From Norbert Wiener to Bruce Sterling and beyond, everyone has their opinions on why, when, how and whatever. You will also want to see Neon Alley Recommended Reading for a list of dead trees you can purchase which discuss the Internet.
- Neon Alley Recommended Reading
- The best books about the Internet.
- What Your Children are Doing on the Information Highway
- There’s something happening here, and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?
More Information
- 35 Years of the Internet: Information Links
- A collection of links from the Library of Congress dealing with the History of the Net.
- CensorWare
- Overview of the antics of web page blockers. Find out which net blocker won’t let you view the N.O.W. web page, and which blocker won’t let you view the U.S. constitution.
- Computer Mediated Communication
- Monthly magazine looking into issues of CMC and Internet culture in general. When in doubt, blame it on technology.
- Confusing Words and Phrases
- The GNU list of confusing or loaded words worth avoiding includes so-called “intellectual” property.
- Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law
- “The entirety of Western literature emerged from an oral tradition that is at its basis fan fiction.” The author argues that fan fiction, under current law, should not be considered a copyright violation.
- Does Information Really Want to Be Licensed?
- “Intellectual-property professionals who have studied proposed Article 2B of the UCC have challenged the notion that software developers (or any other information provider) can unilaterally bypass public-policy limitations imposed by copyright law by adopting highly restrictive mass-market licenses.”
- The Growth of Intellectual Property
- The history of the propertization of “intellectual” property has been a story of moneyed lobbies and lost consumer rights.
- The Gullibility Virus
- Another inciteful take on these idiot viruses hanging around the net.
- How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
- Absolutely brilliant, and what I’ve been trying to say for years: “Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. For some reason we turn off this natural scepticism when we see things in any medium which require a lot of work or resources—like newspapers, television or granite. What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust, but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV.”
- Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions
- Actual court cases touching on the Internet, synopsized; some that he feels are of more importance are further analyzed.
- Norbert Wiener and Pink Floyd
- An artistic presentation of Wiener/Floyd-related links. Quite hard to read the links over the black background, but Will’s choices are definitely worth following!
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