Spotlight: TED Talk “Web runs on kindness” (how the Internet works)
A TED Talk posted in September (”ideas worth spreading”) by Jonathan Zittrain “provides a humorous and informative talk about how the Internet works. Zittrain’s premise is that the Internet relies on random acts of kindness… In the talk, Zittrain compares the passing of data packets through the Internet to the passing of a beer from one person to the next at a baseball game.”
[Editor's note: Excerpted from the Oct. 31, 2009 article "The Web Runs on Kindness" by Richard Byrne at www.freetech4teachers.com.]
By
Cynthia Danner-Kuhn on
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Category: Spotlight | Tags: Internet, newtech, TEDTalks, video | 25 views
Articles in November 3 Issue
- Trend Micro antivirus updates to be released Nov. 10
- Anthony Phillips joins K-State’s IT security team
- Schedule of live EDUCAUSE sessions Nov. 4-6
- Zimbra Weekly: Sharing briefcases
- Replays of Landon, Eyestone, and Lou Douglas lectures on K-State TV
- TechBytes Nov. 5: Flipcams in the Classroom
- IT Security Roundtable Nov. 6: Trend Micro updates for Windows and Mac OS X computers
- Nov. 10 demos of Mediasite, a classroom capture-and-streaming tool
- IDT Roundtable Nov. 12: “Virtual Collaboration: Applied Projects and Tools”
- K-State Online / Axio Conference 2009 videos now available online
- ZAP Reader, a web-based speed-reading tool
- Acronym Finder, a web-based reference tool
- Spotlight: TED Talk “Web runs on kindness” (how the Internet works)