Psyberspace

Brill’s Content: Human Portals

“Giant Internet portals are struggling. News outfits have cut staffs. So why is the Net getting more interesting? A surge of independent-thinking Web enthusiasts — the human portals — are cataloging data and news on their sites and making us rethink how we get information.”

WebReview.com: Good Grief! The Highs and Lows of Usability Testing

The Kubla Ross stages applied to Web Site testing!

Books of the Month — Index
“May 2001
David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, eds., The Cybercultures Reader. Routledge, 2000. Reviewed by Aimee Morrison and Kate O’Riordan.

Allan Lightman, The Diagnosis. Pantheon Books, 2000. Reviewed by Ana Viseu.

Byron Reeves & Clifford Nass, The Media Equation. How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places. CSLI Publications, 1996. Reviewed by Mikael Jakobsson.”

TCUP

The Collective Unconscious – an interesting dream project. Being discussed in Psyber-L.

OJR J.D.’s Web Watch: Party’s Over for Web Freelancers

“Two short years ago we were partying away, Gatsby-like, in the Golden Age of Web Freelancing, a time when dozens of spry Internet startups with an insatiable hunger for content opened their fat wallets and showered talented young writers, editors and artists with bylines, beaucoup bucks and long overdue respect.”

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The party is over idea is araound quite a bit. However my hunch is that it is also a case of “business as usual on the net”. Information still wants to be free – and those who valiently tried to do the unnatural thing – will need to reassess.

EVHEAD!: Essay And Then There Was One
Wednesday, January 31, 2001

“It’s probably become obvious to the careful observer that all is not well in the Land of Pyra. Rather than wait for the public speculation and debate, I’m going to say what exactly is going on (from my perspective — not speaking for anyone else on the team or as an official Pyra/Blogger representative). I’m sure the public speculation and debate will happen anyway, but I don’t plan to take much part in it. I have other things to do.”

This is how it is at Blogger! Damn.

The OMNI Unexpurgated Interviews

Still looking for the 100th Monkey article – but here is some great reading!

ArtsOnline.com
ArtsOnline is recording and streaming the speeches and panel discussions at CODE. The streams can be accessed using RealPlayer and LINUX-based browsers.

CODE

Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy.
An international conference at Queens’ College, Cambridge,
5 and 6 April, 2001.

For full programme information, click here

ArtsOnline is webcasting this important conference about intellectual property and the future of knowledge.

Scope

Religious Encounters in Digital Networks

Conference on Religion and
Computer-Mediated Communication

“Background
The emergence of the Internet has provided a new context for interaction between religious groupings and individuals in modern society. Religious encounters can now take place in digital settings that apparently transcend a number of conventional boundaries such as organisational structures, time zones, geographic borders, religious traditions, cultural divisions, and ethnical identities.”

Yahoo! Groups : nhne Messages :1-29 of 29

The previous site listed here has a group!