My name is Jeremy Sisson and this is my weblog about technology and the internet. I am a freelance web developer, and I like to think and talk about Internet applications and communities.
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Bell recently started throttling wholesale broadband customers… these are other ISPs that are purchasing bandwidth from Bell to serve as ISPs to customers. Â The problem here is that Bell is applying a set of rules to wholesalers that should be able to define their own service.
Everyone wants in on this blogging action, but why? Sure, blogging is popular, and yes, it does provide new, fresh content to improve the SEO properties of your site, but I prefer to think of it as the beginning of a change in how your organization operates.
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We’re always hearing news about how the TSA is causing problems with travelers, but now that they’ve created a blog, the travelers have a forum to make their voices heard:
Less than a week after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) launchedblog site to gather feedback from air travelers and respond to their suggestions, it halted a practice at some airports that required travelers to remove all electronic equipment from carry-on luggage during security screenings. a new
After receiving questions on the blog beginning earlier this week about some airports requiring travelers to remove everything BlackBerries, iPods, electrical cords and the like from carry-on luggage for screening, TSA officials were left “scratching our heads” about this practice, the agency noted Wednesday in a blog post.
They really have a long way to go to relieve the years of abuse and trouble they’ve caused everyone, but it’s great to see a large monolithic organization wake up and start to listen to people and get their act together.
The Internet provides an echo chamber for innovation, but when companies with lots of money can afford to yell the loudest, then they end up having a great effect on the conversation, regardless of the merit of the message. When enough money is spent on the message, and the message is propagated widely enough, then community members will start believing it and echoing it back out into the community. This echo drowns out the other messages driven by merit and proper scientific study.
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