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The Fall and Fall of the p-Zine

http://home.wuliweb.com/index.shtmlhttp://www.pshares.org/The circulation of print magazines has declined precipitously in the last 24 months. This dissolution of subscriber bases has accelerated dramatically as economic recession set in.
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.February 02, 2002

An Embarrassment of Riches - Part II

http://www.doi.org/ The DOI Foundation has unveiled the DOI-EB (EB stands for e-books) Initiative in the Book Expo America Show 2001, to, in their words: "Determine requirements with respect to the application of unique identifiers to eBooks...
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.February 02, 2002

An Embarrassment of Riches - Part I

http://www.doi.org/The Internet is too rich. Even powerful and sophisticated search engines, such as Google, return a lot of trash, dead ends, and Error 404's in response to the most well-defined query, Boolean operators and all.
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.February 02, 2002

Jamaican OverDrive - LCD's in LDC's

OverDrive - an e-commerce, software conversion and e-publishing applications leader - has just expanded an e-book technology centre by adding 200 e-book editors. This happened in Montego Bay, Jamaica - one of the less privileged spots on earth.
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.February 02, 2002

Maps of Cyberspace

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in...
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.February 02, 2002

The Idea of Reference

http://www.britannica.comThere is no source of reference remotely as authoritative as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. There is no brand as venerable and as veteran as this mammoth labour of knowledge and ideas established in 1768.
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.February 02, 2002

E(merging) Books

A novel re-definition through experimentation of the classical format of the book is emerging. Consider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly to travel agents - but this technology is likely to conquer...
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.February 02, 2002

Deja Googled

http://groups.google.com/http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce.htmlThe Internet may have started as the fervent brainchild of DARPA, the US defence agency - but it quickly evolved into a network of computers at the service of a...
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.February 02, 2002

The Disintermediation of Content

Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past? In one word: disintermediation. The gradual removal of layers of content brokering and intermediation - mainly in manufacturing marketing - is the...
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.February 02, 2002

Invasion of the Amazons

The last few months have witnessed a bloodbath in tech stocks coupled with a frantic re-definition of the web and of every player in it (as far as content is concerned).
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.February 02, 2002