December 20th, 2008 § Comments Off § permalink
Our Larry Who Art In Heaven
Doc Searls: This has turned Google, a private company with no accountability to any constituency, into a negotiating partner of national governments whose laws or policies do not reflect or respect the ethical stance claimed in Google’s own slogan. Thus, Google now functions on a diplomatic level
Ghastly thought. Not sure I want two grad students with a big plane …
… with the ability and clout to forge country-by-country compromises affecting internet activity and the free flow of information and opinion. Read the rest of this entry »
February 21st, 2008 § Comments Off § permalink
That nice
Doc Searls, I realized today with a slightly queasy sense of
deja vu, is a radical of exactly the kind I used to know in Berkeley in the Sixties. Idealistic, passionately invested in an entirely imaginary group future, rather touchingly ignoring the nature of a capitalist society what has already et him and his Linux buddies and spit ‘em back out.
Or, to put it another way (I could do these forever): Run ‘em right over with the giant money truck, just like the rest of us, but the beauty (?) of Linux geeks is, They never even notice. Read the rest of this entry »
November 28th, 2005 § Comments Off § permalink
Blogger and technology columnist Doc Searls began keeping track of how many ‘hits’ Google found for the word ‘podcasts’ on September 28, 2004, when the result was 24 hits. There were 526 hits for ‘podcasts’ on September 30, then 2,750 three days later. The number doubled every few days, passing 100,000 by October 18. As of November 14, 2005 Google reported 99,700,000 hits for ‘podcasts.’
When I write that the revolution is already here, what I mean is: the revolution is here. You’re reading it.
What else is the web but pure, unstoppable democracy. Good luck, old men of China. Good luck, old men everywhere.
