web 2.0 update
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My presentation to the MPA Cohort pilot degree program at University of MN Humphrey Institute of Public AffairsTRANSCRIPT
From the Wayback Machine... my company blog
Grandpa Page
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
• http://pfhyper.posterous.com
• http://twitter.com/pfhyper
• Peter Fleck
• 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