Comments on: Googlezon?

By: SickAndTired

SickAndTired — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:46:33 +0000

Of course, none of this will happen anyway since that massive solar tsunami will bombard the earth in 2011 and fry every transformer, computer, and ipod on the planet. Just something I heard in passing.

By: Christine Inauen

Christine Inauen — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:50:35 +0000

(This is a comment on your post about segregation law pardons…) Those are fascinating arguments in the articles you linked to, I look foward to reading your future posts on the issue!

By: Swap Blog

Swap Blog — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:58:31 +0000

LaShawn Barber has come across a realist mockumentary that predicts what the Internet will look like in 2015. The video prodicts the merge of Google and Amazon into GOOGLEZON!!! Good stuff, even if it is not serious it is something to think about and wonder about.

By: Christopher Taylor

Christopher Taylor — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:06:51 +0000

Future of communication? People will continue to spell more poorly and use less logic until the home-schooled more traditional education youth become the dominant force in western culture as the rest slack off into incompetent obscurity, or learn and grow to catch up.

Newspapers will have to become super local or die, nobody needs them for news outside their town any more. Network news shows will become 5-minute bits at the top of the hour, thus cheaper and opening up more broadcast time to lucrative programming.

Cell Phones will largely go the way of digital watches, ceasing to be the latest kewl gadget and becoming just a tool to be used.

By: Frank Zavisca

Frank Zavisca — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:50:59 +0000

La Shawn:

The recent refusal of Google to release information on child pornography has one major motivation – the privacy of the porn suppliers, who provide a lot of profit to Google. They are amoral capitalists. These same people do not hesitate to violate the privacy of Chinese, for a profit from the Chinese Government.

But there is something more dangerous from these mega mergers; this leaves the Internet covered by only a few players – and this may undo the very nature of the Internet as an indestructable web – the presence of only a few players makes the Internet vulnerable to Government intervention – Google, Microsoft, Yahoo CAN and WILL be targets of Government interference. A few major players are much easier to interfere with than a lot of small ones.

BUYERS BEWARE

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:32:30 +0000

What worries me most about media-merging is the increased potential for fiction to be passed off as fact. With limited media sources, the public’s ability to gain additional perspective is also limted, is it not? The credibility of alternative sources is often suspect and the big players becoming moreso with time. By 2015, the big question won’t be, “What’s news?” but,”Who to believe?”

Clever video!

By: Ed Driscoll.com

Ed Driscoll.com — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:11:03 +0000

The Shape Of News To Come

Since late November of 2004, I’ve linked several times to a multimedia Flash presentation on the future of journalism, which forecasted that the New York Times would go offline in 2014, catering to an sclerotic elite and elderly crowd who…

By: Mwalimu Daudi

Mwalimu Daudi — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:57:38 +0000

For someone else, it may portend the world domination of Google (a bad thing?) and participatory journalism without fact-checks and balances.

Right now, “fact-checking” has been replaced by “fact-inventing” in the MSM. That’s my worry – a media that lies with the same degree of hate and bigotry that the world saw in Nazi Germany and Rwanda. The MSM is not quite there yet, but in a few more years (I predict) it will be impossible to distinguish Bob Schieffer, Bryant Gumbel and the rest from Joseph Goebbels and Radio RTLM.

By: Bucktown

Bucktown — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:10:30 +0000

I think Google and Amazon should pay hommage to the creator of the Internet and go with the name

“GOOGLE-GOREZON”

By: A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT

A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:50:25 +0000

Do take the time to watch the video referenced at La Shawn Barber’s Corner. The only thing missing in it is what does the future portend for Google-Blogspot’s inept “Help Desk.”

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:35:33 +0000

World domination by Google would be a very bad thing. This is the same company that censors content at the request of the Chinese government, and had also expunged http://www.thepeoplescube.com/ from any Google search (it’s bad today??). When I have time, I’ll watch the link…..