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South Korea touts itself as the planet's leading broadband Internet nation. Skeptics, however, would argue that the country's computing experience is outdated by nearly a decade. Of course, only a few countries can compete with Korea in high-speed Internet penetration, which is inching toward the mid-90s percentage-wise, or new products and leapfrogging technologies pushed out in waves seemingly every quarter.
Korea Paying Price for Microsoft Monoculture
After losing one hard drive during a cross-country move and another after my cat knocked a cup of coffee onto my laptop, I’ve started shedding my digital baggage in favor of not having many personal e-belongings. For starters, nearly all of my notes, contacts, writing projects in progress, to-do lists and personal reminders are saved on one Google App or another. Recent photos are stored on Facebook, Flickr and Picasa.
I (Almost) Live in the Cloud - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com
Much has been written about the next wave of web technologies, namely HTML5 , JavaScript and CSS3. A big part of this conversation has surrounded the impact that these new technologies will have on older technologies like Adobe’s Flash . We’ve written a lot abut the HTML5 vs. Flash “war,” primarily in the context of Flash’s use in mobile and Flash as a video wrapper.
Flash vs. HTML5: Adobe Weighs In
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The core attribute of the networked information environment has been the radical decentralization of the capital structure of information, knowledge, and cultural production. Beginning in the second quarter of the 19th century, the expansion of markets and polities combined with the development of capital intensive information production technologies like mechanical presses and processes like the professionalized press, to drive effective engagement in information production and exchange toward an industrial model. From double-entry bookkeeping to the major accounting firms; from the telegraph to the mainframe; and from the phonograph to 24 hour cable channel; information production and exchange centered around an industrial model, driven by the need to secure and sustain substantial, concentrated funding. The personal computer connected to the Internet changed the basic model of capitalization of information, knowledge, and cultural production.
Why the CRTC was right on Usage-Based Billing | eaves.ca
Up here in Canada (and I say that in the identity sense, since at the moment I'm in Santa Clara at the Strata Conference ) a lot of fuss has been made about the CRTC's decision regarding the approval of usage-based billing. So much fuss, in fact, that appears the government is going to over turn it . One thing that has bothered me about these complaints is that they have generally come from people who also seem to oppose internet service providers throttling internet access. It's unclear to me that you can have it both ways - you can't (responsibly) be against both internet throttling and usage-based billing. As much as I wish it were the case there is not unlimited internet access in Canada.
Where it will take us is unknowable, but we know the Internet is changing our lives, and largely for the better. Canadians are connected to each other, and to people around the world, in unprecedented ways. But with the boundless promise of the Internet come three challenges to nationhood and country: to our common culture, because the Internet has little regard for content restrictions. To global security, because online communications and commerce can be undermined by a prankster in his basement or a government across the ocean. And to our prosperity, because the Internet and its constituent components are technologies so disruptive and of such a scale that they can make and sink fortunes, not just of individual companies but of entire economies.
Canada's culture can still make its mark on the Internet - The Globe and Mail
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The unrecognizable Internet of 1996. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Take a look at the headlines of any major newspaper or news magazine. Check out the non-fiction bestsellers at Amazon. The net is on everyone’s minds. Or more specifically, the way the net is on our minds is on our minds .
MediaBerkman » Blog Archive » Radio Berkman 158: Thinking About Thinking About the Net
Two things are happening. First, needless to say, the role of the Internet in daily life is only increasing. Second, the role of city regions as strategic nodes in the world system only gets bigger, resulting in a global inter-urban competition to attract all kinds of knowledge workers.
Top-Level City Domains: The Next Big Thing? — The Pop-Up City
The nomination was proposed by the Italian version of technology magazine Wired and has so far been endorsed by 11 people including 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop Per Child. Backers of the Internet’s candidacy for the prize cite its achievements in bridging differences and promoting dialogue among different nations. On the promotional site for the Internet’s campaign, called Internet for Peace , supporters contend that the Internet “is much more than a network of computers; it is an endless Web of people.”