Comments on: The silent spring of the internet: cyberspace needs its stewards http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/04/13/the-silent-spring-of-the-internet-cyberspace-needs-its-stewards/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: INTERNET Two essays by J.P. Rangaswami « netwit 2.0 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/04/13/the-silent-spring-of-the-internet-cyberspace-needs-its-stewards/comment-page-1/#comment-658164 INTERNET Two essays by J.P. Rangaswami « netwit 2.0 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:38:03 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2130#comment-658164 [...] The silent spring of the internet: cyberspace needs its stewards [...] [...] The silent spring of the internet: cyberspace needs its stewards [...]

]]> By: Old media, new media and presentation skills changing the face of British Politics | CloudAve http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/04/13/the-silent-spring-of-the-internet-cyberspace-needs-its-stewards/comment-page-1/#comment-607209 Old media, new media and presentation skills changing the face of British Politics | CloudAve Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:44:13 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2130#comment-607209 [...] requested by vested interests in the music business have been implemented in a ludicrous way.  JP Rangaswami writes: "The industry lobby did their work well. Now we have to get used to a world where filesharing and [...] [...] requested by vested interests in the music business have been implemented in a ludicrous way.  JP Rangaswami writes: "The industry lobby did their work well. Now we have to get used to a world where filesharing and [...]

]]> By: Dominic Sayers http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/04/13/the-silent-spring-of-the-internet-cyberspace-needs-its-stewards/comment-page-1/#comment-603888 Dominic Sayers Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:34:34 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2130#comment-603888 Wikiquote tells me it was actually Wendell Phillips who said "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty". And there was me thinking it was Col. Nathan Jessep. Anyway, it seemed apposite. Wikiquote tells me it was actually Wendell Phillips who said “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”. And there was me thinking it was Col. Nathan Jessep.

Anyway, it seemed apposite.

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/04/13/the-silent-spring-of-the-internet-cyberspace-needs-its-stewards/comment-page-1/#comment-603361 JP Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:46:39 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2130#comment-603361 what is changing is scale. that has its pluses and its minuses. what is changing is scale. that has its pluses and its minuses.

]]> By: Paramendra Bhagat http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/04/13/the-silent-spring-of-the-internet-cyberspace-needs-its-stewards/comment-page-1/#comment-602883 Paramendra Bhagat Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:52:14 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2130#comment-602883 There is a need for new business models, not draconian laws that intend to kill the very essence of the Internet. Farmville comes to mind. 99% of its users do not pay. But I never heard Mark Pincus complain. There is a need for new business models, not draconian laws that intend to kill the very essence of the Internet. Farmville comes to mind. 99% of its users do not pay. But I never heard Mark Pincus complain.

]]> By: The Silent Spring of the Internet: Part II: Understanding “unpaid” – confused of calcutta http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/04/13/the-silent-spring-of-the-internet-cyberspace-needs-its-stewards/comment-page-1/#comment-602709 The Silent Spring of the Internet: Part II: Understanding “unpaid” – confused of calcutta Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:17:05 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2130#comment-602709 [...] Yesterday I spent some time thinking about what Rachel Carson experienced in the period leading up to her writing The Sea Around Us, and following that up a decade or so later with Silent Spring. How we can learn from those experiences as we hurtle towards wholesale destruction of the internet and all it stands for, particularly with phenomena like the Digital Economy Act, the DMCA, Hadopi and the most appalling of them all, ACTA. I shared some of those thoughts with you here. [...] [...] Yesterday I spent some time thinking about what Rachel Carson experienced in the period leading up to her writing The Sea Around Us, and following that up a decade or so later with Silent Spring. How we can learn from those experiences as we hurtle towards wholesale destruction of the internet and all it stands for, particularly with phenomena like the Digital Economy Act, the DMCA, Hadopi and the most appalling of them all, ACTA. I shared some of those thoughts with you here. [...]

]]> By: Xamuel http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/04/13/the-silent-spring-of-the-internet-cyberspace-needs-its-stewards/comment-page-1/#comment-602587 Xamuel Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:18:26 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2130#comment-602587 Traditional institutions still have so much power, but it's all just momentum. They're not gaining any new power, and as the old generations die off and the new replace them, more and more power will be shifted away. This might be a war we have to win by attrition, but win it we will. Traditional institutions still have so much power, but it’s all just momentum. They’re not gaining any new power, and as the old generations die off and the new replace them, more and more power will be shifted away. This might be a war we have to win by attrition, but win it we will.

]]> By: Tom Foremski http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/04/13/the-silent-spring-of-the-internet-cyberspace-needs-its-stewards/comment-page-1/#comment-602584 Tom Foremski Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:11:27 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2130#comment-602584 The bill will drive a lot of practices underground. Security technologies such as VPN will make it difficult to track and we will gradually lose the ability to know what is happening on the Internet and how people are really using it. The bill will drive a lot of practices underground. Security technologies such as VPN will make it difficult to track and we will gradually lose the ability to know what is happening on the Internet and how people are really using it.

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