ICC Telecoms Liberalization. An international business guide for policymakers. The International Chamber of Commerce has launched a new guide to assist countries considering embarking on the liberalization of their communications infrastructure. http://www.iccwbo.org/home/statements_rules/statements/2004/liberalization.pdf… [InternetPolicy.net] —- like energy liberalization….. probably not a great idea to let corporations, which have recently been fairly compared to sociopaths, guide policy.

Hypothesis: It's Still A Free Country. Thanks to Beth Novak for pointing me to the NYCLU site on Protecting Protest: Protecting Protest is a campaign of the New York Civil Liberties Union to ensure that protest can take place safely and legally during the Republican National Convention this August. We’re defending civil liberties from a […]

Mike Davis. “The Pentagon as Global Slumlord” [Interactivist Info Exchange] —– worth a peak.

WGIG consultation. According to the ITU Strategy and Policy Unit blog, the Secretariat of the UN's Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) is now operational. Executive Secretary Markus Kummer says: “…one of our priorities is to make sure that the process ahead… [InternetPolicy.net] —- interesting little bit of politicking going on here, i'd say…..

Nothing to hear here, please move along. No, really. [Chocolate and Vodka] — one of the shexxshiest voices in audioblogs around, why isn't suw a dj in some enlightened part of the world? i mean come on people, everything is there with an appropriate skew. i know friends that would just get excited listening to […]

dodgy dossiers, astroturfing, they the media. Becky Howard, a colleague of mine, was asking the other day about how she might publish something she's been working on, and publish it quickly, since it's relevant to the Presidential race. After talking about it a while, and coming up with nothing, she's decided to self-publish it on […]

IETF News. The IETF, despite the fact that it keeps the Internet running, doesn‰¥út get much news coverage. I suspect that‰¥ús partly because its structure is pretty well 100% opaque and incomprehensible to outsiders (and it seems to not a few insiders, especially newbies like me). There‰¥ús actually no such organization as the IETF but […]

ummm, well, perhaps there is.

this might help, but who knows.

Larger SUVs are Illegal on Many California Streets. There's an interesting article over on Slate titled California's SUV Ban: The Golden State has outlawed big SUVs on many of its roads but doesn't seem to know it. Andy Bowers does a good job of explaining how the largest SUVs often weigh more then 6,000 pounds, […]