Quoted: Damn the Facebooks and the MySpaces. The last time we checked, there was this thing called the internet that had 6 billion users. It's time to take our personal data out of Mr. McGregor's little gardens and put it back where it belongs -- free and open on the open web.

Best Buy just bought Speakeasy. Noooo! I've always liked Speakeasy but my expectations are now appropriately and cynically lowered.

Quoted: Speakeasy offers superior Voice over IP (VoIP), T1, DSL and a range of broadband services customized for small businesses.

A very favorable, and more detailed article about the importance of Amazon's new web services on Read/WriteWeb. It's really great stuff and it's really catching on.

Quoted: Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus.

I don't think that this is as ground-breaking as the author claims it to be. If you can't figure out that MySpace is a marketing operation, you're really dumb.

A net neutrality primer. Good reading for getting up to speed on the issue.

Quoted: If you spend any amount of time surfing the Web, you've probably come across the term "net neutrality." But what is it, and why is it stirring up controversy in Congress, the business world and the blogosphere? Here's a quick primer.