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The Lightnet Revisited

At the end of 2005 I wrote a post messing around with some ideas on the future of the net.

One of the ideas was the counter concept to the Darknet, using the term 'Lightnet'. I didn't define 'Lightnet', Lucas Gonze did that (and soon after Lucas was good enough to acknowledge me with credit for the invention of the term in the Darknet context).

Over the next few days, Mike Linksvayer, Peter Van Dijck, Kenyatta, Richard MacManus and Jon Udell did their bit of meme-spreading, then J.D. Lasica, author of 'Darknet: Hollywoods War Against the Digitial Generation', picked up on the Lightnet too, where this pic turned up:

Lightnet

A few days later, Lucas and J.D. Lasica were both interviewed by Jason Boog for an article Jason published at Publish, where Clay Shirky was also asked to comment.

But it didn't end there. Prompted by Raymond's post today I was curious to see how the lightnet meme has been doing so I did some searching around.. Here are some samples of the Lightnet citations I found:

Long live the Lightnet.

Comments

Miguel Caetano said:

Hi, alex

Many thanks for linking to my post. But I have to say the text is written in Portuguese and not in Italian. Yes, that's right. I'm from that tiny little country located in South Europe, near Spain. Also, this is the second part of an article. The first part is here.

# February 14, 2007 12:09 PM

alexbarnett said:

Miguel,

thanks for dropping by and pointing out my error - more embarrasing as I was born in Spain (close enough to know better!).

Alex.

# February 14, 2007 12:18 PM

Tanner Brockwell said:

I have been trying to come to terms with the amateur poetic tendency to believe that words can be stolen.

I believe this is false, and have put my works under creative commons for distribution. I think that maybe explaining this to my friends in verse would get the message to them.

Does anyone else think that idea theft can be countered with openness?

# February 21, 2007 8:17 AM