of Egypt’s Internet activity this week.  As is well known by now there is a massive revolutionary uprising in Egypt that has been going on for the past week.  Several days ago the government pulled the plug on all the major ISP’s in the [...]

Athima Chansanchai has an expanded report on CNET’s Caroline McCarthy’s story on Facebooks move to take over the Internets commenting systems.

In the second part of Thierers examination of Internet Optimism, he looks at the Supporters, where previously he examined the Internets Detractors. The main focus is the question of how to save the Internet from becoming a closed platform after celebrating roughly a decade of openness.

Video Game Industry in North Carolina NC Now – UNC-TV January 21, 2010 Length: 6:32 UNCTV presents an episode of NC Now that looks into the burgeoning gaming and computer sector in Raleigh, North Carolina.  North Carolina has become one of the top areas for the games industry, with claims that the industry has grown [...]

Thierer looks at two schools of thought in Net Policy, the detractors and the supporters. (The supporters will be reviewed in another post.) In this article found in The Next Digital Decade book from Tech Freedom, Thierer introduces us to two “schools of Internet pessimism”.

Tech Freedom The Next Digital Decade Berin Szoka & Contributing Authors Berin Szoka along with Adam Marcus, Larry Downes, James E. Dunstan, Charlie, Kennedy, and Geoffrey Manne, many of whom are ex-pats of The Progress & Freedom Foundation, have formed Tech Freedom a new digital think tank.  This week they launch their new think tank [...]

Who’s Who in Internet Politics: A Taxonomy of Information Technology Policy & Politics
Robert D. Atkinson
The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet

Former Hill staffers along with National Journal Tech Daily Dose Editor Juliana Gruenwald discuss communications policy in the 112th Congress. They take a look at how a Republican controlled House may approach communications policy over the next two years.

Peterson and Cerasale discuss the issue of sales tax on the Internet. High points in the discussion revolve around whether online taxation would level the playing field between online retailers and brick-and-mortar locations, and whether or not states would do serious damage to the economy by attempting to tax out-of-state business.