pingVision supports Net Neutrality.

We do so because, frankly, our business depends upon it. Our business model is all about designing and developing dynamic websites to help businesses, organizations, educational institutions, communities, individuals and governments to open up lines of communication, promote their wares, share their knowledge, exchange their views and engage in conversations. Anybody can have a website. Websites are valuable ... but only if they are accessible.

Maybe I'm just too cynical, but now, after Google went from "Do no evil" to "Must accommodate the Communist Chinese government so we can make beaucoup bucks," I look at Google's snapping up of YouTube and see an acquisitive public corporation that is largely out to own things, a corporate model in the internet computing world that Microsoft has pioneered to such notorious repute.

"This is the next step in the evolution of the Internet," Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said during a conference call Monday.

So you thought the internet was a place for free speech? Don't look now, but Congress is considering changing that:

Telecommunications giants scored a victory over Net Neutrality advocates in the U.S. legislature yesterday as the proposed "Markey Amendment," a provision to prevent Internet providers from creating access chokepoints was voted down in the House of Representatives.

The amendment's defeat has caused a firestorm of accusations against the telecom industry and the legislators siding with them in the debate. A diverse and growing opposition believes that Congress members like Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) and Rep. Bobby Rush (D-ILL), who pushed for the amendment's defeat, are acting not in favor of their constituency but in favor of the big-money telecom industry.

Today, Drupal-founder and project leader Dries Buytaert goes on a one-month hiatus to get married!

I don't have to say that the entire community of Drupal users, designers and developers are indebted to Dries for having taken his university online community project into the Open Source world. In the years since, the Drupal community has grown exponentially. With Dries leading with a light touch and a small, dedicated group of core developers, Drupal has become one of the finest content management systems available today. And all the contributed modules make it one of the most versatile as well -- which is why we design and develop websites based on Drupal in the first place.

Customers don't want a 1/4-inch drill; they want a 1/4-inch hole.

So said Ted Levitt and his article, "Marketing Myopia," stands as a classic.

In my own experience at Hewlett-Packard Medical Electronics, our engineers were positively charmed by their inventions, but what the savvier marketing folks understood was that the patient's vital signs were not the central reason the equipment was purchased - although it was very important - but more to the point, the physicians and staff wanted a trend line.

We "hire" products to do jobs.

Some years ago there was the "CB craze." The Citizen's Band radios were all the rage, especially among truckers. Driving an 18-wheeler, alone, over miles of interstate can be a lonely life and the CB radio became an instant fixture. There was even a hit single about truckers called "Convoy" where the CB radio was a "star."