If you don't read anything else I link to this year, at least please read this. It's a new piece, published today, by Doc Searls called "Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes." He begins this way: "This is a long essay. There is, however, no limit to how long I could have made it. The subjects covered here are no less enormous than the Net and its future." And he's right. The dialogue about the future of the Internet started years ago (and Doc talks about that history in his weblog today), but this article may be the Internet's 'shot heard 'round the world.' This dialogue is important.

On which side will you stand?