if I had to choose between copyright and the wild west, semi-lawless, innovation-fest that is the internet? I’ll take the internet every time Jonathan Coulton, on copyright, piracy, and the MegaUpload shutdown
Web
De URL is het document. Arjen Kamphuis in zijn column over documentformaten, Its a trap! (Wayback Machine)
Open
The question about pay walls is whether they are the *best* way to make the *most* money. Jeff Jarvis, with a great list of Hard economic lessons for news
Content
Bookmarklet apps like Instapaper […] are pointing us toward a future in which content is no longer entrenched in websites, but floats in orbit around users. A List Apart explains, in Orbital Content, what most publishers can’t seem to grasp
I fear the Internet is doomed to fail, to be replaced by tightly controlled gardens of exclusivity. Don Norman, I Have Seen the Future and I Am Opposed
In reality, we think the open versus closed argument is just a smokescreen to try and hide the real issue, which is, what’s best for the customer, fragmented versus integrated. Steve Jobs, on Why Android isn’t open
Open
Like “2.0”, companies are coming to see “open” as just the next checkbox-marketing-trend to hitch their fading brands to. Chris Messina, on “open” and the cigarette industry, in Open-washing and the CamelOpenCircle …Jerk
Open
I can’t speak to the hardware and “architecture” issues, but I despise the idea of “user interface” patents. John Gruber, Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement
For Apple, it’s not about killing off tinkerers, but ensuring that not everybody who wants to use a computer has to be a tinkerer. Dan Moren, explaining why The iPad isn’t a third device, but a third revolution
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. John Gilmore
Free
The trick with free is you need to leverage the free part to increase the value of something that is scarce and that you control, which is not easily copied. Techdirt’s Mike Masnick, Free Gone Wrong... Or Free Done Wrong