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Essentially, Lieberman heard that Dean and Weiner and a lot of the blogosphere were happy about a Medicare Buy-In proposal, which was something he himself has supported, and that was enough for him to spike the idea.

Booman's referring to reports put out by The New York Times and which Steven Bennen discussed at WEINER SCARED LIEBERMAN AWAY?

I cannot repeat enough how going forward, this "Joe Lieberman" moment has to be remembered for eons to come. Because it doesn't matter if you extricate Joe Lieberman from the senate, or as I suspect will happen, it will not matter a bit the day he walks away on his own accord by "retiring" from politics. You will always have another asshole who will point to a bill or a cause and say, "if that's what those radicals want, am voting against it".
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This came via Lawrence Lessig's twitterstream and it's truly impressive

I am leaving for Pittsburgh in about an hour to go NOI's "Netroots Nation Blogger Summit". From their site:

NOI runs the only progressive advocacy and campaign training program focused on cutting-edge online organizing techniques (e.g. writing effective emails, engaging bloggers, leveraging social networks, utilizing video), political technology (e.g. using data effectively, progressive technology infrastructure), and the intersection with field and management of these areas of new organizing.

I am not going to the Netroots Nation conference --I have a rule that if I am not in a panel, the conference better be intrinsically related to my ability to earn a living in order for me to make an out-of-pocket appearance. And grock knows I've had to abide to that rule because things have been tight this year. Anyhow, the meeting is supposed to bring bloggers from across the country and across spheres of influence to talk about new trends in activism, coalition building, etc.

Of course, my eye zeroed in on one item of the agenda:

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UPDATE 23 MAY 2007:
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Last saturday I facilitated a session at the Personal Democracy Unconference, which took place at Pace University's downtown NYC campus.

To those who don't know what means unconference, the concept is an interesting take on the old formula. People come in with a topic or set of topics they'd like to talk about. All the topics are placed written on a piece of paper and placed on the wall, next to an empty schedule grid. Once the organizers give it a go, facilitators place on their preferred time slot and/or negotiate with other facilitators the timing of their session.

The session I facilitated was titled, Reframing Net Neutrality as a Civil Rights Issues. I honestly wasn't expecting more than a few people but was amazed when about a dozen strong came to the corner where I was set up. Nancy Scola, Aldon Hines, Cheryl Contee, Ruby Sinreich, Ed Cone, Heather Holdridge and so many other amazing people came to discuss this important issue that has been amazingly bogged down by too much geek speak.

What's at the core of Net Neutrality? There's people who can put this better than me, but at the heart of the debate is the issue that internet providers should have the right to distinguish all sorts of bandwidth usage in order to better manage their resources and provide better service. The concern is that companies like YouTube may literally clog the internets and it's tubes.
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Location

Let's explore blogging, personal web pages, buildings and a web Integrated World 101?

Last Spring (2006) MySpace announced the marriage of 60,000,000 personal web page customers with a traditional TV and movie channel in MyTV (not to mention one if not THE premier world wide provider of traditional news delivery). This has / had the potential to do what had not been done before. For those who don't know it, Rupert Murdoch pioneered satellite delivery of worldwide communications. Oh yes did we establish that he sells a few newspapers too?

Anyway CNN/Time Warner and AOL tried to merge the two domains of Web content and traditional news and entertainment legacy media to HUGE SEVERE financial outcome (Ted Turner lost something on the order of over $6 BILLION US in that deal).

Rupert and NewsCorp bought about 30,000,000 MySpace accounts for around $580,000,000 US and that account base nearly doubled within 6 months (read that as ad revenue doubling in six months) or 100 PERCENT GROWTH in AD SALES in first 6 months if one follows the numbers in simplistic fashion.

Current MySpace account base currently reported as over 143,000,000.

To look at this deeper we will need to explore the netherworld basics of Login security, the likely next big thing of Biometrics, and also the behind the scenes manufacturing and utility and energy automation infrastructure in the digital automated world, and the inherent vulnerabilities that go along with it. (Follow up with this later).
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