Ahem! I undermined my own vent with my illiteracy. I'm told it's "MYOPIC"
still the steam, streams from my ears. : : B - ( : : -----Original Message----- From: Ruth Catlow <[email protected]> Reply-to: [email protected], NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Long Live the Web. Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:36:22 +0000 !!!!!!!DUMB!!!!SELFISH!!!!DESTRUCTIVE!!!!ARROGANT!!!!MIOPIC!!!!! COMPLACENT!!!!BASTARDS!!!!!! -----Original Message----- From: Simon Biggs <[email protected]> Reply-to: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Long Live the Web. Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:14:23 +0000 Berners-Lee would then appreciate (not) the UK government's announcement it will permit ISPs and other gatekeepers to abandon net neutrality and give premium providers (not users) improved bandwidth. That is the beginning of a shift in the web, from a many to many to a few to the many model. Effectively broadcast. Sky will love them - and I'm sure this is part of the price Murdoch has demanded of the current government to support them so vigorously. Best Simon Simon Biggs [email protected] [email protected] Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research in CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts > From: marc garrett <[email protected]> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:02:31 +0000 > To: netBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Subject: [NetBehaviour] Long Live the Web. > > Long Live the Web. > > The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our > continued prosperity<and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it > needs defending... > > By Tim Berners-Lee. > > The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva, > Switzerland, in December 1990. It consisted of one Web site and one > browser, which happened to be on the same computer. The simple setup > demonstrated a profound concept: that any person could share information > with anyone else, anywhere. In this spirit, the Web spread quickly from > the grassroots up. Today, at its 20th anniversary, the Web is thoroughly > integrated into our daily lives. We take it for granted, expecting it to > ³be there² at any instant, like electricity. > > The Web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it was built on > egalitarian principles and because thousands of individuals, > universities and companies have worked, both independently and together > as part of the World Wide Web Consortium, to expand its capabilities > based on those principles. > > The Web as we know it, however, is being threatened in different ways. > Some of its most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its > principles. Large social-networking sites are walling off information > posted by their users from the rest of the Web. Wireless Internet > providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they > have not made deals. Governments<totalitarian and democratic alike<are > monitoring people¹s online habits, endangering important human rights. > > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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