"List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to."

1. Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket

2. I Will Possess Your Heart by Death Cab for Cutie

3. The Look Of Love (Madison Park Vs. Lenny B Remix) by Nina Simone

4. Con Los Anos Que Me Quedan by Gloria Estefan

5. When Love Comes to Town by U2 and B.B. King

6. Las Vegas Dealer by Gomez

7. The Maker by Willie Nelson

Users of the Internet take for granted their ability to access all Web sites on an equal basis. That could change, however, if Internet service providers started discriminating among content, to make more money or to suppress ideas they do not like. A new "net neutrality" bill has been introduced in the House, which would prohibit this sort of content discrimination. Congress has delayed on this important issue too long and should pass net neutrality legislation now.

The Internet, at least in this country, is a remarkably unfettered medium. If you type in the domain name of a large corporation or a small blog, a government Web site or a radical political party, the pages are sent to your computer with equal speed. Like a telephone line, an Internet connection does not play favorites -- it simply transmits the words and images.

I.S.P.'s, the companies that connect users to the Internet, want to change this. They have realized that they could make a lot of money by charging some Web sites a premium to have their content delivered faster than that of other sites. Web sites relegated to Internet "slow lanes" would have trouble competing.
- Democracy and the Web NY Times May 19, 2008

During a November appearance at Google's Mountain View headquarters, meanwhile, Obama pledged that "I will take a backseat to no one in my commitment to Net neutrality, because once providers start to privilege some applications or Web sites over others, then the smaller voices get squeezed out and we all lose."

"I think that Net neutrality is something that we have to look at from time to time, but I don't want to see the wealthiest and most powerful [companies] crowd out the independents, which has really given [the Internet] its strength and vitality," McCain said in an interview with WNYC last year. "It's a very tough issue."

"When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment," McCain said at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital D5 conference.

"The road to overregulated markets is paved with [good] intentions but terribly misguided legislation," McCain special counsel Chuck Fish said recently at the annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in New Haven, Conn.

John McCain has been vague about network neutrality both in congressional debates and on the campaign trail. He simply says that the issue is one that can be addressed by market forces. 

• Consuming Louisville celebrated its first birthday recently and is going strong. It sounds cheesy to say but I feel good about the work I do with Consuming Louisville. Each time someone tells me they went to an event or tried a restaurant because they read about it on Consuming Louisville I feel like I'm actually contributing something to the community and that is a great feeling.
• Imagine Louisville is a project that I'm so excited about but I'm afraid I'm not smart enough, creative enough or talented enough to pull it off in the way that I want to and not being able to pull it off in the way that I want to means that it might not be a long term project. I hate to fail but I'd really hate to fail at something like this. Essentially Imagine Louisville is a blog I'm writing and outreach efforts I'm doing to fill the blank slate of Louisville's impression with smart, creative people outside the region. In other words when people outside our region think of Louisville they don't seem to have much of an idea what Louisville is actually like. They might think Bourbon or they might not. They might think sports or they might not. Imagine Louisville wants them to think: great arts, culture, music and restaurant scenes. Imagine Louisville wants them to think supportive community for business and entrepreneurism. Imagine Louisville wants them to see the good balance of progressives and conservatives, religious and secular, industry and technology that we've got here. Imagine Louisville wants them to see what a great place this is to live and do business or take a vacation or spend a foodie weekend.  So yeah, it's an ambitious project and one that I think has to be looked at with really long term goals. I don't know if I'll get the opportunity to make and work toward those long term goals and that makes me a little sad. I could just be pessimistic for no reason so I should move on.
• Forge Louisville is a neat project that is trying to build up and strengthen the startup community in Louisville. We've got a lot of small startups, lots of individual entrepreneurs and many potentially high growth startups here (we've got biotech through the roof) and Forge Louisville is trying to bring the community together and promote it and help it grow. I write, near daily, for Forge Louisville's website about happenings in the startup community here.
• Louisville.com is well, Louisville.com. It's obviously a place people go for info about Louisville. They share some content with Louisville Magazine and have original content as well. A couple times a week I write posts about the food and restaurant scene in Louisville. Let me tell you, this is a fun gig. I love eating out so much anyway now I have a legitimate reason to try new places and think of fun restaurant projects. Next week I'm hosting a taste test comparing pies from a couple beloved dessert shops in town. How fun is that? So fun.
• VuPal is a startup. They're building online communities around lifestyle passions. They've hired me to write about food. Dude, I'm getting paid to write about food. So awesome. It's good that I'm getting paid to write about food because I think about food and cooking and baking all the time these days. I'm baking my way through Dorie Greenspan's book Baking: From My Home to Yours and loving every moment of it.
• I've always been shooting quite a bit and have updated my portfolio. I'm proud of some of the photography I've been doing and I'm really enjoy shooting more than I have in a while.