wrythings

A friend shared Philippians 4:4-9 with me today:

4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

5Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.

6Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

9Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Think about such things, put them into practice.

From: http://keep-the-core-neutral.org/

The Keep The Core Neutral Coalition is committed to protecting freedom of expression and innovation in domain name policy at ICANN.

This means basing gTLD-approval policy on criteria of only a technical/operational and related nature, and refraining from embedding any particular national, regional, moral, or religious policy objectives into global ICANN policy.

http://keep-the-core-neutral.org/join

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Via the Open Space listserv, courtesy Doug Germann:

Perhaps the earliest open space poet was Emily Dickinson. In 1858, she wrote:

In the name of the Bee–
And of the Butterfly–
And of the Breeze–Amen!

Via Jon Lebkowsky’s Weblogsky: Telecom and the Internet: Why?

A number of excellent points made by Bob Frankston… my favorite concerns incentives. Policy makers feel they need to accommodate the demands of Telecom providers… to “incent” the build-out and upgrading of networks. With all this incenting we’re pretty far behind… and where do we find the innovation? Not among the Telecoms.

Via GiftHub:

Conference organizer fails to have Yes Men arrested

Recently on the Get Illinois Online (GIO) listserv:

(quite a contrast with Maine’s Resolve!)

Not only was Net Neutrality cut out of HB 1500, an Illinois House Resolution (HR 307) sponsored by Rep. Fritchey (D-Chicago) stalled in the House Computer Technology Committee and never made it to the House floor. While it would have no legal force, it would have expressed the sense of the Illinois House on the matter to the President, the Congress and the FCC. See the text below.

Stu Chapman
Municipal Services Associates, Inc.

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