Category Archives: cyberculture

Julie & Julia

You know what’s more boring than blogging about blogging? Movies about blogging. We watched Julie & Julia. We liked the parts about Julia Child very much. The parts about the blogging? Not so much. That said, I’m still walking around singing, “Lobster killer, Qu’est-ce que c’est? fa fa fa fa fa” to myself, so it wasn’t completely tedious.

This wasn’t what I expected, having dipped in and out of the blog over the years and found it amusing, as well as believing that no one could do justice to a portrayal of Julia Child because she was just so…so…Julia Child. I still intend to read the book, I just don’t think it worked out so great as a movie, despite the extreme adorableness of Amy Adams and, of course, the lobsters.

This post wasn’t supposed to be about this movie. It was supposed to be about something related to blogging. I constructed the whole post in my head yesterday while doing something else, but when I sat down to type it up today I’ll be damned if I could remember what it was I wanted to say. I know I was going to make reference to this movie, to make my point that there was indeed something more boring than blogging about blogging, but that’s all I can remember. The mind is a terrible thing to lose.

Net Neutrality (Mike Mills, Senator Al Franken, & FCC Chair Julius Genachowski on CSPAN)

If there’s a way to embed the CSPAN video player, I’m not smart enough to figure it out. The first video is the only one to feature Chaiman Genachowski being played onto the stage by a New Orleans brass funk band (at approximately 41:30:00)

THE FUTURE OF MUSIC POLICY SUMMIT 2009.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Georgetown University

Senator Al Franken and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski delivered keynote addresses at the 2009 Music Policy Summit at Georgetown University. Among the topics they addressed were use of the Internet as a distribution mechanism for music, censorship and access issues, market competition, and the role of the FCC in regulating the Internet in a fair manner.

Washington, DC : 54 min.

Also available, from today:

FCC VOTES TO MOVE FORWARD WITH NET NEUTRALITY RULEMAKING PROCESS
Today

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) met and voted to move forward on Chairman Julius Genachowski’s open internet proposal. The net neutrality rules, if passed, would prohibit internet providers from favoring or discriminating against online applications. The FCC will have a period of hearings and comments on the proposal before a final vote is taken.
Washington, DC : 1 hr. 38 min.