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What The Internet Isn't

Posted by timothy on from the to-name-just-six dept.

looseBits writes "Doc Searls and David Weinberger, co-authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, have put together a 10-part guide for how to stop mistaking the Internet for something it isn't. It contains some painfully obvious and often overlooked characteristics of the 'world of ends' we call the Internet."

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  1. About a year ago... by DeHackEd · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/153223 3

  2. FreeNET by ikewillis · · Score: 5, Informative
    "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," John Gilmore famously said.

    Indeed, and this is exactly what FreeNet is designed to do:

    http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

    Perhaps the fear of every government everywhere, FreeNet allows for secure and anonymous communication.

  3. This quote says it all about politics and tech by Ender77 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "The first correlation is with the unbalance between technological acceleration and political retrogression, which has proceeded earth-wide at ever widening danger levels since 1914 and especially since 1964. The breaking apart is fundamentally the schizoid and schismatic mental fugue of lawyer-politicians attempting to administrate a worldwide technology whose mechanisms they lack the education to comprehend and whose gestalt trend they frustrate by breaking apart into obsolete Renaissance nation-states." - The Illuminatus! Trilogy