Joy of Access: Freedom of Press

The beauty of the Internet lies in the freedom it gives to individuals to publish to other individuals. In the eighteenth century the personal firearm revolutionized politics and encouraged the formation of the American republic. The computer is the rifle of the information age, and the personal computer will do the same thing to the clusters of informational power that the rifle did to clusters of political power. The twentieth century media giant will go the way of the eighteenth century tyrant.

Or, as Jello Biafra said, “Don’t hate the media. Become the media.”

There are numerous ways for you to publish to the net, and you’ll need to talk to your Internet provider about your options. Here, I’m going to talk about just two: web pages and mailing lists.