6:30 a.m. I find a graphics editing program from ZDnet called ImageForge that looks like it will meet my needs. I then spend about two hours editing some graphic images and inserting them onto all of the previous pages. I am now able to follow a thematic thread through the pages as well as a chronological one. This first appeared to be necessary as I realized that I now had four different threads (so far) on this site.

The book Code is amazing. The Note section at the end contains a wealth of links to online sources.

"How do we protect liberty when the architecures of control are managed as much by the government as by the private sector? How do we ensure privacy when the ether perpetually spies? How do we guarantee free thought when the push is to propertize every idea? How do we guarantee self-determination when the architectures of control are perpetually determined elsewhere?" (p. xi).

The last question has some uncomfortable resonances with education.

• "These are hard times to get it right, but the easy answers to yesterday's debate won't get it right." (p. xi).
• "This is not a field where one learns by living in libraries. I have learned everything I know from the conversations I have had, or watched, with an extraordinary community of academics and activists, who have been struggling over the last five years both to understand what cyberspace is and to make it better." (p. xii).
• "That cyberspace was a place that governments could not control was an idea that I never quite got. The word itself speaks not of freedom but control. Its etymology reaches beyond a novel by William Gibson to the world of 'cybernetics', the study of control at a distance. Cybernetics had a vision of perfect regulation." (p. 5).
• "We build liberty ... by setting society upon a certain constitution.  But by 'constitution' I don't mean legal text. ... I mean an architecture - not just a legal text but a way of life - that structures and constrains social and legal power, to the end of protecting fundamental values - principles and ideals that reach beyond the compromises of ordinary politics." (p 5)
• The invisible hand of cyberspace is building an architecture that is quite the opposite of what it was at cyberspace's birth. The invisible hand, through commerce, is constructing an architecture that perfects control - an architecture that makes possible highly efficient regulation. ... much of the 'liberty' present at cyberspace's founding will vanish in its future. ... We can build, or architect, or code cyberspace to protect values that we believe are fundamental, or we can build, or architect, or code cyberspace to allow those values to disappear." (p. 6).
• "If the code of cyberspace is owned, it can be controlled; if it is not owned, control is much more difficult. The lack of ownership, the absence of property, the inability to direct how ideas will be used - in a word, the presence of a commons - is key to limiting, or checking, certain forms of governmental control. ... One part of this question of ownership is at the core of the current debate between open and closed source software." (p. 7).

The book examines four areas of controversy:

• intellectual property
• privacy
• free speech
• sovereignty

4 p.m. This was a reading and yellow highlighting hour, still looking at Code. I hope to make a few notes on the first four chapters tomorrow.