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Re: Hacking Google News?
I have unease too. More of the way we know and experience the Web depends utterly on private hands. For better or worse (and so far it's been better, but it could get worse), Google is *not* part of The Commons. It operates in and on the commons, but is not the Commons itself. Critical difference. Google is becoming The Directory, in a very practical way, in the Net's operating system. Or so it appears, in a practical sense. At the moment I feel a bit like Google Island with its lovely volcano is really a giant whale. Kind of like that scene in the Munchausen movie, whatever it was. I didn't feel that way before this News tab got added, but now I do. Maybe all we need to do at this point is take note of it. And hope that Google notes it, too.
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