The battle for the internet begins
Saturday, July 15th, 2006Following on from CDB's last post, here is an example of how the pace and scale of change, is causing existng businesses to try to protect their business models.In an article entitled Internet companies reject plans for tariff ... Ratings:
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Howard Rheingold and Tim Berners Lee on net neutrality
Saturday, July 15th, 2006I came across a verbatum post that TBL made on net neutrality on Howard Rheingold's blogHere is a quote I thought to be very powerfulControl of information is hugely powerful. In the US, the threat is that companies ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Harnessing collective intelligence
Thursday, July 13th, 2006A 23-year-old Indian entrepreneur today announced release of the Tezaa Project that searches perceptions and opinions. Designed and developed to facilitate decision making and occasionally substituting conventional web search, Tezaa lets people create polls and vote, to collectively form social ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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The rise and rise of the amateurs in the networked society
Thursday, July 13th, 2006Amateurs again threaten to tip world upside down says the International Herald TribuneWhile music and film producers loudly drag illegal file sharers to court, company executives, government officials and industry lobbies are debating how to regulate the creation ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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A nonprofit Second Life
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006Nedra Weinreich and I have been chatting on the CDB blog and Nedra very kindly sent me a link to a post she had made about non-profit organisations engaging with the virtual world. Nonprofit Life in Second Life[caption id="attachment_2859" ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Billmonk – Helping friends keep track
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006Another little ditty demonstrating our new socio-economic world developing[caption id="attachment_2855" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Billmonk"][/caption]BillMonk is an online and mobile application that helps friends to keep track of how much money and which items they owe each other.Developed and privately owned ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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How to get the life you really want
Sunday, July 9th, 2006The Observer today says Hundreds of thousands of people are seeking love, fortune and happiness through their 2D alter egos in Second Life, a new virtual world[caption id="attachment_2845" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="American Apparel in Second Life"][/caption]David Smith writesA ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Transparency vs. opacity – hot media vs. cold media
Saturday, July 8th, 2006Student blog devoted to G8 summit A group of University of Toronto students will be using blogs to report on this year's G8 summitAs they have in past years, students from U of T's G8 Research Group will ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Pictures in our heads
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006For America, the last decade of the twentieth century not only saw a proliferation of the use of new communication technologies but also witnessed the rise of multiculturalism as ethnic communities and new immigrants resisted the earlier normative goal of ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Local Media Left Behind
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006The Nation has a post focusing on local and community media being over-run by media consolidation chasing ad dollars and the middle classEtan Michaeli believesMedia consolidation has exacerbated the information gap across race and class lines. For some, it ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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