Author: Craig
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Crap Movie Downloads
A couple of companies have began offering movie download services in Australia. There are also a few international services, however I don’t trust them because you have to sign up and pay for their service, before you can actually see what movies that they have (which I’m not sure is legal). And the reason that
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What is the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force?
In its fourth year, the Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, through its core activities, working groups and regional nodes, made a substantive contribution to the preparations for the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society by sponsoring several regional meetings, organizing a series of global forums, producing several publications and participating
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Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?
The Semantic Web (or Web 3.0) promises to “organize the world’s information” in a dramatically more logical way than Google can ever achieve with their current engine design. This is specially true from the point of view of machine comprehension as opposed to human comprehension.The Semantic Web requires the use of a declarative ontological language
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30 000 Police Monitor Blogs in China
I am not sure how accurate this claim is; that 30 000 police monitor Blogs in China, but it is form the Guardian, which is a pretty reliable if not at times a predictably narrow publication. When will big Western media realise that the Cold War is over and it is now safe to take
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The OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data
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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Wikipedia versus Britannica
One of the more obvious criticisms of Wikipedia’s open publishing and open peer-review system is that it is prone to inaccuracies. However, according to this study (addmittedly small) from Nature Magazine, it is no more inaccurate than Encyclopaedia Britannica. One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online