It's Fun for Powell at the 'YMCA' (AP)

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Life Lynx Partners with Powell Police
for Technology Launch,September 11 is
Child Safety Event in Powell OH

Life Lynx Partners with Powell Police
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Life Lynx has developed a new child safety tool that can alert the authorities of a missing child in seconds. This alert will include a recent picture, which is the most important piece of data that the authorites need to do their job effectively and bring the child to safety. [PRWEB Aug 22, 2004]

Colin Powell the Cat to Meet Real Powell
(AP)

Colin Powell the Cat to Meet Real Powell
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AP - Colin Powell, the cat, will meet on Friday with Colin Powell, the secretary of state.

Colin Powell the Cat to Meet Human
Powell (AP)

Colin Powell the Cat to Meet Human
Powell (AP) 08/13/2004 07:27 AM
AP - Colin Powell, the cat, will meet on Friday with Colin Powell, the secretary of state.

Powell: Let's not go there

Powell: Let's not go there 02/11/2004 07:13 PM

Powell: Possible Iraq May Have Had No
WMD (AP)

Powell: Possible Iraq May Have Had No
WMD (AP) 01/24/2004 07:17 PM
AP - Secretary of State Colin Powell held out the possibility Saturday that prewar Iraq may not have possessed weapons of mass destruction.

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MAG: Colin Powell Wants Out

MAG: Colin Powell Wants Out 05/05/2004 04:04 AM
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Powell on neutrality

Powell on neutrality 02/10/2004 10:41 AM
I once wrote a piece saying we'd remember Michael Powell as the more important Powell someday. The Chairman's speech at Colorado over the weekend is good evidence that's right.

Michael Powell keeps on bl0gging

Michael Powell keeps on bl0gging 07/17/2004 07:53 PM

This is not a fluke folks. This guy is for real. Take a look at what he just posted......

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My Trip to California

I just returned from my trip to the Bay Area. I was there for three days and had an opportunity to stop in and see a number of companies doing very interesting things. In addition, I had a keynote "fireside chat" at the Always-On Conference, hosted by Larry Lessig and Steve Jurvetson. It went very well, but it takes some getting used to, having real time blogging going on while you are on stage.

On this trip I focused a fair amount on the converging living room. There are major efforts underway to bring together the television entertainment system, computer management, communications and broadband Internet to offer a multifaceted and richer consumer experience. Many small entrepreneurs and large companies alike are pursuing this vision. The vision is not new, but the thing I observed that has gained greater traction is providers increasingly building their solutions around broadband access. There are efforts to offer broadband delivered movies, concerts and other content from sources other than cable or DBS, such as Yahoo, and Netflix. More effort is being placed in using "TiVo-like" functionality and distributed intelligence to allow the user to order up a queue of content and have it delivered as you move through your choices (a-la Netflix rentals). Of course, products are looking to allow DVD copying as well. Also, the capability to pull content from your computer using WiFi and other standards is gaining ground. The progress I see is simpler interfaces and more elegant boxes that make for an easier (yet more powerful) experience for the consumer.

What does stand out, however, is how critical getting copyright and DRM issues solved in a manner that protects content but allows these developments to flourish. Clearly, the multiple standards combined with restrictive protection schemes can damper the possibilities. All this convergence will also raise interesting legal questions about how to classify certain kinds of offerings that integrate seamlessly what used to be separate and distinct services for regulatory purposes. Love to hear your thoughts on these issues.

PS: I do not mean to limit the discussion to Silicon Valley. I know there is similarly interesting work going on all over the country.

I also visited a BPL demonstration. I think the technology is promising. Getting another broadband pipe that reaches nearly all Americans is a powerful possibility and should be aggressively explored. I do think we need to exercise care to ensure proper protection against harmful interference. Notching schemes and other engineering devices can limit the risk, but more work is being done to understand these issues and explore what is possible. We have proceedings underway, as well as work in our labs, examining these issues.

Indecency

Many of you have asked me about FCC indecency enforcement and I do want to respond. A word of caution, however, I am not allowed to comment on specific cases that are pending so I will have to be general.

Our Authority: Many that oppose our efforts question what authority we have. I have heard questions about commissioners not being elected, and arguments that our actions are unconstitutional. Here is the scope:

In 1927, Congress made indecency over the public airwaves (these laws do not apply to Cable, Internet, Newspapers or Satellite) illegal. The statute reads:

"Whoever utters any obscene, indecent, or profane language by means of radio communication shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both"

Yes, the statute is a criminal provision. This underscores the seriousness of the statute. Congress is elected and represents the full body of the American people and the laws it passes are presumed to be reflective of the public will. Congress, having passed the law, can and has directed the FCC to enforce the law. This is where our authority (indeed our obligation) comes from.

The First Amendment: The First Amendment bars the government from infringing on speech, but the bar is not absolute. Government cannot ban indecent speech; the government can only limit its airing. The Supreme Court has said that the government has a compelling interest in protecting children from such utterances. The courts have specifically held that a rule that prohibits indecent broadcasts between 6am and 10pm (hours children are said to likely be in the audience) is constitutional. So, though I respect the many that feel indecency enforcement is unconstitutional, the courts have said that it is not, and we are not at liberty to take a different view.

How We Do It: Our enforcement efforts are complaint driven. We do not listen in to broadcasts and generally do not affirmatively go after shows. We instead respond to complaints from the public. If we feel there is reason to believe the law was violated, we issue a Notice of Apparent Liability. A party is then free to challenge the NAL and show why the incident is not indecent. If we agree, we drop the matter. If we do not, we will issue a fine to the broadcast company. Our enforcement efforts have picked up over the last 2 years. The main reason is a significant rise in complaints. In 2001, we received only around 111 complaints for all of television. In the first quarter of 2004, we received nearly 540,000.

"Indecency" is defined as material that describes or depicts sexual or excretory organs or activities that are deemed patently offensive by community standards. Thus, interpretation is key as applied to specific facts. We weigh many factors of context before making a determination. It is admittedly a delicate task.

Final Thoughts: Several have suggested that the indecency enforcement effort is a Republican political crusade. The facts belie this characterization. The FCC is bipartisan -- it has Democrats as well as Republicans. Both have supported major indecency decisions. More pointedly, a leading advocate for more aggressive enforcement on the Commission is a Democrat, who consistently criticizes the Commission for not going far enough. My Democratic colleague has dissented from nearly every indecency decision, arguing that we should have taken a harder line through either higher fines, or even license revocation (i.e., putting a station out of business). Furthermore, the Congress has held hearings on indecency and both parties have pressed the Commission to be tougher. In fact, the House recently voted 391-22 for a ten-fold increase in indecency fines and the Senate voted 99-1 to raise fines as well. That is about as bipartisan as anything ever gets in Washington.

Finally, to put things in perspective, in my 3.5-year tenure as Chairman, there have been close to 1 million complaints from the public. These complaints have resulted in 23 NALs (by the way, only 2 involved Howard Stern programs). I cherish the First Amendment and respect the work of many artists that push the envelope. However, "anything goes" is not the law.

Last, I need to post some legal fine print on my blog limits:

FCC regulations prohibit me from hearing about or discussing certain topics that may come before me as a decisionmaker -- such as matters that deal with the particular rights of specific persons or companies. As a result, I will focus my attention in my postings on the general pros and cons of telecom policy, rather than on the whys and wherefores of individual enforcement or licensing matters. Also, to help inform others, my staff will be forwarding comments that may be relevant to open Commission proceedings to their respective public files.

I am going to jump off for now. I am traveling for the next 2 weeks and will have limited internet access, so I might not be able to write as much. I will keep checking in, however, and will pick up some of the other topics when I return.

Thanks,

Michael P.

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I responded with this......

Wow - how amazing to actually have a thinking man (rather than a bureaucratic bot) represent a major wing of the U.S. government - congrats!

Your instincts about convergence are true - and also true that it's not just in Silly Valley - but throughout the world - that software and services develoeprs are working together to ease the pain the end-user currently feel. That's why Tony calls it the "AlwaysOn Generation". But we're also the only industry that gets away with shipping things that don't work.

As the movement from old school to new, the old Web to Web 2.0 continues - I think you'll see more and more great examples of how standards like RSS, and new kinds of services like Technorati can turn broadband into a worldwide economic engine - we always hoped it would.

Personal publishing (like blogging) and social networking thrust the human end-users to the forefront where even Burger King and BMW now realize that it's not necessarily just about Hollywood anymore. Mobile services are exploding around the world - yet barely avaiulable here in the States, while communications and media frontiers are being pushed forward each day.

So getting all this stuff to work together, in an integrated, aggregated and highly customizable manner - is key. And Open Standards and Open Source are how we get there.

I call this the "digital lfiestyle aggregation" revolution.

:-)

Great meeting you.

You gotta give credit to Tony Perkins for getting a major U.S. government official to start blogging. His AlwaysON Network is starting to take off.

Powell Says War Service Should Pertain
to Everyone

Powell Says War Service Should Pertain
to Everyone 09/12/2004 04:39 PM
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No Powell at RNC: Tradition or politics?

No Powell at RNC: Tradition or politics? 08/10/2004 12:43 PM

Powell Takes a Pounding

Powell Takes a Pounding 07/19/2004 09:35 AM
Fortune Jul 19 2004 1:54PM GMT

MSNBC - Powell: Why He Might Stay

MSNBC - Powell: Why He Might Stay 09/05/2004 05:08 PM
Colin Powell .. Newsweek .. damn

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Powell and the black cat (Reuters)

Powell and the black cat (Reuters) 08/12/2004 05:00 PM
Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will cross paths with a black cat on Friday the 13th, posing for a picture with a copper-eyed Bombay male that bears his name.

Powell: U.S. Wants U.N. Sanctions Vs.
Iran (AP)

Powell: U.S. Wants U.N. Sanctions Vs.
Iran (AP) 09/01/2004 10:59 PM
AP - Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States wants U.N. sanctions imposed on Iran after the Bush administration concluded the country is on the verge of enriching enough uranium for four nuclear weapons.

Hey Michael Powell, you're too late!

Hey Michael Powell, you're too late! 01/27/2004 09:12 AM
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Powell and Wireless Advances

Powell and Wireless Advances 08/27/2004 01:28 PM
Pictured at left are FCC Chairman Michael Powell (second from left) with the three of the top folks from EverWave, a wireless networking company based in Aspen, Colo. Powell spoke here yesterday at Progress & Freedom Foundation's annual Aspen Summit, and this morning he and several FCC folks took a ride with the EverWave folks up into the foothills, where they described an amazing mesh-networking system that now blankets this resort community with a high-quality wireless cloud. These guys are impressive. They say they put the system together in about a month with a relatively paltry $40,000 investment in gear. Powell loves this stuff, and he was plainly dazzled by what he saw. And his FCC deserves some credit for projects like this, because the agency has been pushing the deployment of and innovation in wireless broadband.

Michael Powell Reflects

Michael Powell Reflects 08/27/2004 01:28 PM
If Michael Powell is still chairman of the Federal Communications Commission this time next year, no matter who is elected president in November, it will come as a major surprise. Powell hasn't announced any plans, but in several recent public appearances he seemed more in a valedictory mood than anything else: reflective about his seven-year tenure at the commission, including the past four as chairman. At the Progress and Freedom Foundation gathering today he talked at length about some of what he considered the less-known achievements, including what he called a major shift in the way the staff operates. And he warned, as he has again and again, that regulation in the Internet age should be done with the lightest possible touch, or else we risk a long delay in seeing the Net reach the potential it should. Powell was among friends here. The PFF is a free-market oriented organization, and you could almost hear the members of this audience thinking Amen to themselves as he spoke. His message does resonate in many ways, and it always has even when FCC policies tended to belie the words. Entrenched incumbents have gone to great lengths to keep their advantages. Again today, he spoke of a broadband revolution that will be much more than just two data pipes -- DSL and cable -- and fiercely competitive. There's no doubt that the commission under his leadership has made some excellent strides in wireless, particularly in pushing more use of unlicensed spectrum. But some FCC decisions have tended to reinforce the long lead the Baby Bells and cable companies already have, giving them the right to establish an entrenched position in true broadband, as opposed to the pathetic imitation we have today. And Powell is plainly in no mood to help competitors get any traction on those pipes. (He's also been craven in his kowtowing to Congress on the "indecency" issue, which he must find an enormous waste of time. If so, he should have said so.) Upcoming rules governing voice over Internet Protocol will be one of the defining moments of the next generation of communications and the policy that will govern it, Powell said. VoIP is either a voice service, subject to myriad old-fashioned regulations, or its just another Internet data application, he observed. If it's just data, the implications are huge. Powell, asked to say what he's point to in his running of the FCC as key achievements, was quick to list initiatives to change the nature of the organization itself. The staff now looks forward, not backward, on regulatory issues, he said, with special attention to how technology is changing the landscape. And there's regular internal training to keep up -- including an internal "university" the staff lawyers must attend. I wonder what government would be like if top appointees were all as smart and thoughtful as Michael Powell.

Can Michael Powell Take a Compliment?

Can Michael Powell Take a Compliment? 07/14/2004 05:17 AM
Really interesting session with FCC Chairman Michael Powell, Steve Jurveston and Lawrence Lessig at Always On tonight. Follow along with a live webcast. While Powell has carved out an area of thought leading regulation, open spectrum, perhaps to keep thought...

Powell Says C.I.A. Was Misled About
Weapons

Powell Says C.I.A. Was Misled About
Weapons 05/17/2004 10:28 AM
Secretary of State Colin Powell said that he believes that the Central Intelligence Agency was misled about evidence that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons.

Powell Says He's Against Regulating VoIP

Powell Says He's Against Regulating VoIP 12/02/2003 12:13 AM
Despite some fears (expressed last month by former FCC chair Reed Hundt) that the FCC had already made up their mind to regulate VoIP, it certainly doesn't sound like that from the description of today's FCC meeting on VoIP as written up by the Washington Post. FCC Chair Michael Powell made all the right statements about why regulating VoIP at this point would probably be bad, and that the various "problems" people described in not regulating VoIP can be solved through other methods.

Powell: Saudis Can Do More Against
Terror (AP)

Powell: Saudis Can Do More Against
Terror (AP) 06/13/2004 12:01 PM
AP - Saudi Arabia is mobilizing all of its resources against al Qaida-linked militants who kidnapped an American and killed two others, but the kingdom can do more to fight terrorism, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.

Powell and Annan due in Sri Lanka

Powell and Annan due in Sri Lanka 01/06/2005 11:47 PM
The US secretary of state and UN secretary general are to visit Sri Lanka, where tensions have grown over tsunami aid.

Powell steps down from FCC chair

Powell steps down from FCC chair 02/01/2005 08:53 PM
Michael Powell is stepping down as Chairman of the FCC, leaving behind a legacy of pro-business decisions and a record-breaking war chest of indecency fines.

Powell: 30 Nations in Coalition

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Powell Indicates Possible Iraq Exit

Powell Indicates Possible Iraq Exit 05/16/2004 03:42 AM
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Powell Sorry for Iraq Abuse

Powell Sorry for Iraq Abuse 05/16/2004 04:41 PM
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Powell in talks with NI parties

Powell in talks with NI parties 06/08/2004 03:33 PM
The prime minister's Chief of Staff Jonathan Powell holds separate talks with Sinn Fein and the DUP, the BBC learns.

Powell Promises to Speed Aid to Iraq
(AP)

Powell Promises to Speed Aid to Iraq
(AP) 07/30/2004 08:57 PM
AP - Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday the United States will speed delivery to Iraq of billions of dollars in reconstruction aid that the Congress approved last year.

Powell told to get tough on Sudan

Powell told to get tough on Sudan 06/29/2004 09:08 AM
Human Rights Watch urges US Secretary of State Colin Powell to press the Sudan government over the Darfur conflict during his visit.

Powell confronts Iraq escalation

Powell confronts Iraq escalation 06/25/2004 12:54 AM
The US secretary of state says Washington has a serious problem in Iraq after 100 died in militant attacks.

Powell: Terrorism Report Mistake

Powell: Terrorism Report Mistake 06/14/2004 05:16 AM
Wired News Jun 14 2004 9:52AM GMT

Powell: Iraq will not get veto on troops

Powell: Iraq will not get veto on troops 06/02/2004 07:53 PM

Powell Testified in CIA Leak
Investigation

Powell Testified in CIA Leak
Investigation 08/01/2004 01:23 PM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 1 2004 4:36PM GMT

Powell: New phone competition rules soon

Powell: New phone competition rules soon 07/12/2004 08:45 PM
FCC chairman indicates that long-awaited rules to help AT&T and MCI stay in the local phone market are due very soon.

Wary Powell Said to Have Warned Bush on
War

Wary Powell Said to Have Warned Bush on
War 04/16/2004 10:18 PM
A new book on the president's Iraq policy also describes clashes between the secretary of state and the vice president over the plan for invading Iraq.

Palestinian PM Tells Powell That U.S. Is
Biased

Palestinian PM Tells Powell That U.S. Is
Biased 04/15/2004 10:14 AM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 15 2004 1:46PM GMT

Michael Powell Takes a Pounding

Michael Powell Takes a Pounding 07/12/2004 10:43 AM
Fortune Jul 12 2004 1:58PM GMT

Athletics: Powell shocks Greene

Athletics: Powell shocks Greene 07/30/2004 05:36 PM
Asafa Powell beats Maurice Greene in the 100m at the London Grand Prix.
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