The Polyglottal Internet by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. 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... Similar Editorials : The Internet and Beyond | Tags : Central Europe
Bright Planet, Deep Web by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. 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... Similar Editorials : Disgraced Planet | Tags : East Europe
The Medium and the Message by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. 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... Similar Editorials : New Medium | Tags : Online Advertising
The In-credible Web by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. 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... Tags : Better Business
The Territorial Web by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. 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... Tags : Online Advertising Revenues
A Brief History of the Book by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. "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 ... Similar Editorials : Book Review | Tags : Medieval Europe
Revolt of the Scholars by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. 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... Tags : First Computer
The Internet And The Library by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. "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... Similar Editorials : Digital Library | Tags : Computer History
The Fall and Fall of the p-Zine by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. 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... Similar Editorials : We Fall Down | Tags : Used Keyboard
Maps of Cyberspace by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. "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... Similar Editorials : Site Maps | Tags : The Bank
The Idea of Reference by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. 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 ... Similar Editorials : Letters of Reference | Tags : Internet Advertising
E(merging) Books by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. 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... Tags : E Business
Deja Googled by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. 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 ... Tags : Used Parts
Invasion of the Amazons by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. 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... Similar Editorials : Home Invasion | Tags : Free Money
