Comments on: Games san frontieres http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2009/04/28/games-san-frontieres/ because it alliterates, and some blogs are journalism Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:27:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Robert http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2009/04/28/games-san-frontieres/comment-page-1/#comment-88867 Robert Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:58:55 +0000 http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/?p=624#comment-88867 It is no surprise that corporations forfeit long term viability for short term profits. CEOs seem to have dumbed down recently as evidenced by the financial systems collapse and many businesses finding that they bet on the lame horse. I have also felt that overseas outsourcing is a limited profit as you are taking out good paying jobs to save money, but losing those people as customers as they are suddenly unemployed. As for boundaries, I believe over time that those will all erode and the open culture of the internet will prevail. Failure of a group (country, business, religion) to do so will find them outcast from too much. It is no surprise that corporations forfeit long term viability for short term profits. CEOs seem to have dumbed down recently as evidenced by the financial systems collapse and many businesses finding that they bet on the lame horse. I have also felt that overseas outsourcing is a limited profit as you are taking out good paying jobs to save money, but losing those people as customers as they are suddenly unemployed. As for boundaries, I believe over time that those will all erode and the open culture of the internet will prevail. Failure of a group (country, business, religion) to do so will find them outcast from too much.

]]> By: Justin Pickard http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2009/04/28/games-san-frontieres/comment-page-1/#comment-88851 Justin Pickard Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:40:01 +0000 http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/?p=624#comment-88851 I've just got back from a week or so in San Francisco, and seeing the BBC News homepage with adverts was one of the strangest experiences I've had in some time - a subtle, creeping wrongness. I’ve just got back from a week or so in San Francisco, and seeing the BBC News homepage with adverts was one of the strangest experiences I’ve had in some time – a subtle, creeping wrongness.

]]> By: Scot http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2009/04/28/games-san-frontieres/comment-page-1/#comment-88850 Scot Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:45:10 +0000 http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/?p=624#comment-88850 <i>I still believe that boundaries in cyberspace are not only inevitable but that they can provide a benefit for those who wish to preserve aspects of their societies against the homogenising influence of the global network culture of which I am already a part</i> I have to take issue with this. What right do other people have to keep me from the global homogenized culture, if that's the culture I want to be a part of? Other people may prefer their old national culture - I have nothing against them nor would I force a global culture on them, but they shouldn't force their national culture on me. I still believe that boundaries in cyberspace are not only inevitable but that they can provide a benefit for those who wish to preserve aspects of their societies against the homogenising influence of the global network culture of which I am already a part

I have to take issue with this. What right do other people have to keep me from the global homogenized culture, if that’s the culture I want to be a part of? Other people may prefer their old national culture – I have nothing against them nor would I force a global culture on them, but they shouldn’t force their national culture on me.

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