Cord Blomquist is the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Senior Communications Director.  CEI has always sought to expand the traditional think tank model and its Communications Department takes this challenge seriously.  CEI has become a leader in new media outreach, promoting free market ideals via websites, blogs, email newsletters, social networking, and yes, even Twitter.

Cord's analytical work focuses on media ownership rules, antitrust policy as it relates to high technology, broadband regulation, and competition rules like network neutrality.

Cord has appeared on nationally syndicated radio programs such as The Thom Hartmann Program and The G. Gordon Liddy Show. He has been featured on C-SPAN’s “The Communicators,” a weekly series featuring a half-hour interview with the people who shape our digital future.

His work has appeared in National Journal's Technology Daily, American.com, The American Spectator, and TCS Daily.

He has been cited by news outlets such as CNET News, The Wall Street Journal's All Things D, ArsTechnica, and TechDirt.

Cord blogs at the Technology Liberation Front, a group blog of free-market technology policy experts.  Cord's blog can be found at cordblomquist.com.

Prior to joining CEI, Cord worked as a legislative assistant covering technology and government reform issues for Congressman Mark Green. Cord earned his B.A. in philosophy from the University Minnesota.

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recent op-eds & articles

Unfairness Doctrine
By Cord Blomquist, June 12, 2008

Comcast in the Crosshairs
By Cord Blomquist, Ryan Radia, January 27, 2008

Hillary’s (Video) Gamesmanship
By Cord Blomquist, January 8, 2008

The Frivolous iSuit
By Cord Blomquist, Ryan Radia, November 18, 2007

Why WiFi? City Governments Should Stay Out
By Cord Blomquist, August 21, 2007

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recent studies

Politically Determined Entertainment Ratings and How to Avoid Them
By Cord Blomquist, Eli Lehrer, December 10, 2007

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news release

CEI Mourns the Passing of George Carlin
By Cord Blomquist, June 23, 2008

Cell Phone Fees – Fair or Unfair? The FCC Decides
By Cord Blomquist, June 12, 2008

House Investigates Calls for "Net Neutrality"
By Cord Blomquist, May 6, 2008

Microsoft Could Go "Hostile" with Yahoo Offer
By Cord Blomquist, February 11, 2008

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recent citations

Cord Blomquist on The Benefits of ETFs
telecoms.com, Jun. 30, 2008

Cord Blomquist on Cell Phone Fees
Exchange Magazine, Jun. 12, 2008

Cord Blomquist on Broadband Metering
BroadbandCensus.com, Jun. 9, 2008

Cord Blomquist on Viacom's Suit Against YouTube
The Wall Street Journal's All Things D, Jun. 4, 2008

Cord Blomquist on Internet Freedom Preservation Act
Exchange Morning Post, May. 6, 2008

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