There’s a number of comments regardnig Internet Balkanization. There are also many comments regarding Net neutrality.
Net neutrality basically means that I can connect an application, and you can connect an application, and our applications can communicate with a protocol of our choosing over the internet, with a quality of service that is comparable to any other application intercommunication. The network does not discriminate, or charge for this service.
Internet balkanization is a concern over the internet being fragmentized in a certain way, say language wise.
Doesn’t “balkanization” (and I hate the term and its cannotation) imply net neutrality?
I mean if I could communicate via any application/protocol then why am I concerned about different fragmented groups?
Let things be as they are. Today there are many languages and cultures freely interacting over this open medium. Let alone, things will evolved naturally and towards a more optimum “unfragmentized” state of things.
Also, some people have voiced concerns that blogging is becoming introverted, and bloggers instead of addressing outside issues, are more concerned with communicating between themselves.
Again I think this isn’t justified. The number of bloggers are increasing, and blogging is a very primitive form of interactive media. so its not that bloggers are keeping things between themselves, but rather that more people are using this medium to interact (and thus more people can be labelled as bloggers).
in the future, alot of broadcast media will become interactive and I believe that these new technologies (and they’re coming soon;interactive tv) will offer enhanced ways of people interacting with each other, and stating their points of view. So blogging itself will evolved once enhanced technologies become mainstream, and this will also resolve issues like net neutrality and “balkanization”.
Here’s a short “tutorial” on net neutrality:
and here’s the other side of the argument:
