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Peer pressure

New aps and websites like www.hunch.com, vimeo, qik, tripit, you name it, the seventieth reincarnation of the app you already use, create additional peer pressure. 

I sign up, and then?  Then I forget about it!  Run, Lola Run... 3rd time lucky   How nice, I've just done it again, waisted my whole evening on godknows what... Not Evlil Just Wrong and desmog.me and remail.me,  he he he - i better go and water the garden...

Grace Jones "I've done it again "

Re-reading "sci-fi"

Code 2.0 and Tom's review of the book that was published in the IPJ last year. What better thing to do on a Saturday

but to ponder on the issues of how the cyberspace should be governed. 

David Post's book (In search of Thomas Jefferson's moose) confirmed to me that:

a) unexceptionalists's point of view (Wu) - which say that the cyberspace laws should "just" obey the sovereign rules, and see the net as the old fashioned problem of border-crossing problems. "What we once called a global network is becoming

a collection of nation- state networks"... or bordered internet.

b) that both unexceptionalists and exceptionalists believe that the cure is worse then a disease, i.e. that a single global

law for issues such as copyright, fraud, libel or hate sppech or privacy is probably not the best answer either.

Maybe I can admit that I finally see myself as a part of ("the exceptionalists" bunch) as I agree with Post and Lessig that we need to try harder/// and (inspite of increasing global harmonization - which is certain to speed up in future) we (I) need to look for better system of governmental organisation - than what we have today... Which means maybe new states from our new philosophers... I'm fed up no philosopher has come up with a new social order since... many many moons ago... Only sci-fi writers.

Yester-news

At the yesterday's hearing on Oversight on ICANN - it was clear that majority of congressmen and women did not understand how ICANN works, what is ICANN, what fees are mentioned and what is the model ICANN represents. However, that did not stop Mr Stearns from scoring points and grilling the leaving CEO, Mr Twomey about his sallary details. (Always juicy bits).

Questions related to the size of the org budget and efforts to fight registrars who are cybersquatters, to issues of transparency in handling ICANN contract with VeriSign, etc...

Well - it is congressman's job to listen to its US businesses constituency who think that the USG will provide them with a tool to control ICANN better. While nothing is ideal and ICANN is in transit, it's only the leap of faith that can help!

Obama - peek-a-boo- come out to play!

weblost?

This is a time for webconfession 1.0. Am Web 2.0 unconsolidated, somewhat on purpose, not having integrated my twitter with my facebook and linked-in, having let my plazes website die, as it would not integrate my old account with the new one... by forgetting to update dopplr, as i sometimes use tripit... - so how useful is that info and to who? I stopped uploading pictures to flickr - Reason - screen fatigue! So at least I will add four new countries this year, Panama, Cambodia, South and North Korea and I added 3 last year Iceland, Colombia and Cayman Islands. Photos are piling... ever since 2007 and my trip to Cuba! Where is that digital housewife is hiding! Spring clean services...

DDO$

This http://bit.ly/3HKdt - old, but should be remembered. Hope!

Minimalism

Well - since less is more, should I replace or merge this with my twitter feeds?

Last twitter feed today.http://bit.ly/15Z2af

July 1st in London

looks good. 

He is right

so... Himself, Lord Craig of Radley - on Civil Liberties and Electronic Surveillance

Internet Economists

Where do you hide? Andrew Odlyzko is one and across the pond. Umair Haque?

Would be great to have you at The Royal Society in London on Monday. 

Good news, bad news

Bad news first. Europe voted for the copyright audio recording extension from 50 to 70 years.

Good news - Europe united again, supporting the 138 amendment to framework directive on the Telecoms Package. France's proposal to adopt HADOPI law rejected.