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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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 ...
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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...
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...
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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...
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 ...
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...
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