I Think ICANN.
Given its pace, the history of the Internet has to be written as it unfolds. Wait too long and what once seemed like important technical issues become as quaint as the relative merits of various cuneiform styli. For Syracuse University's Milton Mueller, the Internet Corporation for Assigned...

Dear diary.
The Olympic Games often act as a display case for new athletic tools ,and equipment, like the bathing suits and running gear used in Sydney last month. Pictures from the winners' stand look good in next season's advertisements. But this set of games is pushing journalistic freedom...

An Empirical Study of the Impact of Electronic Market Places.
ABSTRACT The spread of the Internet is leading to irreversible changes in the existing structures of the economy, management and society. The aim of this long term empirical study is to document and interpret structural changes resulting from the establishment of electronic market places. Hypotheses describing these changes form...

Intellectual property law in cyberspace; 2006 cumulative supplement.
1570186138 Intellectual property law in cyberspace; 2006 cumulative supplement. Albert, G. Peter and Charles A. Laff. BNA Books 2006 $295.00 Paperback KF3095 Lawyers respectively in San Diego and Chicago, Albert and Laff discuss...

NSI Livid Over ICANN Doubled Budget Proposal.
By Kevin Murphy The world's biggest domain name registrar is outraged over the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers' proposed 2005 budget, which Network Solutions Inc's CEO said levies an illegitimate "tax" on domain name holders. But other registrars seem split on whether ICANN's...

Domain Name Accuracy Bill Taken to US Congress.
By Kevin Murphy A committee of the US House of Representatives yesterday considered a law that would mandate jail time or increased civil penalties for people who break the law and use a fraudulently registered internet domain name to do so. The Fraudulent Online Identity...

SpamHaus Seeks to Put Spam Reputation in the DNS.
By Kevin Murphy The SpamHaus Project wants the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers to approve its application to launch a ".mail" top-level internet domain and leverage the domain name system to provide a trusted-sender system for email. One of ten applications for new...

Dotty Idea: Web playgrounds. (Citings).
WHEN THE INTERNET Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released its list of seven new top-level domains last summer, critics of the government-sanctioned corporation complained the new options were too limited. But since ICANN decides what can be a top-level domain--for example, the new .biz--on the world's primary...

Getting on with it.
2007 was an eventful year for ALIA and ALJ played its part in celebrating 70 years of relative cohesion. We published a very special edition covering the September Library History Forum at the State Library of NSW, but we also carried papers on the increasingly digital days ahead. Now...

Getting the most from your Web site without adding costs.
Note: The author of this Guest Editorial is his current practice's Webmaster. He has been developing Web pages since his college years. Many medical offices have their own Web sites that advertise basic information about their practices, mostly to provide information to prospective patients. Most practices pay...