the iCite net development blog 2006-05-31T01:52:29Z
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Jay Fienberg http://icite.net/blog/ siteinfo@icite.net news and thoughts on and around the development of the iCite net blojsom Copyright © 2004 Jay Fienberg How can we move the web? 2006-05-31T01:52:29-04:00 2006-05-31T01:52:29-04:00 tag:siteinfo@icite.net,2006-05-31:/200605/?permalink=movable_web.html 2006-05-31T01:52:29-04:00 <p> With the iCite net project, I imagined a world wide web that extended 1) beyond the bounds of the physicalness and hierarchy of URLs, and 2) across multiple protocols, beyond just HTTP. (I also imagined a web that extended beyond singular data formats, but I am not going to talk about that now.) </p> <p> So, in this post, I will attempt to merge a couple things I've been thinking about lately: a crazy idea about using email as an alternative world wide web, and the undermining of net neutrality (which I think is explained well in Ethan Zuckerman's article, <a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060501/views-opinion.html">One Internet, Indivisible</a>&mdash;see also his blog post on <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=796">Net Neutrality, and the hope the US could learn some lessons from African experience</a>, and Amnesty International's <a href="http://irrepressible.info/">Irrepressible.info</a>). </p><p>&nbsp; <a href="http://icite.net/blog/200605/movable_web.html">... read more ...</a></p>