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

[inter­nal quote]

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.