Thomas Power of Ecademy.com alerted me to this story on the front page of the Financial Times in the UK today:

BBC to shake up web with more interactivity
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e820f1b8-d491-11da-a357-0000779e2340.html

His article http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=66846 also very generously pointed his readers to this web site, and Thomas described the news as "the most exciting news I have read for the 6 years of this decade."

The principle I adhere to and which needs to be defended is that data is data is data... (and this point should be defended against FCC and others).

Consumer, Civic, CTC, and other many-hatted persons met in Chicago on Weds. Dec. 15th to strategize and enumerate the issues of Illinois' pending telecommunications legislation "rewrite" from our perspective. The group will meet again in Chicago early in January to coordinate the first of what we expect will be several community action/education events. CTCNet Chicago offered to coordinate one in Chicago in partnership with the other groups, with a tentative date of January 13th. We'll further flesh out the content in the early-January meeting.

We anticipate many more such community gatherings on the rewrite issue in around the State.