These are all internet problems and [internet users] think someone should do something about it. Although many internet users think the government should keep out of the internet, I suggest to you that most ordinary people who just use the internet like they use the banking system or the trains think that the government should make sure it all works properly for them and that bad things get stoppe...

Douglas Carswell, who is still merrily blogging away despite the happy intrusion of fatherhood, wonders whether the days of the spin doctor might be starting to fade. He says the internet is seriously starting to cut into the middleman of the spin doctor. I am not so sure about that - presumably, spinners will use the internet to try and prolong their role. But there is no doubt that spin doctors,...

Plans to force internet providers to block sites carrying pirated music and films 'threaten freedom of speech and the open internet', says internet and telecom companies

Why are internet service providers above the law? Why do we assume the internet is above and beyond the law? The world wide web should be as much subject to the laws of the land as any other form of communication. Yet it’s still the “wild west web” where lawlessness is rife and politicians wring their hands claiming there is nothing they can do. The truth is that the internet ser...

Via Slate, something of a classic, this: Why the Internet won't be the next big thing - from Newsweek Magazine, 1995. Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure. What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is that the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacki...

So now the EU wants to get its hands on the Internet. Viviane Reding, bonsai Commissioner from the bonsai state of Luxembourg, wants ICANN, the company that allocates Internet addresses, to be taken over by an international consortium: what she calls "a G12 for Internet governance". Eurocrats are upset because the web is run by Yanks What is her problem with the current model? That it doesn't...

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo. Hat tip to Metastwnsh, the new Welsh language internet and technology blog.

Internet activities are one of the easiest ways to bring yourself to the attention of a) a mass audience and b) the people who have all the money. Whether you are tech guru Jason Calacanis or a troupe of actors performing skits for podcast in the hope that you’ll become viral, the internet is the

apComms, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Communications, chaired by John Robertson MP and Derek Wyatt MP, is launching an inquiry into Internet traffic to assess regulation of ISPs and a range of Internet traffic issues from behavioural advertising and privacy to child abuse images and Internet neutrality to answer what role Government should play when it comes to Internet traffic.

Tomorrow afternoon (Thursday) MPs will, for the first time, have the opportunity to fully debate the issue of privacy and the internet - an astonishing thought given that more than 60% of the public use the internet every day. The...