Dreams come true with the help of global consciousness on the Internet
| by Jesse S. Somer | December 21, 2003 | |
Dreams. There are two types of dreams: 1. When you are sleeping there are stories unfolding in your mind from a parallel dimension. 2. The aims one has in life. The latter is the type of dream I wish to discuss. We all have these dreams, don’t we? |
Why Journal Writing on the Web?
| by Jesse S. Somer | December 17, 2003 | |
Blogs are journals giving anyone an identity, and an awesome forum for sharing thoughts and ideas with others of similar interests. Journal writing used to be a private, personal experience done late at night, scribbling hardly legible thoughts and daily occurrences down on paper amidst the haze of a barely lit room. |
Cultural Misfits
| by Bob Osgoodby | October 05, 2003 | |
I was talking with someone I know who is a real wiz with computers. He was telling me that if someone is persistent enough, they can basically break into any computer. Our service provider was recently attacked and the hackers placed programs in the system, which were disruptive. |
Invasion of the Amazons
| by Sam Vaknin | September 30, 2003 | |
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 pronged: Some companies are gambling on content distribution and the possession of the attendant digital infrastructure. |
The Disintermediation of Content
| by Sam Vaknin | September 29, 2003 | |
Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past? In one word: disintermediation. The gradual removal of layers of content brokering and intermediation - mainly in manufacturing marketing - is the continuation of a long term trend. Consider music for instance. |
The Miraculous Conversion
| by Sam Vaknin | August 19, 2003 | |
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 other words, that a miraculous conversion will spontaneously occur among the hordes of visitors to a web site. |
Seamless Web
| by Sam Vaknin | August 18, 2003 | |
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 were in other languages. |
Bright Planet, Deep Web
| by Sam Vaknin | August 18, 2003 |
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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. |
The Fall and Fall of the P-Zine
| by Sam Vaknin | August 17, 2003 | |
The circulation of print magazines has declined precipitously in the last 24 months. This dissolution of subscriber bases has accelerated dramatically as economic recession set in. But a diminishing wealth effect is only partly to blame. |
The Idea of Reference
| by Sam Vaknin | August 16, 2003 | |
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 and ideas established in 1768. |
