It’s been a couple weeks…but the Friday Roundup is back. Ready?

• Wired: The right-wing hater machine gunning for Obama Larry Lessig? [Also at AT] Why won’t they just let Jesus be fabulous?
  
• LAist: Headline I’ve been waiting my whole life to read - Justine Bateman, ‘Drunk College Students’ Team Up to Save the Internet.
• So, this exists: Committee to Protect Bloggers.
• Ars Technica: Canada is not immune!
• Edge (Boston): Landmark Canadian gay bookstore going up for sale.
• BusinessWeek: Does she look like a music pirate? [via]
• Save The Internet: “Piracy” = smoke screen.

And additionally, out of my own excitement, Michael Zimmer is joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies, where I am currently a graduate student. He had some pretty rad things to say about it…

Happy Weekending!

Public Knowledge: Jef Pearlman hits the highlights of a recent Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on the future of the Internet.

Save The Internet: We want net neutrality!

Re-cap of last Thursday’s event at Stanford. Lawrence Lessig’s presentation is included in the above video!

If you follow the topics this blog covers even loosely, then you already know that the FCC’s do-over hearing on net neutrality (after the Harvard debacle) will be held at Stanford University tomorrow.

Oh, the antici…pation.

Save the Internet: Internet Doomsday Debunked.

NYT Op-Ed: Beware the New New Thing.

Ars Technica weighs in on the BitTorrent/Comcast truce.

The sun is shining. Readership is up. Spring is (tentatively) here. It’s a good day at sd&if. So, let’s recap the week, yes?

• Bloomberg: China, the Olympics, human rights, and…LeBron James. The article gives a brief, but pretty solid, overview of the many ethical challenges facing athletes, companies, and countries going into this summer’s games.
• Variety: Iran goes on censorship blitz.
• WP: Net Neutrality’s Quiet Crusader. SPOILER: It’s Ben Scott of Free Press.
• Gizmodo: Comcast n’ BitTorrent BFFs! Hilarious.
• ArsTechnica: Gotta solve that TCP congestion, dudes.
• Daily Star, Lebanon: Persepolis unbanned.
• Sun-Sentinel: Generacion Y, one of Cuba’s most popular blogs, being blocked by Cuban government.
• Boston Globe: On the privatization of libraries. Which, also, makes me want to crawl out of my own skin. Not the article, but the issue.

That about wraps it up for me this week. Ben will have With Us / Against Us done sometime between now and…well, all bets are off, folks. And, what the hell, go Wisconsin! And that’s something this Gopher grad never thought he’d say.

Happy Weekending!

UPDATE: So much for Wisconsin. I guess I’ll go back to being a Gopher fan. Which should make Ben happy.

Comcast and BitTorrent…together at last?

HuffPo: Internet going foward by looking backward.

Recap of the “700 band” wireless spectrum auction, in which AT&T and Verizon combined to win the meatiest parts…