| |
 |
Sunday, August 11, 2002 |
Today's Topics: e-Academia; e-Accessibility; e-Law and real world Law; e-Privacy; e-Speech Freedoms; Great Links if you share my interests; Ideas for my Personal to do list; Ideas for Radio Manila software enhancements; Web Site Design Inspiration.
There are a number of disturbing Internet and computer trends. On other days here I have shared my struggle to understand the Deep Linking controversy.
If we buy computer hardware and software, is it ours to do with as we please? No. There is some kind of a license and intellectual property rights associated with this. Just like when we buy a book or magazine, we not have the right to photocopy all the content, or when we buy an automobile, we need to drive it in accordance with state laws, and have proper insurance. But what rights do other people have to the content on OUR computers? What rights do other people have to content we might want to access? This is ever changing.
The Chilling Effects Clearing House tries to help us understand our Freedom of e-Speech Rights, and what some people, who don't get it about what the Internet is all about, have been doing to undermine Freedom of e-Speech, and what we can do about it if one of those people hassles us. Lots of good links here.
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School explores evolving issues of cyber law. Lots of good links here also.
Directory of Objectionable Words we should refrain from using when discussing controversial topics.
11:09:44 PM 
|
|
Radio Manila Wish List ... you know how you can click on the calendar to get to a posting earlier this month, or click to get to the previous or next month calendar, one month at a time. I want a system of archives where I see the full range of years available, then months used in each, like a little chart of years vs. months, then I click on an intersection & get the relevant calendar archive of posts that month and year. That would be much faster to navigate than click click click to drill down to something I know I posted 5 months ago.
Of course if I ever get around to figuring out how to put a search engine here, this might not be so neccessary.
10:56:34 PM
|
|
Guide to Real World (as opposed to Internet Virtual Reality) Legal Topics.
We got these Terrorists in custody and we want to throw away the key, but how do the precedents compare to 50 years ago when America feared Loyal Japanese Citizens and wanted them locked up and throw away the key? We think we are justified in locking up Terrorists without any trial, or access to a lawyer, or protections of the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war, and that the people 50 years ago were just racists.
Domestic Issues (Husband Wife as opposed to Homeland Security).
What should we do about these people who kidnap and abuse small children?
Catholic Priests scandal.
Computer Criminals.
Various controversial law suits.
These are hot topics, that Law Scope helps put in perspective for us.
I hate it when a site disables the back button. I want an icon that warns of that also.
10:52:28 PM
|
|
Business Search Engine created by a CEO for his peers. There's links here to different kinds of news media by their type of content, and different kinds of Business Research. You want to Bookmark this site if you not already familiar with CEO Express. You do not have to be a CEO to get value from this place.
10:42:22 PM
|
|
Cyber Links to what's going on in the US Government, compiled by Senator Wyden who is in the thick of our evolving technological topics and legislation surrounding them.
10:39:01 PM
|
|
Tech Law Journal has news, records, and analysis of legislation, litigation, and regulation affecting the computer and Internet industry. This is another place that I could spend all of several days reading interesting stuff and getting nothing else done. I could use a fancy icon that means what I just said in the last sentence, that I would put beside some links as a warning to anyone about to step in. Perhaps make it a category when I get around to learning how to do different kinds of Navigation Links.
10:36:10 PM
|
|
Who is this Doctor e-Commerce Jeffrey Baumgartner? Well here is an essay introducing us to him, and archives of the eThesis discussion group that he moderates. eThesis is an open forum for students doing theses on e-business, information and communication technologies and related subjects. Several people who wrote eTheses with the help of this group have made them available for us to see. Lots of links on each of these places worth further exploration.
10:32:48 PM
|
|
Gadwall has a ton of fascinating essays on his site. I could spend weeks enjoying them and getting nothing else accomplished. However, it looks like he wrote most of them in 1999 2000 2001.
Here's Jim Frazier's minimum requirements for good web design. They have to do with speed of access by people with legacy PC standards; knowing about some stuff behind the scenes where so far I am but an infant; good links to everything on our site; eye friendly; no obvious spelling or grammar errors (I have not yet downloaded the spell checker for this thing so doubtless I have quite a few).
I do not pass the 5 second test = the point of the web site should be obvious in under 5 seconds of looking at it. I am a neophyte here exploring what is doable & using some of the topics that I am interested in for my content, and also sometimes I get some neat interesting info and wonder where to put it where I can find it again. I have literally thousands of jokes organized into word documents by category, after I loved how I saw how someone else had organized only hundreds of jokes. I would make them downloadable from here, except I wonder how fast I would use up the 40 Meg available.
White Papers available; Internet Recommendations; Tips and Quotes;
Essays on Using e-mail professionally and efficiently; Internet and Search Engine Marketing; Technology Procurement; Web Design.
All these links are to resources at the Gadwall Group.
10:22:22 PM
|
|
© Copyright 2002 Al Macintyre.
|
|
|
|
|
