Access Commons

China, Russia, Brazil, India are all supporting UN regulation of the internet world wide. Many in the US are reported to be understandably critical of the idea of fixing something that was never broken in the first place.

If this comes to pass, what kinds of routing-around innovation will it spark (if any?). Or, are we destined to sink to the lowest common denominator or internet regulation (China).

You can watch this movie in it's entirety on youtube. It came out in 2002. I found the claim that the "adoption of curve of linux followed the adoption curve of the internet", and that the application that really made linux was apache web server.

This is really important for the "Access commons" concept. I think it also possibly informs what can be expected in some ways in other "commons" (food, energy, etc).

An interview with Michael Porter, who is heading up a group called Library Renewal, “a new kind of nonprofit” organization whose goal is to develop “a new electronic content access and distribution infrastructure.”

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What are the critical implications of mainstream adoption of digital content for libraries?

A rather bizarre article talking about new companies hoping to capitalize on people's concern over privacy in social media (or the lack of it). Basically, these are companies that are offering to help people own their data--even though it certainly looks like they'll be owning the platform. Here's a sample:

Michael Fertik, Reputation's CEO, says rising concerns about privacy online have created a demand among people to be given control of their data. "We think there is a coming privacy economy," he said.

Hmmm, what to think?

Networks used to be about getting messages from point A to point B, Lunt said. Today’s networks, on the other hand, are all about collaboration and sharing, be it with Dropbox or iCloud. Existing network technology wasn’t made for this purpose, and companies have come up with patchwork solutions to make these new kinds of services work.