Things added in June, 2003
Great data, but will it last?
According to Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library, "the world produces 1-2 exabytes (i.e. 1-2 billion gigabytes) of unique information per year, of which only 0.003 per cent is in ...
Defensive Postures
THE SQL SLAMMER WORM began its rampage shortly after midnight on Jan. 25, 2003. Within days, the insidious piece of code had infected more than 120,000 computers, slowed Internet traffic, crashed sites ...
Google meets the library?
Tim Bray: "It's time - Long past time, in fact, to take the worlds' OPACs, and especially WorldCat, and build a general-purpose ...
Parallel P2P.
More on Kazaa and Altnet: the two companies are creating a secure P2P network that will operate in parallel with the public Kazaa network -- and will pay users to host ...
Books on the floor.
When I was first learning about the Web, in 1994, one of the first analogies I came across was that the Internet is like a huge university library with millions of books ...