- FCC to rewrite net neutrality rules, won’t appeal court ruling WaPo
- White House: Without Net Neutrality "the Internet could turn into a high-priced private toll road"
- Republicans Will Try to Kill New Net-Neutrality Rules—"A showdown looms as the FCC announces bid to revive regulations recently struck down in federal court."
- Verizon seeks payment for carrying Netflix traffic, WSJ reports—"Feud between ISPs, Netflix, and Internet bandwidth providers continues."
- Netflix slow on Verizon or Comcast? A VPN might speed up that video—"ISPs could throttle traffic if they want—but Netflix can play dirty tricks too."
- Netflix speeds lag for Verizon users amid dispute
- Netflix to Pay Comcast for Smoother Streaming
- Is Netflix Slowing Down? Good Luck Finding Out Why.—"The FCC wants to force ISPs to show whether delays are due to unavoidable congestion or created to extract fees from content providers."
- Here is why your Internet is so pathetic and so expensive WaPo
- Americans Are Getting Gouged Over LTE Data Speeds And Costs
- America's fastest mobile networks are left in the dust by Brazil, Russia, and Mexico—"In a study of 16 countries, the average US download speed in 2013, at 6.5 Mbps (Megabits per second), was faster only than the Philippines, and then just barely."
- Why Super-Fast Internet Is Coming Super Slowly WSJ
- Surprise: Giving ISPs everything they want hasn't created a broadband paradise
- Comcast filings with regulators expected at end of March
- Time Warner Cable Raises Rates (Again), Adds 'Broadcast TV' Fee
- This is what happens when Time Warner Cable is forced to compete
- Google Fiber chooses nine metro areas for possible expansion
- The Hunt For Bright House Fiber In Florida—"We've talked for years about how a large number of companies (from Time Warner Cable to Qwest) that can't or won't pay for fiber to the home do the next best thing -- lie to customers and pretend that core network fiber is the same as last mile fiber. [...] Stop The Cap directs our attention that Bright House Networks is latest ISP to employ this tactic...."
- Comcast's Web of Lobbying and Philanthropy—"The company is beginning a carefully orchestrated campaign, seeking support from members of Congress, state officials and leaders of nonprofit and minority-led groups." NYT
- "It's dead": Kansas municipal Internet ban was "stabbed, shot, and hanged"—"Cable lobby rebuffed in attempt to ban public broadband networks." Dead for now, anyway,
- The Cable Guys: Curious why a bill in Topeka might limit cable competition? Just follow the lobbying money
- Obama Admin's TPP Trade Officials Received Hefty Bonuses From Big Banks
- TPP conclusion rests on Japan-U.S. tariff issue
- Say no to corporate power grabs - reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Canadian Court Slaps Restrictions on Copyright Trolling
- RapidShare Stops Washington Lobbying Efforts and Regains Pirate Stamp
- Aereo loses copyright fight, gets banned in 6 states—"Judges in New York and Utah disagree, as case heads to Supreme Court."
- Why YouTube's Automated Copyright Takedown System Hurts Artists
- The Color Run Sues College Photographer After He Asks for Compensation for Image—After much back-and-forth, this issue has been resolved: "We have been able to reach a joint agreement, which meets the needs of maxxsphotography.com and The Color Run."
- Glenn Greenwald, Nate Silver, Ezra Klein, Bill Keller, and the New Public-Interest Journalism
- The New York Times' Most Popular Story of 2013 Was Not an Article
- Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself—And he's gonna have familiar company. NYT
- Against 'Long-Form Journalism'—"When it comes to great magazine writing, what’s in a name?" When is 'long-form' bad form [NYT] ?
- How breaking news is breaking us: The rush to report Philip Seymour Hoffman's death—"News of a celebrity's death can now spread across Twitter before the family's informed. That doesn't mean it should." Salon
- Adobe: We Didn't Mean to Use DRM to Break Your eBook Readers
- Sony Reader eBook store shutting down in US, Canada
- Overdrive Going DRM-Free with Audiobooks
- Apple, U.S. clash in court over e-books antitrust monitor—Apple loses another battle.
- Barnes & Noble Fired Its Nook Hardware Engineering Staff
- Big in Japan—"Here, I was just another writer. Over there, I was a star." NYT
- People-Powered Publishing Is Changing All the Rules
- George Packer: Is Amazon Bad for Books?—""To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator; recently, the company has even started publishing books. A monopoly is dangerous because it concentrates so much economic power, but in the book business the prospect is especially worrisome: it would give Amazon more control over the exchange of ideas than any company in U.S. history."
- Wikimedia Foundation employee ousted over paid editing
- New York Times Has Been Editing Reporters' Wikipedia Pages For Years
- Wikipedia mounts courtroom defense for editor sued by politician—"Wikimedia lawyer: Greek pol's €200,000 lawsuit is 'an assault on our users.'"
- Police Board of Finland Attacks Wikipedia's Fundraising Campaign
- This machine kills trolls—"How Wikipedia’s robots and cyborgs snuff out vandalism."
- Sochi closing ceremony: Games end with flourish as protest fears melt away—"Rush of medals for host nation helps buoy mood on shores of Black Sea after most expensive Games in history." With a dash of self-deprecating humor.
- Sochi Olympics provide chilling glimpses of everyday life for Russians—"The Games provided 'war stories' for many journalists, but also brought insight into everyday life for those left behind."
- Jimmy Kimmel Reveals "Epic #SochiFail: Wolf in My Hall" Prank
