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On Feb 26 the FCC will vote to save net neutrality or let Comcast and other ISPs create Internet slow lanes. Some members of Congress, on behalf of their Cable donors, are trying to stop the FCC from protecting the Internet we love. There isn't much time to stop them, contact them now. This is every internet user's problem and fight. Get involved now! var _cd_options = { animation: 'ad' };

FCC gets an earful for 'Family Guy' (as the most frequent offender for broadcast indecency. Surprised? Also has MTV become more lax towards violent behavior in the "The Real World' cast?) (Los Angeles Times) (Best Week Ever) - Recession Kids (super... Read the rest of this post

'Sext 'ed (gets an official website in Canada to raise teen awareness about potential issues. Also alcohol companies in the UK are taken to task for recruiting new, young drinkers with campaigns based on market research data on 15- and... Read the rest of this post

Disney-Marvel discourse (nicely summed up on AdWeek. Plus speculation on Disney's chance to get to the boys. Also concerns are raised by die-hard comic book fans. Meanwhile some like GeekDad on Wired express cautious optimism and others suggest... Read the rest of this post

More like 'now-stalgia' (Gen Y-ers celebrate pop culture from the late 90s and early 2000s, including Harry Potter. Also a Boston science museum puts on a Harry Potter exhibit in honor of the sixth film) (New York Times, reg. required) - FCC... Read the rest of this post

A few links that have been keeping me from inbox zero for the past few weeks.

• “…the increased popularity of the Internet in America has not been correlated with an overall increase in reported sexual offenses; overall sexual offenses against children have gone steadily down in the last 18 years” Note: this does not say “oh the internet is safe!” It just says that the internet getting more popular doesn’t correlate with sexual offenses against children. More from the Research Advisory Board of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force
• Speaking of Berkman people, I’ll be hanging out in the Boston area over the turkey weekend and likely going to this event that Saturday. Anyone in the area should consider going, it looks like fun.
• Evergreen is gaining traction as an ILS that works even for big/complicated systems. The Traverse Area just went live with their Evergreen implementation. Doesn’t that look nice? More about Michigan’s open source ILS project.
• I’ve been reading more lately. I read Cory Doctorow’s book Content (my review) and think it should be required reading for librarians or anyone else in the various digital content industries. If you’d like a copy, you can read it for free online, or if you’re a librarian or a teacher, you can request a donated copy from the website. I already gave mine away.
• FCC broadband bill passed. This might help Farmer Bob [my generic term for the people over on this side of the digital divide] get broadband.
• Pew Report “When Technology Fails” (and even really great technology sometimes does). The results will likely not surprise the librarians. “15% of tech users were unable to fix their devices” and “48% felt discouraged with the amount of effort needed to fix the problem.”

THE F WORD follows radio DJ Joe Pace, who is being forced off the air after racking up $1 million in unpaid FCC indecency fines. For his final show, Joe takes to the streets of New York to cover the protests around the Republican National Convention, discovering that the city’s politics are as diverse as its residents. Combining fictional scenes set among actual protests with documentary footage of real people, director Jed Weintrob weaves a seamless narrative about America’s struggle to find the balance between preserving national security and protecting free speech.