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	<title>Richard Bennett</title>
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	<description>A personal blog</description>
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		<title>How to Make a Cup of Coffee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw a funny blog post titled a &#8220;Tech Guy&#8217;s Version of the Perfect Cup of Coffee.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t meant to be funny, but it wasn&#8217;t very knowing. The author buys Peet&#8217;s grocery store coffee beans, uses a mediocre &#8230; <a href="http://bennett.com/blog/2012/01/how-to-make-a-cup-of-coffee/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://bennett.com/blog/2012/01/how-to-make-a-cup-of-coffee/</link>
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		<title>Is Blogging Journalism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I said on Facebook the other day that tech blogging is more like &#8220;infotainment&#8221; than journalism. The confusion around this subject is behind the reaction to the Michael Arrington VC fund and Arianna Huffington&#8217;s desire for editorial control over TechCrunch. &#8230; <a href="http://bennett.com/blog/2011/09/is-blogging-journalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://bennett.com/blog/2011/09/is-blogging-journalism/</link>
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		<title>Has the FCC Created a Stone Too Heavy for It to Lift?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After five years of bickering, the FCC passed an Open Internet Report &#38; Order on a partisan 3-2 vote this week. The order is meant to guarantee that the Internet of the future will be just as free and open &#8230; <a href="http://bennett.com/blog/2010/12/has-the-fcc-created-a-stone-too-heavy-for-it-to-lift/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://bennett.com/blog/2010/12/has-the-fcc-created-a-stone-too-heavy-for-it-to-lift/</link>
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		<title>Speaking today in DC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This event will be webcast today: ITIF: Events ITIF Event: Designed for Change: End-to-End Arguments, Internet Innovation, and the Net Neutrality Debate Many advocates of strict net neutrality regulation argue that the Internet has always been a “dumb pipe” and &#8230; <a href="http://bennett.com/blog/2009/09/speaking-today-in-dc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://bennett.com/blog/2009/09/speaking-today-in-dc/</link>
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		<title>How Markey III Hurts the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at my analysis of Congressman Markey&#8217;s latest foray into Internet management on Internet Evolution. It&#8217;s the Big Report that will be up for a week or so. Here&#8217;s a teaser: Reading the latest version of Congressman Ed &#8230; <a href="http://bennett.com/blog/2009/08/how-markey-iii-hurts-the-internet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://bennett.com/blog/2009/08/how-markey-iii-hurts-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Nostalgia Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[San Jose Mercury News columnist Troy Wolverton engaged in a bit of nostalgia in Friday&#8217;s paper. He pines for the Golden Age of dial-up Internet access, when Internet users had a plethora of choices: A decade ago, when dial-up Internet &#8230; <a href="http://bennett.com/blog/2009/08/nostalgia-blues/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://bennett.com/blog/2009/08/nostalgia-blues/</link>
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		<title>Are the FCC Workshops Fair?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FCC has run three days of workshops on the National Broadband Plan now, for the purpose of bringing a diverse set of perspectives on broadband technology and deployment issues to the attention of FCC staff. You can see the &#8230; <a href="http://bennett.com/blog/2009/08/are-the-fcc-workshops-fair/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://bennett.com/blog/2009/08/are-the-fcc-workshops-fair/</link>
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		<title>Another Net Neutrality Meltdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, a swarm of allegations hit the Internet to the effect that AT&#038;T was blocking access to the the 4chan web site. This report from Techcrunch was fairly representative: As if AT&#38;T wasnâ€™t already bad enough. In an &#8230; <a href="http://bennett.com/blog/2009/07/another-net-neutrality-meltdown/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://bennett.com/blog/2009/07/another-net-neutrality-meltdown/</link>
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		<title>Is Broadband a Civil Right?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to wonder if people appreciate the significance of what they&#8217;re saying. On Huffington Post this morning, I found an account of a panel at the Personal Democracy Forum gathering on the question of who controls the Internet&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://bennett.com/blog/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://bennett.com/blog/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/</link>
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		<title>How Akamai Optimizes the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This talk from Om Malik&#8217;s Structure conference is very good. The Internet doesn&#8217;t work the way you think it does.]]></description>
		<link>http://bennett.com/blog/2009/06/how-akamai-optimizes-the-internet/</link>
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