Articles on Computers & Internet

Finally - New Spam Prevention Product That Works!

Businesses and consumers are drowning in a never-ending deluge of Spam (junk mail) - according to reports just released by Quris, Inc. Spam has increased 450% from June of 2001 to now. Furthermore,...

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Spam Spasms & Spamocidal Mania

Below is a letter I wrote to the following organizations:

S.H.U. (Spam-Haters Unanimous)

N.A.A.P.W.H.S. (National Association for the Advancement of People Who Hate Spam)

P.W.H.P.W.D.H.S....

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The Metaphors of the Net

Four metaphors come to mind when we consider the Internet "philosophically":

A Genetic Blueprint
A Chaotic Library
A Collective Nervous System
An Unknown Continent...

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Internet : A Medium or a Message

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The Ghost in the Net

However far modern science and technology have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.

Today, the degradation of the...

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The Seamless Web

http://www.enfish.com/

The hype over ubiquitous (or pervasive) computing (computers everywhere) has masked a potentially more momentous...

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The Polyglottal Internet

http://www.everymail.com/

The Internet started off as a purely American phenomenon and seemed to perpetuate the fast-emerging dominance of the...

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Bright Planet, Deep Web

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....

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The Miraculous Conversion

http://www.ideavirus.com

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...

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The Medium and the Message

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...

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