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Saturday, December 28, 2002
started 12/29/2002; 1:04:50 AM - last post 1/5/2003; 7:06:17 PM

Doc Searls - Saturday, December 28, 2002

12/29/2002; 5:04:50 AM (reads: 4276, responses: 2)

Digging DigID

Keep on diggin', Dave sez. So a bunch of us have been diggin' on the DigID (digital ID) issue off-line. By mutual agreement Dr. Weinberger has put the tread on-line, at JOHO the Blog.

I'm sure there will be more. Stay dug.

Dept. of Applied Irony

Interesting take on the Daypop Paradox over at JOHO the Blog. I especially like the the Law of Inconspicuous Fame.

Webwaves too

Just found a worthy Site of the Day — The SideShow Annex: We Want the Airwaves. Subtitle: A collection of links documenting the decline of free speech in the mass media (and the fight to retain it)

Thanks to The Head Lemur, here are a couple more: Signals crossed on fate of digital radio, by Keith Damsell; and Christmas wielded as a weapon, by Jack Kapica, both in recent issues of The Globe & Mail.

By the way, the Lemur has seen, and applied, the connection between the Net's NEA nature and Creative Commons licensing:

Free and Open Exchange of ideas and opinions.

Nobody owns it. Everybody can use it. Anybody can improve it. You Will See This Material Again.

Yep! Lemurzone's content is being released under the Creative Commons by attribution, no derivatives, non commercial Licence. Be advised that this is covering the text and the odd images that may show up here in the new

I'm liking the Copyright-Only Dedication myself.

Perspective

Joi provides a domestic prospective on Professor Hasegawa's recent statements (read'em before they scroll away) about U.S. reasons for dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Here's my original pointer to the story.

Sez Joi:

Obviously, this is very relevant to the current "War-on-Terror" and is an important part of Japanese history. Japan is still struggling with Russia over the islands that the Russians claimed as theirs after the war...

By the way, none of the mainstream press have picked up on this story yet. Remarkably few bloggers, for that matter. Interesting.

A fun man is good to find

I was running down my mental list of fun L.A. bloggers when it suddenly occurred to me that I was at risk of overlooking the most fun dude of them all: Bernie DeKoven, of Deep Fun and much more. Like me, Bernie is a transplantee from the East Coast and Palo Alto, in that order. Or chaos. Or, as they say here in the Southland: whatever.

Anyway this seems a good time to point his way, with the New Year coming along and all.

One more reason to be your own ISP

In the ultimate world of ends (which the end-to-end Net continues fundamentally to be), ISPs become nothing more than storage and pipes. Stupid things, as David Isenberg correctly says.

Because if they're not stupid, they get all smart like Verio and start shutting down whole sites and communities.

Thanks to Rhizome for the link. And to the Reverse Cowgirl for turning us on to Rhizome.

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Tim Pozar - Re: Saturday, December 28, 2002

12/29/2002; 4:31:24 PM (reads: 688, responses: 1)

Having an "end-to-end" network for "The Thing" would also mean that their ISP would have an AUP that would prohibit them from kicking them off. As a co-owner of an ISP that eventually was gobbled up by Verio (The Little Garden - TLGnet), we had an AUP that was very open to any sort of communication on the pipes. It was in response to the early days of the Internet were the NSF had a very restricted policy on communication for the backbone they ran for the (then) Internet.

Here is a section of TLG's AUP...

TLGNet's TERMS AND CONDITIONS

TLGnet exercises no control whatsoever over the content of the information passing through TLGnet. You are free to communicate commercial, noncommercial, personal,questionable, obnoxious, annoying, or any other kind of information, misinformation, or disinformation through our service. You are fully responsible for the privacy of, content of, and liability for your own communications.

TLGnet exercises no control whatsoever over the content of the information passing through TLGnet. TLGnet makes no warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, for the service it is providing. TLGnet also disclaims any warranty of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. TLGnet will not be responsible for any damages you suffer or inflict on others. This includes loss resulting from delays, non-deliveries, misdeliveries, or service interruptions caused by its own negligence or your errors or omissions. Use of any information obtained via TLGnet is at your own risk. You are responsible for determining whether or not the traffic you originate will end up being carried on another network, and for following the rules of any such networks. TLGnet specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through its services.

Any access to other networks connected to TLGnet must comply with the rules appropriate with the other network. *Use of TLGnet itself may be for any purpose. Use of TLGnet for commercial purposes is both permitted and encouraged.*

(Stars added for ephisis. - Tim)

Looking at The Things's AUP it is far more restrictive. Check out "Part C" at:

http://isp.thing.net/rules.html

I think the net needs an TLG style AUP even more now than 1990.

Tim

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Doc Searls - Re: Saturday, December 28, 2002

1/5/2003; 11:06:17 PM (reads: 779, responses: 0)

Amen. A belated thanks for sharing that.

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