TREND ALREADY OVER (FOR NOW)
AOL seems to be back tracking a bit on their original proposal. ClickZ reports that the unpaid White List will be kept after all. ClickZ attributes this change to the uproar not from independent Internet folks but instead from a competitor to the company that was going to provide the technology for the paid bulk sender program.
US SOCIAL FORUM: NEXT REGIONAL MEETING IN DECEMBER 9
The first United States Social Forum will happen in less than a year and the northeast is getting together to make concrete plans for organizing toward the USSF! The Next meeting will be on Saturday, December 9 at the Brecht Forum in New York City.
WHAT'S A POLITICAL TECHIE?
I’ve been thinking recently about what it means to be a political techie, particularly around the conflicts between having a consulting relationship and a political relationship with the same “client” or “organization.”
YAHOO TO INTERNET: DROP DEAD
When you’re a giant on the Internet, like Yahoo, you really can make a difference. You can afford to show leadership, develop new ideas, and build and instracture that improves the Internet for everyone.
A REAL RACIAL DEMOCRACY?
NIKOLAS KOZLOFF writes: As the war of words heats up between the Bush White House and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, the firebrand South American leader has boldly sought to forge ties with poor communities of color in the United States.
COLLECTIVES
John Emerson writes an interesting overview of collectives with loads of good examples:
FREE RECYCLING THIS SATURDAY!
This saturday is the time to get rid of your junk, courtesy of the Lower East Side Ecology Center:
FROM BAD TO WORSE
It was bad enough in 1994 when Congress passed the Wiretap law (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) which forces phone companies to install equipment in their premises that allow the federal government to tap the lines. Now, the law has been extended to universities, libraries and Internet Service Providers (like May First).
MAY FIRST MOVES INTO NEW CABINET
Last week we moved all of our servers from the clutches of the Internet Channel (recently aquired by thorn.net) into our very own cabinet located at 25 Broadway in downtown Manhattan.
MAY FIRST/PEOPLE LINK PARTY
Hi all - Please come to our Party on Wednesday, December 7 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm! For more information, check out the party details page.