Technology has improved in the Bush era in the sense that Nixon presided over an age of great films like The Godfather. But the Bush system of benign neglect can only go so far, leaving plenty to fix as soon as the next president takes office.

The FCC's second public hearing about Net Neutrality and the future of the Internet at Stanford on April 17 will give Web innovators a chance to weigh in on policies that will shape the industry for a generation.

While it's good to see Comcast forced to play the penitent and appear to surrender, the wild celebrations from the anti-regulators and the expectation that we can declare "Mission Accomplished" are a bit premature.

Will Mike McCurry be called as a witness for consumers in their class action lawsuit against Comcast for blocking and degrading its broadband customers' access to legal Internet content downloaded via BitTorrent?

With Internet filtering of all kinds becoming such big news (and such big business), especially in Europe, it's no surprise that a body like the Council of Europe would eventually weigh in with a set of filtering "best practices."

A major Canadian media union urged the country's TV regulator to investigate online "traffic shaping" by Internet service providers after an attempt last week by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to upload a DRM-free TV program to online users via BitTorrent was severely hampered.

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Our best chance to stop media consolidation could clear a big hurdle this week. On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the "Resolution of Disapproval" that Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) introduced last month.

A group of six banks, sued over the buyout of Clear Channel, the radio broadcasting network, asked a New York state court to hear their request to dismiss the claims against them.

The latest round of buyouts at the Los Angeles Times has cost the newspaper a high number of experienced staffers, some of whom took shots at the direction of the paper and/or new owner Sam Zell as they headed out the door.

Coming when it did, the photograph seemed like a cruel joke, or a Photoshop prank, just as nearly everyone in America (except perhaps a few Fox News commentators) was awakening to the bone-chilling reality of a quick war that was threatening to turn into a longer slog.

Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born photographer, journalist and interpreter whose extraordinary personal story was the inspiration for the 1984 film, "The Killing Fields," has died in the United States at the age of 65 from pancreatic cancer.

Publish2, a social network and news aggregator devoted to journalists, has received $2.75 million in financing. The service is currently in private beta test and will use the funding to finish building out its platform and hire additional staffers.

In the seemingly stalemated race for the Democratic nomination, there seems to be a clear relationship recently between the level of coverage for a presidential candidate and the tone. And the recent campaign media narratives strongly suggest that, at the moment, bad news is big news.

Reporters Without Borders condemned the Zimbabwean government's refusal to allow several leading international news media to cover the March 29 general elections although it has signed international conventions that require it to guarantee "total access to national and international media."