Marching in bureaucratic locknet…

“…At the FCC’s November meeting – note the coincidental date of choice, AFTER the impending election – three unelected bureaucrats (of five) could simply vote themselves rulers of 1/6th of our entire economy – the information and technology sector. Meaning the Internet that you currently enjoy – that has been a marvel of economic and information innovation and success – will be subject to vast new governmental regulations.  You didn’t elect these people – but they are on the verge of electing themselves Internet overlords…” Here (Big Government)

Hey, just for the record. Have you ever seen that old Macintosh commercial on youtube, where this lovely athletic woman comes in and throws a hammer at the staid corporate Big Brother screen? That’s what we need again.

Bring back the spirit.

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Related: “Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track computer users on the Internet. But the alarmists have not seen anything yet…” Here (NY Times).

Related: Wider streets for internet traffic. Here (NY Times).

The ice cream man cometh (and taketh)…

The corporate-owned banana republic, the internet, and you

Today the United States is the most frightening country on the planet.

The Google-Verizon Big Brother Plan or The Evil Empire Strikes Back

“…article about Google’s plan to kill the web has been completely de-listed from Google News. This is completely unprecedented and underscores how keen Google is to prevent people from finding out that it is a CIA-NSA front that is preparing to completely end the Internet as we know it with the Verizon net-neutrality killing deal…” Read more here.

The Google monster

You’ve no doubt heard of the Cookie Monster but what about the Google Monster?

This is why I need to live out the rest of my numerous days on a secluded little tropical island, surround by beautiful barebreasted native girls.

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Update: Capitalist pig dog goat scum faces, i.e, Google and Verizon, are getting scary. Remember, in Shitland big money is everything.

The forever posts

“…With Web sites like LOL Facebook Moments, which collects and shares embarrassing personal revelations from Facebook users, ill-advised photos and online chatter are coming back to haunt people months or years after the fact. Examples are proliferating daily: there was the 16-year-old British girl who was fired from her office job for complaining on Facebook, “I’m so totally bored!!”; there was the 66-year-old Canadian psychotherapist who tried to enter the United States but was turned away at the border — and barred permanently from visiting the country — after a border guard’s Internet search found that the therapist had written an article in a philosophy journal describing his experiments 30 years ago with L.S.D….” Here.

Does not compute…

The equation:

Books keep kids’ grades up; the internet makes them slide.

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Can the internet save the book?

Internet’s big brother–coming soon?

“…The move to shut down and regulate the Internet under a new government-controlled system has accelerated into high gear with the announcement that the government’s cybersecurity strategy revolves around issuing Internet users with ID “tokens” without which they will not be able to visit websites, the latest salvo against web freedom which, in combination with Senator Joe Lieberman’s ‘kill switch’ bill, will serve to eviscerate the free Internet as we know it. Under the guise of “cybersecurity,” the government is moving to discredit and shut down the existing Internet infrastructure in the pursuit of a new, centralized, regulated world wide web…” Here.

Engaging the hodgepodge

“…In suggesting that bloggers create original content, Dennis A Mahoney writes, “The web is a tremendous hodgepodge of media. There are sites about books, sites about music, and sites about sites.” Yes! But to move toward “original content” is to move in exactly the wrong direction. People are hungry, they are positively salivating, for sites that intelligently dissect the plethora of sites that in turn deal with sites, books, music, and sites on sites. In every other medium critics write from secondary, tertiary, even quaternary degrees of removal. The critics analyse the original content, sure; but then the critics are themselves analysed; and then that analysis is analysed by someone else; and then the real genius wakes up, carbonates his own cola product, turns on his computer, and analyses the shit out of everything that preceded him. And that’s what students write awesome, timeless papers about…” Here.

Hyperlinking and memory

“…This evidence — that even the microseconds of decision-making attention demanded by hyperlinks saps cognitive power from the reading process, that multiple sensory inputs severely degrade memory retention, that overloading the limited capacity of our short-term memory hampers our ability to lay down long-term memories — is enough to make you want to run right out and buy Internet-blocking software…” Here.

China’s loathesome human web crawler thingies

“The internet vigilantes are after adulterers, citizens who are perceived as unpatriotic, journalists who urge a moderate stance on Tibet, rich people, amateur pornography makers and corrupt politicians. Truth be told, the choice of victims is relative and contingent on anyone who angers the omnipotent and anonymous bulletin board mob. Victims are targeted and treated cruelly. (In one instance, a kitten was killed on video to prove some hideous point.)…” Read more here.

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Related: Chinese internet as entertainment

Banana Republic broadband speed

Most of us by now know that America is the biggest banana republic since, well since the Mayflower landed, but surely you ask, since that great banana republicist himself  Al Gore invented the internet, surely surely our ol’ banana republic (which, for the sheer economy of syllable reduction, I have dubbed Shitland) has at least the fastest internet connection status in the world–I mean we’re not number one in most things anymore but of course we must have at least the fastest internet speed, right booby?–…….but alas, no, we are 18th, somewhere behind Slovakia and Iceland.

Update: good news. I believe we are pulling ahead of the South Pole.

Related: Korea: faster, cheaper broadband.

“Digital disobedience”

From The NY Times: “…They are using a variety of tools to evade government filters and to reach the wide-open Web that the Chinese government deems dangerous — sites like YouTube, Facebook and, if Google makes good on its threat to withdraw from China, Google.cn. It’s difficult to say precisely how many people in China engage in acts of digital disobedience. But college students in China and activists around the world say the number has been growing ever since the government stepped up efforts to “cleanse” the Web…”

Horse race…

We are here at sunny PageRank Algorithm…and… They are out of the chutes…It’s Little Twitter…Little Twitter gaining speed…Microsoft Bing now coming up fast… coming up…Micrcsoft Bing two lengths behind big  Big Goog now…Twitter in the middle…Hotbot falls by wayside…WolframAlpha in the rear…they’re running…Big Goog in the lead…Microsoft Bing now just one length behind…coming round…running running…….

Update: fear grips Google. Yes, Bing could make the finish line by a nose…Google co-founder Sergey Brin on suicide watch…