txt: Net Neutrality 101 - www.savetheinternet.com
Net Neutrality 101
When we log onto the Internet, we take lots of things for granted. We assume that we’ll be able to access whatever Web site we want, whenever we want to go there. We assume that we can use any feature we like — watching online video, listening to [...]
txt: The Emerging Main Street Web - by Bernard Lunn on readwriteweb.com
In the new web era, we will use that power to make a living.
That is why I call this new era the Main Street Web. This is a nod to Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing The Chasm, the point in the adoption cycle when technology goes [...]
video: Humanity Lobotomy - Second Draft
text: Liberty - wikipedia
Liberty, in modern time, is generally considered a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has the ability to act according to his or her own will.
Individualist and liberal conceptions of liberty relate to the freedom of the individual from outside compulsion; [...]
February 26, 2008 – 13:42
txt: Reinventing Journalism On The Web: Links As News, Links As Reporting - publishing2.com
Robert Niles at Online Journalism Review has a practical guide to linking on the web, where he observes:
“Ultimately, the addition of useful hyperlinking within an online news story reflects the strong reporting of its author. If a reporter does not know of [...]
txt: Internet - Wikipedia
The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a “network of networks” that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic [...]
txt: Lawrence Lessig - The Future of Ideas
The cultural dinosaurs of our recent past are moving to quickly remake cyberspace so that they can better protect their interests against the future. Powerful conglomerates are swiftly using both law and technology to “tame” the Internet, transforming it from an open forum for ideas into nothing more [...]
December 21, 2007 – 22:25
Let’s shut down our computer,
turn off connections,
forget our smartshits.
It’s Christmas, it’s the end of another year.
Go outside. Meet your friends,
your love, find people, real people.
Small real people.
Breath.
Live.
Merry Xmas to all of us.
img: The Internet Was Closed…
txt: Fair Use Vs. Free Speech in the Internet Age: The Lane Hartwell Problem - www.techcrunch.com
The rights of the copyright holder have always been balanced against the more fundamental right of free speech. And free speech in the Internet age, more so than ever before, goes way beyond words and text. The way people express [...]
November 14, 2007 – 11:21
txt from: The New York Times - By ALEX WILLIAMS
“Our lives are just getting busier, the world is starting to throw more stuff at us,” he said. “Five years ago it was still pretty rare to have relatives sending you IMs. No one had Flickr feeds or Twitter. YouTube, Facebook and MySpace didn’t exist.”
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Facebook announced its new social advertising plans.
text from: Rough type -The social graft
Infect me. I’m yours.
Facebook, which distinguished itself by being the anti-MySpace, is now determined to out-MySpace MySpace. It’s a nifty system: First you get your users to entrust their personal data to you, and then you not only sell that data to advertisers [...]
Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Kansas State University, strikes again with this video on youtube about internet.
Mix it with Everything is Miscellaneous:
But we all know how reality works, so why worry about what might be possible in some sci-fi alternative universe?
[...]
Instead of being limited by space and operational simplicity in [...]
