Comments on: Internet Futures – Genevieve Bell Speaks at ASIST http://librarygarden.net/2009/01/08/internet-futures-genevieve-bell-speaks-at-asist-4/ An ongoing conversation among librarians with differing perspectives (public, academic, school, consortial, youth) but one shared goal: ensuring the health and relevance of libraries. [insert your own gardening metaphor here] Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:44:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Marie L. Radford http://librarygarden.net/2009/01/08/internet-futures-genevieve-bell-speaks-at-asist-4/#comment-4510 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:17:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.net/2009/01/08/internet-futures-genevieve-bell-speaks-at-asist-4/#comment-4510 I'm so glad that you left a comment! It is really gratifying that you said our blog has avid readers.

Genevieve gave many illustrations of the massive regulation of the net around the world, particularly in Egypt, Turkey, & China. The good news is that many times hackers can circumvent attempts to censor and many times can find workarounds.

]]> By: cybergrunt http://librarygarden.net/2009/01/08/internet-futures-genevieve-bell-speaks-at-asist-4/#comment-4508 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:57:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.net/2009/01/08/internet-futures-genevieve-bell-speaks-at-asist-4/#comment-4508 It’s interesting she has predicted that blogging will continue when Wired has called the personal blog as dead – forced out of existence by the big blogger names who post 30+ times a day. I guess some of us just blog away in the hope that people are reading which is part of the reason I am leaving this comment. I’ve decided to comment more to let other personal bloggers out the know that they do have avid readers.

She is very accurate about regulation of the internet though, sadly enough. Australia, where I live, is about to regulate the net despite massive public outcry, and for what? Porn (oh no people having sex) and kiddie porn which is so difficult to come across on the the net without actively searching for it, that it may as well not exist ( I’ve been on the net since 1992 and I’ve never come across any). As you can probably tell, censorship is a sore point with me. I really hate being controlled and Genevieve’s predictions aren’t going to alleviate my condition it seems hehe.

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