It's more complicated than that!
Lessig segnala che sul sito della Casa Bianca c’era questo comunicato emesso il 1 maggio 2003, che diceva:
“President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended.”
Senza nessuna spiegazione, o notifica di aggiornamento, oggi invece trovi questo:
“President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended.”
Meno male che The Way Back Machine è la memoria della rete, e che queste operazioni orwelliane non passano sotto silenzio.
David Isen punta a questo post di Nova Spivak: ottimo riassunto del perchè i feed RSS sono the next big thing:
“I predict that every medium to large corporate Web site and every major publication and wire service, as well as an increasing number of enterprise applications and services will publish and subscribe to numerous RSS channels. Already we see the beginning of this with numerous major organizations embracing RSS from IBM, Microsoft and Sun to The New York Times, ABC News and WIRED to name a few examples”
“Willingly or not the world will learn what Peak Oil means. The major underlying theme of this book, it means we are entering a period of accelerated oil and gas depletion, unstoppable price rises for oil and gas, and increased conflict for remaining reserves. Several articles provide detailed figures, and reference sources on the accelerating depletion of cheaply producible oil and gas.
Peak Oil will become an accepted fact within as little as 5 or 6 years. The CEO of ExxonMobil Exploration in September 2003 gave his corporation’s estimate of how much new oil production capacity must be found, proven, developed or upgraded to cover yearly losses of about 3.25 Million barrels/day due to both economic + geological depletion. Exxon’s estimate is that 36 Million b/d must be developed by 2015 to cover depletion. This is “four new Saudi Arabias”, or “twelve new Venezuelas”. In 11 years. This is at the least unlikely to be possible.”
[via CommUnity of Minds News]
Finalmente mi sono deciso. Ieri sera ho installato il router per la mia piccola rete domestica, liberando il PC di mia moglie dal compito di distribuire l’accesso internet alle altre macchine.
Sul sito Digicom speravo di trovare qualcosa di più, invece hanno solo il pdf dell’inutile manualetto. In compenso ho trovato un aggiornamento del firmware che mi sono subito installato, dato che corregge un problema di mancato salvataggio delle impostazioni.
Per fortuna ho trovato questa pagina sul sito di Tiscali con dettagliate istruzioni per un router simile, e finalmente ho capito cosa dovevo fare dove.
Detto questo, adesso il router funziona a meraviglia, e sono contento.
I’m off to NYC – let’s hear it for Amtrak! – to give a talk to customers of Pitney-Bowes about why documents aren’t really containers of information. Why would we ever think that they were? Perhaps because we’ve viewed ourselves as containers of information. Plus, we’ve recently managed to informationalize all of business. But, you know what? Information isn’t really the lifeblood of business. Lifeblood is the lifeblood of business.
