Spam is killing off email and threatening the very future of the internet. Surveys are showing that current net users are switching off to get away from unsolicited commercial email. Millions more are reluctant to…
I was recently invited to attend the general conference of the International Federation of Workers Education Associations (IFWEA), which was held in Albufeira, Portugal in early October. I knew what the highlight of my two…
A few years ago, when some of us noticed that Microsoft had essentially taken over the Internet, we were worried. Among other worries, we feared that a near-complete monopoly by Microsoft would mean that technological…
They are what the Dutch web activist Oskar van Rijswijk calls “throw-away websites”
The following article was submitted to Workers Education, the quarterly bulletin of the International Federation of Workers Education Associations (IFWEA), at the request of the editor, at the end of June 2003. It did not…
I’ll be speaking on Friday at the congress of the International Federation of Workers Education Associations (IFWEA) — which was the first international labour institution to have a website, back in 1994. Unfortunately, the website…
I’ve downloaded and begun using Mozilla Thunderbird today. Continue reading to find out what I think of it . . .
Using Trillian Pro 2.0, an instant messaging (IM) client that allows me to connect to all the major networks, I am now once again online and can be reached on any of the following networks:…
Back during the dot.com boom, people were thinking that the Internet would be good for everything. You could sell books on it, that was obvious. But you could also sell pet food, and groceries, and…
Three unrelated problems in the course of 7 days — proving that Murphy’s Law is very real. (And apologies to everyone waiting to hear from me by email.)