It’s extremely premature to consider Google+ a success, but it is off to a good start.  RoadMAP thinks Virginia Heffernan of the New York Times has put her finger on why Google+ seems to be working.
The Confidence Game At Google+
It’s extremely satisfying having just 20 friends on the new Google+.
Twenty simple, [...]

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that, as newspaper advertising continues to erode, TV advertising is up.  The article doesn’t distinguish between broadcasting and cable, except to report on the steep increases the broadcast TV networks have extracted in the recent “upfront” season.  But other reports indicate that broadcast [...]

By United Press International
(UPI Business News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) AT&T Inc. said Sunday it is acquiring T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG for $39 billion.
AT&T said on its Web site the boards of directors of the two telecommunications giants have approved the definitive agreement for the cash-and-stock transaction.
AT&T said the deal [...]

Media Access Project submitted an ex parte document with the Federal Communications Commission today, urging the agency to adopt a requirement that Universal Service Fund recipients comply with any network neutrality rules that the Commission might adopt.
Read the ex parte here.

About a decade ago, some public interest groups, including MAP tried to get the Federal government to require that at least some of the government’s PC purchases be of machines which could use the Linux operating system. It was our way to try to combat what a federal court had found to be a [...]

By Eliza Krigman, National Journal
The Media Access Project, a public-interest law firm, is urging Congress not to trim $602 million from a $7.2 billion pot of stimulus dollars dedicated to expanding broadband deployment and adoption nationwide.
The money, which represents nearly a tenth of the total broadband [...]

MAP Senior Vice President Harold Feld participated in a live blog session on Open Left.com regarding public airwaves and communications infrastructure. The session was part of a joint effort between Open Left and Senator Dick Durbin to organize debates concerning the development of a national broadband policy.
Read the “blog transcript”:http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=430