cable companies

The cost of everything hasbeen rising unmercifully, and for many things we’ve made personal cuts. Trying not to use the car for un-necessary trips to the store, cut back on how much food we buy, even though food companies have increased the price while making the packages smaller.

Via Josh Marshall, Comcast admits to paying otherwise disinterested Cambridge passers-by to fill seats so that advocates of net neutrality could not attend an FCC hearing on the subject at Harvard. You have to see the photo of the Comcastic mercenaries sleeping through the hearing. It's democracy at work, with the cable giant wasting

Tom Humphrey has a extremely intriguing article this morning covering the “non-lobbying” work two former Bredesen administration officials are doing on behalf of the two sides of the AT&T Cable conflict up at Legislative Plaza.

Do you long for the lazy, pre-always-on-Internet days of the nineties when you would sit aimlessly and watch The Weather Channel for your local temperature? Well now anyone with an always-on Internet connection and a spare computer can relive those days with your very own WeatherStar 4000 emulator.

Comcast gives in to regulatory pressure to drop closed, proprietary approach and provide "open architecture that will work across cable companies." Amazing how the cable industry finds a way with a little nudge.