Category Archives: Internet

Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan in the early 1970s Born July 21, 1911Edmonton, Alberta Died December 31, 1980 (aged 69) Toronto, Ontario School Media theory Main interests Media, Mass media, Sensorium, New Criticism Notable ideas The medium is the message, Global village, Metamedia, Media … Continue reading

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Digital Future Survey:You Should Look

Digital Future Survey: The Parties Respond *** To whom it may concern: The early Internet was so accidental, it also was free and open in this sense. The Internet has become as important as anything man has ever created. But … Continue reading

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We Cannot Apply Constraints to Communication?

Is the public winners in decisions that “add more cost” to what should be access to “freedoms of information?” The Cathedral and the Bizarre by Jeff Lewis The problem there is that the ‘capitalist trench’ problem is just as real … Continue reading

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Above and Beyond Culturomics

Google’s Ngram Viewer Click on Image Web Semantics: Google Books Culturomics By Bruce Sterling December 16, 2010  |  10:25 pm  |  Categories: Web Semantics http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/12/16/the-cultural-genome-google-books-reveals-traces-of-fame-censorship-and-changing-languages/ “Just as petrified fossils tell us about the evolution of life on earth, the words … Continue reading

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Mapping the Internet Brain and Consciousness

Partial map of the Internet based on the January 15, 2005 data found on opte.org. Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP addresses. The length of the lines are indicative of the delay between those two nodes. … Continue reading

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Free Access to the Universal Library?

“The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, archi­tectural drawings, and other … Continue reading

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Events → Richard M. Stallman Speeches

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated “rms”,[2] is an American software freedom activist, hacker,[3] and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[4] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s … Continue reading

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Larry Page in Support of White Space?

The United States 700 MHz FCC wireless spectrum auction was started by the FCC on January 24, 2008 for the rights to operate the 700 MHz frequency band in the United States. The details of process were the subject of … Continue reading

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WIFI and Spectrum

A free public Wi-Fi access point Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by a person in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer or PDA. Software for wardriving is freely available on the Internet, notably NetStumbler … Continue reading

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White Space

While existing companies control access to the internet it is with some contention that I see people regardless of the portal created through to internet access should have “free access” to this. Currently Governments hold the rights to auction so … Continue reading

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