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	<description>Pro-Culture, Pro-Commerce</description>
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		<title>Research: The Internet &#8220;Public Option&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randolph J. May writes that the health care public option and what he calls the "Internet public option" share similar threads.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/research-2/</link>
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		<title>Uncle Sam&#8217;s School Of Digital Literacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FCC yesterday announced its plan to prep Americans for the information age by creating a volunteer "digital literacy corps." But based on the government's track record in implementing a similar technology-oriented volunteer plan, the National Emergency Technology Guard, the idea will never meet the FCC's lofty expectations. Congress authorized NET Guard in 2003, but the Homeland Security Department didn't even create a pilot program for it until five years later.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/uncle-sams-school-of-digital-literacy/</link>
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		<title>No Video For You! on Amtrak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amtrak is actively blocking downloads and video streams - going so far as to prevent YouTube embeds in pages you load, and redirecting links to downloads.

A lot of people like to claim ISPs are only interested in network management as a pretense for preventing competition with their video offering.  Yet here is a perfect example of a privately owned network choosing to manage congestion by limiting downloads and video - absent any competing video service.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/no-video-for-you-on-amtrak/</link>
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		<title>Throwing bandwidth at applications is never the answer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom says that more innovation for applications on the Internet must involve much more bandwidth.  But once we understand the economics of video on the Internet, we quickly begin to understand why applications will never be high bandwidth.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/throwing-bandwidth-at-applications-is-never-the-answer/</link>
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		<title>Live Blog: Digital Inclusion Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FCC and the John S. and James. L. Knight Foundation today are hosting a "digital inclusion" summit in order to draw attention to America's push for expanding high-speed Internet access. The summit is being held a week before the FCC's scheduled release of a national broadband plan. Speakers will include: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski; Commissioners Meredith Attwell Baker, Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn; and members of Congress. Keep a browser open here for live updates.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/live-blog-digital-inclusion-summit/</link>
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		<title>Overcoming the bandwidth requirements of Internet Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The shift to the Internet video distribution presents a formidable engineering challenge for the Internet because of the massive bandwidth requirements of unicast video distribution.  Unlike broadcast communication technologies where data is transmitted once to many people, unicasting requires a new data transmission for each recipient.  So while a 15 megabit per second (Mbps) HD television show being broadcast to 100,000 people in a city only requires 15 Mbps of network capacity, a 2.25 Mbps YouTube video being unicast to 100,000 people over the Internet would require 225,000 Mbps which is ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/overcoming-the-bandwidth-requirements-of-internet-video/</link>
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		<title>A &#8216;Fundamental Right&#8217; To Net Regulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new global poll shows that 79 percent of people believe Internet access "should be a fundamental right for all people," but 53 percent also think "the Internet should never be regulated by any level of government anywhere." They are sending conflicting messages because proclaiming Internet access a "fundamental right" is an invitation to destructive bureaucratic meddling in the digital marketplace.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/a-fundamental-right-to-net-regulation/</link>
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		<title>Research: Broadband Expectations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Free State Foundation
Annual Winter Telecom Policy Conference
Panel: The FCC&#8217;s Broadband Plan: The Good, The Bad, and the Just So-So?
January 29, 2010
Moderator Deborah Taylor Tate, an adjunct senior fellow at the foundation and a former FCC commissioner, joined several panelists to discuss the upcoming FCC broadband plan, which is due to be released March 17. The panel included:
Stuart Benjamin and Paul de Sa of the FCC;

Jeffrey Campbell, the senior director of technology and trade policy for Cisco Systems; &#8220;The thing about the National Broadband Plan that is really important for ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/broadband-expectations/</link>
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		<title>Free Press Freely Advocating for Content Regulation. To What End?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the FCC announced its &#8220;Future of Media&#8221; hearing, it was described in rather contradictory terms.  Steven Waldman, who is heading up the project, had this to say:
The starting point for this effort, of course, is the First  Amendment.  A free press, independent of government control, is a  foundational principle of our democracy. Any time the government even  looks at the media, we have to be very careful. Keeping that principle  in mind always, the experts here working on these issues will work first  to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/free-press-freely-advocating-for-content-regulation-to-what-end/</link>
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		<title>Research: The Internet As Innovation Engine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Consumer Institute
Center for Citizen Research
Innovation and National Broadband Policies: Facts, Fiction and Unanswered Questions
March 2, 2010
Larry F. Darby
Joeseph P. Fuhr]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/research-the-internet-as-innovation-engine/</link>
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