Larry will be in Washington (again) next week for two events:

1.  March 1 – TechFreedom is sponsoring an event to review my white paper on the FCC’s December, 2010 Report and Order on the Open Internet.  The event is free, but RSVP is required.  Commentators include Internet pioneer Dave Farber, Free State Foundation’s Randolph May, Open Internet Coalition’s Markham Erickson, Verizon’s Link Hoewing, and Public Knowledge’s Harold Feld.  Opening remarks will be delivered by Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who has introduced legislation to reverse the order and limit the FCC’s jurisdiction over Internet matters.   The white paper is available here.

2.  March 2 -Larry joins Richard Bennett and Randolph May at the Institute for Policy Innovation’s Third Annual Communications Summit.    Other speakers include former Congressman Rick Boucher, FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker, and Andrew Keen.

I’m pleased to announce that I will be a regular contributor to Forbes Magazine’s high-profile website, www.forbes.com, starting immediately.  Forbes is one of the most-visited websites for news and commentary on business, investing, technology and leadership.

I’ll be writing about the increasingly accident-prone intersection of business, technology, and politics, especially as it applies to the mobile Internet experience.

You can follow my posts at http://blogs.forbes.com/larrydownes/.

Please let me know if you have specific topics you’d like me to write about.

Larry has been called as an expert witness by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet to testify on Tuesday, Feb. 15th. Larry’s testimony will address the Federal Communications Commission’s Dec. 23, 2010 Report and Order on Preserving the Open Internet–aka the infamous net neutrality rules. This will be the first Congressional hearing on the Order.  More details to come.

Larry will be speaking next week at Google’s Washington D.C. offices as part of the “Future Tense” series of conferences.  “Future Tense” is a joint venture of the New America Foundation, Slate.com, and Arizona State University.

The program, taking place Feb. 3 and 4th, is titled “Here be Dragons:  Governing a Technologically Uncertain Future.”    The event explores how “a democratic society both nurture and regulate — and find the right balance between those two imperatives — fast-evolving technologies poised to radically alter life.”

After publishing several guest columns with CNET News.com, Larry has joined CNET’s Blog Network, a group of bloggers who contribute regularly to the site. (Larry is not an employee of CNET or its parent, CBS Interactive.) Larry will continue to post regularly on the intersection of technology, politics, and business.

I have two essays–one on privacy and the other on information economics, appearing in a new book called “The Next Digital Decade.”

The book, edited by Berin Szoka and Adam Marcus, is a unique collaboration from 26 thought leaders on Internet law, philosophy, policy and economics. The book is available as a free PDF and the hardcover can purchased online. A free eBook will be available soon.

A free book launch symposium will follow the State of the Net Conference in Washington, DC the afternoon of January 19, immediately following the State of the Net Conference. Space is limited so RSVP here.