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Tree semiotics, part 1

Connective Corridor Lumberjacking

Connective Corridor Lumber-jacking

Tree love is a hereditary trait in my family or, at least, it was nurtured in me. As living beings, it actually might be a part of everyone’s DNA. At any rate, I have pretty vivid memories of my parents getting angry when they heard of some development going up at the sake of acre of timber. They also weren’t too pleased when they saw some homeowner unjustifiably chopping down a tree.

That thinking stuck with me, and made me stop and look and ponder the sign to the left.

I always question these types of signs. They strike that all important emotional chord in us (heck, a soon to be executed tree apparently wrote the language on the sign) with promises of a better tomorrow. They also seem to be too good to be true, misguided and inaccurate. This is a marketing program on some level and I am suspect of it.

I wanted to do a little more digging. Continued…

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No parking

No Parking From AU Photography

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Corner of a building

Corner of a Building From AU Photography

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Open Internet Coalition

INTERNET By Stuart Caie

INTERNET By Stuart Caie

Below is a short paper Julia Allis and I developed for IST 618 – Survey of Telecommunications and Internet Policy taught by Professor Milton Mueller. It takes a look at the Open Internet Coalition. Enjoy!

About/Policy Agenda

For our lobbying organization, we chose the Open Internet Coalition. Founded originally as “ItsOurNet Coalition” in 2006, the Open Internet Coalition rebranded with its current name in 2007 (Crum, 2007).  The Coalition is a group of corporations dedicated to keeping the Internet open to all producers of Internet content, affordable and available to everyone, and maintaining a high quality of service through a competitive marketplace (Open Internet Coalition). The organization’s policy agenda commonly refers to what it calls the ‘Four Opens’ – open devices, open applications, open services, and open networks (Paczkowski, 2007). Part of their policy, ‘network neutrality’, is an agenda item that the organization and its members have vacillated on throughout the years.

Despite their noble-sounding mission, the organization has been criticized of clubby, behind-the-scenes operations when Continued…

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Van Gogh variety

The eyes and expression never changes!

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