Note: Found this on this List this morning.  I like to cover the "Net Neutrality" politics because I believe as we move closer to VoIP termination this could really affect the landscape.

The House and Senate telecom committee chairs are now all Democrats (tiny possibility that some political fluke will threaten a Democratic Senate majority), after the Democratic takeover in last month's elections. So the current telecom bill is dead in committee. The cableco and telco bribes/lobbying sunk into that bill are all now on Plan B. So there is now a chance to reboot the telecom bill to protect Net Neutrality (equal accessibility by competitors to quality carriage regardless of content). Write a short, polite *paper* letter to your House/Senate reps, especially if they're on/chairing a telecom committee mentioning "Net Neutrality" and whatever other familiar (to them) buzzwords with which you agree.