Mr. Glenny, the former Central Europe correspondent for the BBC World Service and the author of two books on the Balkans, hops from one to the next in a mind-boggling if less than coherent survey of Internet fraud, illegal energy and weapons deals, drug cartels, counterfeiting of consumer goods, prostitution and car-theft rings, immigrant smuggling and sturgeon poaching.
Therefore, we propose that the aim of cyber credit governance is to maintain a consistent and integrated cyber credit ecology to ensure the coherent operation of Internet finance, and reduce the credit risk to a controllable level.
Google's role as an online identity service, Mr. Horowitz said, is "to allow people to express themselves and have a coherent, useful experience on the Internet, to give users choice and control".
I believe that the Internet offers the potential for coherent many-to-many conversations for the first time in the history of humanity.
He criticized what he said was a lack of a coherent strategy for multimedia businesses, which include consumer Internet service providers and Web publishing and software ventures.
And Pariser obliged, laying out three very coherent and practical ways that we can reform the Internet to make it a more transparent and informative medium.
Levine, the former executive editor of Billboard magazine, isn't necessarily the first to make this argument – but Free Ride is probably the most credible and coherent book to date on the impact of the Internet on our culture.
The confusion, here, is mistaking a particular business model based on advertising and data aggregation for an eternal truth about "the internet" – as if that existed in any coherent enough form to have a single purpose.
At Mighty Big TV, a Web site that dishes up sarcastic recaps of television shows, as with many Internet forums, the job of keeping online debate coherent and spam-free falls to discussion board moderators.
