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Net neutrality: Will you be in the slow lane or the express lane?

February 13, 2014 Renee Shur Consumer issues, Government, Technology Leave a comment

Speed up. Slow down. Block. Assuming that the above five words are nothing more than a description of Super Bowl tactics would be incorrect.

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Google searches on “register to vote” go crazy after Obama speech

September 10, 2012 Bobbi Clemons 2012 Election, Technology, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Proving that President Obama is still a trend starter, after his speech at the Democratic National Convention, online searches for registering to vote doubled

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Forget credentials & credit hours: Learn anything from anybody

April 29, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Education, Employment, Ideas Leave a comment

A new online business, called SkillShare, wants us get over the idea that a college education is the only legitimate path to a career.

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Internet blockades: coming soon to a country near you!

February 8, 2011 Bobbi Clemons Politics, Technology Leave a comment

You’ve heard about the chaos in Egypt. Ordinary citizens got tired of their oppressive ruler and took to the streets. There are tanks in

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Patch: Good news for neighborhoods, or local-news poacher?

January 26, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Media, Missouri region, Technology One comment

  When a school district repurposes a building, or a sandwich shop takes the political pulse of its neighborhood, is it news? Sure, especially

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Don’t fix net neutrality. It isn’t broken.

January 10, 2011 Stacy Mergenthal Government, Technology Leave a comment

The Federal Communications Commission voted a partisan 3-2 on network neutrality on December 21st, in what proponents consider an upset. The rules, a flimsy

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10 most-read Occasional Planet posts of 2010

December 30, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Humor, Ideas, Media, Uncategorized Leave a comment

2010 has been the first calendar year for Occasional Planet’s eclectic, under-the-news-radar, occasionally-humorous-and-often-opinionated potpourri of mostly positive posts on progressive people, programs and ideas.

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Progressive Poli- “clicks” debuts at Daily Kos

October 18, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Campaigns, Politics, Technology Leave a comment

If negative advertising turns you off, but if you really would like people to know the facts that make a candidate look bad, Daily

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Got a story? Pitch your idea to Spot.us.

October 12, 2010 Katharine Joiner Media, Technology Leave a comment

Spot.us is a non-profit website aimed at inspiring civic journalism through “community powered reporting.” Spot.us partners the public with journalists to generate stories on

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Information is beautiful

September 8, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Media Leave a comment

David McCandless loves pie. And he loves information, too. But he hates pie charts. So, he’s doing something about that. Calling himself a “data

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