The end of free
In the beginning, everything on the net was free. You wanted a website? There were hundreds — maybe thousands — of free offers. Needed web-based email? Hotmail was only the first of many thousands of…
It’s time to move beyond the silent era on websites
It’s 2001 already — and the movies are more than a century old. We’ve had movies with sound since the late 1920s, and colour films since just before the Second World War. If someone were…
Labour’s Year in Review – 2001
Every magazine and newspaper in the world is going to have to rewrite their end-of- year surveys to reflect the significance of the events of September 11th — and this is just as true for…
Using PGP to keep your email private
Whatever one thinks of the US-led “war against terrorism”, there is cause for concern that civil liberties in Western countries are going to be eroded.
After the terror: Net helps world’s unions speak in a single voice
Perhaps the greatest tragedy ever to befall the socialist movement occurred in August 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War.
Switched On
Unions have seen the light about new technology — although not necessarily in the ways outsiders might expect. Report from a major conference on unions and the internet.
Email privacy is a trade union issue
Did you know that sending email is like sending a postcard? Just as a postcard can be read by everyone who handles it on its way to its destination, so email is open to reading…
10 ways to promote your branch’s website
Publicizing a website is a tricky business. There are people who earn their living by publicizing other people’s websites. You can spend thousands of pounds – if you have them – publicizing your site. Or,…
Better searching on the Internet
The two most popular things people do on the Internet are: (1) search for things and (2) wait for pages to download. The latter is always and the former is often a huge waste of…
How the Internet is changing unions
There is little debate any more about how much the Internet has changed the world — it is now widely understood that the emergence of a global computer communications network is an event comparable to…