Archive for the 'Issues' Category
Egalitarianism vs Elitism
January 30th, 2009Encyclopedia Britannica has announced an initiative which will permit readers to be involved in updating its content. Jorge Cauz president of Encyclopedia Britannica stated that
“we believe that the creation and documentation of knowledge is a collaborative process but not a democratic one” [1]
The content, added by regular users, to the site will not feature the […]
University Piracy Measures
November 19th, 2008The issue of online piracy, particularly in relation to music downloads, has been a persistent one for Universities. Student participation can be problematic as illustrated by the bizarre case brought against American student Jesse Jordan in 2002.
Jordan, an information technology student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, built a search engine for the RPI network […]
Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
November 3rd, 2008It is difficult to believe that the web has become such an integral part of our society within the relatively short space of 5,000 days. Since its inception in 1991 we have become increasingly dependant on it and still the technology is snowballing at a colossal rate.
If like me you are interested in where we […]
Nanny State?
October 17th, 2008Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has proposed legislation which would give the security services the power to amass a giant database of all emails and phone calls in the UK. Emotive topics like terrorism, murder, child abuse etc. have been bandied about to justify this initiative and while Smith defends the proposed action with the claim […]
