US reveals concerns over Conroy’s net filter plan | Article | The Punch
Aust slammed by Google and US State Dept - they're the only ones allowed to filter (for agreed public good while maintaining fiction of unconstrained freedom).
Video - Rampaging car fans riot in Oakleigh - The Sydney Morning Herald
Police crowdsource to find perpetrators of the Oakleigh riot, asking the public to send in mobile phone footage, and also sourcing from internet, cctv, and news crews. Changing nature of public surveillance and law enforcement.
Google stops censoring in China | The Australian
tactical withdrawal while maintaining a high threat level? or total showdown?
Chinese media slam Google as 'politicized' | Digital Media - CNET News
'Freedom of speech' for one country is another country's 'propaganda attack'. Country is also a debatable term. Google is synonymous with the USA in most reports, and indeed the US Secretary of State is responding to China over this Google issue.
For Google, the project is a pre-emptive move to get a foothold in the living room as more consumers start exploring ways to bring web content to their TV sets.
"I think Google is gearing up to be potentially quite a formidable competitor to existing telcos and ISPs, given their moves into the infrastructure level," Warren Chaisatien, research director and principal analyst at Australian firm Telsyte, said.
First they're making phones, now they're putting in the pipes.
Norrie's 'ungendered' status withdrawn
"They all said they didn't know how to put it (gender unspecified) into their computers, but they all agreed to do it and to have a word to their computer programmers," Norrie said. "It is the job of the system to fit the people it serves, not the job of the people to fit the system.
Our identity is increasingly database driven and default settings are not very changeable.
"..the impact of digital information and networking provokes a reconsideration of the model of medium theory. Every time it is written or stated that digital convergent technology has re-shaped the use and effects of media forms, then some form of medium theory is being employed."
Good analysis of the strenths and weaknesses of both technological determinism and social shaping for understanding internet issues, with a look at the hybrid solutions like ActorNetwork Theory. Excellent background paper for understanding critical theories of technology.
Women of Vision » Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
The Anita Borg Institute has several initiatives to promote and celebrate women in technology. The 2010 Women of Vision awards celebrate women who have made significant achievements in 3 areas.
For Innovation: Kathleen McKeown, Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
For Social Impact: Lila Ibrahim, General Manager, Emerging Markets Platform Group, Intel Corporation
For Leadership: Kristina Johnson, Ph.D., Under Secretary for Energy at the Department of Energy
This excerpt of a post from Katy Dickinson at SanJose.MetBlogs.com shows why this is important!
"I have referred dozens of young women to the 2008 WOV talk by Helen Greiner. Any girl geek who feels too alone in her love of technology will be encouraged by the amazing founder of iRobot saying that when she was young “not one person told me I should be an Engineer” and “we need diversity of perspectives … more women’s life experiences influencing our directions and designs”.
How the New York Times and CNN try to keep up with the tech companies | Media | guardian.co.uk
The evershifting sands of media and content. Theoretically, as McLuhan says, the media is the message. Practically speaking, the world is full of examples of companies (Google/Apple) trying to control both the content and the infrastructure and there becoming very little difference between them.
Eclectic Effervescence: Offense.
Classic case of RC style censorship. Facebook presumably in response to a complaint but ... who knows.. removes all pictures of this woman happily breastfeeding her twins in a completely non sexual context yet allows many overtly sexual 'titty' groups to remain - with pictures.
Grassroots campaign of support starting on twitter but as the originator says.. no major media interested! Many women are starting to collect instances of other breastfeeding photos and groups being 'disbanded', 'removed' or in Australian terms 'refused classification'.
Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal - NYTimes.com
Is this war? It looks trivial, sounds personal but at heart this is 2 key multinational corporations fighting for the domination of markets that may well define us culturally, socially, economically and eventually politically.
Google's overt entry into the hardware domain merely underlines the scary power we know they have.
The Future of the Internet IV | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
The Pew Research Center is not as unbiased a source of information as they'd like to portray but they are used as the source for much of the statistics that will get passed around. Haven't finished this paper yet but looking forward to the section on control and governance.
“I think we will have an outcome that is a hybrid of your two options. For many users, the end-to-end principle in its literal form is a pain--it means they have to install software and manage upgrades on a PC that is complex and insecure. Much better to take advantages of services that are professionally run. But I think the end-users will be able to maintain the ability to reach the content of their choice and use the applications of their choice. I think the crucial question is not where a function is located (at the end-point or from a service provider somewhere on the network), but the extent to which the end-user will preserve the right to choose providers that they decide to trust. The real question is about trust, not location.” – David Clark, senior research scientist for the Next-Generation Internet, MIT professor
For #arin6902 I find the description of the end-to-end principle subsumed in the integrated internet application service model very interesting. As a number of other commentators in this report make clear. We are increasingly using the internet as an integrated delivery system. By removing hardware/software dichotomies we are potentially removing content freedom. The baby with the bathwater.
Lost in hyperspace - 22 July 2006 - New Scientist
A letter to New Scientist from Ted Nelson, who in the 1960s invented hypertext, the technology that allows you to navigate between documents on the web. Shortly thereafter, Mike Holderness of New Scientist sat down with Nelson to explore a few of the networking websites that his ideas have enabled and produced an article "It Could All Be So Much Better" in Issue 2569 Sept 2006
danah boyd recommends Eszter Hargittai's paper "Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the 'Net Generation'". This collection looks particularly interesting for discussions about the Digital Divide and Gender &Technology.
danah boyd recommends Eszter Hargittai's paper "Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the 'Net Generation'". This collection looks particularly interesting for discussions about the Digital Divide and Gender &Technology.
