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Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney in the Washington Post on net neutrality:
No Tolls on The Internet
Their idea is to stand between the content provider and the consumer, demanding a toll to guarantee quality delivery. It's what Timothy Wu, an Internet policy expert at Columbia University, calls "the Tony Soprano business model": By extorting protection […]
Very helpful tool utilizing google maps for figuring out exactly how far your running routes are, as well as an elevation profile: MapMyRun.com. The site also features a decent calorie/mph calculator on the bottom left sidebar.
Can Newspapers do Blogs Right - With commenters from the Orlando Sentinel, boingboing, NPR, citytools.net and more.
Within the past few weeks two of America's leading newspapers have watched staff-written blogs blow up in their faces. First, Ben Domenech left Washingtonpost.com after outside bloggers uncovered numerous examples of plagiarism in his past work. And last week, […]
Pitchfork's excellent (also rather long. Grab your hot drink of choice and set aside a few minutes to read it) article on music analysis and discovery software (last.fm, MusicIP, Pandora, etc…): Better Than We Know Ourselves
But in the past year or so– feeding off the iTunes-fueled growth of digital music sales– several companies have taken […]
http://www.wefeelfine.org/
Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it […]
The International Herald Tribune gives an overview of the INA's new site:
Now, with double the capacity, the site is receiving about five million visits a day - 80 times more than its usual traffic. And for good reason: The sound and visual quality are superb, the range of selections is impressive, and the packaging and […]
http://www.inquisitorx.com/beta/
Inquisitor - Combining the power of google, Amazon, flickr, technorati, yahoo, and A9 searches.
From Dangergraphics.com
The Wealth of Networks (mp3)
Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law at Yale University, explores the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture in the digital environment.
Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School has written about Yochai Benkler’s book, The Wealth of Networks. He […]
http://infoview.infomagnet.com/view.php
A rotating globe updatable with everything from population, GDP, military, and tax rates to poverty, health, and education statistics.
Alan Rusbridger: editor of The Guardian
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pdf transcript available here
(Mar 16, 2006 from the Royal Society of the Arts)
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