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03-03-2012 07:02

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Last month I mentioned essays by Dave Winer, John Battelle, and Keith Woolcock on why the growth of "social media" threatened the survival of the original social/individual/international medium known as the Internet. Short version of net history, as they present it:

-Back in the AOL era, people did their communicating within separate, proprietary "walled gardens" of the cybersphere -- AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, etc.

-During the Google era, they did business across proprietary boundaries (though sometimes within national boundaries, as under China's closed system) via the open Internet.

-In the emerging Facebook era, their growth and activity is channeled back into proprietary spheres.

The argument did not contend that Google was less profit-minded than any of the others. The point was that its model for profit-maximization (usefully) involved maximizing openness and connections on the Internet. Whereas the Facebook model, like the AOL model long before it, maximized separateness in proprietary spheres.

A new essay today, by Tristan Louis at his site, extends the logic. It begins thus: The essay connects individual user behavior, click-by-click, with the larger trends in the Internet's growth. Worth reading and reflecting on.

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'I Killed the Internet': Click by Click, the Internet Grows, or Dies

3 March 2012 Last updated at 08:42 ET

A sea search for a Cheltenham man who went missing in the Cayman Islands is due to resume on Saturday.

Nathan Clarke, 30, was last seen a week ago on the island of Grand Cayman. His mobile phone was found in the sea on Wednesday.

Police said that CCTV footage from the area showed "no sign" of him leaving the Seven Mile Beach area.

Mr Clarke's parents are due to fly out on Saturday to join the search for their missing son.

Police said they were now concentrating on an area of ocean close to where Mr Clarke was last seen.

Janet Dougall, from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS), said 18 officers and 35 civilian volunteers were continuing with the search.

The search was due to resume at 08:30 local time, 13:30 GMT, she said.

Mr Clarke works as a teaching assistant on Grand Cayman, and has lived there for about four years.

He was last seen near Calico Jack's beach bar on West Bay Road on the Caribbean island wearing swimming shorts.

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Sea hunt for missing Cayman man

02-03-2012 06:04 Expats Living Rough In The Philippines Part 4

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The timely revelations by Global Witness of unspecified amounts of diamonds cash being hidden in tax-free-havens of Mauritius, Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands vindicate our earlier concerns.

The diamonds report caught Mugabe's militarised loyalists unawares, in the wake of a major propaganda campaign about "how sanctions were causing typhoid".

The inner circle has try every trick in the book to be de-listed by the EU and the US, especially after SADC colleagues led by Zuma failed to sway the EU Parliament, the 2 million signature petition flopped and Tomana's litigation of the EU appears to have died a natural death.

The expose shows the devastating power of information over propaganda and its serious implications for the Mugabe regime and the Kimberley Process.

The busting of the regime's alleged secret diamonds looting spree sounds like "The Emperor's New Clothes".

According to Answers.com, the story by Hans Christian Anderson goes like this. An emperor hires two tailors who promise to make him a set of remarkable new clothes that will be invisible to anyone who is either incompetent or stupid.

When the emperor goes to see his new clothes, he sees nothing at all - for the tailors are swindlers and there aren't any clothes.

Afraid of being judged incompetent or stupid, the emperor pretends to be delighted with the new clothes and "wears" them in a grand parade through the town.

Everyone else also pretends to see them, until a child yells out, "He hasn't got any clothes on!"

In this case, as some NGOs are reportedly pleading for 'Mugabe's bail', Global Witness has pointed out the emptiness of the pretensions of the regime's propaganda about Marange diamonds being "clean" and "knocking down world prices".

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Zimbabwe: Diamond Cash Hidden in Tax-Free Havens