• Building Better Media

    Megan Tady
    February 12, 2010

    Across the country, community media projects have been sprouting out of a dying traditional media system that has often failed to deliver what the public really wants: local news and information. Now, more than ever before, citizens are taking the media back, using this time of media chaos to forge ahead with news projects that serve their interests—regardless of whether they graduated from J-school or not.

  • The Open Internet You'll Need to Start a Business

    Megan Tady
    February 9, 2010

    If you’re running a successful business today, chances are that you have a Web presence, or rely daily on the Internet. If you’re looking to launch a startup or finally dive into the creative idea you’ve been sitting on since college, you’ll need the Internet.

  • Getting Crazy with a Green Screen for Net Neutrality

    Megan Tady
    February 4, 2010

    The open Internet means we can create anything we want online, including a funny rap video about my favorite topic (at least on this blog).

    Check out these two self-professed “nerds” hamming it up to a song about Net Neutrality. My favorite part, besides the sick dance moves:

  • Watch: Debunking the Industry’s Main Net Neutrality Myth

    Megan Tady
    January 22, 2010

    Oh industry groups, let me count the ways we’ve debunked all the misinformation you’ve piled into the FCC’s rulemaking docket on Net Neutrality.

  • Helluva Week for Net Neutrality

    Megan Tady
    January 15, 2010

    It’s been one amazing week for Net Neutrality. More than 20,000 people filed pro-Net Neutrality comments with the FCC before the docket closed at midnight Thursday night. It was a remarkable outpouring of public support.

  • Resounding Support for Net Neutrality as FCC Deadline Nears

    Megan Tady
    January 14, 2010

    Last night, I came home to find my cynical, apolitical housemate filing his comment with the FCC in support of Net Neutrality.

  • No Time to Lose: File Your Comments for Net Neutrality Right Now

    Megan Tady
    January 13, 2010

    Have you told the FCC you support Net Neutrality yet?

    If not, what are you waiting for? Even as you read this post, you could already be letting the FCC know how important the Internet is to you and why you want them to protect it by passing a strong Net Neutrality rule.

  • Losing the Internet as We Know It

    Megan Tady
    January 12, 2010

    How much have you already used the Internet today?

    We don't think twice about how much we rely on the Internet. Imagine not being able to map directions on Google or check the weather online. A business that doesn't have a Web site? Forgettable. Or rather, unsearchable. Remember when we didn't have e-mail? Would you want to go back to those Dark Ages? Me neither.

  • No Ordinary Week for Net Neutrality

    Megan Tady
    January 11, 2010

    It feels like any other work day. You drove the same route to work. You ate the same breakfast. Around 11 a.m., you looked longingly out your window imagining yourself swinging in a hammock on a beach. Pretty routine.

  • Dan Rather on the Media’s ‘New Order’

    Megan Tady
    January 6, 2010

    In the latest video in The Nation’s series on the future of journalism, Dan Rather gives what he calls a “wide shot” on the conditions facing print journalism.

    Rather, managing editor and anchor of Dan Rather Reports on HDNet and the former anchor of the CBS Evening News, describes print media as an “old order” that has disappeared but not yet been replaced by a “new order.” He discusses the pros and cons of transitioning to online media.

    Watch the video:

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