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There is a great article in this Sunday's Observer by John Naughton entitled 'The internet: Everything you ever need to know'. It gives 9 points of understanding that really get to the meat of understanding the Internet without getting overly technical. There is also a strong cultural/historic rooting to the piece that gives good context. I do recommend reading the whole article, but I also wish to comment on one point he makes about ecology:

I'm always interested in the ideas of technologies that are inspired by nature - and not just one feature or item, but by technologies that take on ecological principles to better interact with their environment and look to sustainability. With that in mind, I was reading about some new technologies around the corner... (all from Economist issue June 12th-18th 2010)

This sounds like an interesting project:

Many are writing the battle of YouTube vs Viacom as a classic new media vs old media battle. So the recent news that Viacom tried to buy Youtube prior to suing it for $1 Billion seems to suggest that this is more about business with copyright as the proxy:

I was struck by this article from Jeff Jarvis:

The huge news of the creation of the world's first truly artificial life-form is currently creating lots of news and comment - as you might expect:

The OKCon 2010 has come and gone - it was a great event and I really enjoyed attending and talking at it. The organisers have posted a resource page with links to presentations, images and more: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/2010/after

. So this is me (below) talking at the event...

I was happy to discover that this blog has a Technorati Authority of 401! As the score runs from 1 (lowest) to 1000 (highest), I am quite pleased with that. So what is this Authority?

There seems to be more and more applications looking to move p2p file-sharing into the cloud. For example Gygan - a propriety application that allows users to upload their own files to Gygan's servers for storage. So far, sound like existing applications that offer cloud-storage; but they also allow users to search though what other people are storing and take copies.