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Today, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein — along with a dozen other industry leaders, like Vint Cerf, Larry Lessig, and NYC’s Brad Burnham — announced the launch of InternetforEveryone.org, a call for universal access to high speed, broadband Internet for the US.
The announcement, made at the Personal Democracy Forum, provided four principals for their cause: access, [...]

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I’m at the Personal Democracy Forum today, live Twittering it for Silicon Alley Insider (seriously — I have a press badge).
PDF is by far one of my favorite conferences of the year.
First of all, it mixes my two biggest passions: politics and technology. Secondly, it’s just so high level. Looking around me, there are people [...]

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Democrats! Check out this awesome short film written and directed by one of my best friends and most loyal blog readers, Josh Sugarman.
“Blue Balled” is a 4 minute short — the first in a series of films to come from TruthThroughAction.org, a new organization which is funding short film projects which promote Democrats and contrast [...]

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As I’ve written about before, my AppleTV has changed how I consume content in my living room. The point here is not that it’s changed how I consume content — no — it’s that it’s brought the new ways I’ve been learning to consume media over the last 5 years into my living room, [...]

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I loved John Edwards. Remember?
I still wish he was around in this campaign today. He’s so damn civil. I love it.

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I love love love exit polls. Love em — I’m a sociologist by degree, after all.
That’s why I loved this bit from CNN’s North Carolina exit poll:

Looks like they should print up some “NC Cynics for Clinton” stickers!
In all seriousness, though, I know many people are rightly cynical about government — and I’m okay with [...]

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For my readers in the New York tech scene (and many outside of it), Sanford Dickert’s name is probably quite familiar — he’s one of the more dedicated community members and has made his mark in everything from business, politics, coworking and academia. He’s a gracious mentor to many.
The reason I’m writing about Sanford is [...]

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Saw this on LinkedIn today. Evidently, my buddy Amit Gupta knows Barack Obama. Way cool. I’ll have to ask him about that.

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Dear Senator Obama,
My friend, I love you and I voted for you in New York State. I want you to win my Party’s nomination.
However, I, like all Americans, have friends who disagree with me. These are reasonable people — people I love and trust more than I can ever love and trust a political candidate [...]

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Choice use of words from the Obama campaign:

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