In this week’s episode we talk about Charter backing off their ad insertion plans, ad blocking with AdBlock Plus and Privoxy, employers accessing employee’s personal emails, ICANN’s plan for new top level domains, American Airlines testing in-flight Wifi, Chrysler to offer in-car Wifi, Microsoft’s “Digital Manners Policies”, 5 events the blogosphere influenced, Nokia to open source Symbian mobile OS, Google Android delayed, T-Mobile @Home service and the Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk.

• Ars Technica - Charter delays NebuAd rollout after outcry
• TechDirt - Don’t Blame Rick572 For Blocking Ads; Blame Those Who Made Ads Annoying
• Privoxy - non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy
• TechDirt - Can Your Employer Read Your Personal Email After You Are No Longer Employed There?
• C/Net - ICANN adopts new Web site naming rules
• Wired - Internet org paves way for hundreds of new domains
• CrunchGear - Changes to Internet approved: Expect lots of annoying URLs now
• Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Who needs TLDs anyway
• American Airlines Starts Testing In-Flight Broadband
• If Microsoft made cars…
• Wired - I’ve Seen the Furure and It Has a Kill Switch
• Performancing - 5 Events The Blogosphere Influenced
• Gizmodo - Google Street View Car Drives Into Microsoft Campus, Gets Laughed At By Windows Live Maps
• Nokia buys Symbian, turns software over to Symbian Foundation
• Wall Street Journal - Google’s Mobile-Handset Plans Are Slowed
• Engadget - T-Mobile @Home gets friendly with your home phone
• Hack a Day - The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk

Click here to download this episode in OGG formatAlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 41 for the week of June 30th, 2008 - Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.