Time Warner Cable Buys Cable Company Insight Communications For $3 Billion
Yay for monopolies!
The desire to clean up the web, civilize it, and sterlize it pisses me off. I hate it. The Zuckerbergs can run a sterile community on the web if they want. That’s just fine. But to suggest that real names is the source of their success it to learn the wrong lessons from Facebook.
In our culture, we’re suspicious of strangers. They’re a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web. They are what give the Web its matter, its shape, its value. Rather than hiding in our tents and declaring our world to exist of the other tents near us — preferably with a nice tall wall around us — the Web explicitly is a world only because of the presence of so many strangers.
“God is what happens when humanity is connected. Humanity connected is God. Each one of us is a creator but, together, we are THE creator.” - Jim Gilliam / More.
Glenn Beck Goes New Media As He Moves His Show Online--For A Price.
“I think we might be a little early,” Mr. Beck said of his plan for the Internet network, called GBTV, which will cost $5 to $10. “But I’d rather be ahead of the pack than part of it.”
A VC: Investing In The Cultural Revolution
“The Internet is not controlled by anyone or anything. It is a highly distributed global network that has at its core the concepts of free speech and individual liberty. This ethos, which includes but is not limited to hacker culture, is in many ways at odds with big companies, instiutions, and governments which seek to control, regulate, and “civilize” the Internet.”
Scripting News: Iran's idea -- not far-fetched, at all.
“The reimagined Battlestar Galactica had a lot of great ideas. They had all these old-fashioned items around the space-age starship, a reminder that this all happened so far away that time is practically meaningless. As far away as they are in time and space, they area lot like us, in many ways. The Galactica starships didn’t have the Internet. It’s not that they didn’t know how to do it, they did — they had to disconnect because it was an attack vector. In one episode they had to temporarily turn the Internet back on, as a desperate measure. And sure enough, within seconds, probably milliseconds, the virii started attacking. It was only a matter of time before their databanks were corrupted. Of course they saved the day, and lived to fight the Cylons once again.”
“Iran is under attack in exactly the same way. Their techs can’t control the viruses we’re sending at them.”
