It’s Snowing and Now There’s a Tag Cloud Overhead - posted by Day Tooley

A couple of inches of snow in Portland stops all movement.  Even my best macho couldn't coax my Honda up the hill early this morning.

When grounded, it always seems like a good time to get organized.  One popular way to organize data is by adding tags.  We all wish we had done that from the beginning when we took the first of thousands of digital photographs (Where is that picture of Uncle Bob we took a couple of years ago?). 

Technorati and flickr have built significant businesses accumulating tags from millions of blog posts and photographs. 

Google Mail lets you "Label" your email messages to make them findable later in a virtual folder.

And now, the EasyStreet Business Blog compiles all the tags from each post so you can have a better idea what this blog is talking about.  Scroll down this page and you will see the new "Tag Cloud" addition in the right column.  Bigger means more.

It's another way to help you find what you're looking for.  Click on one.

Let me know what you think.  If you didn't find what you were looking for, maybe we need to talk about it.

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AT&T Yields To Net Neutrality - posted by Day Tooley

What a difference a change in congress makes.

AT&T had to make a major concession to get FCC approval for its $85 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corporation.  After being a major contributor to the $1.5 million/day lobbying effort opposing restrictions on its ability to prioritize Internet traffic it carries and net neutrality during the last congress, AT&T agreed to: 

"… maintain neutral network and neutral routing in its wireline broadband Internet access service" for two years. 

The 5-member FCC commission consists of 3 Republicans and 2 Democrats.  However, Republican member Robert McDowell was compelled to recuse himself from the decision because he had served as a telecom industry lobbyist prior to his federal appointment.

This fight is not over, but seems to have turned a corner.  More details …

Happy New Year, Internet!

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