Clearing the Cache: A World Where Charlie Never Bit
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, June 15 2010
- Free Press calls into service minor Internet celebrities -- and Wil Wheaton! -- to make that case that their success depends on a free and open Internet.
- In case you have no idea what the headline on this post means...
- As a counter point, the FCC's online atrocities are wielded as a political cudgel in the net neutrality battle.
- Concern about Internet restrictions is, says the State Department's Alec Ross, "becoming increasingly central to U.S. foreign policy."
- What we might expect from the coming health-care exchange online marketplaces.
- Dems launch an in-House social media contest. "I've entered a competition with some of my fellow Representatives in Congress to see who can get the most new friends on Facebook and YouTube!," emails chief deputy whip Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. House Republicans, you might remember, did something similar earlier this year.
- Rep. Mark Kirk runs into troubling for tweeting while on duty.
- Rep. Bob Etheridge is sorry for his "poor response."
- And YouTube partners with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism to skim newsworthy bits from the footage that floods onto YouTube each day.