Net Neutrality
From savetheinternet.com:
Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet’s First Amendment — a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you — based on what site pays them the most. Your local library shouldn’t have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to have its Web site open quickly on your computer.
A panel discussion moderated by Charles and Mike of blip.tv. Emphasis will be on audience participation and what vloggers have done and can do about this issue.
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Charles Hope, Director of Research & Development, Marketing Strategist of blip.tv, is currently working as an enterprise java developer at Kashrus, Inc., writing software to automate the kosher food industry. He brings broad industry experience based on private consulting for sites relying on enterprise Java and a range of boom-era startups such as Unplugged (multiplayer games for cell phones) and KPL (internet security). Charles manages development of blip’s public-facing APIs and non-traditional upload methods like cell phones and FTP. Charles’ interests include semantic search, microformats, metadata, the counterintuitive best-practices of the Web 2.0, and the ability of technology to enable markets and other self-organized structures to emerge.
Mike Hudack is the co-founder and CEO of blip.tv. He is responsible for overseeing all business, site and software development, integration with private labels and community relations with the videoblogger community.
Paul Kapustka is a longtime industry journalist who has been covering the networking and Internet business markets since 1991.
Daniell Krawczyk works with DigitalBicycle, which is a project dedicated to making it easier for PEG Access television station, Community Media and Technology Centers and independent media producers, to distribute
media content amongst themselves and a wider audience.
Adriana Cronin-Lukas has applied her analytical powers to the potential of blogging and would like to make sure that companies also understand that markets are conversations. Occasionally she gets accused of problem-solving.
Matt Sherman, who calls himself The Only Republican in San Francisco, says “My primary motivation is that I would like to play some role in promoting a contrarian view in a very liberal town. The political homogeneity and intolerance that I perceive in SF really bother me, personally, so this gives me a good outlet.”