First POST: Too Big to Read Our Mail
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, February 21 2014
Why and how the NSA should be broken up; Comcast's lobbying blitz; the vital role of social media in Ukraine and Venezuela; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Battle Lines
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, January 15 2014
Previewing President Obama's Friday speech on NSA reform; dealing with the defeat of the FCC's "open internet" rule"; tracking the winners of the Knight News Challenge health round and the New Media Ventures innovation fund; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: The Big Chill
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, January 6 2014
The NSA won't deny snooping on Members of Congress; the full size of the Koch brothers conservative political network starts to come into view; the emerging pieces of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign-in-waiting get mapped; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Nihilists
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, August 8 2013
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: The latest twists in the NSA scandal, advice for Republican would-be techies and wannabe innovative cities; why Samantha Power will break our hearts; and much, much more from around the web. Read More
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Ends His Tenure Not With a Bang, but a "Meh"
BY Sarah Lai Stirland | Friday, March 22 2013
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski told the commission's staff Friday that he's stepping down in the next few weeks. Telecommunications observers and experts say that under Genachowski's tenure, the FCC did a serviceable — if unambitious — job of addressing necessary changes in policy to adapt to broadband Internet and a shifting communications landscape. Read More
White House: "It's Time To Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking"
BY Sarah Lai Stirland | Monday, March 4 2013
The White House agrees that it shouldn't be a crime to unlock your cell-phone. Activists praise their response, and use it to kick off effort to fix a landmark digital copyright law. Read More
Turning the FCC's Not-So-Fun Twitter Town Hall Into a Teachable Moment
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, September 12 2012
In the wake of a Twitter town-hall style event with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski that drew jeers when Genachowski started late and initially did not use the hashtag his staff had been promoting for the conversation, General Services Administration staffers will publish updated guidelines on how federal agencies should manage events like these. Read More
Having Sat Out the Aughts, FCC.gov Steps into the Modern Age
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, April 5 2011
The new Beta.FCC.gov. Finally. Read More
What the FCC Did to Net Neutrality Today
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, December 21 2010
FCC Chair Julius Genachowski; March 2010 photo by wiredbike Read More
Tomorrow's a Big Day for Net Neutrality in the U.S.
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, December 20 2010