Monday, June 16, 2003

Communities vs. Bureaucracy -- Who Will Win? Community Efforts vs. Bureaucracy -- Who Will Win? In a strange twist of synchronicity, the following two articles ended up next to each other in my list of news stories this morning: Broadband entrepreneurs wire the nation. Around the UK, small communities are banding together to be part of the broadband revolution. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh cautions that a proposal being considered by the Council of Europe would impose impossibly bureaucratic controls on Internet users. [CNET News.com] 9:47:13 AM    comment [] Who knew there were Cyberfeminists? As I skimmed the article, My Son, the Cyborg [New York Times: Technology], I ran across this little tidbit: "Sadie Plant happens to be a cyberfeminist, with a hip cultural-studies background: her empirical research on mobile phones fits neatly into the visionary view of digital technology, in which it is seen as radical, emancipatory and really cool." Time to add "Zeros + Ones" to the reading list...  9:23:30 AM    comment [] Reading Newton Word for Word on the Web, Isaac Newton's Secret Musings. A project at the University of London aims to put the scientist's less famous writings online. [New York Times: Technology] "The Newton Project, a joint effort based at the University of London, aims gradually to post all of the scientist's previously unpublished work at a Web site (www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk), including thousands of pages of alchemical and theological writings..." 9:14:58 AM    comment []

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