Beyond Necessity

Sorry for the long title.  'Technological determinism' is the view that the Internet is an unstoppable force (for good) and that try...

Web 2.0 prophet Cory Doctorow has been awarded an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University. He writes Networks -- b...

I am working on the Wikipedia book, and starting with pre-1960s attitudes about high and low culture, i.e. those pre-contemporary prejudices...

A nice article yesterday in the mail, by once young fogey, now officially old fogey, A.N.Wilson. Einstein fundamentally altered how we look...

Any book about Wikipedia must confront the issue of what Larry Sanger has called The Politics of Knowledge .  There is a nice piece by him i...

Here . Nonsense on stilts.  Every cliche or stereotype of 'Web 2.0', and Wikipedia as well.  It begins with the (desperately flawed)...

A lovely article here . "We have entered the information age." This announcement is usually intoned solemnly, as if information d...

An amusing example of Web 2.0 nonsense , byJim Barber, vice-chancellor of the University of New England, is being discussed all over Web 2...