Well, time for some more. This time I have tried to add a bit of info about each link 🙂

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6115140.stm – Pupils Put off Science.
• http://tinyurl.com/y9hqk7 – Irony department: the leader of the US Evangelical Church, who argued with Richard Dawkins, resigns.
• http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/11/the_future_of_p.html – The Future of Paperless Hacking
• http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/05/183240 Wikipedia used to spread virus
• http://news.linux.com/news/06/11/03/2325229.shtml?tid=41&tid=96&tid=12 – Novell talks about the Microsoft deal
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/04/eff_fights_bogus_dmca_case/ – How to gag your enemies using the DMCA

All worth visiting.

There is a list of things about the web which even to this day leave me feeling… disappointed.

For those who remember the “good old days” of the late nineties, you will remember how the “Internet” was the all singing, all dancing answer to everything.

The Web was the path to riches for everyone. The Web would put an end to working in an office, as we could all now telecommute. The Web would spell the end of newspapers, books, TV etc., as now everything would be done e-style.

Obviously this is not the case.

Very few people can earn a living purely from the internet, let alone get rich on it. The internet success stories are, generally, organisations which have a solid Bricks and Mortar foundation. There is a good reason for this as the bubble burst showed.

Oddly, we seem to be reinventing the bubble once more. Sites like MySpace are “valued” as being worth billions. How? Why? What income does it generate?

Did no one learn from the start of this millennium? Is the real legacy of the internet the 10 second attention span? Have we become so ingrained to only worrying about the last news item to scroll past we forget all the ones before it?