Blogs

Dave’s RSS User mailing list. Link

Interesting theories on the underlying source of energy around social software. Link

Lawrence Lessig investigates the unreasonable license wrapped around music in the Walmart download service. I wonder if someday we won’t own anything at all? Link

Etech: ParticipantSessions - San Diego in early Feb.

Congrats to the EFF on a good week.

Thomas Friedman talks about a new kind of American isolationism, driven not by top-down politics, but the bottom up need to avoid being blown-up. The problem is that the latter kind may be much harder to undo…. Link

Kevin Werbach and The battle for open broadband. Link

Kevin Werbach’s “Mythologies of Control” post (with content from Ed Felten) brings up an idea that I’ve believed for a long time. Even if an overzealous content control system determined to lock down the current internet, the capital ‘I’ Internet would spring up again in a different form. It might not be the thing you dial up through your ISP to get to, it might not be one that you can get to through a legally configured Windows system, and it might not be accessible through your cable system.

David Isenberg with an extended quote from Matt Lucas. Interesting interplay between telco and the government. Link

Thomas Friedman writes about the Moment of Truth in Iraq in an op-ed piece. As usual, he’s looked at a complex situation and been able to distill it to an important kernel of truth. Thanks to David Isenberg. Link