The Zeitgeist

In next week’s issue (available online now) of <a href=”http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester”> The Nation</a>, Jeff Chester has a peice on the upcoming Balkanization plans for the Internet, courtesy of the phone/media companies.
According to Chester, “<em>Industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing “platinum,” “gold” and “silver” levels of Internet access [...]

Back in the late June of 2003, I wrote the following piece in response to one of Doc Searls’ weblog entries on the robustness of the Internet called “World of Ends” …
I took a lot of heat back then for what some called “baiting” Doc and David (which I wasn’t doing, I was just pointing [...]