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Apple’s website draws 94 million unique visitors a month (Comscore worldwide, June 2009), and the home page is generally reserved for selling stuff.Read more at www.techcrunch.com
Everyone else is doing it - why not the FCC!
On a related note, they just joined twitter too…
Welcome to Blogband
August 18th, 2009 by Julius Genachowski
The National Broadband Plan is one of the most important initiatives that the FCC has ever undertaken. To foster public dialogue about the National Broadband Plan, we’re tapping the power of the Internet to launch a new FCC blog, called Blogband. What better time to start blogging than now? With just 183 days before our deadline to send the National Broadband Plan to Congress, we need as many people involved as possible.Read more at blog.broadband.gov
for the decline of traditional media.. Oh boy…
Copps Blames The Internet And Bloggers
“We’re not only losing journalists, we may be losing journalism,” he said. “Some blame the Internet and bloggers, and that’s certainly a part of the story. All that consolidation and mindless deregulation, rather than reviving the news business, condemned us to less real news, less serious political coverage, less diversity of opinion, less minority and female ownership, less investigative journalism and fewer jobs for journalists.”
What’s really troubling is that he seems to think this is a problem that the FCC needs to fix. This certainly seems to go well beyond the FCC’s mandate, and it takes an impressive amount of conceptual blindness not to see that the solution is exactly what he described was a part of the problem. Read more at techdirt.com
Congrats to Blair!
Levin To Run FCC Broadband Plan
Stifel Nicolaus managing director Blair Levin will return to familiar territory at the FCC, Acting Chairman Michael Copps announced Friday. Levin, who served as chief of staff to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt from 1993 until 1997, will join the agency to coordinate development of the new national broadband plan starting Monday.Read more at techdailydose.nationaljournal.com
This is needed. As consumers demand applications that need additional capacity, the wireless industry will need to have the spectrum to provide them. Accordingly, it is imperative that the Federal Government start the process to identify what spectrum is available for future auctions.
Senators Kerry, Snowe Call for U.S. Spectrum Audit
Who is actually using our airwaves? Are we sitting on unused resources or overloading the system? Two senators on Friday asked the Federal Communications Commission and the Commerce Department to take stock of the country’s spectrum resources and report back in six months.
“Our public airwaves belong to the American people, and we need to make certain we are putting them to good use in the best interests of those citizens,” Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement.
Read more at www.pcmag.com
