at Apple.

Edward Vielmetti on “Building the Internet Toll Road”:

You were lied to. That’s right. You see, customers funded fiber optic networks they never received, to the tune of $2000 per household

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Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace:

…is this: When the roller coaster throws you to the concrete, you just dust yourself off and buy another ticket.

So tempting.

Anyway, Russell Beattie points out some obvious things about business models and Web 2.0.

Planned Obsolescence brings together three important links to essays on electronic academic publishing. Go read all three.

I’m reminded of Closing the Set, and the online annotation stuff I suggest in The Annotated Everything.

How will academic contributors to distributed shared works—conversations, really—get the credit they want? Will job candidates’ biographies get thousands of times longer? Will the snail’s pace of academic conversation have to be acknowledged?

Cultural “issues” ahead.