If you've come to depend upon the Internet to be your prime source of information, to help you live your life, to connect you with your world, then its time for you to help the Internet in return. It needs your help more today than ever in its history.

This medium, and new media in general, is turning old media's future bleak. The telcos, the cable conglomerates (who also own the cable channels), and the cellular providers (who are now pretty much one and the same as the telcos) weren't very interested in the Internet back when we were building it.

But now that its slowly running them out of business, they're responding the way they always respond: throw even more money at Congress and get our representatives to turn the Internet into their own private channel.

If you love this medium, it is imperitive that you help save it. Go to Save the Internet for the sad details on how big media is trying to make this space its own private network. Get your Senators' names and phone numbers and call them both, and tell them how you feel. This is a tremendously important issue, and you can really have an effect on the future, but you have to act now.