michael favia

Network neutrality is a term that describes the way that Internet traffic should be treated equally as it makes its way around the world to your computer screen. Internet content providers (e.g. Google, Hulu, YouTube, Apple) use popular buzzwords like competition and discrimination to describe why it should be a national priority. Internet service providers (ATT, TimeWarner, Comcast) on the other hand oppose it en masse using phrases like "quality of service" and "peak demand" to convince you that they are acting in your best interest.

I joined twitter (on pain of death) a couple 2-3 years ago when it made its real first local debut at SXSW here in Austin. It caught on hard and fast and became the defacto schedule of "events worth attending" for attendees of the conference. My early experiences with the service were valuable and informative but as the service and my social network grew the signal to noise ratio inverted and it lost my attention because there were simply easier ways to follow pertinent topics and people.