It's a news site concerning topics often not discussed in mainstream media, a column sphere, in the near future an internet radio, a social network, and a video site all in one. Basically it's a community media portal so they can organize and spread the word, wake people up.
Today I'll ignore the big bad world and write about happy things. It's been such a good day that I can voluntarily stop ranting today. Most people choose to go to sleep. That's another thing. I'm not going to forget the useless state where our world is, but I have to recognize that there's hope. In fact a lot of hope. Things somehow become the way we secretly intend them to. The world is full of miracles and the greatest of them all is love.
I feel lazy suddenly. I know I should be filling those application forms, reading those studybooks, doing some code, stretching and fixing a publishing plan for my ideas. But i feel like staying in the bed for a while. Coincidence: My childhood friends, who yet haven't been reading this blog, called me to drop by on the beach with them. Laziness disappeared. I guess it was just boredom. I'll read more Carl Jung this weekend.
So, where were we? What would the Internet be like if a few big corporations didn't set the paradigm for it? In 1990's some people were working on a whole new concept for internet communications at CERN: The World Wide Web. That's where we are right now. Of course the corporations at first resisted, then watched the open source community develop a browser, went on to try to dominate the browser market, watched the open source community develop better servers and better media and better apps, and followed by taking over critical business and communications applications. The intent was all along if it has to exist let's turn it commercial and corporate.
Even IBM has had to embrace Linux to stay in the marketplace.
Corporations control a surprisingly small part of the Internet, and of the Web. It's quite well for a former US military network opened to the public such as the Internet. But the corporations have taken over the critical applications. That's what they're really good at. The corporate agenda dictates us HOW WE USE the Internet. The Average John or Jenny simply doesn't have the marketing dollar, even if Linus from Finland or Mark from South Africa had made an app much better than what the corporations offer. Even if someone had made fusion, the corporations would still set the paradigm. Why?
Because they control what you can see. They got the mediaz. They got the tabloidz. They got the Newz. They make the Moviez and the Muzik behind the mp3z. And they hates the Torrentz. Corporations run basic services like Google, Altavista (anyone remember?), MSN, Yahoo, Facebook, etc. The Internet is filled with information, but the way it disseminates through the net is filtered. There's hosts out there for all programs, you can even control a robot across the Internet, but these things aren't pop because everyone's busy updating their Myspace.
Everyone's listening to Spice Girls when they could make their own music, or listen to a really good indie artist. Anyway. I'm ranting again.
I guess today I'll go on the beach, in fact I should be on my way already. But no alcohol. No tobacco. No coffee. Maybe a bottle of soda. Really. I mean it. OK. Pics or it doesn't exist.
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