ThinkProgress has obtained a PowerPoint document which reveals how the telecom industry is orchestrating the latest campaign against Net Neutrality. Authored by representatives from the Atlas Network — a shell think tank used to coordinate corporate front group efforts worldwide — the document lays out the following strategy:
– Slides 7-8 calls for the campaign to target “libertarian minded internet users and video gamers” and “social conservative activists” with anti-government messages and a rebranding of net neutrality as “Net Brutality.”
– Slide 9 calls for a strategy of creating a Chinese blog to compare net neutrality to Chinese government censorship, outreach via social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
– Slides 10-11 detail how representatives met at Grover Norquist’s infamous “Wednesday morning meeting” to orchestrate the new campaign. Norquist is known to use his Wednesday meetings to plot strategy and conservative coalition building towards lobbying goals.
The PowerPoint was created on April 14th, shortly before the campaign website officially launched. The “Net Brutality” website relies heavily on Americans for Prosperity sources, as well as a website called NetCompetition.org — which is openly funded by the American Cable Association, At&T, Comcast, and the US Telecom Association.
Think Progress » Telecoms’ Secret Plan To Attack Net Neutrality: Target Video Gamers And Stoke Fear Of Chinese Censorship (via rafer) (via mikehudack)
EDIT: The Powerpoint is here, if you are interested…
Glee cast - Rolling Stone by Mark Seliger, April 15th 2010
So, I can’t really say I care too much about Glee, or its cast. I have seen an episode, and while I recognize it as somewhat interesting and well-done, I am far from the demographic.
So, why am I reblogging this? Because there is something seriously amiss with the foot of the blond woman on the left. Look at that red shoe. Nothing wrong with big feet, but I think there is some unchecked gigantism here, and if my reblogging is necessary to get the word out and get this poor woman some help, then so be it.
Whoa. The Popular Science app looks amazing. Great comparison of magazine art direction for iPad by Brad Colbow.
Neighborhoodr looks amazing on the iPad, it is the perfect kind of website for this device.
Hopefully this is strictly taken as constructive criticism, but I don’t agree that the current layout of Neighborhoodr looks amazing. It looks good, sure, yet most sites will on the iPad. From this pic it seems as if there’s a whole lot of room for you to take advantage of. Obviously you want to avoid a cluttered look and keep it a clean read, so I wonder how it would look if you guys experimented with a horizontal scroll? That way the content would read in a similar fashion to how local weeklies
doused to.The roll out of a new device like the iPad seems like the perfect time to unveil a re-design of a site.
That is what I am kind of struggling with. The idea was to try and keep it as simple, clean and uncluttered as possible, and have the focus be on the content. People seem to have really been negative about the horizontal style navigation in my experience, so I think I want to avoid that. I do want to make it a bit wider and allow the images to fill up more of the screen.
I’d love to hear what kind of things would you like to see added, since we are actually in the midst of coming up with a concept for the next iteration of the design.
You know, when I first read this, the notion of horizontal scroll made me immediately wince, as 10 years of considering such things has conditioned me to do. But thinking more about it, on a device like the iPad, it *seems* like horizontal scroll may be more convenient than vertical scroll. I don’t yet own an iPad, and haven’t even seen one in person. But if I imagine using one, it seems that holding it in either orientation, the motion of swiping side-to-side rather than down-to-up would be easier and more natural. You know, like a magazine. Vertical scroll on an iPad seems like it would only be a bit less unnatural than reading a magazine bound at the top. The things that made horizontal scrolling a pain on traditional computers were the mouse or trackpad, especially for those that actually use the scrollbars. But things are different now, aren’t they?
Of course, the laying out of content would be a bit trickier (or at least you’d have to consider things you haven’t had to before) with columns for long blocks of text, etc. But still. It seems like the optimal form for such content on an iPad would be horizontal scroll.
Wow, look at that.
1. I love when something makes long-standing rules obsolete.
2. Somebody by me a fucking iPad already.
