Online Writers Guild

Your pri­vacy is very impor­tant to us, and some­one recently pointed out that we failed to put a link to our pri­vacy pol­icy on the site.

From now on if you’re inter­ested in check­ing it out it will be avail­able at the fol­low­ing location:

http://onlinewriters.org/privacy-policy/

Please take 5 sec­onds out of your day to vote for my friend, and OWG sup­porter, Lori Desch­ene! This is what our site is all about, folks. We’re try­ing to cre­ate a sup­port group for online writ­ers, and here is a per­fect exam­ple. Please click the link below and click “Vote for Me!”. It’s easy, it’s a big help, and it shows your sup­port for your fel­low writ­ers! Thanks in advance!

Nick Wright

Online Writ­ers Guild

http://www.sam-e.com/job/profile/237

Thanks again to NECN on Twit­ter (@NECN & @rdsahl ) tonight we had the chance to fol­low up with Mike Capuano (@capuano4senate) on the topic of net neu­tral­ity. Like most of his answers tonight his response was short and to the point.

Q: How do you see your­self con­tribut­ing to our tech­no­log­i­cal future. For instance are you for net neutrality?

A: “I am in favor of net neu­tral­ity, absolutely in favor of net neu­tral­ity. I use the inter­net as much as any­body my age, not as much as young peo­ple, and I don’t want to be inter­fered with at all.”

This was in stark con­trast to Alan Khazei’s (@AlanKhazei) impas­sioned response to the same ques­tion ear­lier this month:

“The inter­net is an extra­or­di­nary inven­tion that can empower peo­ple, make our democ­racy work bet­ter, share infor­ma­tion, and facil­i­tate small busi­ness entre­pre­neurs. We have to have net neu­tral­ity, we should not let big com­pa­nies be able to dom­i­nate the inter­net and con­trol it.”

We’re glad we had a chance to ask this ques­tion, it was meant to gauge the can­di­dates apti­tude of the online/technology space. While Mr. Capuano’s response is in line with the sta­tus quo we’re still not sure which side of the debate he would fall based on his answer alone, espe­cially if a large num­ber of com­pa­nies made the case that net neu­tral­ity sti­fles their abil­ity to inno­vate.

It would be fool­ish to believe that the next Sen­a­tor from Mass­a­chu­setts won’t have a say in how the inter­net devel­ops our world in the 21^st cen­tury. A lot of changes in this space are on the hori­zon, and we need informed cham­pi­ons of tech­nol­ogy in every area of gov­ern­ment. Fail­ing to do so would be a detri­ment to the Amer­i­can people.