We are the internet – so take back the internet!

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Bob Frankston hits the "network neutrality" nail squarely on the head in his article "Our Internet!" We are the Internet...We don’t need be given “Internet” by a central authority because the defining principle is that we can and must connect from the edge rather than relying on carrier be it a ...

Emerging from the Chaos…

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

Adam over at Emergent Chaos clarifies some Network Neutrality concepts for his readers in his post Innovation, Emerging From Chaos. He points out that "the regulatory apparatus has fairly clearly been captured by the regulated". Basically the big telecom corporations have learned how to thrive on regulation, and this has implications ...

Cory on Neutricide

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Cory Doctorow, famed for his debunking of DRM technology, writes an excellent article on the net neutrality issue, or "internet freedom" as I like to call it. He drives home some important points: ...there are few industries that owe their existence to regulation as much as the carriers. These companies are ...

The Internet Wants to Be Free

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

In my previous post I argue that internet neutrality legislation could help ease the transition to an internet society and economy. On further thought and debate I'm not really sure that regulation would be the most constructive response to the threat of network discrimination. The internet has a long history ...

Infreemation Revolution

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

The coming economic crisis in information I enjoyed reading Adam Rifkin's back of the envelope calculations about personal information storage and processing. I'm looking forward to trying to make at least a few of the @20 Gigabytes of information I will deal with in my life really count. I know a ...

Another candidate for modern oracle?

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004

What happens if you have more at stake than your reputation when tying your horse to a prediction. What if you have money at stake? Or your job? See this interesting article from TIME.com: The End Of Management? Interesting concept that more efficient analysis of strategies and their outcomes may arise ...

Blogdex: a modern oracle or the new Pagerank?

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

I read a great article on the Blogger site that presents an interesting argument about blogging: an emergent property of this widespread and growing phenomenon is that it has become an oracle of sorts. There is a certain collective intelligence when you have the power of numbers, diversity of opinion, ...