Alice Taylor

Alice Taylor writes: “Attention is our scarcest resource. Time ticks on, but there are still and will forever be 24 hours in a day. Attention is everything. We pick out signals from the noise by listening to trusted sources: friends, and favourite authors, bloggers, tweeters, journalists, broadcasters, remixers. Curators, all of them. They spread the word, we investigate, to revel in the shared experience.”

We agree with Alice, and and that’s why the CPB clamours for laws to specifically address digital rights, protection for bloggers and users of social media and for much needed changes to copyright and patent laws that grow more and more outmoded and obsolete. Too often our laws error on the side of silencening people and shutting down routes of communication and innovation. We believe they should error on the side of openness and sharing. Not adhearing to Net Neutrality should be a crime instead of having an account on a file sharing site. Not opening records to the public should be punishable as opposed to scanning them and making them available to all.

Taylor blogs at www.wonderlandblog.com and is a commissioning edito for Channel 4 Television. She’s also a founding member of the the Open Rights Group. Read her whole post at Perspectives.