Dave Winer on Apple, Twitter and Tumblr: The Un-Internet
(Original at Dave’s Scripting News Blog) The Un-Internet By Dave Winer on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 11:00 AM. [. . .] This time around, Apple has been the leader in the push to control users. They...
View ArticleDoc Searls: Edging Toward the Fully Licensed World
(Original at Doc Searl’s Weblog) February 29, 2012 [. . .] Nothing you watch on your cable or satellite systems is yours. In most cases the gear isn’t yours either. It’s a subscription service you rent...
View ArticleBob Frankston: From DIY to the Internet
(Original at Bob’s blog) From DIY to the Internet Slide Commentary Do It Yourself – 1960’s / 1970’s. The Words we Use The World as your Oyster Railroads Telecommunications A Service per Device Stop the...
View ArticleVint Cerf in Wired: We Knew What We Were Unleashing on the World
(Original at Wired Magazine) Wired: So from the beginning, people, including yourself, had a vision of where the internet was going to go. Are you surprised, though, that at this point the IP protocol...
View ArticleFreedom to Connect 2012
Today and tomorrow, May 21-22, at AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. (See http://freedom-to-connect.net/ and http://freedom-to-connect.net/agenda-2/) About F2C: Freedom to Connect F2C:...
View ArticleEben Moglen at F2C: Innovation Under Austerity
Eben Moglen describes at Freedom 2 Connect exactly how innovation proceeds on the basis of the whole assemblage of components that enable us to “[let] the kids play and [get] out of the way”...
View ArticleFCC Announces Open Internet Advisory Committee Members
(Original at Azi Ronen’s Broadband Traffic Management blog) Sunday, May 27, 2012 While Comcast challenges the Net Neutrality rules (“We do not prioritize our video .. we just provision separate,...
View ArticleMeeting of Open Internet Advisory Board: October 9
(from Berkman Center for Internet and Society and FCC) At its October 9, 2012 meeting, the Committee will consider issues relating to the subject areas of its four working groups—Mobile Broadband,...
View ArticleSusan Crawford: We Can’t All Be in Google’s Kansas
(Original at Wired) If the current internet access providers that dominate the American telecommunications landscape could get away with it, they’d sell nothing but specialized services and turn...
View ArticleNetnod’s Exemplary Response to the EU’s Public Consultation on “Traffic...
Patrik Fältström and Netnod have provided a sterling example of how to correct the misframing of issues related to “managed services” or “specialized services.” Read the submission itself for a...
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