Jan 13, 2009

Submitted by Knowledgesphere from blog: The speech that Prime Minister Harper delivered On Nov. 30, 2008 as a response to the Speech from the Throne places the most emphasis on key-words such as “Government,” “Canada,” and “economic.” Harper’s speech addressed Canadians’ concerns regarding volatile global markets. Many words used in his speech have some sort of e (Read More)

Dec 11, 2008

Submitted by Knowledgesphere from blog: Although Internet-based, virtual worlds can be viewed as entities that are quite distinct from the Internet, particularly in their characteristics and effects. Virtual worlds offer communities, access to information, and long-distance communications that seem, at first glance, quite similar to the offerings of the World Wid (Read More)

Dec 11, 2008

Submitted by Knowledgesphere from blog: The overriding ideological argument presented by the Kent Commission, a Canadian Royal Commission on Newspaper and other media concentration,  stems from a deep and unshakable belief in the freedom of the press. As stated in the Commission’s Report: “Freedom of the press is not a property right of [newspaper] owners. (Read More)

Dec 11, 2008

Submitted by Knowledgesphere from blog: The concept of a Virtual World has always been, on some level, commonly associated with the cyborg-like appendages of Virtual Reality. Indeed, we’ve come a long way from the cumbersome VR devices of Ivan Sutherland and his colleagues. The Virtual World of today is relatively more accessible; it requires little more than a c (Read More)

Dec 10, 2008

Submitted by Knowledgesphere from blog: The term “Web2.0” is something of a misnomer. Although it represents the shift from HTML to the more content-oriented structure of XML , more importantly, it signifies the changing attitudes and improved knowledge sharing of today’s society.Recently the Internet has been undergoing a process of Darwinian evolution. Ho (Read More)

Dec 10, 2008

SF Gate Sony Corp.'s much delayed virtual community for owners of its PlayStation 3 game console will start worldwide Thursday, but it's unlikely to attract many newcomers to the machine, company officials said. The free-of-charge PlayStation Home service is mainly... . (Read More)

Dec 10, 2008

The Guardian Four separate pieces in the Financial Times are required reading for journalists today. The first, Writing on the wall for newspapers, quotes a report by Deloitte that warns that the newspaper and magazine industry could be "decimated" next year with one out of every 10 print publications forced to reduce publication freque (Read More)

18 hours ago

BBC Just about every Web 2.0 firm has got a business model which depends exclusively on advertising - and right now a lot of those plans look very shaky, as online ad revenue starts to flatten.What that means is that millions of users of everything from social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to video sharing busines (Read More)

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