The Ghost in the Net This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, E Business However far modern science and technology have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible. Today, the degradation of the inner ...
The Seamless Web This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Business Solution http://www.enfish.com/ The hype over ubiquitous (or pervasive) computing (computers everywhere) has masked a potentially more momentous development. It is the convergence of computing devices interfa...
The Polyglottal Internet This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Used Keyboard http://www.everymail.com/ The Internet started off as a purely American phenomenon and seemed to perpetuate the fast-emerging dominance of the English language. A negligible minority of web sites wer...
Bright Planet, Deep Web This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Online Advertising www.allwatchers.com and www.allreaders.com are web sites in the sense that a file is downloaded to the user's browser when he or she surfs to these addresses. But that's where the similarity ends. Th...
The Miraculous Conversion This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Business Model http://www.ideavirus.com The recent bloodbath among online content peddlers and digital media proselytisers can be traced to two deadly sins. The first was to assume that traffic equals sales. In o...
The Medium and the Message This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Online Advertising A debate is raging in e-publishing circles: should content be encrypted and protected (the Barnes and Noble or Digital goods model) - or should it be distributed freely and thus serve as a form of vi...
Will Content Ever be Profitable? This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Marketing Guru THE CURRENT WORRIES 1. Content Suppliers The Ethos of Free Content Content Suppliers is the underprivileged sector of the Internet. They all lose money (even sites which offer basic, standardiz...
The Future of Electronic Publishing This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Web Advertising UNESCO's somewhat arbitrary definition of "book" is: ""Non-periodical printed publication of at least 49 pages excluding covers". The emergence of electronic publishing was supposed to change all...
The In-credible Web This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Better Business http://www.webcredibility.org/ People are conditioned to trust written words, not to mention images. "I read it in the paper" or "As seen on TV" are worn out but still effective clichés. The Interne...
The Territorial Web This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Online Advertising Revenues The Net was supposed to dissolve anachronistic national borders and cultural boundaries. It was expected to vitiate distance - both physical and mental. It was hailed as the invention that will unify...
A Brief History of the Book This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Medieval Europe "The free communication of thought and opinion is one of the most precious rights of man; every citizen may therefore speak, write and print freely." (French National Assembly, 1789) I. What is a ...
The Affair of the Vanishing Content This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Eastern Europe http://www.archive.org/ "Digitized information, especially on the Internet, has such rapid turnover these days that total loss is the norm. Civilization is developing severe amnesia as a result; inde...
Revolt of the Scholars This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, First Computer http://www.realsci.com/ Scindex's Instant Publishing Service is about empowerment. The price of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals has skyrocketed in the last few years, often way out of the limited m...
The Internet And The Library This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, First Computer "In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center of a global copyright controversy that casts them as villains simply for doing their job: letting people borrow books for fre...
The Fall and Fall of the p-Zine This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Used Keyboard http://home.wuliweb.com/index.shtml http://www.pshares.org/ The circulation of print magazines has declined precipitously in the last 24 months. This dissolution of subscriber bases has accelerated d...
An Embarrassment of Riches - Part II This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Increase Sales http://www.doi.org/ The DOI Foundation has unveiled the DOI-EB (EB stands for e-books) Initiative in the Book Expo America Show 2001, to, in their words: "Determine requirements with respect to t...
Jamaican OverDrive - LCD's in LDC's This Article is About: Medical Records, Central Europe, East Europe OverDrive - an e-commerce, software conversion and e-publishing applications leader - has just expanded an e-book technology centre by adding 200 e-book editors. This happened in Montego Bay, Jamaica...
Maps of Cyberspace This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Business Model "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphical representation of data abs...
The Idea of Reference This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Internet Advertising http://www.britannica.com There is no source of reference remotely as authoritative as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. There is no brand as venerable and as veteran as this mammoth labour of knowledge ...
E(merging) Books This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Business Model A novel re-definition through experimentation of the classical format of the book is emerging. Consider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly to travel a...
Deja Googled This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Used Parts http://groups.google.com/ http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce.html The Internet may have started as the fervent brainchild of DARPA, the US defence agency - but it quickly evolved ...
Invasion of the Amazons This Article is About: Central Europe, East Europe, Free Money The last few months have witnessed a bloodbath in tech stocks coupled with a frantic re-definition of the web and of every player in it (as far as content is concerned). This effort is three pronge...
