The NY Times wrote this morning about a new French law that would fine and/or imprison web site operators who have sites advocating achieving “thinness” via extreme means such as eating disorders, anorexia, and bulimia.
This is the dark side of the long tail. We talk about how the long tail can help small user communities […]
For the last month there has been a simmering story about violations of network neutrality by some of the largest Internet Providers. Comcast in particular has been inserting IP reset messages into customer’s communications, falsely telling computers on both sides of a connection that the other side wants to end the exchange. […]
Crittenton Women’s Union has soft-launched the Voices Project, a blog that I’ve been helping with for close to a year. This is a blog that allows lower income women to give voice to their issues, concerns, and feelings. It lets us share in their situation: the despair, the setbacks, the victories, and most […]
I’m not a big fan of writing posts that simply link other posts, but I’m getting ready to head down to next week’s Freedom to Connect conference and I felt this article by Robert Young in GigaOM captured a big part of the reason I am so passionate about the internet and the way it’s […]
Every now and then you read a post that just makes you sit back in awe and at the same time despair for the lowly writings that clutter your own blog (like the prior one). Something that’s filled with insight, something that’s well written, something that is worthwhile.
Go read Martin’s post about David […]
Last week the Italian news magazine L’Espresso had a great two page spread interviewing Jeff Pulver about video on the net. It’s part of their annual look ahead issue “Challenges for 2007″ and contains interviews with 15 or 20 visionaries including Steve Jobs, Vint Cerf, Robert Reich, and others. Not bad company and of course […]