Sitting at the Vloggercon show again, and I came to hear on the panel on Net Neutrality - an area that really does interest me, mainly because of the deafening silence in the Web 2.0 community. Huge silence.
SaveTheInternet or searched through Technorati, and could not find the usual Web 2.0 suspects writing, but just pointing people to are cutesy; they are not really taking the banner of Net Neutrality.I have discussed this with a couple of other bloggers - and wonder if Web 2.0 has not rushed to this because they are so caught up with themselves. Do they think that the banners of open source, community Web, and whatever the buzz words du jour are going to save their companies? If you look at the Web 2.0 sites -Riya, Second Life, BitTorrent and others - they are total bandwidth hogs. Look at how much Second Life is growing, to the point that it is holding virtual concerts. But at least is it suited to find ways around the potential costs of the loss of Net Neutrality, as it already charges for membership.
And, well, since Friday it is even a bigger issue since the just been as active. But is smarter and better at lobbying. Just imagine if the Web 2.0 companies rallied their users to send a letter or email to their Senators and Congressman. Would not those voices be heard, or am I a little too read posts from Follow-up: I just spoke with Mike Hudack, CEO of , who has been speaking on the issue of Net Neutrality - as part of the panel, and as part of the changes in media, and how without Net Neutrality, his company would not have been able to launch. There are some Web 2.0 companies that are speaking out there - Mary Hodder also speaks a lot on the issue as well. | Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo My Web POP! Public Relations, a public relations firm based in Arizona, USA. He authors the popular
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