S O U R C E S

The Information Glut
Brook, James and Boal, Iain A. Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information
City Light Books, San Francisco. 1995

Crandell, Jeremy. "The Cost of Spam"
BrightMail, Inc.
http://www.brightlight.com/spam/cost/

Gartner, Gideon. "Translating Information Into Knowledge"
Computerworld. Dec. 1997
http://www.computerworld.com/home/online9697.nsf/
All/971229info


Murray, Bridget. "Data Smog: Newest Culprit in Brain Drain"
APA Monitor (American Psychological Association)
Vol. 29, Num 3. March 1998
http://www.apa.org/monitor/mar98/smog.html

Owen, Jim. "Coping with Information Overload"
Career Builder.
http://www.careerbuilder.com/wl_work_9905_overload.html

Shenk, David. Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut
HarperCollins Publishers, New York. 1997.

Silberman, Steve. "Technorealism: Beyond the Hype"
Wired News. Mar., 1998
http://www.wired.com/news/topstories/0,1287,11165,00.html

Stone, Barbara. "Dealing with an Information Glut"
Personal Web Site
http://info.berkeley.edu/~bstone/infoglut.html

Technorealism
Web Site. Mar., 1998
http://www.technorealism.org


Internet Addiction

Associated Press. "Internet Isolation"
ABC News. Feb. 16, 2000.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/

Briggs, Rudolph G. "Psychosocial Parameters of Internet Addiction"
University at Albany http://www.albany.edu/library/internet/addiction.html

Gong Jr, E.G. "Sex, Lies, and Techno Escapes"
ABC News.
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/newsuse/
net0815/index.html


Pike, Rose "Log On, Tune In, Drop Out"
ABC News. Mar. 26, 1999.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/
DailyNews/netaddiction032699.html


Schuman, Evan. "It's Official: Net Abusers are Pathological."
TechWeb. Aug., 1997. http://techweb.com/wire/news/aug/0813addict.html


Virtual Communities or Virtual Segregation?

Fernback, Jan and Thompson, Brad. "Virtual Communities: Abort, Retry, Failure?"
The WELL. 1995
http://www.well.com/user/hlr/texts/VCcivil.html


The Machine-As-Human Metaphor

Ask Jeeves!
Commercial Web Site.
http://www.ask.com/

Extempo Systems. "Extempo Announces Mr. Clean and Virtual Jack"
Extempo Systems Press Release
http://www.extempo.com/press/press_releases/jack_mrclean.html

Extempo Systems. "PeopleWeb and Extempo Partner to Further Vision for More Natural and Enjoyable Web Interaction"
Extempo Systems Press Release
http://www.extempo.com/press/press_releases/peopleweb.html

Mr. Clean
Commercial Web Site.
http://www.mrclean.com/

Postman, Neil. Technopoly
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1992.


The Misinformation Problem

Edupage Editors. "AOL Says It Got Incorrect Stock Info From S&P"
Online posting. Mar., 1997. The Risks Digest.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/18.90.html#subj3

Postman, Neil. Technopoly
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1992.

Rubin, Avi. "Fake web page cause 20% stock surge and then retreat"
Online posting. Apr., 2000. The Risks Digest.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.30.html#subj1

Somerman, Lee. "Typo causes wild stock fluctuations for wrong company"
Online posting. Dec., 1998. The Risks Digest.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.11.html#subj8

Unknown author. "AOL Stock Charts Posted Erroneously Due To 'Malfunction'"
Online posting. Apr., 1998. The Risks Digest.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.66.html#subj4