Wirearchy

Just in case y’all think I believe hyperlinks and information and good intentions are going to magically change the world … they may help to change the world, over time .. but it sure as shooting ain’t gonna be magic.
I ran across this (excerpt below) whilst researching the recent story that the blogger Armando (who [...]

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From the same article, cited directly below:
"Perhaps now the principled approach makes more sense," Brin said
Tags: less evil ?
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Via the Toronto Globe and Mail …
Brin says Google compromised principlesTED BRIDISAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.
Meeting with reporters near Capitol Hill, [...]

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Regardless of what I have been told, repeatedly, endlessly and obsessively … life (and blogging) are not about money.  Money is a part of life, and (most of us) we need to work, or do something, to get it.  Money is not the purpose of life (mine at least), but is indeed an integral part [...]

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… and does so rather well, I think.
The concluding paragraph from the rebuttal is excerpted below, and in my opinion points to the large, daunting and exciting challenge ahead for us all,
In a first world (the relatively affluent western world wherein people have computers and there is widespread access to the Internet) … a world [...]

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Via digby’s Hullabaloo, a tidbit on the businessification of everything carried by the story of a somewhat repentant Republican whose jail term offered him time to reflect.
But hey, there are MBA’s and CEO’s in the White House, right.

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I am ripping and re-publishing the complete (but short) post by David Weinberger from the blog JOHO which points out how ridiculous is the attempt by the Canadian Copyright Legislation Agency to impose a lame and uninformed policy. 
And as David points out, Seth Finkelstein caught some goofy lawyerly language which essentially says "We say you [...]

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Via the New York Times (membership registration required for access to the article)…
House Backs Telecom Bill Favoring Phone Companies
By STEPHEN LABATONJune 9, 2006WASHINGTON, June 8 — The House of Representatives approved the most extensive telecommunications legislation in a decade on Thursday, largely ratifying the policy agenda of the nation’s largest telephone companies.
The bill passed [...]

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