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	<description>Pro-Culture, Pro-Commerce</description>
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		<title>Research: The FTC Of The Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William Kovacic's latest paper discusses the role of the Federal Trade Commission and the development of Internet policy. He portrays the FTC as an organization with a long role and storied role in directing Internet development, with an emphasis on consumer protection, among other areas.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/research-ftc-of-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Comcast Usage Meter Expanding Into New Areas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often the discussion surrounding Internet usage caps also revolves around some sort of transparency.  Generally speaking, no matter what ones stance on usage caps is, all can agree that being transparent about monthly bandwidth use should be apart of a subscribers user account with their ISP.  Inlate 2009 Comcast answered this call by launching their Usage Meter service in Portland, Oregon.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/comcast-usage-meter-expanding-into-new-areas/</link>
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		<title>The Two Worlds Of Telecom Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Advocates of Internet regulation dream of a government-run utopia, but consumers have seen the yellow brick road on the other side of telecommunications law and are flocking to it. Dorothy wanted to go home after her fantastical journey through the "Wizard of Oz." Information-age consumers have no interest in traveling back in time to the realm of telecom stagnation.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/the-two-worlds-of-telecom-law/</link>
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		<title>FCC should consider passive network monitoring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FCC is asking  for a good way for consumers to monitor broadband performance and they have  put out a public Request For Quotation (RFQ).  Well I&#8217;m going to suggest a more  granular and complete method of network monitoring that doesn&#8217;t generate  unnecessary traffic on the network, and one that does not require any third  party tools to collect the information.  The current methods of installing Java and/or other tools and using small active measurement samples is inferior.
Every modern Operating System (OS) has built in ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/fcc-should-consider-passive-network-monitoring/</link>
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		<title>Washington liabilities vs. innovative assets</title>
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See our article today at RealClearMarkets . . .
Entrepreneurial Innovation and the Internet
by Bret Swanson
As Washington and the states pile up mountainous liabilities – $3 trillion for unfunded state pensions, $10 trillion in new federal deficits through 2019, and $38 trillion (or is it $50 trillion?) in unfunded Medicare promises – the U.S. needs once again to call on its chief strategic asset: radical innovation.
One laboratory of growth will continue to be the Internet. The U.S. began the 2000’s with fewer than five million residential broadband lines and zero mobile ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/washington-liabilities-vs-innovative-assets/</link>
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		<title>YouTube HTML5 versus Flash &#8211; Round 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier last month, I found that YouTube's HTML5 beta wasn't even worthy of being beta.  Three weeks after that, Jan Ozer ran some CPU performance tests between YouTube Flash and HTML5 on Mac OS X and Safari and found that CPU performance was better on HTML5.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/youtube-html5-versus-flash-round-2/</link>
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		<title>Burlington muni-fiber sticks tax payers with massive debt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Burlington Vermont's experiment in municipal fiber was once thought to be shining example of why muni-fiber broadband was such a great idea.  Those dreams have now turned into a $50 million nightmare for the tax payers of Burlington Vermont the majority of whom don't use the service.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/burlington-muni-fiber-sticks-tax-payers-with-massive-debt/</link>
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		<title>Why municipal fiber hasn’t succeeded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Municipal fiber is seen by many as the holy-grail of broadband utopia, but like utopia it hasn't had much success in the real world.  This paper examines the challenges of implementing community owned fiber and why tax payers are getting stuck with a huge debt.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/why-municipal-fiber-has-not-succeeded/</link>
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		<title>Software liability is nonstarter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I generally admire the work coming from the SANS Institute, but Alan Paller&#8217;s call for software liability (via Deb Shinder) for security vulnerabilities just doesn&#8217;t make sense.  That&#8217;s because software security is like a bank vault which are rated by the time and effort required to break, but none are rated unbreakable.
While SANS is right to point out the sloppiness of the software industry, calling for software liability is irresponsible.  Even the most secure software in the world can be hacked if there was a sufficient reward.
I can understand holding ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/software-liability-is-nonstarter/</link>
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		<title>Online Ad Spending To Surpass Print</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the standard arguments for government subsidies of tomorrow's media is that as the news moves online, advertising is not following so journalism will need new sources of funding. But the research company Outsell this week predicted that digital marketing will outpace print ads for the first time in 2010. Smart media companies will adapt their business models to seize their share of the ever-expanding online ad pie.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/online-ad-spending-to-surpass-print/</link>
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