oddtag's posterous http://oddtag.posterous.com Most recent posts at oddtag's posterous posterous.com Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:18:00 -0800 Never waste a good crisis: the Net, the Power and WikiLeaks http://oddtag.posterous.com/never-waste-a-good-crisis-the-net-the-power-a http://oddtag.posterous.com/never-waste-a-good-crisis-the-net-the-power-a

txt: Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice - John Naughton, guardian.co.uk

 

The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing. And as the backlash unfolds – first with deniable attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks, later with companies like Amazon and eBay and PayPal suddenly "discovering" that their terms and conditions preclude them from offering services to WikiLeaks, and then with the US government attempting to intimidate Columbia students posting updates about WikiLeaks on Facebook – the intolerance of the old order is emerging from the rosy mist in which it has hitherto been obscured. The response has been vicious, co-ordinated and potentially comprehensive, and it contains hard lessons for everyone who cares about democracy and about the future of the net.

 

links:

- How Wikileaks has woken up journalism - Emily Bell, Tow Center Columbia University

- Il potere digitale - Stefano Rodotà, repubblica.it

- Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America - Evan Hansen, Editor-in-Chief of Wired.com

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Thu, 08 May 2008 21:04:20 -0700 Viva la Infolution http://oddtag.posterous.com/viva-la-infolution http://oddtag.posterous.com/viva-la-infolution txt: Web 3.0: You say you’re on an infolution? Well, you know…
Social web = democratic web Web 2.0 is the base for a democratic web. But like all democratic systems, the web needs basic democratic standards. Yes, rules. Simple democratic rules that apply to coding, design (usability is a form of politeness) and communication (not even Kramer has the right to insult). These rules are not there to bore, restrict or subordinate us, they guarantee to get the maximum out of a collective. They guarantee a maximum amount of freedom for the maximum amount of people. What is new in web 3.0? Nothing. Recently there is a lot of talk about Web 3.0. Phil Wainewright form ZD Net has written a series on the subject and relaunched the discussion of what web 3.0 would or should be. Basically he suggests that Web 3.0 is going to deliver a new generation of (business) applications that will be ubiquitous and technically more sophisticated, semantic (programs understanding human language). The question is: Is artificial intelligence what we really need? Is more technology the answer? Shouldn’t we rather bring to an end what we’ve started before we hype up the machinery even more?
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Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:01:17 -0800 The Art: A False Idol After All? http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-art-a-false-idol-after-all http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-art-a-false-idol-after-all txt: The Free Market: A False Idol After All?
For more than a quarter-century, the dominant idea guiding economic policy in the United States and much of the globe has been that the market is unfailingly wise. So wise that the proper role for government is to steer clear and not mess with the gusher of wealth that will flow, trickling down to the every level of society, if only the market is left to do its magic.
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