TrendSiters
Digital Content
And Web Technologies


3rd EDITION




Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.




Editing and Design:
Lidija Rangelovska




Lidija Rangelovska
A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2002-7

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Internet - A Medium or a Message?

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World in Conflict and Transition

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ISBN: 9989-929-23-8


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Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web:

http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html

Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues.

http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html

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AUTHOR BIO:
Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and eBookWeb, a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101.
Between 1999-2002, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia.
Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com


The Articles (please scroll down to review them):

E-books and e-publishing

The Future of Electronic Publishing

I. The Disintermediation of Content

II. E(merging) Books

III. Invasion of the Amazons

IV. Revolt of the Scholars

V. The Kidnapping of Content

VI. The Miraculous Conversion

VII. The Medium and the Message

VIII. The Idea of Reference

IX. Will Content ever be Profitable?

X. Jamaican OverDrive - LDC's and LCD's

XI. An Embarrassment of Riches

XII. The Fall and Fall of p-Zines

XIII. The Internet and the Library

XIV. A Brief History of the Book

XV. The Affair of the Vanishing Content

XVI. Revolt of the Poor - The Demise of Intellectual Property

XVII. The Territorial Web

XVIII. The In-credible Web

XIX. Does Free Content Sell?

XX. Copyright and Free Online Scholarship

XXI. The Second Gutenberg

XXII. The E-book Evangelist
XXIII. Germany's Copyright Levy

XXIV. The Future of Online Reference

XXV. Old Reference Works Revived

XXVI. The Six Sins of the Wikipedia

XXVII. Battle of the Titans - Encarta vs. Britannica

XXVIIII. Microsoft Embraces the Web - Encarta and MS Student 2006-2007

XXIX. The Encyclopedia Britannica 2006-2007

XXX. Project Gutenberg's Anabasis

XXXI. The Ubiquitous Project Gutenberg

XXXII. The Media Downloader's Profile

Web Technology and Trends

Thoughts on the Internet's Founding Myths

I. Bright Planet, Deep Web

II. The Seamless Internet

III. The Polyglottal Internet

IV. Deja Googled

V. Maps of Cyberspace

VI. The Universal Interface

VII. Internet Advertising - What Went Wrong?

VIII. The Economics of Spam

IX. Don't Blink - Interview with Jeffrey Harrow

X. The Case of the Compressed Image

XI. Manage IT - Information Technology at a Crossroads

The Internet and the Digital Divide

I. The Internet - A Medium or a Message?

II. The Internet in the Countries in Transition

III. Leapfrogging Transition

IV. The Selfish Net - The Semantic Web

V. The Law of Technology

VI. Metaphors of the Net

VII. The Solow Paradox

VIII. Decision Support Systems

Author: Sam Vaknin

Contact Info: palma@unet.com.mk; samvaknin@gmail.com




E-BOOKS AND E-PUBLISHING

The Future of Electronic Publishing
First published by United Press International (UPI)
By: Sam Vaknin

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