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.
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recent op-eds & articles
1,000,000 Tea Bags Find a Home
By Cord Blomquist, April 15, 2009
Unfairness Doctrine
By Cord Blomquist, Ryan Radia, 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
recent studies
Politically Determined Entertainment Ratings and How to Avoid Them
By Cord Blomquist, Eli Lehrer, December 10, 2007
news release
Obama Foreclosure Plan Hurts Middle-Class Investors, Retirees
By Cord Blomquist, March 4, 2009
Free Market Think Tank Blasts My Safe Florida Home Termination
By Cord Blomquist, March 1, 2009
Celebrate Coal! Rally Announced for Monday
By Cord Blomquist, February 27, 2009
CEI Explains State Farm Withdrawal From Florida Market
By Cord Blomquist, January 27, 2009
CEI Mourns the Passing of George Carlin
By Cord Blomquist, June 23, 2008
recent citations
Cord Blomquist on Hulu.com May Be Target of Antitrust Attack
Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, May. 11, 2009
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



