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The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop It), by Jonathan Zittrain
Read this a few months ago, but haven’t posted, which is a little weird, considering how much it’s affected the way I think about the Internet. Anyway, the quick summary is that this is an incredibly...
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Jimmy in China
An amazing meeting in Beijing — Jimmy Wales seeing Chinese officials at the State Council Information Office. I met Jimmy in Dalian at the WEF event a year ago — he mentioned then that people in the...
View ArticleThe Big Picture — Days of Autumn
The Big Picture does it again, with amazing, amazing photos of the Fall Season. I should just set up a permanent pointer to these, because they hit it out of the park every single time. As Paul...
View Articlelessig on charlie rose
Worth watching the whole piece. Fantastic and articulate, as always. Remix is on my nightstand now.
View ArticleAsymmetric Follow
Great post by James Governor at RedMonk about something I’ve been thinking about for a while now — the idea that everyone’s Twitter feed is a unique view on the world, that you can’t always see every...
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Why I’m Attending FOCAS 2009
As I mentioned, I’ve been in Aspen this week at The Aspen Institute’s Forum on Communications & Society (specifically titled: Of the Press: Models for Preserving American Journalism). It’s been a...
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Thoughts on FOCAS 2009 & Journalism
This is my 2nd post about the Aspen Institute event on the future of journalism — more on what went on & some thoughts I have. It’s long overdue, and is a follow-on post to this earlier post....
View ArticleOpen Letter Supporting Proposed Net Neutrality
This morning, I’m a signatory on behalf of Mozilla on an open letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski regarding his proposed principles for Net Neutrality. There’s quite a lot of support for this...
View ArticleMore on Net Neutrality
Today FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski issued a statement that articulated a new jurisdictional approach, based on Title II of the Communications Act, to realize the open Internet principles commonly...
View ArticleGlass House Conversation: Transparency v Clarity
This week I’m moderating an online conversation at the Glasshouse Conversations site — an electronic outgrowth of a series of in-person conversations a couple of years ago. I’ve written about my trip...
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My Talk at the House of Commons
I’m currently in the middle of an extremely interesting trip called Silicon Valley Comes to the UK, which Sherri Coutou and Reid Hoffman have organized for several years. it’s a fantastic trip so far,...
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Alone Together, by Sherry Turkle
I’ve always found Professor Turkle, from MIT, to be both thoughtful and thought-provoking — she’s spent her career observing and learning about and thinking about how we interact with technology, and...
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50k
Yesterday my Twitter follower count ticked over 50,000 for the first time. And while I wouldn’t exactly call that a lifetime achievement or milestone, it has caused me to reflect a little bit on...
View ArticleScreens, Storage & Networks
I’ve been thinking a bunch about platforms lately, and how they’re evolving very very quickly. Generally, there are two categories of thing that people talk about as platforms. Traditionally, they’ve...
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In the Plex, by Steven Levy
I really liked this look at Google by Steven Levy — I’ve always liked his insights about the company — he’s had extraordinary access, and I loved the stories about when Google was less gigantic &...
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Announcing our Investment in Tumblr
I’m super excited to announce Greylock’s investment in Tumblr. We knew Tumblr was big when we started talking with David and John over the summer — over the last year or so, it’s practically exploded...
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Announcing Greylock’s Investment in ClearSlide
We’re very happy to be new investors in ClearSlide, a company that builds tools for sales & marketing professionals to communicate — it’s radically simpler than the cumbersome conference tools we...
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Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!, by Douglas Coupland
A biography of Marshall McLuhan, one of the smartest media thinkers ever, written by Douglas Coupland, one of my very favorite authors, was going to be pretty much a no brainer for me to pick up and...
View ArticleWhat’s bothering me about the SOPA “discussion”
There are 3 things that have really been bothering me about how the SOPA/PIPA discussion has been going so far. it’s not a discussion at all — it’s people calling each other names. it’s highly likely...
View ArticleSome followup thoughts on my SOPA post
The best thing about writing for me is that it helps me figure out what I really think about things. And one of the very best things about doing it on the web is that others can collaborate, disagree,...
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