Roundup: The Associated Press tries to take down blog excerpts, Google - Industry Standard
June 16th, 2008The Associated Press to blogs: Don t quote us The Associated Press has demanded that The Drudge Retort take down several blog posts containing excerpts of AP stories. The objections sound pretty silly the longest excerpt was 79 words long >>> Read more
A day long series of panel discussion was presented by The Media Access Project (MAP). The invitation said it was bringing together public policy experts and tech industry leaders to draft policy recommendations for the next President of the >>> Read more
Last week in Washington, D.C. , Reed Hundt, a former Federal Communications Commission chairman and campaign advisor to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), traded policy positions with Michael Powell, a former FCC chairman who is advising Sen. John McCain (R >>> Read more
Innovation 08 In an effort to identify traffic discrimination by American ISPs, Google is prepping a suite of network analysis tools for everyday broadband users. “We’re trying to develop tools, software tools that allow people to detect what’s >>> Read more
Trillian Rand from Canada writes: From the article: ‘. . . sources say the legislation is expected to be left to die by the minority Conservative government, which is likely to face harsh criticism from opposition parties, making the bill difficult >>> Read more