Big Brother Is No Longer Fiction

In Archive by Fredy Ore

An interesting article on MIT’s Alumni website commenting on new Information privacy laws. The article is titled “Big Brother Is No Longer Fiction: On the Internet, Everyone Knows You’re a Poindexter” ::: http://alumweb.mit.edu/whatmatters/200301/
The article comments on the new US government R&D program which uses information technology for unprecedented surveillance on a massive scale. The program is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the military agency which sponsored early development of the Internet.

Future Cyberjournalism (1994, 1999)

In Archive by Fredy Ore

After reading the 1989 article by Norman Meyrowitz (president of Macromedia), I decided to do a little more research and find a little more on this topic. After a little search I came across several interesting articles by Alison Stuebe.
Although not entirely related to his information centred article, these four 1994 essays covered the interesting topic of CyberJournalism – “Beyond the Hype: Notes on the Future of Cyberjournalism
Another interesting article by Dennis Sellers on Sept 2, 1999 titled, “A look at the co-media future of print and the Web” ::: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/9909/02.media.shtml

Mike Pugh and Vagabonding

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I visited a really great travel site by Mike Pugh. He is travelling around the world and is documenting his travels in his website Vagabonding.com with photos and video. He is currently near India is about 138 days into his trip. ::: www.vagabonding.com

Creative Commons licensing

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Copyright, ownership and the Web has been an interesting topic not necessarily understood, particularly when you are dealing with international countries and their respective individual laws.
If you live in the US there is a website called Creative Commons which offer free licenses and information on licensing your material. ::: http://creativecommons.org
The website has a good SWF movie which illustrates some of the problems associated with copyright material.

Kevin Lynch starts his Weblog

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Kevin Lynch, the Chief Software Architect at Macromedia has started writing a Weblog
www.klynch.com.

It is great reading his Software story and reading his Foundation articles. These articles are a collection of some of the most influential books, articles and papers which he has come across.

Many thinkers and inventors developed the foundations that influence what we do today, with a tremendous amount of innovation beginning in the aftermath of World War II. Some that inspire me beyond the recent decade include:Kevin Lynch

As We May Think by Vannevar Bush (July 1945)
Man-Computer Symbiosis by J.C.R. Licklider (1960)
Spacewar by Stephen Russell, Peter Samson, Dan Edwards and Martin Graetz, together with Alan Kotok, Steve Piner and Robert A. Saunders. (1962)
Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework by Douglas Engelbart, SRI (October 1962)
Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System by Ivan Sutherland, MIT (1963)
Xanadu by Ted Nelson (1965)
The Computer as a Communication Device by J.C.R. Licklider (1968)
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks, lessons learned from IBM’s System/360 project (1975)
The Xerox Star: A Retrospective about the team of Alan Kay, Larry Tesler, Charles Irby, John Warnock, Chuck Geschke, Charles Simonyi, Butler Lampson, David Liddle, Ed Satterthwaite, and many others at Xerox (1975-1981)
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, about a team building a new computer at Data General (1981)
Inventing the Lisa User Interface developed by Larry Tesler, Bill Atkinson, and the Lisa team at Apple (1979-1983)
Macintosh developed by Andy HertzfeldBill AtkinsonSusan Kare, Bud Tribble, Burrell Smith, Mike Boich, Joanna Hoffman, Mike Murray, George Crow, Bruce Horn, Steve Capps, Caroline Rose, Jef Raskin, Steve Jobs and many more (1984)
The Desktop of Tomorrow by Norm Meyrowitz, Brown University (July 1989)
Information Management: A Proposal by Tim Berners-Lee, CERN (1989)
The Computer for the 21st Century by Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC (September 1991)