Full Interview: Barbara van Schewick on Internet Architecture and Innovation Comments

Wilson

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:56:29 +0000

Hey, lookit that! Thanks!

Dan Misener

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:32:11 +0000

Right at the top of the comments section. On the upper right hand side, there's an RSS icon w/ dropdown.

Wilson

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:58:12 +0000

Dan, where'd you get that link for subscribing to comment feeds?

Wilson

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:33:38 +0000

Are transcripts available for any of your interviews? This is an important issue, but I have *many* friends who'd rather spend 15 minutes (if that - <sigh>) reading about it than 40 minutes listening to it.

Dan Misener

Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:11:00 +0000

Hmm. I'm able to subscribe to individual post comment feeds w/o commenting. For instance, here's the comment feed for this post: http://intensedebate.com/postRSS/66514147

Russell McOrmond

Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:28:37 +0000

(Wish IntenseDebate allowed me to subscribe to comments without posting. I added my 2c to the main episode, so won't repeat here).

Bettina

Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:23:55 +0000

Interesting interview but a most peculiar accent. Is she a non-native speaker? It sounds a bit like a poorly executed speech generator. Almost unbearable to listen to. One has to sympathize with her students.

Randy

Wed, 5 Jan 2011 19:26:57 +0000

I just heard this interview over the radio and thoroughly enjoyed it. This brought up some really good points that I, as an Internet user have been sensing, but have had difficulty putting into words.

Dave

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:33:21 +0000

bravo spark... I really enjoyed your interview with Barbara van Schewick. The internet is yet another example of how the capitalist model has serious limitations. The internet must remain free and open. We must fiercely protect this revolutionary medium. Information is the lifeblood of humanity/democracy and creativity.

Gordon Garmaise

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 05:03:15 +0000

Thanks for a great interview! Professor Schewcik succinctly and clearly expresses the need for network neutrality. I would add another technique large ISPs used to blunt competition. The long-term commitment - where an ISP offers an incentive (introductory rate, "free" modem and/or installation, bonus item, et cetera) for a multi-year "contract". Of course the "contract" only binds the consumer. The ISP makes no reciprocal commitment to the consumer, they may change their network "management" practices, introduce bandwidth or other limits, even increase rates. If the consumer doesn't like the service or sees a more attractive offer s/he is trapped in the contract or must pay an egregious termination penalty. Another example of the ISPs putting their own interests first It's a scam they developed in the mobile telephone business - another hotbed of pseudo-competition.

MW

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:01:39 +0000

Forty minute interview? You spoil me, Spark! I've listened to a lot of "economists" over the years, but this is the first time I've ever heard the term market failure. It's so easy to get the impression that market systems are all about homogenization and monopolies as a natural thing all markets actively strive for (much to our chagrin). To think about it again knowing that there is a such definable thing as market failure upon those grounds almost sounds too good to be true -- especially in regards to net neutrality.

Jason Treit

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:17:21 +0000

Great choice of interview subject. Her economic treatment of distributed innovation outperforming quality-control-based processes is among the best I've heard. At any layer of abstraction, that's the story of the Internet. I'm hoping Barbara's soundbyte about application-blind networks reaches the ears of more cyberlaw people. Making a stand at ISPs' license to spy inside packets is a masterful way to lift fog from the net neutrality debate. Plus, as Gary Ohm suggested, this approach eases in a strategic alliance between net neutrality and privacy.