Internet Stuff

The Internet Policy Institute is beginning to take shape.

Just as the UK appears to be moving in the oppositie direction by creating the possibility of broadband providers being able to charge for diffferent "package weights", the FCC in Washington, DC voted 5-3 to maintain Net Neutrality.

Check out yesterday's Networked Nation Conference at www.editorialintelligence.com or www.commentconference.com or via e.i.'s App on iPhone

Ten years ago I wrote to the then Vice Chancellor at Oxford University, Colin Lucas, suggesting an Internet Institute at Oxford; it was fast forwarded though the system and opened in September, 2001. Next September, we shall celebrate its tenth anniversary and give thanks to Dame Steve Shirley for her £10 million donation - which made it all happen.

Has Google taken no notice of what happened to Microsoft a decade ago when it tried to bundle software up? Today, the EU announces its investigation to its search facilities and dominant position in the market.............