Daily Archives: June 9, 2024

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    • Our Media

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 9, 2024

    “Free storage and bandwidth forever” sounds too good to be true, but…. Not enough attention or credit has been given to JD Lasica’s OurMedia project. Opening today, the Learning Center: The Learning Center is an ongoing project with a simple aim: to help people engage in the participatory media movement by showing them how to [...]

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    Gay Marriage

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 9, 2024

    My ineptly pseudonymized friend “Kerr Mudgeon” has been whacking away at the gay marriage issue all week at his blog on the contrary. He opens the series on a serious note with an essay titled “The Case for Gay Marriage.” His follow-on essay asks “What next? Are we going to have to let them marry [...]

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    True or false?

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 9, 2024

    The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

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    Network neutrality set-back

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 9, 2024

    Declan McCullough writes about yesterday’s House rejection of net neutrality.  He quotes Representative Markey, whose amendment offered the best hope for maintaining an IP  commodity market unpolluted by monopolistic practices: “The future Sergey Brins, the future Marc Andreessens, of Netscape and Google…are going to have to pay taxes” to broadband providers, said Rep. Ed Markey, [...]

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    Three bags full…

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 9, 2024

    John Palfrey will lead the “making money” discussion at BloggerCon. Looking at the cursed power law, there would seem to be three subsets to examine: the asymptotic risers – those few who aggregate attention in a mass media modality; the inflectioneers – people with blogs to be found around the inflection point of that cursed [...]

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