Tag: Internet
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The Nightmare Videos of Children’s YouTube – and What’s Wrong With the Internet Today by James Bridle
James Bridle presented The Nightmare Videos of Children’s YouTube – and What’s Wrong With the Internet Today as a TED Talk.
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How We Need to Remake the Internet by Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier presented How We Need to Remake the Internet as a TED Talk.
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How We Talk About Sexual Assault Online by Ione Wells
Ione Wells presented How We Talk About Sexual Assault Online as a TED Talk.
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CloudFlare: Thoughts on Network Neutrality
CloudFlare published Thoughts on Network Neutrality, the FCC, and the Future of Internet Governance, which is one of the better articles on Net Neutrality I’ve read. Bad things happen when lawyers and politicians step in too early to regulate technology markets that are still developing. In this case, the FCC not only may be stepping…
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This List is Brought to You by 25 Years of the World Wide Web
Engadget published This List is Brought to You by 25 Years of the World Wide Web. When Tim Berners-Lee penned a memo to his boss at CERN in March 1989, he was looking for a better way to manage information about complex evolving systems. He proposed an interconnected network of information that would improve communication…
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World IPv6 Day
Wednesday, June 8th, is World IPv6 Day. This is a day many major internet companies have decided jointly run a test on the future of the internet. The test is running Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), instead of the existing standard of IPv4, to see if anything breaks. Google estimates very few people will have…
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The Blame Game
I just read my second article about a 19 year old Florida college student who killed himself while broadcasting live on the internet. Condolences and sympathies aside, my frustration with these articles and some of the comments posted along the articles is the attempt to blame the internet site for his death. The internet did…