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Nanny State on the Internet?

MikeR on Aug 29 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page

House of Eratosthenesmkfreeburg discusses Comcast’s decision to manage bandwidth usage.

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What happens to a blog post?

Lance on Jan 31 2008 | Filed under: Blogs, Lance's Page, Technology

When I finish typing this and hit publish, the blog will send out a ping, and then the enters the strange ecosystem of the internet:
Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. [...]

Sam Zell on what is important

Lance on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Blogs, Culture, Lance's Page, Media, Technology

I don’t know if the eccentric Sam Zell can turn around Tribune, but he is always entertaining:
From: Talk to Sam Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:03 AM Subject: Censorship, the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate
Everyone,
I learned on the first leg of our [...]

The Age of Counterknowledge

Lee on Jan 15 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

Damian Thompson at the Daily Telegraph takes a trenchant look at the peculiar popularity and spread of preposterous conspiracy theories in mainstream modern culture. A development he blames on a Ballardian lust for sensation, the spread of the multiculturalist idea of total tolerance and the wide availability of incorrect information (counterknowledge) made possible by the [...]