[This is a slightly edited version of a talk given in Copenhagen on 10-17-08 at the 9th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (The tag for the conference is IR9.0)]

This year, 2008 is the 15th anniversary of the publication of the “Net and Netizens” by Michael Hauben on the Internet in the summer of 1993. Michael posted this paper in parts because it was fairly long. It was based on research he had done about the Internet by asking people questions about how they were using the Net in that period of the early 1990s. Also at the time there was some use of the term net.citizen on the net. Michael contracted the term net.citizen into the term netizen. Based on the responses and his analysis of them Michael put together a paper defining what he called the netizen.

His paper was spread around the Net by… weiter lesen

The bailout actions by the U.S. Congress are showing the American people and people around the world that the problem in the U.S. is not only with the economy, but even more seriously with much of the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch of the U.S. government as well.

  The U.S. Congress, the world is told, has a serious economic crisis to deal with. If it is indeed such a serious crisis then shouldn’t the Congress undertake to do a serious investigation of the problem by calling to testify all who may have a means to look at the problem so as to get a handle on the actual nature of the problem.

 The last people to go to for a plan to solve this supposedly serious crisis are the people who have created and… weiter lesen