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16 Dec 09

xkcd - By Randall Munroe

Brilliant! and so true...

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12 Nov 09

Murdoch could block Google searches entirely | Media | guardian.co.uk

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06 Nov 09

After net neutrality, will we need "Google neutrality?" - Ars Technica

not sure I agree with examples of 'price discrimination' and with warnings about google 'neutrality', but worth reading. interesting comments too

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08 Oct 09

Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles | Epicenter | Wired.com

this is serious actually. usenet is extremely valuable not only from historical perspective (its content) but also as an example of a distributed information and communication infrastructure of the early internet.

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26 Sep 09

AT&T looks to flip net rules debate on Google | Reuters

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24 Sep 09

The Day Real Internet Freedom Died: Our Forbes Op-Ed on Net Neutrality Regulation — Technology Liberation Front

painful to read as some of it makes sense and yet, the whole net neutrality debate reminds me of casting out the devil with devil.

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Rethinking the Long Tail Theory: How to Define 'Hits' and 'Niches' - Knowledge@Wharton

another paper tyring to disprove the Long Tail. not sure it does.

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"Whether or not the Long Tail exists is a fundamental question for decision makers in marketing, operations and finance who face the prospect of further penetration of the Internet channel, which offers expanding product variety and new recommendation systems to help manage it,"

21 Sep 09

the dawning of internet censorship in germany

this is not the first nor last attempts by governments to control the internet. of course, it's for the benefit of the children! etc etc etc.

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projects/autonet – altbit

glad to see this! Many issues to be resolved so not holding my breath but something like this is necessary.

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31 Aug 09

Peter Mandelson Defends His Sudden Conversion To Kicking People Off The Internet | Techdirt

Brilliant and a must-read!

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I was shocked to hear that as much as half of all internet traffic in the UK is for the carriage of unlawful content.

As you should be, because those numbers are bogus and supplied by the industry. But, why let that stop you.
You do realize that a UK-based music organization (PRS) recently released a report noting that the music industry in the UK is actually growing?
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- in the history of business, it is not the government "giving room" to legacy industries that leads to them developing new business models. It is the force of true competition, that requires them to be innovative. Welcome to the world of "creative destruction." Holding off the creative destruction does not encourage the new business models. The whole reason the industry is wining and dining you is because they want to hang onto whatever scraps of their dying business model for as long as they can.
- The industry has had those ten years to develop and support innovative new business models -- but the major players have failed, time and time again. They sued Napster. They sued Kazaa. They sued The Pirate Bay. They sued Grooveshark. They sued MP3tunes. They sued iMeem. They sued MP3.com. They sued Launchcast. They sued Hi5. They sued VideoEgg. They sued Seeqpod. They sued Favtape.
- They've had these ten years to develop new business models. And they failed. Instead, the new business models have been developed outside of the legacy industry -- and they're working. Let them be. Don't give this tool to the legacy players, who failed to innovate. Let them go out of business, and let a new, and much more creative "creative business" industry take over.
  
  You're being played for as a fool by a legacy industry that wants to squeeze every bit of money it can from a dying business model. Putting up three strikes isn't giving them space to develop a new business model. It gives them time to squeeze more out of a corpse.
- Ah, see there's you're problem. You keep going back and forth between "saving the creative industries" and "combating digital piracy" as if they were one and the same. They're not. There are many successful creative businesses now embracing digital piracy to their advantage by being smart. You should talk to some of them. And, note the party you left out of the equation: the users. The folks who consume and interact and share and promote and buy. If you want to know what the answer is for a thriving creative industry, you should be talking to them -- not the folks still trying to sell plastic discs.
- Mandelson's entire argument seems to be built off of a very faulty premise: stop file sharing and the industry succeeds. That's wrong on a variety of points. First, as much as you want to, you won't stop file sharing. You'll just drive people further underground, and that helps no one. Second, the creative industry is thriving today, even with file sharing, and many who are doing great are doing so by embracing it, and using it to their own advantage. Getting rid of file sharing is not the same thing as "succeeding" in the industry. Third, even if you did magically make file sharing disappear, that's got nothing to do with actually giving people a reason to buy. Pissing people off by cutting them off the internet actually gives them fewer reasons to buy.

29 Aug 09

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet | Politics and Law - CNET News

not good

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25 Aug 09

JOHO - August 18, 2009

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joho children internet technology determinism cluetrain

Second,
the original version is caught up in a swell of techno-determinism. We assumed —
although I think "hoped" is the more accurate term — that the Net
would have an inevitable effect all by itself. Nope. The Net doesn't
route around all attempts to block it or censor speech, and it doesn't
by itself lead to an open world of sharing carers.
Fourth,
I am not so hot on the topic of authenticity any more. I agree with
Chris
Locke that it's just about impossible to apply that term to a
company,
because a company doesn't have an innerness that can accord with its
outerness. Besides, if a company is authentically rapacious because
it's in touch with its inner greedy child, I'd rather deal with a different business
that's treating me well inauthentically.
- it's not about authenticity but 'humanity' which manifests itself in relationship. current structure of companies, i.e. hierarchy, really do not lend themselves to 'authenticity' or relationship. until that changes, there is not much hope in better 'relationship' with company. - on 2009-08-25
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- those of us who
  talk about "The Internet" as if it were a single thing are falling prey
  to "techno-determinism," that is, the belief that
  technology does determinate things to us all on its own. For example,
  "The Internet will result in the rise of grass roots democracy" commits
  the Fallacy of Techno-determinism, because it draws a direct, causal
  connection between tech and social effect, without mentioning that the
  Internet can have many different social effects, depending on many,
  many different factors outside of the tech itself.
- Even
  given
  the deep differences in the experience of the Net among
  various social,
  generational, economic groups, I think there are some things
  someone in
  our culture learns just by being on the Net. What you make of that
  knowledge depends upon on your own personal contingencies, but
  the "learnings" themselves have a certain inevitability,
- Having learned these lessons, you may become a
  full time digital creator, a
  passive watcher, a freedom-loving rebel, a tagline-spouting
  consumer, a corporate gamer of the system, a bit-based
  artiste... None of that is determined by the
  technology. But the technology does have an effect on how we think
  about who we are and what our world is, just as growing up in the city
  or in the country conditions your expectations.

17 Aug 09

Web Science: Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future: Scientific American

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web science emergent internet future

Little appreciated, however, is the fact that the Web is more than the sum of its pages. Vast emergent properties have arisen that are transforming society. E-mail led to instant messaging, which has led to social networks such as Facebook. The transfer of documents led to file-sharing sites such as Napster, which have led to user-generated portals such as YouTube. And tagging content with labels is creating online communities that share everything from concert news to parenting tips.
Web science was launched as a formal discipline in November 2006, when the two of us and our colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in England announced the beginning of a Web Science Research Initiative. Leading researchers from 16 of the world’s top universities have since expanded on that effort.
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- This new discipline will model the Web’s structure, articulate the architectural principles that have fueled its phenomenal growth, and discover how online human interactions are driven by and can change social conventions. It will elucidate the principles that can ensure that the network continues to grow productively and settle complex issues such as privacy protection and intellectual-property rights. To achieve these ends, Web science will draw on mathematics, physics, computer science, psychology, ecology, sociology, law, political science, economics, and more.
- the importance of a page—how relevant it is—was best understood in terms of the number and importance of the pages linking to it. The difficulty was that part of this definition is recursive: the importance of a page is determined by the importance of the pages linking to it, whose importance is determined by the importance of the pages linking to them.
- the Web needs to be understood and that it needs to be engineered. Web science serves both purposes. The Web is an infrastructure of languages and protocols—a piece of engineering. The philosophy of content linking underlies the emergent properties, however. Some of these properties are desirable and therefore should be engineered in.
  - this is where it all starts going haywire for me! - on 2009-08-17
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07 Aug 09

BBC NEWS | Magazine | The internet's conscientious objectors

not surprising there are people not wanting to use new tech. bet it was the same when cars came around, old drivers missed the connection with the horse and the sense of skill it takes to ride it or the slower pace that gives you time to drink in the sights and world around you... yadi-yadi-da. :) there is also the issue of having information filtered, approved, certified and the networked chaos of the internet would be alien to people used to authoritative filtering. Too much information is the usual complaint! What them mean is not enough guidance on what to pay attention to and believe!

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Alan Newell, professor at the Dundee university school of computing, points out the typical computer tends "to be designed by young male computer scientists and they tend not to understand the challenges it provides for groups of people they never meet".
- Ain't that the truth! - on 2009-08-07
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The internet beats summer holidays - Telegraph

interesting details on people's preferences and internet/mobile use

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23 Jul 09

Lesson From Tor Hack: Anonymity and Privacy Aren't the Same

excellent exposition of Tor, what it does and what it doesn't and why anonymity and encryption go hand in hand.

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Tor is a free tool that allows people to use the internet anonymously. Basically, by joining Tor you join a network of computers around the world that pass internet traffic randomly amongst each other before sending it out to wherever it is going. Imagine a tight huddle of people passing letters around. Once in a while a letter leaves the huddle, sent off to some destination. If you can't see what's going on inside the huddle, you can't tell who sent what letter based on watching letters leave the huddle.
The communications between Tor nodes are encrypted in a layered protocol -- hence the onion analogy -- but the traffic that leaves the Tor network is in the clear. It has to be.
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- Presumably, most of these organizations are using Tor to hide their network traffic from their host countries' spies. But because anyone can join the Tor network, Tor users necessarily pass their traffic to organizations they might not trust: various intelligence agencies, hacker groups, criminal organizations and so on.
- One of the tools developed by Dark Web is a technique called Writeprint, which automatically extracts thousands of multilingual, structural, and semantic features to determine who is creating "anonymous" content online. Writeprint can look at a posting on an online bulletin board, for example, and compare it with writings found elsewhere on the Internet. By analyzing these certain features, it can determine with more than 95 percent accuracy if the author has produced other content in the past.

03 Jun 09

isen.blog: Broadband without Internet ain't worth squat

required reading! :)

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network broadband isenberg internet disruption

High-speed transmission does not, by itself, turn the wheel
of creative destruction so central to the capitalist process.
The Internet does that. Broadband, by itself, does not fuel
the rise of new companies and the destruction of old ones.
The Internet does that. Broadband by itself is not
disruptive; the Internet is.
The Internet's component technologies - routing, storage,
transmission, etc. - can be improved in private. But the
Internet Protocol itself is hurt by private changes, because
its very strength is its public-ness.
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- First, the Internet grows naturally at its edges, without a
  master plan. Anybody can connect their own network, as long
  as the connection follows the public spec. Anybody with their
  own network can improve it -- in private if they wish, as
  long as they follow the public agreement that is the
  Internet, the result grows the Internet.
  
  Another miracle: The Internet let's us innovate without
  asking anybody's permission. Got an idea? Put it on the
  Internet, send it to your friends. Maybe they'll send it to
  their friends.
  
  Another miracle: It's a market-discovery machine. Text
  messaging wasn't new in 1972. What surprised the Internet
  Researchers was email's popularity. Today a band that plays
  Parisian cafe music can discover its audience in Japan and
  Louisiana and Rio.
- It's worth summarizing. The miracles of the Internet -
  any-app over any infrastructure,
  growth without central planning,
  innovation without permission,
  and market discovery.
  If the Internet Protocol lost its public nature, we'd risk
  shutting these miracles off.
- The whole fight over Network Neutrality is about preserving
  what's valuable about the Internet - its public-ness.
- Cut through the propaganda. Network Neutrality is about
  preserving the public definition of the Internet Protocol,
  the structure of the Internet packet, and the way it is
  processed. If there are reasons to change the Internet
  Protocol, we can do it in public - that's part of the
  Internet too.
- So please remember that the essence of the Internet is a body
  of public agreements. Anti-Network Neutrality attacks on the
  public nature of the Internet are attacks on the value of the
  infrastructure improvements you've made to your property. So
  you can't be neutral on Network Neutrality. Take a stand.
- In my nightmare, whatever the excuse -- or the precipitating
  real-world event -- once the telephone company gains the
  ability to know which apps are generating which packets, it
  begins charging more for applications we value more.
- In my nightmare, new innovations that need the newest fastest
  network, but don't yet have a revenue stream, are consigned
  to second-class service. Or they're subject to lengthy
  engineering studies and other barriers that keep them off the
  market. In other words, in my nightmare, all but the most
  mundane innovation dies

18 May 09

Guatemala: In YouTube Video Shot Before His Death, Attorney Blames President for His Assasination - Boing Boing

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murder guatemala youtube internet distribution amazing

05 May 09

YouTube - 2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year

interesting numbers. mindblowing juxtapositions. still, it comes down to individual effort, emotional nature of which doesn't change much, even if technology makes it a lot easier.

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Linux for Suits - The Only Silo

what are silos and why they suck

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the Internet is
geological, not just architectural. It has a nature that goes deeper
than whatever structures private efforts can provide. But that nature is
hard to see when your frames of reference are closed and proprietary.
Thomas' higher-level concern is that “we're selling out on values of open standard and
decentralization”. What Tim O'Reilly calls the
“architecture of participation”, Thomas says, is turning
into something that is “based on silos” in practice.
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- What makes Linux so different, and so successful, is that it's not
  designed as a silo. Linux didn't come from a silo, and it had no
  ambitions to be a silo. At one point, Linus talked about “world
  domination”, but his tongue was in his cheek—even if he was indulging
  in prophesy that would prove out in the long run.
  
  Linux was never a business. It was, and remains, a great way to build
  anything, to support anything, for anybody. That's the fundamental
  virtue we need to fight for when we go to battle.
- Our battle, however, is not with the companies that use open code to
  build walled gardens and silos. Our battle is with the closed, top-down
  silo-oriented value system that has been with us since the dawn of the
  Industrial Age. It's that lame old value system that prevents us from
  imagining how we can improve markets that nobody owns and anybody can
  improve.

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