telecommunications

I am producing a documentary film about the current state and future evolution of television. It is a critical examination of how the broadcasting industry has been steadily corrupted by the influence of media consolidation, greed and mismanagement.

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In a study done on mobile phones, Dr. Nigel Bannister, a space scientist at the University of Leicester, has calculated that sending text messages using cellular phones is more costly than transmitting data from the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, it is more than 4 times more expensive!

He states:

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Why "Earth Art for the 21st Century"? Like a lot of people, the artists who formed Transnational Temps in 2001 (info about the collective follows this article) sensed that coverage of global warming and other environmental issues was woefully inadequate. Commercially sponsored "informative" programming continues to suffer from attention deficit disorders, to say nothing of conflicts of interest. The Internet has presented a means to address the situation.

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As many of you already know, Headzup's satirical cartoons have been known to traverse the globe within minutes of publication by being passed from cell phone to cell phone as forwarded picture messages. By carefully crafting our daily cartoons to "fly under the radar" of monopolistic mobile network operators, we are working to establish an early beachhead from which other progressive voices can be heard.

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Pobreza, Raza, Discapacidad y intellectuales Migratorios de la Prensa Pobre y Voces De Inmigrantes en Resistancia testifican la verdad a la FCC sobre el asunto de la Neutralidad del Internet.

Poverty, Race, Disability and Migrant scholars from PoorNewsNetwork(PNN) in collaboration with Media organizers from all ova da bay speak truth to the FCC on Net Neutrality

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The business news of the last 24 hours has been the merger agreement between Delta and Northwest. According news reports, the new merged airline will be the largest in the world and the merger could shake up the entire industry.

This got me to thinking: how big a company would the new Delta be compared the corporate giants we at Free Press deal with every day?

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Today, the Washington Post published a wonderful profile of Free Press' policy director Ben Scott.

I take issue with the insinuation that Free Press somehow isn't truly populist because Google happens to agree with us on Net Neutrality. It's not like they (or any other corporation) are funding our efforts.

But I digress. By far the most interesting tidbit in the piece is the mention of lobbying expenditures. Read more »

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Wireless Mesh May Be The Right Choice

The pentagon has opted for wireless mesh technology as the right choice for Afghanistan and Iraq. San Francisco, California, has opted for wireless mesh technology as the right choice for local broadband infrastructure. Ypsilanti, Michigan, has opted for wireless mesh technology as the right choice for a nontechnical approach to local broadband infrastructure, monitored and operated by two fellows with laptops. Perth Amboy, New Jersey, has opted for wireless mesh technology as the right choice for their "Canopy" approach to local broadband infrastructure for their city.

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"He sees interactive tablet PCs replacing textbooks and notebooks in schools. Students will call up everything they need on their tablet PCs and write everything directly on the screen to be stored there. His daughter’s school, he said, is already using this technology."
<a href="http://www.freepress.net/news/31335">Free Press News</a>
Bill Gates’ Vision for the Future
From Washington Post, March 13, 2008
By Kim Hart
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A peer to peer company is testing out a streaming video service for all the NCAA tournament games, utilizing the wonders of p2p. Of course, if Comcast ruled the world, you would be forced to forego this new innovative service and stick with your always satisfying Comcast TV service, where they make the choices for you. Read more »

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