Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Have you ever thought about the Internet as a giant piece of flypaper? Or as a bottomless La Brea Tar Pit? No? Maybe you should… The Exponent – Purdue’s Independent Student Newspaper Web cam use requires caution By Sarah Michalos Campus Editor…
Kim Jong Nam is Kim Jong Il’s son and will probably become the ruler of the Communist Korean state at some point. Little is known about him, but is believed that he is a computer geek. In the Korean Communist tradition, each…
Doug Englebart’s Mother of All Demos (1968) launched at least two central concepts for modern computing: long-distance on-line collaboration and interaction with computers via visual graphic displays. The demo movie is now available on-line via Google Video and the Invisible Revolution site.…
… as loud by any other spelling… SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0) – Google (Research) is getting lambasted online for its new policy of accommodating China’s Internet-censorship rules. But with its new Chinese search engine, Google.cn, Google isn’t living up to its reputation…
says Engadget No XP on Intel Macs, but Vista is good to go – Engadget If you’ve been counting on being able to run Windows on those new Intel-based Macs, Apple’s not about to make it easy for you — at least…
The web is for stories, says Hypergene, but not for individuals stories. It is for networked stories. They propose an “Amazon-style” storytelling process, where the articles are embedded in the flow of similar stories that surround them and are displayed according to…
Did Sony really find the holly grail of e-publishing? We’ve been hearing of e-ink for some time, now Sony launces a paperback size reading tablet that uses e-ink as underlying technology (basically a reconfigurable plastic sheet with tiny balls embedded in it,…
The never-stopping wheel of commerce and the media hunger for stories: a couple the gnostic snake Ouroboros, eternally eating its own tail, would perfectly symbolize. Take young brit Alex Tew (21), just about to start college, pondering how to make a few…