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The Stanford Digital Library Project stated its goal thus: The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project will develop enabling techno...

I've been writing for some time about the hype around online advertising . There's a lot of evidence that it is ineffective . Rec...

In his New York Times op-ed entitled What if We All Just Sold Non-Creepy Advertising? Gabriel Weinberg, founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo ( Ja...

It has become obvious that self-regulated social media are a threat to pretty much every country's national security. This is intended t...

The surveillance economy, and thus the stratospheric valuations of : Facebook and Alphabet (Google’s parent), which rely on advertising fo...

Most discussions of Internet privacy, for example Jaron Lanier Fixes the Internet , systematically elide the distinction between "my da...

In the wake of Lina Khan's masterful January 2017 Yale Law Journal article Amazon's Antitrust Paradox , both anti-trust investigati...

In Why It's Hard To Escape Amazon's Long Reach , Paris Martineau and Louise Matsakis have compiled an amazingly long list of busines...

John Herrman's How Secrecy Fuels Facebook Paranoia takes the long way round to come to a very simple conclusion. My shorter version of ...

This is the fourth and I hope final part of a series about trust in digital content that might be called: Is this the real  life? Is this ...

Vint Cerf's Traceability addresses a significant problem: how to preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet while protecting a...

In, among others, It Isn't About The Technology , Decentralized Web Summit2018: Quick Takes and Special Report on Decentralizing the In...

Last September in Josh Marshall on Google , I wrote: a quick note to direct you to Josh Marshall's must-read A Serf on Google's Fa...

"I Agree" - Source Cory Doctorow writes : "I Agree" is Dima Yarovinsky 's art installation for Visualizing Kno...

On February 11 at least 4,275 Web sites were found to have been simultaneously cryptojacked : they include The City University of New Yor...

There's a lot to add to Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark? (which is a violation of  Betteridge's Law ). Follow me below the fo...

A year and a half ago I attended Brewster Kahle's Decentralized Web Summit and wrote: I am working on a post about my reactions to th...

Growing up in London left me with a life-long interest in the theatre (note the spelling).  Although I greatly appreciate polished productio...

The Web runs on advertising. Has Web advertising jumped the shark? The relevant Wikipedia article says : The usage of "jump the shark...