Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
FCC to Rule Comcast Can’t Block Web Videos  —  Decision Could Set Precedent In Debate Over Internet Traffic  —  Washington — Federal regulators are set to announce this week that Comcast Corp. wrongly slowed some of its customers’ Internet traffic, in a victory for consumer groups …

Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
PR Rule #1: People who are telling the truth about themselves do not insist on being ‘off the record’  —  Best part of Joe Nocera’s article from yesterday’s New York Times (”Apple’s Culture of Secrecy”) was, of course, the quote from Steve Jobs, the one where Nocera […]

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Who Is Johng77536 And How Did He Game Twitter?  —  One of the reasons Twitter is such a useful platform for publishing is that it is largely spam free - you only received messages from people you choose to follow.  So even though a large number of spammy accounts have appeared […]

Aaron Wall / SEO Book.com:
Google Knol - Google’s Latest Attack on Copyright  —  Knol Off to a Quick Start  —  One day after Knol publicly launched Wil Reynolds noticed that a Knol page was already ranking.  Danny Sullivan did a further test showing that 33% of his test set of Knol pages were ranking […]

Randall Stross / New York Times:
First It Was Song Downloads.  Now It’s Organic Chemistry.  —  AFTER scanning his textbooks and making them available to anyone to download free, a contributor at the file-sharing site PirateBay.org composed a colorful message for “all publishers” of college textbooks, warning them that …

Katie Hafner / New York Times:
The Young Turks of Cyberspace  —  A close-up look at the creators of the likes of Facebook and YouTube.

Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?  —  BEREA, Ohio — Books are not Nadia Konyk’s thing.  Her mother, hoping to entice her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows an interest.  —  Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet.

Michael Fitzgerald / New York Times:
Finding and Fixing a Home’s Power Hogs  —  WHILE we all worry about where we’re going to get more energy in an increasingly energy-obsessed world, there’s also another alternative: Use less power.  That may soon be simpler, thanks to the introduction of a bevy of inexpensive devices …