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Information overload - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Information overload - a term coined by Alvin Toffler which refers to an excess amount of info being provided, making processing and absorbing tasks difficult for the individual because sometimes we cannot see the validity behind the info. In a new era of globalization, an increasing number of people are logging onto the internet and are given the ability to produce as well as consume the data accessed on an increasing number of websites. As of February 2007 there were over 108 million distinct websites and increasing. Users are now classified as active users because more people in society are participating in the Digital and Information Age. #The general causes of info overload: *A rapidly increasing rate of new info being produced *The ease of duplication and transmission of data *An increase in the available channels *Large amounts of historical info *Contradictions and inaccuracies *A low signal-to-noise ratio * A lack of a method for comparing and processing
Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee - an English computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet. In 2007, he was ranked Joint First in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses. At CERN from June to Dec. 1980, he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating infor among researchers. In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet. He designed and built the first Web browser, which also functioned as an editor (WorldWideWeb), and the first Web server, CERN HTTPd (HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon). The first Web site built was at CERN, and was first put on line on 6 August 1991.
On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired - WSJ.com
an interesting article about about a man who had without street address but do have an Internet addresse. Mr. Livingston says his computer helps him feel more connected and human. "It's frightening to be homeless," he says. "When I'm on here, I'm equal to everybody else."
== Free Culture ==
"Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessing
How New Media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
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The freebies helped to sell those products, but the tactic helped Gillette even more. By giving away the razors, which were useless by themselves, he was creating demand for disposable blades.
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The new model is based not on cross-subsidies — the shifting of costs from one product to another — but on the fact that the cost of products themselves is falling fast. It's as if the price of steel had dropped so close to zero that King Gillette could give away both razor and blade, and make his money on something else entirely
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