The (mis)information age
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The online world has once again become a breeding ground for conspiracy theories, this time with allegations that last week's presidential election was rigged in favor of George W. Bush. [Missing Links]
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SUDDENLY, the computer world is interesting again. The last three months of 2004 brought more innovation, faster, than users have seen in years.
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By Foo Eu Jin  THE Internet is often misused by both the young and old, whether at home, school or workplace, without them being aware of the ethical and legal impact. These abuses range from online pornography to seditious blogs, and they need to be addressed quickly.
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Technology is changing daily. It&#39;s a wonder we aren&#39;t all punch-drunk from the velocity with which new things emerge and not-so-old things become obsolete.
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"The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture" by Andrew Keen; Currency ($22.95)  ___  Andrew Keen is an unhappy man.
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Question: We're in the early stages of startup and beginning to shop for technology. We'll need basic hardware and software, plus many other technology and Web-based services to sell online, service customers and keep it all secure.
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The web as your auld grannie might have wished it
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By Anonymous  Editorial Perhaps it's churlish to preach prudence in an issue dedicated to a celebration of the growth of digital, but for those people around in the last internet boom, the sense of deja vu in current times is unsettling.
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The Web used to be a place where we went to seek information. But with the rise of social networks, we're barraged with a constant stream of data, requested or not
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Personal identity has taken on a new  meaning in the digital age, where basic facts like your name,  address or age are far less important to some people than the  collected records of what you were looking at online.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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Blog: As the ground shifts underneath, why is it taking the media industry so long to get out ahead of a game-changing technology curve?
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By Tampone, Kevin  SYRACUSE - For those outside the world of information technology, mainframe computers that fill entire rooms may seem like relics of a bygone era.
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In his lively new book, Garrett M. Graff asks how the technology that is transforming the global economy is going to affect the âfirst campaign of the new age.â
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Computers long ago ceased to be simply tools. Instead, like digital music players and digital cameras, they are coming to reflect peopleÂs tastes and aspirations.
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In 1995, the first warning was raised: The throngs of people swarming to the Internet would overwhelm the system in 1996. For more than a decade, that fear has proven untrue.
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By Sherman, Will  THIS ARTICLE, REPRINTED FROM DEGREE TUTOR, MAY SEEM TO FOCUS ON PUBLIC LIBRARIES-BUT THERE IS WISDOM HERE FOR ALL INFO PROS. Many predict that the digital age will wipe public bookshelves clean, and permanently end the centuries-old era of libraries.