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Dissolving the Internet into fragments

Impact: Online Information    September 17, 2010
Before it disappears into the archives, I’d like to call attention to a significant article (and cover story: The web’s new walls) in the September 2, 2010 issue of The Economist: The future of the internet: A virtual counter-revolution. Some points will be familiar to anyone following the ‘net-neutrality’ issue in the U.S. or elsewhere. [...]
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Google does TV with friends

Impact: Online Information    May 23, 2010
Google likes to make ripples, so last Thursday (5/20/10), it announced a new Google TV platform. What’s on the agenda is called a ‘platform,’ which in this case is software-speak for a programming structure provided by Google’s Android software protocols (for mobile computing), Google’s Chrome browser, and Adobe’s Flash Player 10 (for video presentation). Inserted [...]
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The borderland of net neutrality

Essay: November 9, 2009
Thank goodness the Internet is no longer an American plaything. I know, however, that what happens to the Internet in the United States is still important to what happens to the Internet elsewhere. I’m thinking particularly about the issue of Net Neutrality, which surfaces with some regularity in the U.S. and more often now in [...]
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