Could the internet ever become an ‘us vs them’ giant walled garden
David Weinberger links to a good post by Marc Andreessen giving an overview of Open Social, the new EBFB (Everyone But Facebook) API. I have yet to read enough about OS to make a judgement, but David...
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The future…
The future of media is being discussed both in London next Saturday 24 November at Goldsmiths University and online at the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Goldsmiths’ The Futures of News...
View Article*UPDATED* Goldsmiths Futures of the News Part 2
The second panel of the afternoon featured political bloggers, Guido Fawkes and Recess Monkey, Guardian Associate Editor, Michael White and freelance journalist, Nick Jones. This was far and away the...
View ArticleImagine a world where everybody can write the news
There’s an interesting post on the BBC Editor’s blog at the moment in which BBC News website editor, Steve Herrmann, explains the editing decisions which led to a moment in which the late Benazir...
View ArticleIs the Web Different?: mini-essay by David Weinberger
Great mini-essay by David Weinberger available over at his Joho blog. In Is The Web Different? Weinberger uses a Socratic Dialogue to explore the questions of whether the Web is differnet to any...
View ArticleInternet and Ideology Part 3 – Society
Following on the political and economic changes of modernity, the emergence of social mobility was also a new development based partly on individual’s new found power of self-determination. Modernity...
View ArticleOpening salvo on the battle for commons-based digital rights
As mentioned earlier this week I was catching up with some hard-copy reading during my holiday, including Eben Moglen’s Anarchism Triumphant. Moglen’s essay explains why it is that “software” resists...
View ArticleThat McCain technology policy
Further to my previous post, I appreciate this is more Weinberger (not in itself a bad thing) but it *is* relevant to the post below about copyright. Weinberger flags Republican presidential candidate...
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Pure poetry: “…companies so lobotomized that they can’t speak in a recognizably human voice build sites that smell like death.” [Context] [Via Doc Searls]
View ArticleAm I the only person not to finish Here Comes Everybody?
This may be somewhat controversial, but I can’t bring myself to finish Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. It may be this year’s bestseller, but I am struggling to find anything new or ground-breaking...
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