ThoughtCast® » future of the internet http://www.thoughtcast.org An online watering hole for ideas. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:02:22 +0000 en hourly 1 ThoughtCast® by ThoughtCast, 2005 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ jenny@thoughtcast.org (Jenny Attiyeh) jenny@thoughtcast.org (Jenny Attiyeh) http://www.thoughtcast.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg ThoughtCast® http://www.thoughtcast.org 144 144 An online watering hole for ideas. A podcast and public radio interview program with authors, academics and intellectuals. jenny attiyeh, thoughtcast, interview, author, public radio, academic, books, poetry, Jenny Attiyeh Jenny Attiyeh jenny@thoughtcast.org no no “The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It”!!! http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/the-future-of-the-internet-and-how-to-stop-it/ http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/the-future-of-the-internet-and-how-to-stop-it/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:47:38 +0000 Jenny http://www.thoughtcast.org/?p=151 Note: This program was broadcast on the public radio station WCVE.
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Cyber law expert Jonathan Zittrain is one of the canniest thinkers out there, pondering the wide world of the web, and his new book is called The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It. It’s a call to arms. Before it’s too late, he says, we must make sure the Internet stays in our hands – not in those of industries like Verizon, or Apple, seductive as their services might seem at times. Anybody say iPhone??
Click here: to listen (5 1/2 minutes).
For those to whom Jonathan is a new phenomenon, he is the co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, a professor at Harvard Law School, and also the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. He’s an expert on Internet law.

]]> http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/the-future-of-the-internet-and-how-to-stop-it/feed/ 0 0:05:30 Note: This program was broadcast on the public radio station WCVE. bookcover Cyber law expert Jonathan Zittrain is one of the canniest thinkers out there, pondering the wide world of the web, and his new book is called The Future of the Inter[...] Note: This program was broadcast on the public radio station WCVE. bookcover Cyber law expert Jonathan Zittrain is one of the canniest thinkers out there, pondering the wide world of the web, and his new book is called The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It. It’s a call to arms. Before it’s too late, he says, we must make sure the Internet stays in our hands – not in those of industries like Verizon, or Apple, seductive as their services might seem at times. Anybody say iPhone?? Click here: to listen (5 1/2 minutes). For those to whom Jonathan is a new phenomenon, he is the co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, a professor at Harvard Law School, and also the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. He’s an expert on Internet law. Jenny Attiyeh no no Griefer, Google Cooking and other Neologisms http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/griefer-google-cooking-and-other-neologisms/ http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/griefer-google-cooking-and-other-neologisms/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:17:00 +0000 Jenny http://www.thoughtcast.org/?p=149 Note: This piece was broadcast on Word of Mouth on New Hampshire Public Radio and on WCVE in Richmond VA.
been there - done that
Today’s online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory – spewing out new ideas, products, and neologisms – new words, or phrases. Take the word blog, for example, or broadband. These are now old-hat neologisms even my mother would recognize. But neologisms can also be existing words that acquire new meaning, like the term spam. Or the word friend – that’s now a verb! People friend each other on social networking sites like Facebook all the time!
So what better place to look for neologisms than at a conference devoted to the “Future of the Internet”, held by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Click here: to listen to Esther Dyson, Jimmy Wales, Tim Wu and Judith Donath (4 minutes). Or check out this 1 minute video with MIT Media Lab assoc. professor and Harvard fellow Judith Donath…

]]> http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/griefer-google-cooking-and-other-neologisms/feed/ 1 0:03:58 Note: This piece was broadcast on Word of Mouth on New Hampshire Public Radio and on WCVE in Richmond VA. been there - done that Today’s online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory – spewing out new ideas, products, and n[...] Note: This piece was broadcast on Word of Mouth on New Hampshire Public Radio and on WCVE in Richmond VA. been there - done that Today’s online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory – spewing out new ideas, products, and neologisms – new words, or phrases. Take the word blog, for example, or broadband. These are now old-hat neologisms even my mother would recognize. But neologisms can also be existing words that acquire new meaning, like the term spam. Or the word friend – that’s now a verb! People friend each other on social networking sites like Facebook all the time! So what better place to look for neologisms than at a conference devoted to the “Future of the Internet”, held by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Click here: to listen to Esther Dyson, Jimmy Wales, Tim Wu and Judith Donath (4 minutes). Or check out this 1 minute video with MIT Media Lab assoc. professor and Harvard fellow Judith Donath… Ideas, MIT, Words@Work Jenny Attiyeh no no To friend or not to friend: Judith Donath on online social status http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/to-friend-or-not-to-friend-judith-donath-on-online-status/ http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/to-friend-or-not-to-friend-judith-donath-on-online-status/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 20:57:54 +0000 Jenny http://www.thoughtcast.org/?p=138
Judith Donath

Have you “friended” someone recently? Have you ever? Sooner or later, we’ll all start to friend, or be friended, if we are to inhabit the jolly online world of social networking. MIT Media Lab’s Judith Donath explains….

Click here: (4:17 minutes)


]]> http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/to-friend-or-not-to-friend-judith-donath-on-online-status/feed/ 0 Ethan Zuckerman’s homage to homophily http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/ethan-zuckermans-homage-to-homophily/ http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/ethan-zuckermans-homage-to-homophily/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 20:40:57 +0000 Jenny http://www.thoughtcast.org/?p=136
Ethan Zuckerman (credit: Esther Dyson)
Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices waxes lyrical on the term homophily, which isn’t actually a web word, but it’s a phenomenon playing itself out on the Internet. Click here for clarification!

(2:20 minutes)

And to listen to a discussion with Ethan Zuckerman on the Forum Network, click here!


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Josh Marshall (credit: NY Times)
Here are a few more thoughts on new words gleaned from life online — gathered at a Berkman Center conference on The Future of the Internet!
Joshua Micah Marshall, who founded the influential site Talking Points Memo discusses the term “blogger”, a now old neologism that may have outgrown its usefulness, at least to him!
Click here: (2:30 minutes) to listen. And let us know if you agree!



And here on this YouTube video, Josh Marshall tells Jenny Attiyeh how he came up with the name “Talking Points Memo”…



Plus:

]]> http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/more-neologisms-from-the-world-of-the-web/feed/ 0 Tim Wu’s neologism: Network neutrality! http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/tim-wus-neologism-network-neutrality/ http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/tim-wus-neologism-network-neutrality/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 20:34:18 +0000 Jenny http://www.thoughtcast.org/?p=134 NOTE: Tim Wu has a new book out, called The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires!

The term network neutrality was the brainchild of Tim Wu of Columbia Law School. So what does this term mean, and what power does it have?

Click here: (2:23 minutes)

]]> http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/tim-wus-neologism-network-neutrality/feed/ 0 Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia – the word! http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/jimmy-wales-on-wikipedia-the-word/ http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/jimmy-wales-on-wikipedia-the-word/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 20:27:05 +0000 Jenny http://www.thoughtcast.org/?p=133
Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales, the founder of the free online encylopedia Wikipedia, shares his thoughts on the power of one incredibly successful neologism – that amazing name! Wikipedia is a name he’s “stuck with” — in a good way, of course!
Click here: to listen. (2:13 minutes) And hear what else “Jimbo” had to say that day, to the Chronicle of Higher Education!

]]> http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/jimmy-wales-on-wikipedia-the-word/feed/ 0 In Search of Neologisms with Esther Dyson http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/in-search-of-neologisms/ http://www.thoughtcast.org/public-media/in-search-of-neologisms/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 20:22:52 +0000 Jenny http://www.thoughtcast.org/?p=132
Esther Dyson
Neologisms are defined as new words or phrases (or new uses of a word or phrase). And what better place to find them than at a gathering of netizens (itself a neologism) steeped in the new world of the “net”. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, and ThoughtCast was there, fishing for novelty…
The Catch:
Internet guru Esther Dyson came up with an expression I’d never heard before… Have you? Here’s a clue: what does Google have to do with your refrigerator??!!
Click here: (1 minute) to find out!
But wait, there’s more!

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