Review of Zittrain's (Future of the Internet and How to Stop It) by Tim Wu.
I really really hope that they didn't just script this.
Interesting reflections on ROFLCon by a very active Wikipedian.
I can't believe I didn't bookrmark this before. In any case, it's relaunched with a bunch of new features.
iPhone adds are called misleading because they claim that the phone supports the whole Internet but doesn't support "standard" like Java and Flash. I think the free software position should be in favor of Apple on this one.
The imbalance is pretty wild. Online video and extreme zoom lenses means that whole Internet gets to marvel at the fact that people can be so isolated and disconnected.
"Patience is one of the characteristics of monastic life, but even the patience of the Brothers was tested by our slow internet," said Cistercian monk Father Daniel.
"Google is not the Eye of Sauron, finding all that is good on the Internet and corrupting it. Nor, despite its mission "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," is it humanity's informational savior. Google is a company that provides an enormously significant online service. When that service raises serious legal questions, we should ask whether it is good for the users or bad for the users."
Story of weliveontheinternet.com, psuedo.com, Josh Harris, and much more.
Sometimes you realize that you are pretty happy not going back in time.
