Kenneth Goldsmith (via austinkleon)
So true. Duh. I want more people to understand this.
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“The new radicalism is paper. Right? Publish it on a printed page and no one will ever know about it. It’s the perfect vehicle for terrorists, plagiarists, and for subversive thoughts in general. If you don’t want it to exist—and there are many reasons to want to keep things private—keep it off the web. But if you put it in digital form, expect it to be bootlegged, remixed, manipulated, and endlessly commented upon. Expect spiders to pick it up and use it as ad-bait on spoof web pages. The moment you put it out there, all bets are off; it’s way out of your control.”
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Net neutrality was so 2000. This new decade will demand cloud neutrality. Here are some good reasons why:
Cloud computing will allow developing nations to access software once reserved for affluent countries. Small businesses will save money on capital expenditures by using services such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud to store and compute their data instead of purchasing servers.
— PCWorld Business Center
But because human nature is destructive, we will need good policy in place to keep the cloud AND the Internet free, open, and accessible to all.
“The bottom line is that it isn’t just that most people don’t care about privacy, it’s that Facebook has intentionally architected their system to incentivize and promote that lack of caring. Facebook could easily design a very simple UI/UX control and set of workflows to give users granular privacy settings if they want them, but they intentionally made obtuse, confusing, and misleading flows to trick users into doing what they want.”
Doublethink nails it again. If only more legal eagles, wanker bankers, and golfing doctors blogged anonymously about how they really felt, the world would be a better place. (via gbattle)
“My rule for ANY site receiving traffic from an aggregator of ANY kind is: If you believe you can create more value from the traffic you receive than potential negative branding implications plus the cost of supporting a potential competitor, then continue with the aggregator. If not, block the aggregator.”
Like Mark Cuban or not, I respect anyone who consistently tries to stay ahead of the curve. In this day and age, success is reserved for those who consistently are ahead of the curve. Be it a learning curve, a technology curve, a business curve, you must be ahead to be relevant, let alone successful.
via Why Have So Many Internet People Lost Touch With Reality ? « blog maverick
High-speed Internet lands in Lagos, Nigeria via the Glo submarine cable system Glo 1! This is excellent news for the information telecommunications technology sector in Nigeria and throughout the continent.
There’s been a bit of coverage on it which you can read at 27 Months, TechMasai, Vanguard, ITNewsAfrica, and This Day. Cable landings are a pretty big deal and this one is made even more so as it’s being deployed primarily by Globacom Limited who are a Nigerian company. (via Subsaharska)
Globacom is the first single telecommunication company IN THE WORLD to own its submarine cable. The high capacity Glo 1 optic fibre cable will bring direct connectivity between West Africa, the UK and the rest of the world. This will translate into much faster and more robust connectivity for voice, data and video. (via Vanguard; emphasis mine)
Photo courtesy of flickr.
Now what to do about a consistent electricity source to power all this broadband connectivity. One step at a time I guess.
“The Internet has taught me this: don’t be afraid of sharing your ideas. Don’t be afraid of engaging others to voice their ideas. And more importantly, don’t presume who is and who is not a creator — because we all are.”
Paolo Coelho (via brit)
“The opening of a fiber optic cable providing broadband Internet service to millions of people in Southern and Eastern Africa is… built by Seacom, a consortium 75 percent controlled by African investors…”
“For all of it’s growth, Africa’s available energy to power an ever-expanding IT sector is anaemic at best.”
Can ICT Replace Industrialization in Africa?
This comes from the comments of this article. ICT (information communications technology) is only possible by a constant and reliable electricity which is a luxury in Nigeria, in paricular. This reader hits the nail on the head and agree with assessment. Both industrial and informational revolutions must happen and they will.
