VoIP You

• [Daily Post from my people] Voip You: Net Neutrality Loses Round I (of Voting)

"The House GOP (with the help a few Democrats), along with industry giant and all-around brow-beaters AT&T and a few others, had the last (or first) laugh on the net neutrality debate."

• Fractals of Change: Better Communication in Disasters – End of Round One

"The comment deadline for the petition Jeff Pulver and I filed to mitigate some of the effects of disasters like Hurricane Katrina have on real people is today." Tom points to where you can view all the petition comments, including those from BellSouth, Sprint, etc.

• ZDNet.com/IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: Net neutrality vote: the cost in human terms

"When your mother leaves you a message, in the same tone that she leaves you a message to remember to buy sunscreen with UVA and UVB protection, that you might want to keep your eye on legislation challenging network neutrality."

• Chicago Sun Times: Rush's million-dollar conflict?

Follow the money: "An Englewood community center founded by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), a key player on telecommunications legislation, received a $1 million grant from the charitable arm of SBC/AT&T, one of the nation's largest phone companies."

• Michigan Telephone, VoIP and Broadband blog: How your legislators voted on Net Neutrality

"One thing I notice is that after a critical vote in the U.S. legislature, there are many news stories reporting the outcome but few of them give you the details of how particular legislators voted. so as a public service I point you to this tally of the actual votes..."

• TMCnet: Businesses Deploy VoIP to Weather Storms

"Landline service is rigid and difficult to move, even on a temporary basis, especially when hundreds of extensions are concerned. So, after exploring its options, S&H chose to go with TelCove’s VoIP services."

• Gizmodo: Portable Ghost Radar

"It doesn’t matter if ghosts are real or not, where there is speculation, there are products and potential to make money. It works really quite simply considering how complex of an issue ghost detection is. If there is a ghost in the area, the button lights up, easy as pie. This device is available for $18, which is a small price to pay to know where Grandma Gretta is haunting nowadays."

• United Press International: Largest U.S. University VoIP Advances

Serving more than 14,000 phone numbers and 4,000 handsets, "Boise State University has completed installation of what will be the largest college Voice over Internet Protocol system in the United States."