Inventing the Future

Extraordinarily perceptive article by Tim O’Reilly about how the future of the Net will emerge from a myriad of developments, most of them outside the corporate sector. This piece is in the same league as Clay Shirky’s original essay on the significance of P2P.

Shake-up at AOL Time Warner

Chickens coming home to roost department. Financial Times story here. New York Times story here. And the FT followed up with an admiring profile of the company’s putative saviour.