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Privacy concerns and technology (...more)
We continue to plod through an era distinguished not only by an unprecedented and accelerating technological evolution but also by a lag in the development of the attendant social, ethical, and legal institutions it demands. Think of the Wild West....
October 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Is Google getting too powerful? (...more)It used to be Microsoft that some pointed to as dangerously powerful - having control of the personal computing market through their monopoly on operating systems. Now people are talking about Google's growing influence on the Web. Google is much...
October 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Is Media Concentration an Issue? (...more)More on the notion that, for innovation and free society to flourish, the layers of any communication medium must operate independently. Many people believe that our current media landscape, dominated by a few vertically integrated mega-conglomerates, while threatened by the...
October 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Designing a Free and Innovative Medium (...more)In chapter ten TBL begins his treatise on the social forces of the web. The Web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and...
October 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Are tools Important? (...more)The Internet and the World Wide Web in simple terms are new tools; new technology. Is technology important? Can it make a difference? In today's class we will discuss some important technologies, which may include innovative processes, that have changed...
September 16, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Mcluhan's CBC archives (...more)Also by way of Mark, comes these CBC archival Mcluhan clips....
March 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
How news travels on the Internet (...more)From Stephen Van Dyke, by way of Mark Federman, comes his big picture view of how the news travels on the Internet....
March 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
More Socio-technical shifts... (...more)Near the end of Weaving the Web we began talking about various socio-technical shifts that make up our current transformation. Cluetrain, in a thousand little soundbytes, touches on them and many more. Technological determinists, like Marshall Mcluhan for instance, believe...
February 10, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Prometheus (...more)Do you like Greek Mythology? The stories of Prometheus may have something to teach us about our current age. Prometheus was known as the most intelligent 'Titan' --a species of god that inhabited the earth before man was created. As...
February 5, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Mind Analogy (...more)You may have heard the term collective consiousonous. It is tempting to make a comparison between the internetworking of minds and machines and the wiring of our own brains. Computers, it could be said, provide the brain and cortex, the...
February 3, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Socio-technical shifts (...more)We will be moving on to Cluetrain but never quite leaving TBL's 'Weaving the Web' behind. Though it is now five years old you'll not find a more succinct and lucid overview of the Web's past, present, and future. The...
February 3, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Media Concentration (...more)More on the notion that, for innovation and free society to flourish, the layers of any communication medium must operate independently. Many people believe that our current media landscape, dominated by a few vertically integrated mega-conglomerates, while threatened by the...
January 28, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
