...TrendSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing a... ... creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues. http://samvak.tripod.com/internet... ...quitous Project Gutenberg XXXII. The Media Downloader’s Profile Web Technology and Trends Thoughts on the Internet’s Founding Myths I. B... ...rrow X. The Case of the Compressed Image XI. Manage IT – Information Technology at a Crossroads The Internet and the Digital Divide I. The... ...ging Transition IV. The Selfish Net – The Semantic Web V. The Law of Technology VI. Metaphors of the Net VII. The Solow Paradox VIII. D... ... and community centres. They are also dominant promoters of new knowledge technologies. They are already the largest buyers of e-books. Together with... ...d implemented systems of their making. Additionally, one click publishing technology (such as Webseed's or Blogger's) came to be identified strictly... ...ntent piracy and plagiarism has reached preposterous legal, litigious and technological nadirs. Plagiarism.org has developed a statistics-based ... ... this will hold true even when e-books catch up with their print brethren technologically. There is no doubting that finally e-books will sur...

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...’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Eviden... ...onmental movement—to preserve the public domain. The explosion of industrial technologies that threatened the environ- ment also taught us to recogniz... ...ty and the public domain is important in every area of culture, science, and technology. As a result, it ranges widely in subject matter. Yet readers ... ...ny readers with little additional effort or cost. Indeed, de- pending on the technologies of reproduction, it may be very hard to exclude people from ... ...us the “problem” of cheap copying in fact becomes a virtue. Second, the same technologies that make copying cheaper may also lower the costs of advert... ...Property? 5 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 5 these technologies will be patentable—only those that are novel and “nonob- vio... ...ve done.) In return for the legal monopoly, patent holders must describe the technol- ogy well enough to allow anyone to replicate it once the patent ... ...rn to secrecy instead, hiding the details of her innovation behind black box technologies and restrictive contracts, so that society never gets the kn... ...tempts to reward friends of the government and restrict or control dangerous technologies. T rade- mark law has shuttled uneasily between being a free...

...and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile technology. 97 NORAD perceived the dominant threat to be from cruise missil... ...Commissioner in 1993, she found an agency seri- ously hampered by outdated technology and insufficient human resources. Bor- der Patrol agents were st... ...economies of scale. Modern adversaries are skilled users of communications technologies.The NSA’s challenges, and its opportunities, increased exponen... ...mestic would, as will be seen, be important elements in the story of 9/11. Technology as an Intelligence Asset and Liability The application of newly ... ...lligence Asset and Liability The application of newly developed scientific technology to the mission of U.S. war fighters and national security decisi... ...cutive and legislative branch leaders many years earlier. The challenge of technology, however, is a daunting one. It is expensive, sometimes fails, a... ... and often can create problems as well as solve them. Some of the advanced technologies that gave us insight into the closed-off territories of the So... ...n turn, have benefited from this same rapid development of com- munication technologies.They simply could buy off the shelf and harvest the products o... ... surveillance and threat warning more difficult. Despite the problems that technology creates,Americans’ love affair with it leads them to also regard...