Nanny State on the Internet?
MikeR on Aug 29 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
House of Eratosthenes
mkfreeburg discusses Comcast’s decision to manage bandwidth usage.
Tag Archive 'internet'
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. Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers.
Click here for a interactive, graphic picture of this strange world.
Sphere: Related ContentSam 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 tour of Tribune’s business units that some of them were filtering Internet content. I do not see how a member of the Fourth Estate, dedicated to protecting the First Amendment, can censor what its own employees and partners can see. I have instructed that all content filters be removed. You are now exposed to the dangers of You Tube and Facebook. Please use your best judgment.Let’s focus on what is important, and go for greatness.
Sam
Hat tip: Instapundit
Sphere: Related ContentThe 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 internet. As he puts it: “A rumour about the Antichrist can leap from Goths in Sweden to Australian fascists in seconds. ” It’s a troubling trend.
HT: ScrewLooseChange
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