Category: Miscellaneous

Publishers have been slow to realise how fundamentally their world has been changed by the internet.

The power and influence of governments is diminishing because of the rise of the internet, the head of Google told the Conservative Party conference. Eric Schmidt, the chairman and chief executive of the internet company, said that the internet was not necessarily a force for good, pointing out the rise of hate groups that have proliferated on the web.

The BBC reports Google is reported to be in talks to buy popular video-sharing website YouTube for US$1.6bn.

The possibility of a two-tiered Internet threatens today’s notion of free travel on the information superhighway.

A coalition of nonprofit and public interest groups in the United States is beginning a campaign to protest plans by America Online and Yahoo, which each offer e-mail services, to charge high-volume senders of e-mail fees to guarantee preferred delivery of their messages.

With internet companies such as Google becoming more involved in digitising content, what role does the public library have in today’s web-driven society?

Starting at 399BC: Socrates speaks to jury at his trial: ‘If you offered to let me off this time on condition I am not any longer to speak my mind… I should say to you, “Men of Athens, I shall obey the Gods rather than you.”‘