multicast

(or: An Internet and Innovation Reading List for You.)

Recently I’ve been ginning up a reading list about the title given in this blog post, and I wondered if I could try to crowdsource some of this bad boy. If you had a semester and you wanted a graduate-level someone to learn all of the basics and some of the more advanced and interesting stuff about the broad topic “the Internet and innovation,” what would you tell them to read?

[The preview image for the
“History of the Internet”
video by Melih Bigil.]

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I’m BACK from the summer hiatus.  And this morning I’m guest blogging over at American Public Media’s “Future Tense” blog on network neutrality.  I posit that we may enter an era of “Internet Tycoons” that rival Morgan and Vanderbilt, basically as a way to reference a 20-year-old computer game that I like.

See for yourself: http://futuretense.publicradio.org/blog/index.php?id=981794782

Any thoughts? Reactions? (Especially if you post them there and not here.)