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What is the best way to promote a vibrant and diverse exchange of educational information, cultural expression, and political discourse over the Internet? What type of servicecommercial enterprise, government agency, or non-commercial organizationcan be counted on to insure that quality and diversity are reflected prominently?
Read More...The Federal Communications Commission formally voted Friday (August 1, 2008) to uphold the complaint against Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, saying that it had illegally inhibited users of its high-speed Internet service from using popular file-sharing software. The decision, which imposes no fine, requires Comcast to end such blocking this year.
What was at stake
Read More...2008, 327 pages.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849 French critic and writer
2008, 12 pages. Center for Social Media, School of Communications, American University, 3201 New Mexico Avenue NW, Suite 330, Washington, D.C., 20016, (202) 885-3107, www.centerforsocialmedia.org
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/files/pdf/online_best_practices_in_fair_use.pdf
Read More...2007, 39 pages. TAG, Council on Foundations, 2121 Crystal Drive, Suite 700, Arlington, VA 22202, (800) 673-9036, www.cof.org
Read More...Sue Coliton, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation (moderator); Nancy Fushan, Bush Foundation; Lawrence Thoo, San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs; Ben Cameron, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (interlocutors).
2007, 223 pages. The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003.
In 2006, for its fiftieth anniversary, the Foundation Center's online resource, Philanthropy News Digest, conducted fifteen inter-views with leaders in philanthropy. This book is the collection of those interviews, compiled with an introduction by former GIA board member James Allen Smith
Read More...When we visit our physicians, we naturally assume they bring a bundle of knowledge and insight to the meeting. For one thing, we expect them to bring a broad and nuanced understanding of human physiology, and how its many interconnecting systems (circulatory, respiratory, muscle, nervous, lymphatic, and so on) influence our health and well being. We also expect that they know how and where to look for indicators of our health (taking our temperature, testing our blood pressure, checking our blood for chemical balances).
Read More...1997, 75 pages, ARTS Action Research, P.O. Box 401082, Brooklyn, New York 11240, 718-797-3661
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