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July 27, 2006
Net integrity
Net integrity: BBC collects research reports, concluding that 95% of email is junk, almost all coming from infected zombie machines. At WIRED, Bruce Schneier offers a good overview of the business aspects of deploying updateable native code to unsuspecting computer users. There's a general problem with "free access", because it shifts the costs onto recipients -- email and Usenet architecture assumed that everyone was good, and so failed -- blogsearch and tagging also became polluted by assuming equality among participants -- social news sites are also at risk of being gamed. Freedom of association is one thing, but it can't be forced association -- we need the ability to disassociate from people, too, in any upcoming social systems. Anyway, these are some shocking stats in these two articles... worth a read to see how the commons approaches tragedy.
Posted by JohnDowdell at July 27, 2006 02:45 PM
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