to digg for: Who owns what in the media world
Adage has build this impressing Media Family Tree, showing ownership and relationships among the top 100 media brands. Thanks to Vassa Eggen for this find.
Yet another Net Neutrality analogy
PC World’s Bill Machrone in his latest article draws yet another interesting analogy to Net Neutrality - the rate of delivery at the gas pumps.
The following quote is from the same article
“The only difference between the U.S. and China is that the ISPs, not the government, are blocking sites. They’re doing it for financial, not political gain, although there are some cases of ideological censorship.”
Read his article here: Demand Net Neutrality!
As long as people remain confused about the term, we’ll see more of these analogies in the future.
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Software to check for Net Neutrality to be discussed at BlackHat ‘06
Dan Kaminsky will discuss the details of a free software at the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas. The software will be able to determine if certain protocols such as VoIP data are treated as second class.
Dan will be posting the details on his website
Source & Full story at Computerworld
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Content providers battle over the future of the Web
The following article from Courant talks about the content providers’ take on Net neutrality and the battle that is emerging between the two sides. The CTO from VBrick, a company that manufactures switches and VoD products thinks the emergence of high bandwidth on-demand content is going to clog up the Internet. On the other hand the smaller content providers (some specialize in fields like medicine) dread the new super highway plan of the Telecom companies. If the telecom companies in countries in Japan and Korea (whose networks are considered superior to the US) can achieve excellence without this ‘pay extra and play’ approach then why can’t this be done in the US?
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-netneutrality0730.artjul30,0,5751384.story
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