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Why Publishers Don't Like Apps - Technology Review
"the real problem with apps was more profound. When people read news and features on electronic media, they expect stories to possess the linky-ness of the Web, but stories in apps didn't really link. The apps were, in the jargon of information technology, "walled gardens," and although sometimes beautiful, they were small, stifling gardens. For readers, none of that beauty overcame the weirdness and frustration of reading digital media closed off from other digital media."
media  apps  web  2012  links  walled_gardens 
19 days ago by Preoccupations
Photos & Curiosities — When "Spam" Filters Go too Far
"By blocking the text of an article from being shared Facebook is declaring that it is not permissible speak to discuss that this website exists, debate its legality, or the legitimacy of this case with in the space Facebook has define. Granted, it is still possible to copy and paste the link to the article but type of filtering can be prone to error and deserves scrutiny."
Guardian  Facebook  filters  spam  censorship  web  open_web  openness  2012 
4 weeks ago by Preoccupations
The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Atlantic Mobile
"Internet technology used to feel like it was really going to change so many things about our lives. Now it has and we're all too stunned to figure out what's next."
Alexis_Madrigal  2012  web  social  social_software  start-ups  mobile  paid  free  algorithms  from iphone
5 weeks ago by Preoccupations
Enforcement of cookie consent rules for analytics not a priority, ICO says
""In practice we would expect you to provide clear information to users about analytical cookies and take what steps you can to seek their agreement," the ICO said. "This is likely to involve making the argument to show users why these cookies are useful. Although the Information Commissioner cannot completely exclude the possibility of formal action in any area, it is highly unlikely that priority for any formal action would be given to focusing on uses of cookies where there is a low level of intrusiveness and risk of harm to individuals. Provided clear information is given about their activities we are highly unlikely to prioritise first party cookies used only for analytical purposes in any consideration of regulatory action. The ICO will also be issuing further guidance shortly which will provide further details on analytics cookies reiterating that they are covered by the new changes. We will also give our view on the applicability of implied consent for these and other cookies," it said."
EU  ICO  UK  cookies  web  2012 
6 weeks ago by Preoccupations
W3C Tracking Protection Working Group
"The Tracking Protection Working Group ischartered to improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking and for blocking or allowing Web tracking elements. The group seeks to standardize the technology and meaning of Do Not Track, and of Tracking Selection Lists."
W3C  tracking  web  privacy 
9 weeks ago by Preoccupations
Blocking the web is the wrong way to help creative industries - Telegraph
Coadec’s Jeff Lynn speaking (v well). Here’s his recent Telegraph article re blocking the web:
Jeff_Lynn  Telegraph  UK  web  legislation 
9 weeks ago by Preoccupations
…My heart’s in Accra » Unpacking Kony 2012
"But maybe I’m misreading the tone of your post, as it has a very crisis-of-belief flavor to it. There’s nothing wrong with Kony as an example, but this sort of oversimplification in politics is generic. There’s plenty of examples very close to home, where e.g. the whole the social-media/start-up world went nuts over SOPA, getting into a lather over a very overblown narrative of the evil enemies of the Net destroying sites over single infringing link. Or Net Neutrality just before that, where relatively minor network management issues were treated as essentially literal conspiracies. There are good policy reasons to oppose SOPA/favor NN, but those aren’t amendable to popular campaigns. Why expect Ugandan politics to have more of a “complex and nuanced response” than US politics (e.g “death panels!”). Is it just that this topic is near and dear to you, from your experience in Africa? Again, that’s fine, we all have our personal touchstones. But it seems little late to be discovering that the Internet is really good at spreading appealing stories without regard to truth, and manipulators with money can exploit this for their agendas."
Seth_Finkelstein  Ethan_Zuckerman  Kony_2012  truth  web  Internet  2012 
11 weeks ago by Preoccupations
We, the Web Kids - Piotr Czerski - The Atlantic
"One more thing: we do not want to pay for our memories. The films that remind us of childhood_ music accompanied ten years ago: in external memory network these are simply Remembering them_ exchanging and developing them is something as natural 'Casablanca' you. find online watched children show children_ just you told story about Little Red Riding Hood or Goldilocks. Can imagine someone could accuse breaking law this way? cannot_ either."
web  Internet  youth  culture  2012 
february 2012 by Preoccupations
Internet of People and Social Flâneurism | technosociology
"It is not the Internet of things, or Internet of information, which keeps the Web brimming with the unexpected: it’s the Internet of people. Sometimes nothing is a more surprising and complex bundle of the unexpected as another human being."
Evgeny_Morozov  2012  flaneur  web  cites  surfing  frictionless_sharing  sharing  Facebook 
february 2012 by Preoccupations
The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com
"the whole point of the flâneur’s wanderings is that he does not know what he cares about. As the German writer Franz Hessel, an occasional collaborator with Walter Benjamin, put it, “in order to engage in flânerie, one must not have anything too definite in mind.” Compared with Facebook’s highly deterministic universe, even Microsoft’s unimaginative slogan from the 1990s — “Where do you want to go today?” — sounds excitingly subversive. Who asks that silly question in the age of Facebook? According to Benjamin, the sad figure of the sandwich board man was the last incarnation of the flâneur. In a way, we have all become such sandwich board men, walking the cyber-streets of Facebook with invisible advertisements hanging off our online selves. The only difference is that the digital nature of information has allowed us to merrily consume songs, films and books even as we advertise them, obliviously."
NYT  2012  Evgeny_Morozov  flaneur  web  Walter_Benjamin  cites  surfing  frictionless_sharing  sharing  Facebook 
february 2012 by Preoccupations
It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatened. It’s Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For? | John Battelle's Search Blog
"The web as we know it is rather like our polar ice caps: under severe, long-term attack by forces of our own creation. … We’re slowly but surely creating an Internet that is abandoning its original values … we, as the co-creators of value through interactions, data, and sharing, take responsibility for ensuring that the Internet continues to be a commons."
John_Battelle  2012  Google  Facebook  Apple  Amazon  web  walled_gardens  openness  open_web  internet  commons 
february 2012 by Preoccupations
The History, and Future, of Web Protest - Anil Dash
"Just at a cultural level, it's fascinating to me that our medium finds that the most powerful thing we can do is deny the rest of the world our voices and creations, and that this almost invariably takes the form of a black screen confronting unsuspecting, perhaps uneducated, and certainly confused non-geeky users. … thanks to efforts like OpenCongress, which routinely creates valuable resources like this look at the money behind SOPA through its support from the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation, the web was able to see who was helping pay for the law. … What we've gotten so far, with our SOPA and PIPA demonstrations, is a first, rough beta test of the power to impact policy online. What we don't have is the way to use this power effectively. We are missing a few key things:  1. The ability to organize for issues that aren't life-or-death for big tech players   2. The ability to clearly and quickly form communities of interest around particular issues that are complicated.  3. The desire and willingness to stand up for issues that aren't simply about the self-interest or self-preservation of technology experts. This final point is my biggest concern and greatest wish for our industry. We now know we have the power bend the law to our will, and to make legislators respect our values, if we can just coordinate our efforts and focus our attentions. But there are many issues which have to do with the soul of our nation that may not galvanize a redditor who's only concerned with legislation that might interfere with watching movies online."
Anil_Dash  2012  protest  web  Law  democracy  activism 
january 2012 by Preoccupations
Clay Shirky: Sopa and Pipa would create a consumption-only internet | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"the proposed law that would result from Sopa and Pipa will only work if you are put under 24-hour digital surveillance. … Sopa and Pipa are, quite simply, an attempt to create a privatised form of international censorship, and because the censorship would have to be nearly total to be effective, they would have a profound and chilling effect on any form of public conversation among ordinary citizens. It would render the internet a place where the only content to be seen or heard or read is produced by professionals, with the rest of use relegated to the role of pure consumption."
Clay_Shirky  Guardian  2012  SOPA  PIPA  internet  web  censorship  copyright  IP  freedom  chilling_effect  from iphone
january 2012 by Preoccupations
What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World - Atlantic Mobile
Objectivity: "view from nowhere"; paper: "disconnected medium"; "new topology of knowledge"; smart rooms: @dweinberger
David_Weinberger  2012  book  knowledge  internet  web  collaboration  objectivity  echo_chamber  interview  from iphone
january 2012 by Preoccupations
Our Internet intellectuals lack the intellectual... | Final Boss Form
"Would we even have half of the internet we have now if people like danah and clay waited years to publish their work on online social behavior and community? And, by the way, if you spend any time in a half decent web community, you soon learn that’s it’s nothing but a giant critique machine. The other, smaller problem with this “critique” is that Jeff Jarvis wrote a fucking business book. Faulting him for not wasting hundreds of pages on theory is like faulting Dr. Phil for not citing Abraham Maslow."
Evgeny_Morozov  2011  internet  web  Jeff_Jarvis 
december 2011 by Preoccupations
Stop talking about “social” » THINK OUTSIDE IN
"Social is not a feature. Social is not an application. Social is a deep human motivation that drives our behaviour almost every second that we’re awake. It doesn’t matter if we’re online or offline, on a browser or using an app. Humans are social creatures. … the web is moving away from being centred around content, to being centred around people. That is the biggest social thunderstorm, and all of us are going to have to understand it to succeed. So stop talking about social as a distinct entity. Assume it in everything you do."
Paul_Adams  2011  social  web 
december 2011 by Preoccupations
Don’t Be A Free User – Marco.org
"The sheer volume of people asking me for this was one of the biggest reasons I launched Instapaper’s $1/month Subscription program, which offers almost nothing for the money — just the knowledge that you’re supporting a service you like. People pay out of sheer goodwill. It really works."
Maciej_Ceglowski  2011  web  free  web_services  business_model  Marco_Arment  Instapaper  from iphone
december 2011 by Preoccupations
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
"I love free software and could not have built my site without it. But free web services are not like free software."
2011  web  Maciej_Ceglowski  free  web_services  business_model  Pinboard  from iphone
december 2011 by Preoccupations
United States – Google Transparency Report
"We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police brutality, which we did not remove. Separately, we received requests from a different local law enforcement agency for removal of videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials. We did not comply with those requests, which we have categorized in this Report as defamation requests."
Google  police  USA  censorship  2011  web  transparency  from iphone
october 2011 by Preoccupations
One dimensional news (Phil Gyford’s website)
"I think there are two big design flaws with online news, including Today’s Guardian, compared to the experience of reading news in print. The first is to do with the templated nature of websites and the second is about the one-article-per-page reading experience. … Print’s facility to collect different aspects and views of a single theme together on a double-page spread, or even across several, feels important for newspapers. It provides perspective, flow and pacing. But it’s entirely lost in the one-dimensional experience of reading digital news. The plod from one article to the next, to the next, to the next, coupled with the bland similarity of standard templates, creates a lack of variety of pace and structure. Again, digital news often feels like the content of a database squirted at our screens, rather than something a human has crafted. I don’t know what possible solutions there could be to this but, again, it feels like an avenue worth exploring in order to recover some of the interest, and even delight, that is lost in the move from paper to digital."
Phil_Gyford  2011  newspapers  design  print  web  web_design 
october 2011 by Preoccupations
The Rise of the Internet (Anti)-Intellectual? » Cyborgology
"Jarvis’ book is part of a larger trend of so-called Internet Intellectuals or “gurus” who are not doing rigorous work but instead providing sound-bites aimed squarely at the business community. The implications of this are serious: Jarvis tackles the privacy-publicity debate with very little focus on power and inequalities. … Surrendering important conversations to these trade books means that things like previous theorization or serious conversations about social justice will be left out."
Jeff_Jarvis  Evgeny_Morozov  web  technology  power  justice  openness  2011  privacy  public 
october 2011 by Preoccupations
Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer - W3C Blog
"Steve was a champion of usable technology - even sexy technology. Intuitive on the outside and extensible and cool engineering on the inside. The geeks among us need to be at the same time deeply insistent technically on beautiful, clean, extensible design inside, and utterly impatient as naive end users about the outside."
Tim_Berners-Lee  Steve_Jobs  NeXT  WWW  web  2011  UX  user_experience 
october 2011 by Preoccupations
Creating a web literate planet (summary) « commonspace
"I believe Mozilla can play a leading role in creating a web literate planet. Concretely, I think Mozilla can — and should — build out a major P2P learning initiative that teaches web skills and web literacy to coders and non-coders alike. We should also take an active role building up the whole ecosystem of orgs emerging around web literacy and innovative, web-like learning."
education  Mozilla  teaching  digital_literacy  web  2011 
october 2011 by Preoccupations
Joe Hewitt
"The Web is not HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's not DOM, SVG, WebGL, PNG, or Flash. The Web is really just HTTP over TCP/IP. What gets transported over HTTP does not define the Web. … So, my definition of the Web then is resources loaded over the Internet using HTTP and then displayed in a hyperlink-capable client. This definition is liberating. It helps me see a future beyond HTML which is still the Web. I can say now that when I exclaim my love for the Web, it's the freedom of driving the open Internet in a browser that I love, not the rendering technology. Hyperlink traversal matters. The Internet being global and decentralized matters. HTML does not matter. The biggest thing HTML has going for it is that every computer in the world can render it. Not a small benefit, to be sure, but not a reason to limit ourselves to HTML forever. People can and will download new browsers with new rendering engines, given the proper motivation. It just so happens that we're currently in a major transition period, from desktops to mobile touch screen devices, where there is an incentive for people to try new browsers. I wonder, will someone capitalize on that?"
web  HTTP  HTML  2011  browsers  internet  TCP/IP 
september 2011 by Preoccupations
Adactio: Journal—Mobilewood
"Instead of being overwhelmed by the ever-increasing range of devices out there, we need to embrace the chaos and accept there will be even more devices—and types of devices—that we can’t even anticipate. We should embrace that. Instead of focusing on whatever this season’s model happens to be, we should be crafting our services in a robust way, striving for universal access tomorrow as well as today."
Jeremy_Keith  web  web_design  2011 
september 2011 by Preoccupations
My speech to the IAAC | Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent
"Truth Number One, is that anything that is dismissed on the grounds of the technology-not-being-good-enough-yet is going to happen. We have to tell people this. Fundamental Truth Number two is that the internet is the dominant platform for life in the 21st century. … Fundamental Truth Number Three: That technology changes our expectations of each other." "So, more than our opinions, we are used to, in fact, having our data matter. Don’t be surprised at my meaning of “the social contract” here. People are more sophisticated in their understanding of media than you may think. We know what it means when a service is given to us for free: it means we’re the ones who are being sold. And that’s cool. The handwringing about teenagers exposing themselves on Facebook is based on the idea that they don’t know why Facebook is so keen on that happening. Far from it. We understand the value of our data, we have done the sums and we judged ourselves in profit. If advertisers want to know my preferred brand of whisky, or be allowed access to my travel schedule, and these disclosures gets me Facebook for free, with all its associated social utility and delights, then fine. Fair play. The same for Tesco Clubcard, or Amazon recommendations, or whatever. We sell our data in return for a better world, and we do understand what we’re doing."
Ben_Hammersley  2011  Moore's_Law  internet  web  future 
september 2011 by Preoccupations
The Technium: we'll have to get better at believing in the impossible
"The technium is accelerating the creation of new impossibilities by continuing to invent new social organisations. … Collectively we behave differently than individuals. Much more importantly, as individuals we behave differently in collectives. This has been true a long while. What's new is the velocity at which we a headed into this higher territory of global connectivity. We are swept up in a tectonic shift toward large, fast, social organizations connecting us in novel ways. There may be a million different ways to connect a billion people, and each way will reveal something new about us. Something hidden previously. Others have named this emergence the Noosphere, or MetaMan, or Hive Mind. We don't have a good name for it yet. … Humanity is migrating towards its hive mind. Most of what "everybody knows" about us is based on the human individual. Collectively, connected humans will be capable of things we cannot imagine right now. These future phenomenon will rightly seem impossible. What's coming is so unimaginable that the impossibility of wikipedia will recede into outright obviousness."
Kevin_Kelly  emergence  organisations  social  web  noosphere  internet  2011 
august 2011 by Preoccupations
New Statesman - The NS Profile: Tim Berners-Lee
""What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do."" "“I wanted to build a creative space, something like a sandpit where everyone could play together," he says now. "Life was very simple. I was too busy to think about the bigger questions. I was writing specs for the web, writing the code. My priority was getting more people to use it, looking for communities who might adopt it. I just wanted the thing to take off. … If I had made the web into a product, it would have been in somebody's interest to make an incompatible version of it," he says. … We have to start talking about a human right to connect. … We are still learning the ground rules. Certainly, one-to-one time without any electronics is something that people should treasure. … the World Wide Web is an open platform. I'm pleased that it was designed very cleanly so that programs can talk to each other across the net. It means that there is one information space where you can put everything. … If large corporations control our access to the internet and determine which websites we can go to, we will lose its openness and its democratic nature. We can all help to campaign for the right to connect. … The web is now coming of age. We have to look at it and decide how best to use it for science and technology. I think it can do uniquely important things … When I started the web, I wanted to foster creative interconnectivity, in which people from all around the world can build something together. It's about trying to create a sort of human meta-brain - getting connected brains to function as a greater human brain. With these things, we have to trust in humanity. I think human nature, on balance, is wonderful. If we use the web properly, we can enhance that.""
Tim_Berners-Lee  interview  2011  web  internet 
august 2011 by Preoccupations
Page Speed Service Home
"Page Speed Service is an online service to automatically speed up loading of your web pages. Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices and serves them to end users via Google's servers across the globe. The extent of speed up depends on a variety of factors such as content on your pages, browser, geographic location of access, bandwidth, etc. You can run tests to measure the speed up of your site in a few minutes. At this time, Page Speed Service is being offered to a limited set of webmasters free of charge. Pricing will be competitive and details will be made available later. You can request access to the service by filling this web form."
Google  web  performance  2011 
july 2011 by Preoccupations
Apps vs the Web » Matt Legend Gemmell
"Apps feel designed. They feel tailored, and special. They’re lean-back, on-the-go, crafted, targeted things. The immediate extension of these properties is how at home they feel."
Matt_Gemmell  2011  web  apps  web_apps  design  interaction  interaction_design  mobile  Apple 
july 2011 by Preoccupations
Generative Media Networks: Fueling growth through action: Patterns to the future | Matt McAlister
"The repeating pattern in this market seems to be an exponential curve of exciting new activity that eventually results in overwhelming complexity. When the curve reaches a certain breaking point, instability reigns and new players suddenly enter the market. … The social world has a lot of growth ahead of it, but this will change, too. Not only will more people join the party, but more networks will get connected and dump large piles of information onto the Internet, not just simple documents. When more machines and devices flood the network including everything from phones to cars to household appliances the connected experience will become overwhelming and too complex yet again. … The number of relationships we all have through all of our social apps and the amount of lifestream data we’re expected to catch is overwhelming. … Might there be a pattern in the pattern? Could it be that Yahoo!, Google and Facebook are all now contributing to a complexity problem in concert?  And, if so, then isn’t the next breakthrough one where the network itself is given a new lens through which to reduce the complexity that then benefits from activity? Could the answer be about new visual languages and storytelling?  reputation?  hyper-distribution?  data?  all of the above? …or perhaps even a total rejection of the network itself? I would hate to see the anti-network movement prematurely subvert the potential of what is being accomplished today.  But if it is an inevitable response to the network’s growth then I hope the characteristics of that movement are equally constructive and empowering. Regardless, the trick to understanding meaning in the longer pattern whether its about language, devices, data, social activity, anti-networks or whatever is knowing your own context and where you want to go, what you want to be."
networks  network_culture  social  web  Matt_McAlister  2011  apps  complexity  information  filtering  meaning  context  lenses 
july 2011 by Preoccupations
The News of the World closes as media's tectonic plates shift | Will Self | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"we live in an interregnum between cultural hegemonies, and in such times, as Marx observed of political interregnums, the strangest forms will arise. … We will remain in this interregnum only for as long as media organisations remain unable to make web-based content – whether editorial, entertainment or social media – generate genuinely self-sustaining revenue. When it does begin to do so new hierarchies will be erected very speedily to exploit it, and my suspicion is that these new hierarchies will look very much like the old. … We will remain in this interregnum only for as long as media organisations remain unable to make web-based content – whether editorial, entertainment or social media – generate genuinely self-sustaining revenue. When it does begin to do so new hierarchies will be erected very speedily to exploit it, and my suspicion is that these new hierarchies will look very much like the old."
Will_Self  Guardian  2011  web  media  hierarchy  Marx 
july 2011 by Preoccupations
Amazon Launches Ad Network - Peter Kafka - News - AllThingsD
"Amazon uses the detailed data it collects on its customers and visitors to create pools of potential marketing targets. Amazon tells Triggit to hunt down particular Web surfers after they’ve left the site, using tracking “cookies;” once the start-up finds them it purchases ad inventory those users are looking at. Amazon uses that ad space to serve up an ad for the marketer it’s working with, and charges them for the impression."
advertising  ads  Amazon  tracking  2011  privacy  web 
july 2011 by Preoccupations
Tom Hume: Why the Web Won't Do
"4. End-users expect apps to make efficient use of battery life and network. Apps should cope with lack of connectivity and their UI should be consistent with the rest of the device (in appearance, behaviour and responsiveness). The web falls short here. 5. If you try to build a native app with HTML5 and friends, you're using a stack of web technologies (OS, browser, JavaScript library, your app) to emulate the thing at the bottom of that stack. Performance will suffer; you're at the mercy of this intermediate layer. It won't feel "right". You'll likely end up fixing or working around platform-specific oddities anyway. 6. So to satisfy users, make best use of the medium, and for technical reasons, you need to do something else to reduce the effort of delivering apps across platforms."
Tom_Hume  2011  web  apps  mobile 
june 2011 by Preoccupations
Evan Williams | evhead: Five Reasons Domains Are Getting Less Important
"Above, I'm still talking about web usage on the phone. But a reason a lot of people are less concerned about domains these days is, of course, installable apps. Personally, I'm not a "the future is all about apps" sort of guy. But clearly their usage is significant, and it eats into web usage. While almost every app has a web site of some sort, the domain name is very unimportant when most of app discovery is through stores." "Names are more important than domain names"
Ev_Williams  domains  apps  search  2011  trends  web  names  brands 
june 2011 by Preoccupations
[this is aaronland] Things I Have Written Elsewhere #1305615600
"The value of the web is in its history. The value of the web is that it grows over time and that it spiders out making connections, just as often doubling back on itself to find previously unseen patterns and connections. It is not a linear progression through time and space always discarding the near past. Or if it is then I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time because that sounds about as exciting, and about as valuable, as any given season of canned television programming."
Tom_Armitage  Twitter  Tower_Bridge  web  history  2011  Aaron_Straup_Cope 
june 2011 by Preoccupations
How to Make It Easy for Newspapers to Link on the Web - Publish2 Blog
"Using the Publish2 Print-Digital Integration module, newspapers are able to create content in the web CMS, publish web and digital first, and then easily flow all the content into the print editorial system. We strip out the HTML for print, so reporters can link as much as they want in the web version. We can also deliver the content into the archiving system."
publishing  web  newspapers  journalism  2011  CMS  Scott_Karp 
may 2011 by Preoccupations
More Features in Google Maps for Mobile Browsers
"I've tried the updated mobile interface on an iPhone 3GS, a Nexus One and an iPad 2. While all the new features are great, the site is still too slow and unresponsive to be useful. Until Google solves performance issues and mobile browsers become more powerful, people will still use the native app."
Google_Maps  2011  apps  mobile  web  performance 
may 2011 by Preoccupations
Traction Roots - Doug Engelbart - Traction Software
"My advice - if you want to invent the future of the web and social software, carefully read what Doug, Andy, Ted and Alan Kay have written." via Dave (Twitter)
Doug_Engelbart  Ted_Nelson  Alan_Kay  computing  web  hyperlinks  augmentation 
april 2011 by Preoccupations
Subtraction.com: Commented Out – Marco.org
"Comments have always been a dysfunctional medium. They solve a real problem: authors’ need for validation, criticism, and feedback. But they solve it in a way that discourages civility and following up, and encourages hatred and spam." http://www.subtraction.com/2011/04/13/commented-out
Marco_Arment  Khoi_Vinh  comments  web  2011 
april 2011 by Preoccupations
Doc Searls Weblog · If the next wave is personal, then we have to bring our own contexts
"What I crave is independence, and better ways of engaging — ones that are mine and not just theirs. Ones that work across multiple services in consistent ways. Ones that let me change my data with all these services at once, if I want to. I want liberation from the commercial Web’s two-decade old design flaws. I don’t care how much a company uses first person possessive pronouns on my behalf. They are not me, they do not know me, and I do not want them pretending to be me, or shoving their tentacles into my pockets, or what their robots think is my brain. Enough, already. … while the Net itself has an end-to-end design, in which all the ends are essentially peers, the Web (technically an application on the Net) has a submisive-dominant design in which clients submit to servers. It’s a calf-cow model. As calves, we request pages and other files from servers, usually getting cookie ingredients mixed in, so the cow can remember where we were the last time we suckled, and also give us better services. Especially advertising. … client-server’s calf-cow model requires this kind of thing, because the system is designed so the server-cows are in complete control. You are not free. You are captive, and dependent. This system has substantiated a business belief that has been around ever since Industry won the industrial revolution: that a captive customer is more valuable than a free one. We’ve built systems that tendentiously affirm that belief, and the commercial Web is chief among those systems today. Correspondingly, on the customer side, we actually believe that a free market is your choice of captor. … We won’t get rid of calf-cow systems, nor should we. They work, but they have their limits, and those become more apparent with every new calf-cow service we join. But we can work around these things, and supplement them with other systems that give us equal power on equal footings, including the ability to proffer our own terms, express our own preferences and policies, and make independent choices. … buyers and sellers are no longer just cattle, and … we now need to prove something we’ve known all along: that free customers are more valuable than captive ones."
Doc_Searls  2011  web  context  social_web  internet 
april 2011 by Preoccupations
Presumed Guilty | The Public Domain |
"The problem is not simply that Shakespeare flourished without copyright protection for his work. It is that he made liberal use of the work of others in his own plays in ways that would today almost certainly generate a lawsuit. Like many readers, I found myself wondering whether Shakespeare would have survived copyright, never mind the web. Certainly, the dense interplay of unidentified quotation, paraphrase and plot lifting that characterizes much of Elizabethan theatre would have been very different; imagine what jazz would sound like if musicians had to pay for every fragment of another tune they work into a solo."
James_Boyle  copyright  ICT_teaching  2011  Shakespeare  web  from delicious
february 2011 by Preoccupations
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