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Eugene Blissful _ugene_lissful — Adventure, boyhood - themes of race, friendship.

Francisco Carvalho fmello15 — The Master Switch, by Tim Wu, is a tour through the American history of information industries on route to what may be the most important public policy issue facing our time: net neutrality (a term actually coined by Tim Wu in a 2003 essay). The idea is simple. Network operators should not be regulating the traffic that flows on their networks. No blocking of sites or individuals or types of traffic. No slowing down some traffic, or speeding up other traffic, regardless of type, source, time of day, or any other reason. No privileging of any traffic to the detriment of other traffic. Free speech and the production of culture depend on what one supreme court justice termed the "marketplace of ideas." Free speech and the production of culture is thus about access to that marketplace. Today, all the channels of information and communication converge on one master network, the internet. Currently, the internet is a radically decentralized communications network. But there is nothing to say that it has to remain that way. In fact, the entire American history of the information industries tells a worrisome tale, following a pattern that Wu calls the Cycle. The Cycle is an alternation all of our communications technologies have passed through, going through periods of openness and decentralization, to closed periods and centralization with the rise of the different information empires, and quite often back again. This Cycle has often been aided by the federal government, such as with the creation of state sanctioned and favored monopolies (the Bell monopoly), and has occasionally been made to swing in the other direction once again by government action (such as the justice department's eventual breaking up of the Bell monopoly). It is a story of innovation and "creative destruction" during periods of openness, followed by periods of stifled innovation, of an established information empire shutting down promising new technologies. Which leaves us with a question: Is this time different? Is the Internet different? Will the Internet, which has become so central to our economic and cultural life, avoid the Cycle, avoid the closed phase? Today, the public sphere exists in an information network. Now all information converges here. The stakes have never been higher. The Internet has shown the world that open beats closed. But it depends on an actual physical entity that can be warped or broken. With everything on one network, the potential power to control everything is so much greater. How do you think it will all turn out?

O A _s_sman — After rave reviews, a blockbuster movie, and a sequel there is very little that can be said about Persepolis that hasn’t already been stated. Still, I must join the cacophony of voices who have given this graphic memoir glowing reviews. As many already know, the story is about Marj (the author) who is a young girl living in Iran when the revolution begins. Her family is liberal and made up of very revolutionary thinkers, which puts them in great danger. As a ten year old, Marj watches as various members of her family are imprisoned and others are executed for their beliefs. Due to her young age, Marj gets caught up in the revolutionary sentiments that are all around her. However, she is unaware of the hazards of resisting authority and attending demonstrations that counter the government. Though her parents cultivate her passion and independence, they know that they cannot keep her safe in their homeland. At times this memoir is troubling and frightening, yet it always remains tender and thoughtful. Despite the fact that this book is about war and oppression, it is not violent and none of the illustrations are explicit. The importance of family and close friends are lessons that readers of any age can enjoy and learn from. Perhaps the best aspect of this novel is that the reader does not need to have any knowledge of the Iranian revolution in order to understand the plot. It is also important to note that it is not your typical clichéd “coming of age” tale in which a young adult goes through a sexual awakening and suddenly sees his/her parents as real people and therefore is released from childhood. Instead, this is a true tale of maturation in which the main character finds herself and her own voice despite the rampant oppression around her. She grows up not because she finds love and has her heart broken but because she learns the true importance of family and freedom. www.iamliteraryaddicted.blogspot.com

Jonathan Lavoie krokchefad8013 — Carmen starts school not knowing any English. Each day she comes home and teaches her younger sister what she learned at school. That way, her younger sister will already know some English when it's time for her to start school.

黄 志成 5140838524c24 — The style of writing is WAY over exaggerated, and I can see why the author has experienced success as a columnist. However, to maintain that level of overstatement thoroughout an entire novel is just irritating. And even though we ALL know how a dog story is going to end, I still cried. Guess I really am a dog lover after all!