Slashdot | China Prepares to Launch Alternate Internet

xposted: From the Lemmingworks.

China Prepares to Launch Alternate Internet: “Netfree writes “The Chinese government has announced plans to launch an alternate Internet root system with new Chinese character domains for dot-com and dot-net. This may mean that Chinese Internet users will no longer rely on ICANN, the U.S.-backed domain name administrator, and, as one commentator notes, could be the beginning of the end of the globally interoperable Internet.”"

Perhaps. Or rather it will lead to a global, i.e. not American run, internet? Or perhaps multiple names on a single IP#? The IP numbers will still be there. It really bugs me that, as I argued in my old paper, The Technology of Difference, that ASCII has to run everything. I usually disagree with a lot of what the Chinese government is up to, but I’m interested in seeing how this plays out.

Encyclopodia - the encyclopedia on your iPod

xposted: From the Lemmingworks.

Encyclopodia - the encyclopedia on your iPod: “Encyclopodia is a free software project that brings the Wikipedia, which is one of the largest encyclopedias on the world, on the Apple iPod MP3-Player.”

ME? I’m going to do this!

Mimi Ito - Weblog: More postdoctoral fellowships at the Annenberg Center

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My friend Mimi says that the are jobs in them there hills!

Mimi Ito - Weblog: More postdoctoral fellowships at the Annenberg Center: “The Annenberg Center (where I work) has just posted a call for applications for 6 postdoctoral fellows and one visiting scholar position for 2006-07 in addition to the one for my project on digital kids and one for Simon Wilke’s Center for Communication Law and Policy. Really looking forward to having an interesting group of scholars in residence at the Center in the fall. Please blog and post widely!”

Working at Annenberg, with Mimi, would be a great cool thing. I’ve been down there twice, and really enjoyed it.