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I'm not normally one to tune into commercial radio, but I still find this morning's news to be sad: The Boston Phoenix is selling radio station WFNX to (yeah, you guessed it) Clear Channel. WFNX may not be perfect, but it's one of the only commercial radio stations that still has time dedicated to local music programming. It's a sad day for the commercial radio station I grew up on out in the Boston suburbs.

Jason Seiken, PBS Interactive chief, told a packed audience at the PBS Annual Meeting that a magical opportunity will slip through our fingers if we don't have the courage to change and fully embrace the potential that video presents to public TV.

Why hacks like Andrew Keen really fear the social Web.

Ever since Comcast unveiled its VOD service on the Xbox, it's come under criticism from those who believe the service violates both the spirit of Net Neutrality and some of the FCC’s conditions on its big NBCUniversal deal. After weeks of staying out of the discussion, the top cable provider explained how the content was being delivered within a subscriber's home. In short, Comcast is provisioning whatever traffic it's using to deliver Xbox video separately from whatever traffic is being used by a customer's Internet connection.

Comcast, once again, has some explaining to do. An engineer has conducted experiments that he says show the nation's largest broadband provider is prioritizing traffic -- something it's not supposed to do under the conditions the government imposed when the cable company bought NBC-Universal. At issue are the methods and arguments Comcast uses to exempt some of its Xfinity on-demand traffic from its broadband cap. Comcast categorically denies it's prioritizing traffic, but the issue is sure to dog the cable provider in the near term.

Verizon and AT&T are both preparing to roll out shared-data pricing plans this year. Whoever makes the first move will transform the way the industry charges for wireless service.

Comcast Chief Technology Officer Tony Werner took to the company's blog to deny that the MSO is prioritizing video traffic that it's sending via IP to the Xbox 360 game console. He denied that Comcast is violating Network Neutrality rules in any way.

An innovative plan to rent New Yorkers a dime-sized over-the-air antenna housed in a Brooklyn data center to receive and stream local broadcasters could be the end of broadcast TV as we know it, at least if you believe the claims being made by network executives in their high-powered lawsuit.

A California judge has dismissed 15 lawsuits against John Does accused of sharing pirated adult movies on BitTorrent, saying the court lacks jurisdiction because the geolocation tools relied on don't always accurately identify the state in which the IP address is located.

In recent years, we have seen politicians accede to the interests of giant telecom companies rather than support Net Neutrality; propose anti-piracy bills that threaten Internet freedom; and block poor communities from receiving broadband access. So it was a pleasant surprise to see the Obama administration recently take some thoughtful and forward-looking positions on Internet policy. There are, of course, ways in which the administration has disappointed. Moreover, it has not always done the right thing. On the whole, however, the administration has acquitted itself well on Internet issues.

Political ads may not be all "gravy" for local stations -- but they're still an awfully good deal

It's happening in several congressional races, in states like Nebraska, Montana and Ohio -- millions of dollars from out-of-state donors and outside groups are fueling candidates' war chests. When did so many Americans decide races outside their backyards were important enough to back financially?

This is the story of a wonderful idea. Something that had never been done before, a moment of change that shaped the Internet we know today. This is the story of Flickr. And how Yahoo bought it and murdered it and screwed itself out of relevance along the way.

The Pirate Party boarded another ship this week, so to speak, as the upstarts' voyage into German politics startled mainstream rivals.

If all goes according to plan on May 18, Mark Zuckerberg will ring the Nasdaq bell in a hoodie, the big blue social network will go forward with one of the largest IPOs for an Internet company in history, the markets will hit a fever pitch, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse will update their statuses -- and the rest of us will just go back to using Twitter. Nonetheless, Facebook is expected to go public at a valuation between $92 and $103 billion. As such, it's pretty clear what Facebook is worth to us, but the real question is: How much are you worth to Facebook?

T-Mobile USA is cutting a further 900 jobs this week as the carrier looks to revamp itself after the failed effort to sell itself to AT&T.

The FCC asked Verizon Wireless for more details on its offer to sell some wireless spectrum on the condition that the company's purchase of another set of airwaves is approved by regulators.

The FCC is curious why Verizon Wireless bought a bunch of 4G spectrum back in 2008 but now plans to sell it, just because some better airwaves have come along.

There's been a lot of discussion over the past couple of days about why HBO hasn't made its content more widely available to non-cable subscribers. While I understand individual consumers are frustrated, I think we need to reckon with the fact that this is not a problem of a single premium network. It's a limitation of an ecosystem that also happens to have produced the kind of environment where HBO can make the content that makes it so desirable.

Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, has been charged over allegations that she tried to conceal evidence from detectives investigating phone hacking and alleged bribes to public officials.