Category: openweb

I Work For the Internet

December 14, 2011 by thornet

[I Work For the Internet](http://iworkfortheinternet.org/) is freshly launched campaign by [Fighting For Freedom](http://fightforthefuture.org/) against harmful internet blacklist legislation, [SOPA](http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/112%20HR%203261.pdf), making it’s way through Congress **right now**. A coalition including the EFF, Mozilla, Creative Commons, Wikimedia, and many other organizations [have been rallying](http://americancensorship.org/supporters.html) internet users to…

In the Flesh

December 9, 2011 by thornet

>The new magnetism of congregation seems universal…The web becomes not a destination in itself but a route map to somewhere real. — Simon Jenkins, *[Welcome to the post-digital world, an exhilarating return to civility](http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/01/post-digital-world-web)*

My Web.

December 9, 2011 by thornet

>When you own a domain you’re a first class citizen of the web. [Adrian Short](http://adrianshort.co.uk/2011/09/25/its-the-end-of-the-web-as-we-know-it/) For the last few months, I’ve been in a blogging slump. Like presumably a lot of people, the sheer number of communication channels has both overwhelmed and satisfying the urge…

Internet Studies‽

April 24, 2011 by thornet

As a lover of the interwebs and someone who’s followed the research from the likes of AOIR and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (see Tim Hwang’s great piece on the Berkman school of thought),  a recent discussion about the merits of “internet studies”…