Google Adsense provides advertisers and publishers with the opportunity to place adverts in both text and graphic format. As advertisers decide to put adsense into their website over banner advertising, the question still remains. Which is the best for advertisers and which is the best for publishers? On one hand advertisers may feel that image […]
E-Governance – Human Interface and corruption
The other day, when I was lazing in the winter sun in my balcony with a book, a delivery boy from the gas company drove up on hi bicycle saying that he had come to deliver the cylinder I had ordered the previous day. When I told him that I had done no such booking, […]
Internet’s Impact On Political Campaigning
For most of the people who inhabit this green earth, the internet is pretty much our life blood of information. Whether we’re downloading music, playing computer games, reading the news, watching the news, chatting, and what not, all of this can be done on the internet. We now live in the digital age where hi-speed […]
AN ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN SOJOURN
AN ADIRONDACK SOJOURN Six Million Ares and only Two Wheels The Adirondack Mountains comprise six million square acres of nothingness, and this is as it should be. But in this nothingness is so much to see and do that you will wear out many sets of tires before you see it all. Susan and I took […]
The Delights Of Open Source: Al Qaeda’s Recruiting On YouTube, Secret Agents Are Crowdsourcing
An Al-Qaeda-linked group from the Philippines managed to publish excerpts of a recruitment film for over 24 hours on YouTube, raising questions about the merits of online safety. YouTube took the video off the site after pressure from security officials. But is that a bad idea? Terrorists resorting to YouTube surely increase transparency? One way […]
The End of FUD Revisited
Recent actions by Microsoft prompted us to re-issue this position paper and add a section on intellectual property. This position paper will address the question, “Can the open source approach to software development promote transparency and remove FUD — fear, uncertainty and doubt?” By requiring that source code is freely available to all, the open […]