Big Brother Is No Longer Fiction

In Archive by Fredy Ore

An interesting article on MIT’s Alumni website commenting on new Information privacy laws. The article is titled “Big Brother Is No Longer Fiction: On the Internet, Everyone Knows You’re a Poindexter” ::: http://alumweb.mit.edu/whatmatters/200301/
The article comments on the new US government R&D program which uses information technology for unprecedented surveillance on a massive scale. The program is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the military agency which sponsored early development of the Internet.

Future Cyberjournalism (1994, 1999)

In Archive by Fredy Ore

After reading the 1989 article by Norman Meyrowitz (president of Macromedia), I decided to do a little more research and find a little more on this topic. After a little search I came across several interesting articles by Alison Stuebe.
Although not entirely related to his information centred article, these four 1994 essays covered the interesting topic of CyberJournalism – “Beyond the Hype: Notes on the Future of Cyberjournalism
Another interesting article by Dennis Sellers on Sept 2, 1999 titled, “A look at the co-media future of print and the Web” ::: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/9909/02.media.shtml

Mike Pugh and Vagabonding

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I visited a really great travel site by Mike Pugh. He is travelling around the world and is documenting his travels in his website Vagabonding.com with photos and video. He is currently near India is about 138 days into his trip. ::: www.vagabonding.com

Creative Commons licensing

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Copyright, ownership and the Web has been an interesting topic not necessarily understood, particularly when you are dealing with international countries and their respective individual laws.
If you live in the US there is a website called Creative Commons which offer free licenses and information on licensing your material. ::: http://creativecommons.org
The website has a good SWF movie which illustrates some of the problems associated with copyright material.