links for 2006-10-07

• Levy: Celebrating a Web That's Truly Free ... for Now - Newsweek Steven Levy - MSNBC.com
  Columnist Steven Levy worries the best things about the Net could soon get ruined: "It's that Joni Mitchell tune where she sings, "You don't know what you've got till it's gone.""
  (tags: internet freespeech netneutraliy onewebday)
• The Doc Searls Weblog : Newspapers 2.0 - Thursday, October 5, 2006
  Doc Searls offers local newspapers ten ways they can reinvent themselves not just for the Internet but for the living web.
  (tags: internet journalism news blogs newspapers WEBCRED web2.0)
• Blogs to books: A six-figure industry? | CNET News.com
  "Bloggers are scoring rich paydays by turning their online diaries into books, but some publishers say the craze could fizzle out with a glut of new titles destined to yield disappointing sales."
  (tags: blogs blogging books publishing)
• Comment is free: A domain by any other name - Jonathan Zittrain
  "The public's dislike of Icann comes partly from the opinion that it exercises too much control over the internet, but that's not the case."
  (tags: internet ICANN netgovernance)
• the drop » Blog Archive » Upgrading International Development
  A Talk with Ethan Zuckerman, Global Voices Online Co-founder, Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law
  (tags: ezuckerman berkman africa globalvoices freespeech internet)
• the drop » Blog Archive » Upgrading International Development, Part II
  "In part two of the interview, Ethan shares his views on conquering digital divides, activism and technology, and how improvements in technology might affect us in the future."
  (tags: ezuckerman globalvoices internet cyber-activism techtrends)