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Coffee with Konnie: Rowena Teran

Submitted by John on June 3, 2010 - 6:52am.
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Konnie Lukes is the host of the WCCA TV produced Coffee With Konnie show.

Konnie has coffee with Rowena Teran of Sellers Unlimited, who runs estate sales.

Rosen's Round Table: Worcester Finances

Submitted by John on June 2, 2010 - 1:53pm.
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A political and current issue program hosted by Gary Rosen produced by WCCA TV13.

Host Gary Rosen and a great panel, Mike Lanava , Steve Buchalter, and Brendan Melican, discuss Worcester Finances

Coffee With Konnie: Mike Lanava

Submitted by John on April 28, 2010 - 1:40pm.
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Konnie Lukes is the host of the WCCA TV produced Coffee With Konnie show.

Konnie's guest is Mike Lanava, the Business Resource Manager at the Worcester Chamber of Commerce.

Visit the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce website.

Rosen's Roundtable: Is Worcester anti-business?

Submitted by John on March 26, 2010 - 10:14am.
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A political and current issue program hosted by Gary Rosen produced by WCCA TV13

Host Gary Rosen and his panel, the best panel anywhere, Beth Proko, and Brendan Melican, and guest panelist Steve Buchalter discuss whether or not Worcester is business friendly.

Soapbox: Worcester Local First

Submitted by John on November 10, 2009 - 1:18pm.
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Mauro DePasquale, host of WCCA TV13's Soapbox show, interviews Bill Cavanaugh and John McKenna about Worcester Local First.

Visit the Worcester Local First website.

Soapbox 666: Worcester Local First

Submitted by John on April 30, 2009 - 9:47pm.
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Bill Cavanagh and Joseph Gratton join Soapbox host Mauro Depasquale to discuss Worcester Local First.

Visit the Worcester Local First website

Coffee with Konnie 267: DL Fitness

Submitted by John on April 7, 2009 - 7:57pm.
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Worcester Mayor Konnie Lukes features the local business DL Fitness on this episode of the WCCA TV show Coffee with Konnie.

Charter is watching you

Submitted by mauro on May 13, 2008 - 8:46am.
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John informs us of the following:

Charter High-Speed Internet service customers in the greater Worcester area, and other parts of the country, recently got a letter from Joe Stackhouse, Senior Vice President, Customer Operations. It announces an "enhancement" coming soon to customers' web browsing experience. This "enhancement" will change the ads displayed on web sites to "better reflect the interests you express through your web-surfing activities". This means that Charter will monitor and record all your web surfing activity. After tracking you, Charter will replace the ads on web sites you visit with ads Charter wants you to see.

You can't stop Charter from monitoring and recording all your web surfing. They do offer an opt out to this service "enhancement" - all that will do is tell Charter you don't want them replace the ads on web sites you visit. To opt out you need to visit a Charter web page and provide Charter with your name and address - yet another way for Charter to watch you and your internet activities. The opt out web page states "... if you delete your cookies or cache files, use a different computer, buy a new computer, or use a different web browser from the one you are using at this time, you will have to opt-out again. It is also important to remember that opting out does not mean that you will no longer receive Internet advertisements, it simply means you will no longer receive ads that are tailored to your Web preferences, usage patterns and commercial interests."

The letter closes out by saying "Charter is committed to offering the highest quality service to our customers". Is tracking customers internet activity and providing ads Charter want customers to see "the highest quality service" Charter has to offer?

Just what we need, less privacy and more ads thrown at us.Thanks John.

[Editor's notes: A reader sends in this December article from the Wall Street Journal about CenturyTel, "Watching What You See on the Web." Also relevant Slashdot threads from last June and this February. And here's Worcester's cable contract (PDF).]]

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