Internet

Hidden chokepoints

One of India's biggest digital vulnerabilities sits on a six-kilometre stretch of Mumbai's Arabian Sea coast. Around Versova, a densely populated neighbourhood on the city's northwest, at least 13 of ++India's 18 intercontinental submarine cables++ come ashore within six kilometres of one another. Together they carry as much as 95% of India's international bandwidth to Europe, Africa and West Asia. "This network faces a…

Time to make web forums great again?

I want to pose a question: Is it possible that online users just have nonstop shiny object syndrome, and even if forums worked correctly and did the job, users would still move onto something else because we’re never happy? I think the argument is pretty strongly yes. That said, I do think that as the internet matures into something that is more furniture in our lives, perhaps some of us will slow down. Maybe we’ll log into a…

The internet is still good

The internet may be a dumpster fire. Much of it probably is. But there are still plenty of corners that haven't been engulfed by the raging wildfire that's laying waste to everything in its path. For all our complaints about the internet—and many of those complaints are entirely justified—it remains one of the…

Digg is back?

Kevin Rose is building Digg