@USA: We're Writing the National Broadband Plan!

The FCC has homework to finish -- a National Broadband Plan due to the Congress in February -- and to help get it written, it is starting a blog, cutely named Blogband.

And it's launching a Twitter feed FCCdotGov.

I can't wait for the late nights and the pressure to show up on the Twitter feed:

"@AT&T - The more we look at the data, the more we are convinced your logo is the Death Star"

"@Comcast - You are suing us re: P2P filtering and then want us to listen to you. Sure we will."

"@Public Knowledge - Yes, we will make sure to invite you to the next meeting. Again."

"@TWC - Bring back the download caps. Best argument ever for public owned fiber"

As for the blog, the new FCC chair Julius Genachowski says it's intended to keep the public apprised and to get feedback.

And we're pleasantly surprised by the first real post, written by Blair Levin -- the man in charge of writing the broadband plan, who wrote a post complaining about how hard it is to get food when you are working late at night on an NBP.

So maybe there was some kind of karmic reward in two fortune cookies that staff cracked open at the end of our team’s break for Chinese one night.

John Horrigan, a data guy we stole from the Pew Internet Project, pulled out a fortune that read "Statistics are no substitute for judgment."

Steve Rosenberg, a former McKinsey analyst who is helping on modeling and mapping, opened one that said "No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking."

Both fortunes — unusual topics in my many years of opening such cookies -- bode well, I think, for the National Broadband Plan.

Epicenter wishes them luck. They will need it.

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via blogband – Broadband.GOV blog.