Tag Archives: internet
Taking time out for Net Hui 2011
Net Hui is coming up this week – Wednesday to Friday June 29 to July 1 – and I’m looking forward to clearing my work desk and heading to Auckland for it. Net Hui is a conference embodying a series of discussions about the internet in New Zealand. No doubt broadband speed will come up, [...]
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History of the Internet video parade
The fruits of, ahem, quality research time spent on YouTube. From 1981: “Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.” “It takes over two hours to receive the entire text of the newspaper over [...]
So you found something wrong on the internet? No worries. Just fix it.
I do sometimes find it tiresome hearing the same old refrains about the internet: 'oh, but it's full of rubbish', 'but there's some terrible misinformation online', 'yes but who has time for all this?'
Clearly I'm not alone. Jeff Jarvis does a good job collating some of his standard rebuttals: There’s junk on the internet. True. There’s junk everywhere (even on bookshop shelves). The mistake is to think that the internet should be packaged and perfected, like media. It’s not media. Blogger Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, says the web is instead a place where we talk and connect.
First rule for ISPs: keep it simple (please)
Here's something I'd like New Zealand's ISPs to read. It's a list of suggestions made by Silicon Alley Insider in response to the news that some US cable companies are moving to user-consumption billing (more you use, more you pay). Here's a couple to be getting on with: Make things simple. Don't have 50 pricing plans.
‘The Internet in 1996 vs 2011′ infographic from Online University