portfolio.com - 4/23/2009
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How big are the stakes in the so-called network neutrality debate now raging before Congress and federal regulators? Consider this: One side in the debate actually went to the trouble of hiring people off the street to pack a Federal Communications Commission meeting yesterday and effectively ...
bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 4/21/2009
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A detailed look at an I.S.P.'s costs still
doesn't explain why they want to charge consumers per
gigabyte and refuse to sell it to business customers on the same basis.
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The Cost of Downloading All Those Videos
bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 4/28/2009
boingboing.net - 4/23/2009
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Comastownnn Comcast (a BB sponsor) is holding a
contest in which you design your own virtual apartment
in "Comcast Town." They invited Boing Boing to judge but, even more fun, they asked us to suggest some Boing Boing furniture that people could use ...
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Boing Boing apartment in Comcast Town
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How Comcast Bought Its Way Into Boing Boing's Good Graces
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... Money. Boing Boing blogger David Pescovitz writes about Comcast Town, a virtual world: Comcast (a BB sponsor) ... We stopped reading there, too. Pescovitz invites users to judge Boing Boing's entry into Comcast's virtual-world contest. Readers are eager to judge Boing Boing, but not about that. They have wasted no time reminding Pescovitz of the only Comcast stories they're prepared to hear: Tales of FCC hearings packed with Comcast shills, installers falling asleep on Comcast customers' couches, and ...
How Comcast Bought Its Way Into Boing Boing's Good Graces
Valleywag —
... Money. Boing Boing blogger David Pescovitz writes about Comcast Town, a virtual world: Comcast (a BB sponsor) ... We stopped reading there, too. Pescovitz invites users to judge Boing Boing's entry into Comcast's virtual-world contest. Readers are eager to judge Boing Boing, but not about that. They have wasted no time reminding Pescovitz of the only Comcast stories they're prepared to hear: Tales of FCC hearings packed with Comcast shills, installers falling asleep on Comcast customers' couches, and ...
How Comcast Bought Its Way Into Boing Boing's Good Graces
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... the "bumbing, evil" cable guys. Why? Money. Boing Boing blogger David Pescovitz writes about Comcast Town, a virtual world: Comcast (a BB sponsor) ... We stopped reading there, too. Pescovitz invites users to judge Boing Boing's entry into Comcast's virtual-world contest. Readers are eager to judge Boing Boing, but not about that. They have wasted no time reminding Pescovitz of the only Comcast stories they're prepared to hear: Tales of FCC hearings packed with Comcast shills , installers falling asleep on Comcast customers' couches , ...
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