Beaver News There has been a lot of talk lately about the quality of information available online. The debate has centered around “content farms”, such as Demand Media and the current incarnation of AOL (oops, sorry, Aol.). Kicking off this round was Michael Arrington, who wrote in a post titled The End of Hand Crafted Content: On one [...]
The Obama-Biden Transition Team has named two strong supporters of Net-Neutrality to be the FCC Review Team Leads. Susan Crawford is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, teaching communications law and internet law. She was a partner with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) until the end of 2002, when she left [...]
On IT Conversations, Jon Udell interviews Michael Lenczner, co-founder of Île Sans Fil, Montreal’s community wireless network. With over 150 access points and nearly 60,000 users, the project is a huge success, all the more so given that municipal wi-fi projects in other cities have failed to materialize. And yet, Mike questions the value of [...]
Google Tech Talks has a new video by one of my favorite authors, David Wineberger, who’s new book is titled Everything is Miscellaneous. Although it’s kind of long (57:00), it’s well worth watching. Here’s the abstract: David Weinberger’s new book covers the breakdown of the established order of ordering. He explains how methods of categorization [...]
Usability guru Jakob Nilsen has posted a brief essay on Life-Long Computer Skills that I would love to see taught here in Tuolumne County. As a technology provider, I often see people frustrated by a lack of understanding of how their computer works below the surface of the desktop. There are many computer classes available [...]
Medieval help desk:
Nice video interview with David Weinberger, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto. As David writes on his own blog: I blather on about Cluetrainy stuff, plus how to explain Net neutrality to “Aunt Tilly.” And because there are German subtitles, you can have the illusion that you are now fluent in that language. Note: the first [...]
Chris Anderson, over at The Long Tail, says this is the most inspiring thing [about the Internet] he’s seen all day. He’s right. Steve Weinberger, at Joho the Blog says: This video is a beautiful piece of work. It will be a classic statement. Don’t be the very last person to see it…
