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You must have noticed it - the fast-growing trend among content sites to start charging for content. But just because it works for some, it won't necessarily work for all, and there appear to be a lot of site owners who have not grasped that yet.
A prestigious digital history project conducted by the BBC in the 1980s is now just so much junk, because no-one can figure out a way to read the disks the data was stored on. What does this tell us about all the data we are committing to electronic storage now?
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Clay Shirky and others have declared micropayments a non-starter because they make too many demands on users. I don't agree. And neither does Scott McCloud.
Online marketing has never been this smart. But the web-based hype about forthcoming sci-fi movie AI is setting new standards for viral marketing and online community. Confused? You will be...
The greatest threat to webmasters and internet users in 2001 will be poor security. Are you prepared?
You run a popular web portal that includes chat facilities. A paedophile is convicted of raping a child he met in one of your chatrooms. The police and child protection groups ask you to take action. It's happened to Yahoo. What would you do?
Vint Cerf, sometimes called the "father of the Internet," would like you all to use it. Everywhere.
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So, how many ebooks have you read recently? Not that many, right? Right. You and everyone else, all of us love our paper books too much to give up on them yet.
Suddenly, some of the biggest names on the internet are investing in hardware solutions. The fight for eyeballs is spiralling towards corporatism, just like we always thought it would.
Photography is at a crossroads - as digital cameras get cheaper and easier to use, more people are abondoning film in favour of bits. And the companies that nutured one of the world's most popular hobbies are struggling to keep up.
Electronic books may not have gained mass-market appeal just yet, but they are a god-send for education, according to a report at the Popular Science site.
This week's Economist speculates on the changes brought about by the net, but concludes with a warning that we should not be suckered into believing our own hype about it.
Work is progressing on building a new 128-bit protocol for internet addresses, according to an article by Dan Gillmor. But to work well, the big changeover should be completely invisible to most people, he says.
The UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) bill is now law. Those who have been campaigning against it, breathless at the government's arrogance in ignoring their pleas and ploughing ahead anyway, are now re-grouping for a concerted campaign to counter what they call government "propaganda".
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