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What is Internet 2

By Craig | Published: May 18, 2007

Ok, you have heard of Web 2.0, but what about Internet 2.0? Internet 2 is a new style of high-capacity networking. Internet2 is working with Level 3 Communications to provide the U.S. research and education community with a dynamic, innovative and cost-effective hybrid optical and packet network. The new network is designed to provide next-generation [...]

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From Community to Gemeinschaft: Belief or Truth?

By Craig | Published: March 30, 2007

Community is a hackneyed phrase. It is like the word ‘democracy’ or ‘friends’ or ‘freedom’; the more it is spoken, the less of it there is. There is a lot of talk (again) about online communities; especially considering that it is a central component of Web2.0. But what is a community? I grew up in [...]

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The OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data

By Craig | Published: September 1, 2006

Along with balancing the rules that govern Intellectual Property, the battles over the protection of personal data becomes another area of potential conflict within a society where information storage and global retrieval devices have become cheap and ubiquitous. Here is the international guidelines set by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development). Also see [...]

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The man with walrus eyes…

By Craig | Published: June 19, 2006

(The return of cyber-punk?..sorry about this..a bit juvenile I know, but I was bored). I am siting in a crappy bar in the outskirts of New Sydney. I feel a little tired from spending the night with the I-CAD drafter that I met the night before. Where did he learn to do these things? I [...]

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The rise of the network spider

By Craig | Published: June 18, 2006

Since Manual Castells’ seminal book The Rise of Network Society and to a lesser degree, Michael Hardts’ and Antonio Negri’s Empire, it is generally accepted that networks, and the technologies that enable networks (either social or economic), are playing a greater role in how human beings live. However, the process of creating and maintaining a [...]

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