Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Those who advocate regulating Internet service providers as common carriers subject to “open access” mandates (a/k/a “Net Neutrality”) want us to believe that their cause is the “Civil Rights” issue of the digital age, with huge popular support and opposed only by self-interested cable companies and their henchmen. In fact, such regulations would actually harm [...]
Google Trends for websites reveals all kinds of fascinating insights into the way technology is reshaping the world. Among them is the fact that the HuffingtonPost.com has matured from a scruffy group blog into a new media powerhouse to rival the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post: Note that the convergence of these three sites [...]
< p style=”text-align: left;”>In the beginning, there was Obamamania: < p style=”text-align: left;”>Then there was Palinmania: Poor Joe Biden. He gets fewer Google searches than that Jesus guy–whatever he‘s running for. Google Trends is a nifty proxy for measuring public interest in a very narrowly defined subject. The examples above show ”Search volume” (the total number of [...]
May 28, 2012
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
