web 2.0 update

Web 2.0 Update

by Peter Fleckpfhyper@gmail.com

From the Wayback Machine... my company blog

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Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

Tim O'Reilly

Critical Issues

• Net Neutrality

• News/Media • Government transparency • Copyright

Net Neutrality Issues

Original FCC neutrality principles (2005)Consumers are entitled to 

• access the lawful Internet content of their choice

• run applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement

• connect their choice of legal devices that do not harm the network

• competition among network providers, application and service providers, and content providers.

New FCC neutrality principles (2009) • A provider of broadband Internet access service

must treat lawful content, applications, and services in a nondiscriminatory manner

• A provider of broadband Internet access service must disclose such information concerning network management and other practices as is reasonably required for users and content, application, and service providers to enjoy the protections specified in this rulemaking

News/Media Issues

[It doesn't take much vision] to figure out that unlimited perfect copyability... global

reach and... zero marginal cost, was slowly transforming the printing press into a

latter-day steam engine. 

This change has been more like seeing oncoming glaciers ten miles off, and then

deciding not to move. Clay Shirky

The people formerly known as the audience wish to say:

You don’t own our eyeballs. You don’t own the press, which we divide into pro and amateur zones. You don’t

control production on this new platform, which is no longer one-way.

There’s a new balance of power between you and us.

 Jay Rosen (paraphrased)

As much as I love a compelling story, I think good journalism can

also be about organizing information in intelligent ways and giving people tools that let

them help each other. 

Adrian Holovaty

Government Transparency

Open Government 

Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that the business of government and

state administration should be opened at all levels to effective public scrutiny 

and oversight. 

Open Data

• Open311 • DC Data Catalog • data.gov

DC Data

DC Data

Copyright Issues

First federal copyright act, the Copyright Act of 1790  granted copyright for a term of "fourteen years from the time of recording the title thereof", with a right of renewal for another fourteen years if the author survived to the end of the first term. Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Early_US_copyright_law

Today in the US, copyright extends to 95 years or life plus 70 years.

From 2003 to 2008, the recording industry has filed, settled, or threatened legal actions against at least 30,000 individuals. RIAA v. The People: Five Years Later http://www.eff.org/wp/riaa-v-people-years-later

Under Fire from Ascap

There are many who worry about the dehumanizing effect of technology. We share that worry, but also see the counter-trend, that communication binds us together, gives us shared context, and ultimately shared identity. Tim O'Reilly & John Battelle

Contacting me

• Peter Fleck

• pfhyper@gmail.co

• http://pfhyper.posterous.com

• http://twitter.com/pfhyper

• Peter Fleck

• pfhyper@gmail.co

• http://pfhyper.posterous.com

• http://twitter.com/pfhyper

References

Anderson, Nate. FCC proposes network neutrality rules (and big exemptions)  http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/fcc-proposes-network-neutrality-rules-and-big-exemptions.arsHolovaty, Adrian. Quoted in: Are Hyperlocal News Sites Replacing Newspapers? by  Gary Moskowitzhttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2005729,00.html

O'Reilly, Tim. What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Softwarehttp://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html 

Rosen, Jay. The People Formerly Known as the Audiencehttp://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/06/27/ppl_frmr.html

 Shirky, Clay. The Newspaper Industry and the Arrival of the Glaciers. http://boingboing.net/2008/12/08/the-newspaper-indust.html

References

Wayback Machine.  http://web.archive.org/web/19980630165957/http://www.pfhyper.com/

Extra Reads

O’Reilly, Tim & Battelle, John. Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On.http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/schedule/detail/10194 8 principles of Open Government Data http://public.resource.org/8_principles.html