http://internetdistinction.com The Internet is not a "specialized service." Mon, 21 May 2012 11:03:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/21/freedom-to-connect-2012/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/21/freedom-to-connect-2012/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 10:58:31 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=418 Today and tomorrow, May 21-22, at AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. (See http://freedom-to-connect.net/ and http://freedom-to-connect.net/agenda-2/) About F2C: Freedom to Connect F2C: Freedom to Connect is a conference devoted to preserving and celebrating the essential properties of the Internet. The Internet is a success today because it is stupid, abundant and simple. In other [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/21/freedom-to-connect-2012/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/04/23/vint-cerf-in-wired-we-knew-what-we-were-unleashing-on-the-world/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/04/23/vint-cerf-in-wired-we-knew-what-we-were-unleashing-on-the-world/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:39:52 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=412 (Original at Wired Magazine) Wired: So from the beginning, people, including yourself, had a vision of where the internet was going to go. Are you surprised, though, that at this point the IP protocol seems to beat almost anything it comes up against? Cerf: I’m not surprised at all because we designed it to do [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/04/23/vint-cerf-in-wired-we-knew-what-we-were-unleashing-on-the-world/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/12/bob-frankston-from-diy-to-internet/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/12/bob-frankston-from-diy-to-internet/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:59:22 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=406 (Original at Bob’s blog) From DIY to the Internet Slide Commentary Do It Yourself – 1960’s / 1970’s. The Words we Use The World as your Oyster Railroads Telecommunications A Service per Device Stop the Presses! ATT’s at it again! A Break from the Past Rephrasing Any to Any but no Promises Can Act Locally [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/12/bob-frankston-from-diy-to-internet/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/01/doc-searls-edging-toward-the-fully-licensed-world/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/01/doc-searls-edging-toward-the-fully-licensed-world/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:42:01 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=398 (Original at Doc Searl’s Weblog) February 29, 2012 [. . .] Nothing you watch on your cable or satellite systems is yours. In most cases the gear isn’t yours either. It’s a subscription service you rent and pay for monthly. Companies in the cable and telephone business would very much like the Internet to work [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/01/doc-searls-edging-toward-the-fully-licensed-world/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/01/01/dave-winer-on-apple-twitter-and-tumblr-the-un-internet/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/01/01/dave-winer-on-apple-twitter-and-tumblr-the-un-internet/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:06:28 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=387 (Original at Dave’s Scripting News Blog) The Un-Internet By Dave Winer on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 11:00 AM. [. . .] This time around, Apple has been the leader in the push to control users. They say they’re protecting users, and to some extent that is true. I can download software onto my iPad [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/01/01/dave-winer-on-apple-twitter-and-tumblr-the-un-internet/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/12/05/dsl-reports-the-bandwidth-hog-is-a-myth/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/12/05/dsl-reports-the-bandwidth-hog-is-a-myth/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:07:15 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=376 (Original at DSL Reports) . . . And Caps Don’t Really Address Truly Disruptive Users by Karl Bode Wednesday 30-Nov-2011 “The correlation between real-time bandwidth usage and data downloaded over time is weak and the net cast by data caps captures users that cannot possibly be responsible for congestion.” You might recall that back in [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/12/05/dsl-reports-the-bandwidth-hog-is-a-myth/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/11/02/susan-crawford-communications-crisis/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/11/02/susan-crawford-communications-crisis/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:15:17 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=374 (Original at Harvard Law and Policy Review) The cable system providers will have both the motive (maintaining the money flow) and the ability (physical control of the Internet Protocol pipe to the home) to ensure that competing pure Internet businesses dependent on high-capacity connections will not be a meaningful part of the media landscape unless [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/11/02/susan-crawford-communications-crisis/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/10/18/bob-frankston-thinking-outside-the-pipe/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/10/18/bob-frankston-thinking-outside-the-pipe/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:35:01 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=369 (Original at Bob’s Blog) Monday, October 17, 2011 We’ve unnecessarily restricted the benefits that we and our economy can enjoy from [the Internet's] abundance because of the artificial limitations of the telecommunication industry’s limited palette of services.   A picky eater can be undernourished amidst abundance. The Internet has given us a taste of the [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/10/18/bob-frankston-thinking-outside-the-pipe/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/10/01/verizon-files-to-block-fcc-order/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/10/01/verizon-files-to-block-fcc-order/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:55:48 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=367 (Original at Reuters) By Jonathan Stempel Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:19pm EDT (Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc on Friday asked a federal appeals court to block the Federal Communications Commission from imposing new rules on how Internet service providers manage their networks. The FCC last Friday said its so-called net neutrality rules were scheduled to [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/10/01/verizon-files-to-block-fcc-order/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/09/28/video-dynamic-coalition-on-core-internet-values/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/09/28/video-dynamic-coalition-on-core-internet-values/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:18:12 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=363 Meeting of the Dynamic Coalition on Core Internet Values at Internet Governance Forum 11 in Nairobi, Kenya on Sep 28 2011. Panel: Alejandro Pisanty, Vint Cerf, Scott Bradner, Sivubramanian Muthusumy (Click for video)]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2011/09/28/video-dynamic-coalition-on-core-internet-values/feed/ 0