internet/eng

This is zombo com and other authentically web websites

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Mdia

A little of the absurd, funny, creative and unregulated internet in 3 links. (I am so glad every time I find out that this piece of the world wide web is not extinct yet! ) 1- Welcome to zombo com The unnatainable is unknown at zombo com! (and the background music is top! ) 2- [...]

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The web2.0 suicide machine

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Mdia

Everyone should have the right to disconnect. Seamless connectivity and rich social experience offered by web2.0 companies are the very antithesis of human freedom. Users are entrapped in a high resolution panoptic prison without walls, accessible from anywhere in the world. Everyone should have the right to quit her 2.0-ified life. Facebook and Co. are [...]

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Nicholas Carr on The Price of Free (in NY Times)

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Mdia and has 1 comment.

The Price of Free By NICHOLAS CARR Published in the NYT on November 13, 2009 When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and plumbing — are nothing new in the [...]

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