maybe its the Lobbying Power of the Broadcast Industry that got them off scott-free
On Oct 27, 2006, at 11:44 AM, gordon gow wrote: > > Not being a Merican myself, I have to confess to ignorance of the > process and politics by which this Bill was handled. As you will note > in the blog posting, it falls within a wider piece of legislation > dealing with Port security and, of all things, Internet gambling. > > However, my understanding is that in its original conception, the WARN > Act was intended to develop a multi-mode, integrated national public > alerting system for the US. > > In certain respects it was to provide a digital-generation warning > system that would compliment and extend the existing Emergency > Alerting System (EAS) in that country. The original Bill included a > proposed National Alert Office that would coordinate standards and > procedures for all types of media, most notably conventional radio and > TV. > > That part is gone in the legislation that was passed, and it is now > almost exclusively about mobile phones. As if they are the only > technology--the "magic bullet" as noted in the blog entry--that > matters for public alerting. I was at an ITU-sponsored public > alerting workhsop in Geneva last week when this was announced and the > Americans there who have been following this Bill closely couldn't > figure it out either. > > However, look for some interesting activity to come out of the FCC > appointed "Commercial Mobile Service Alert Advisory Committee" which > is required to deal with technical and other procedural matters > pertaining to the use of cell phones for public alerting. The > Committee is required to report within one year (Oct. 2007) but will > be holding public hearings between now and then. > > http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2006/db1016/ > DA-06-2037A1.pdf > > > > > On 27/10/06, Barry Wellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> not all of us are Mericans. You might supply some context. >> The blog linked to is very insider based. >> >> Barry Wellman >> >> PS: Just read in Oct 24, 2006 NY Times that Hillary Clinton has >> 12,880 >> MySpace friends linking to her. >> (I believe George W Bush has only one: Osama Bin-Ladin;-)) >> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> >> Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director >> Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto >> 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 >> wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman >> for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php >> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> >> >> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, gordon gow wrote: >> >>> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:03:32 -0600 >>> From: gordon gow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [mobile-society] US WARN Act and mobile phones >>> >>> >>> The WARN Act has been passed in the US for public alerting. Mobile >>> phones are at the heart of it, much to the surprise of some who have >>> been following its progress: >>> >>> http://www.incident.com/blog/?p=35 >>> >>>>> >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
