Notes

Almost unbelievable growth: Broadband usage in the U.S. up 40% in the past year (and up 121% among African Americans): Home Broadband Adoption 2006 (pdf)

Tired: objective journalism. Wired: shorting a company’s stock the day before you publish a hit piece alleging they’ve committed accounting fraud. Mark Cuban: Why Journalism Matters

Net neutrality: Never had it, never will: Neutral Net? Who Are You Kidding?

Jaron Lanier says Wikipedia’s not only stupid, it’s “boring”: DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism

Technologists think their business is the creation of cool technologies, because they are engineers who thrill to the idea of change. By contrast, Coburn says, “technology is widely hated by its users,” because ordinary folk loathe change: Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact

D’oh! AT&T lawyers accidentally leak sensitive info in NSA suit

Priceless: “Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life.” Competitive Enterprise Institute

This is just too sad for words: Former Berkeley student known as “Naked Guy” dies in jail (via hudin.com)

Ballsiest move I’ve ever seen by an online news organization — Go, Evan! Wired News: Why We Published the AT&T Docs

Kevin Kelly takes 10 pages to wind up to this original idea: “Copyrights must be counterbalanced by copyduties. In exchange for public protection of a work’s copies (what we call copyright), a creator has an obligation to allow that work to be searched.” Scan This Book! – New York Times

Funny, Web 2.0 looks a lot like Web 1.0 (which looked a lot like the old Main Stream Media): Read/WriteWeb: 53,651 male, youngish, rich, powerful and geeky readers

Seth Godin: “The next time you get all formal or obfuscatory or snarky, ask a simple question, ‘If I knew this person and we were eating together in a restaurant, would I speak to them the same way?‘