Internet

You Are The Net

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In a few years it may well seem that the boundary between human and net has desolved:

“One expects there to be much more organic connection between people and technology,” says Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, who is widely known as one of the “fathers” of the Internet for his role in co-designing the TCP/IP protocol and the Internet’s architecture.
Crossing the Line
If Mr. Cerf and about two dozen other pundits Red Herring interviewed about the future of the Internet are right, in 10 years’ time the barriers between our bodies and the Internet will blur as will those between the real world and virtual reality.

If you want to see a future where the promise of the net is magnified beyond the wildest imagination of most living today, one where innovation drives new applications on a daily basis, then you need to work to assure that no government and no business (like the phone companies or the incumbent network providors) sets any rules for the internet beyond an open net where anyone can provide content and no carrier can censor the content or data streams that you want to access.

Tossing Out the Internet Taliban

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BoingBoing asks:

Why spend money on bad technology that doesn’t work?

With respect to SmartFilter* and other filtering companies the only good answer is don’t! We should all assist in the effort to keep dialogue, conversation and the free flow of information available to all.
It is not just BoingBoing that is being blocked or filtered by these systems. There is a very high liklihood that your blog is also on their lists. I know Modulator shows up on at least some censoring systems. In our local library system only those with the specially requested adult access privileges are able to read Modulator.
Here is BoingBoing’s Guide to Defeating Censorware. Use needed, spread the link far and wide, and send BoinbBoing your latest techniques.
Via Defense Technology.

*No link love from here for those who aid and abet the internet taliban.

The End of the ‘Best Of’ Discs?

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Ann Althouse asks the vital question:

Should we care if iTunes is killing the marking for “best of” music collections?

My immediate response I don’t care if best of collections fade into history. I don’t buy them.
Let’s, though, take this as a serious question and read the linked article. We need only read part way down the first page to see that Ann’s question distorts the article which posits a hypothetical question:

What if fans who might have paid for a full album of “the very best” of an established act instead choose to pay substantially less and simply buy the very, very best song?

And, after discussing various aspects of the question they get to this:

In many instances, however, record executives say online sales do not appear to be hurting their best sellers.

It appears that for, at least the folks with a substantive set of work, the best ofs will be successful for some time more. And, if a one/two hit wonder’s best of sales plummet to zero, well, great! This is as it should be and the saved money will be spent on something else.

Creative destruction in action.