Are You Ready for Web 2.0?
...ure of participation -- a constellation made up of links between web applications that rival desktop applications, the blog publishing revolution and self-service advertising. This architecture is based on social software where users generate content, rather than simply consume it, and on open progr......more...The Written Word Still Thrives
... would have been a finality to it, she writes. It would have been like a book.
Eventually, though, she finds blog writing incestous, limiting and too self-referential. She concludes blogging is dead when she visits blogger Andrew Krucoff and discovers his new plan is to turn his blog into a print pu......more... Puzzled Brits Clamor for Su Doku
...pers, come across it on any Google.co.uk search and hear about it from tens of thousands of hard-core Su Doku fiends.
I am hooked, says Mary Lloyd, a self-described addict from Rushden, England. I need a daily fix. I think I need counseling.
For out-of-the-loop yanks, Su Doku (Japanese for solitary ......more... Net Helps Do-It-Yourselfers
...ut you and your computer. And what better time to explore technology's role in solo sex than International Masturbation Month?
I've always thought of self-love as just that: something you do with yourself. I never felt that stroking yourself with other people counted as true masturbation. You might ......more... How E-Voting Threatens Democracy
... of e-voting equipment have been growing, thanks to Harris' discovery. Some election officials have called Harris, a 53-year-old mother of five and a self-employed publicist, a wacko, a conspiracy nut and even a threat to democracy for her role in raising the controversy. But day by day, other elect......more... When the Print Hits the Fans
...or who appreciates not only the aesthetic of print, but the income as well. He periodically removes old strips from his Web page to help sales of his self-published books.
That sort of forces people to buy the book if they like the strip, he says. If you can read everything online for free, then you......more... The Fantasy and Reality of 2004
...stigation (PDF) of human cooperation and collective action would begin to emerge in 2004, bringing together scientists, scholars and practitioners in self-organizing Internet politics, peer-to-peer computation, the sociology of managing common pool resources, the economics of open-source production,......more... Kelly's Catalog of the Cool
...s. And because many of the recommendations come from Kelly's friends and list subscribers, they are passionate, personal and touching. Kelly has just self-published some of the contributions in a book, Cool Tools. Wired News took the opportunity to ask him about his daily obsession.
Wired News: When......more... When a Free Download Isn't Free
...ping to boost sales of his book, the author of a Web-authoring software manual gives it away free as a PDF file on the Net. His experiment in digital self-publishing may end up costing him a small fortune. By Leander Kahney.
By Leander Kahney
2:00 a.m. March 27, 2003 PDT
An author hoping to spur sal......more... |