Hal Berghel
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Digital: The Y2k E-Commerce Tumble
The real millennium catastrophe was an overreliance on technology to overcome the weaknesses of a bad business model.
Digital Village: Caustic Cookies
They can be beneficial aids in e-commerce, but cookies are the corrosive ingredient when it comes to invading personal privacy.
Digital Village: A Cyberpublishing Manifesto
The distribution of digital information on physical media is just not effective. Information belongs in cyberspace.
Digital Villiage: Digital Politics 2000
The vote's in: the Web's potential in the political process is still lacking.
Digital Village: Predatory Disintermediation
When cutting out the middleman means stifling the competition.
Identity Theft, Social Security Numbers, and the Web
Privacy is lost in the proliferation of technology's omnipresent accessibility.
Digital Village: the Cost of Having Analog Executives in a Digital World
The likelihood of accurate technology forecasting can never be known.
Digital Village: How Xday Figures in the Y2k Countdown
Here we are, eight months out and counting. We’ve already seen glimpses of things to come. Stories like that of Lynn Electric, Bluefield, WV. When the company tried to close its 1998 payroll “all documents reverted to 1944.” (Washington Post, 1/1/99.) In Sweden, airport police were unable to issue one-year temporary passports after midnight, Dec. […]
Digital Village: Value-Added Publishing
Without question, electronic publishing is one of the hottest topics in computing. Groups worldwide want to know how to do it well, how to advertise it effectively, how to enhance the capabilities of electronic publishing to include emerging multimedia technologies, and, most of all, how to make money at it. In the future it will […]
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