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David Bradley
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- September 12, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,594 views
Networking Your Washing Machine
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Your washing machine or air-conditioning unit could one day be networked in a giant global grid and used to help efforts such as the SETI@Home project, Folding@Home, the now ended Lifesaver project, or even LHC@Home.
Well…not quite, but a simple system for…... Read more »
Takehiko Demiya, Tomoki Yoshihisa and Masanori Kanazawa. (2008) Compact grid: a grid computing system using low resource compact computers. Int. J. Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 1(2), 231-247.
- November 17, 2008
- 03:30 AM
- 1,540 views
Digital Piracy Management
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
A new approach to preventing digital piracy of music and video content that sidesteps the need for the privacy compromise associated with DRM (digital rights management) is reported in the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.
Thierry Rayna of the Internet…... Read more »
Thierry Rayna, & Ludmila Striukova. (2008) Privacy or piracy, why choose? Two solutions to the issues of digital rights management and the protection of personal information. Int. J. Intellectual Property Management, 2(3), 240-252. DOI: http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action
- December 8, 2008
- 05:32 AM
- 1,539 views
Search Engine Marketing for Non-profits
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
We hear a lot about search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing/management (SEM), white hats, gray hats, and black hats for those hoping to exploit the internet to boost their bank balance, which is fair enough. But, there are organizations…... Read more »
Dave McMahon, & Charla Griffy-Brown. (2009) Developing an effective and affordable search engine marketing strategy for nonprofits. Int. J. Internet Marketing and Advertising, 5(1/2), 113-130.
- December 16, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,514 views
Addicting Games
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Tech writer and web designer Wayne Smallman has been discussing whether video games are good or bad for kids and has kicked up something of a magnetic traffic storm into the bargain. Earlier this year, Allan Reiss and colleagues at…... Read more »
W Boot, A Kramer, D Simons, M Fabiani, & G Gratton. (2008) The effects of video game playing on attention, memory, and executive control. Acta Psychologica, 129(3), 387-398. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.09.005
- November 18, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,490 views
Avatars, Identity, and Walkies
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
In the early days of the web, the phrase “No one knows you are a dog on the Internet” became popular, as members of virtual worlds hid behind virtual masks. Today, the advent of web 2.0 and the emergence of…... Read more »
Angela Adrian. (2008) Avatars: a right to privacy or a right to publicity?. Int. J. Intellectual Property Management, 2(3), 253-260. DOI: http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action
- October 10, 2008
- 09:45 AM
- 1,463 views
Privacy Concerns Men and Women
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Today, a portable hard-disk with personal data on 100,000 members of the British Armed Forces was mislaid or stolen (they don’t yet know) from government contractor EDS. The same company lost data on prison staff in September, previously records of…... Read more »
Silvana Faja, & Silvana Trimi. (2008) Privacy concerns in e-commerce: an empirical investigation of gender differences. International Journal of Electronic Business, 6(4), 386-404. DOI: http://www.inderscience.com/offer.php?id
- October 17, 2008
- 05:25 AM
- 1,426 views
Word Domination
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
If you are reading the original English version, albeit with a quasi-transatlantic twang, then you probably think of English as being the lingua franca of global communications. After all, in almost every sphere of human endeavor, the world over, it seems…... Read more »
Carol S. Saunders, & Madelyn Flammia. (2008) A subtle war of words on the internet. International Journal of Electronic Business, 6(4), 342. DOI: 10.1504/IJEB.2008.020673
- January 19, 2009
- 08:00 AM
- 1,396 views
Don’t Waste Your Time on Social Media
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Social media was the buzzphrase of 2008, it was “web 2.0″ before that, but that sounded way too geeky to catch on with most users and is soooo mid-noughties. So, is social media dead and buried and the semantic web just about to reach its peak? Probably not quite yet.
What do we mean by social [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Nikos Manouselis, & Constantina Costopoulou. (2008) marService: multiattribute utility recommendation for e-markets. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 33(2/3), 176. DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2008.021940
- January 6, 2009
- 08:00 AM
- 1,316 views
Tracking Online Trails
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
No one likes cookies, we all want to keep our privacy sacred, and we certainly hate to be tracked every virtual movement. But, there are times when tracking online trails can be to the public good - when traceability is…Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Man Qi, Denis Edgar-Nevill, Yongquan Wang, & Rongsheng Xu. (2008) Tracking online trails. Int. J. Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 1(4), 353-361.
- August 21, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,293 views
Feed Marketing a Non-starter
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Having waxed lyrical on repeated occasions about RSS newsfeeds and Feedburner feedcounts, I thought it was time I did some more formal study into the subject. However, I came across an intriguing research paper in the International Journal of Technology…... Read more »
Ingi Edvardsson, & Nik J Whitehead. (2008) RSS as a new international e-marketing opportunity. International Journal of Technology Marketing, 3(3), 293. DOI: 10.1504/IJTMKT.2008.019926
- December 9, 2008
- 12:00 PM
- 1,285 views
NoScript Online Wine Shopping
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
I drink a lot of wine…not too much, I’m not quite a connoisseur, but not plain sloshed either (Fawlty Towers circa 1975). I’m also hoping that polyphenolic antioxidants are helping with the excess saturated fat in my diet too.
Anyway, I had…... Read more »
Michael J. Sheridan, Joseph Cazier, & Douglas May. (2009) Leisure, wine and the internet: exploring the factors that impact the purchase of wine online. Int. J. Electronic Marketing and Retailing, 2(3), 284-297.
- April 9, 2009
- 08:00 AM
- 1,271 views
Private Texts Not So Confidential
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Should your boss be allowed to read your text messages, your emails, your tweets? The answer to that question is not, legally speaking, quite so clear cut as you might hope. After all, if you’re texting (SMS) or tweeting on company time, using a company computer or cell phone, then you might be breaking your [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Gregory C. Mosier. (2009) Text messages: privacy in employee communications in the USA. Int. J. Private Law, 2(3), 260-266.
- March 9, 2009
- 09:01 AM
- 1,256 views
Meta Tags and Web 3.0
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
In 2008, Google spidered its trillionth web page. That sounds impressive, but as LISNews, the Librarian And Information Science News, recently pointed out that figure represents but a tiny fraction of the information on the web. How so, you ask? Well, think of all those ecommerce databases, library catalogs, transport system fares and timetables… There [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Badawia M. Albassuny. (2008) Automatic metadata generation applications: a survey study . Int. J. Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 3(4), 260-282.
- March 10, 2009
- 09:00 AM
- 1,244 views
SIMONE takes control of corporate email
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Employees are spending increasing amounts of time handling email, time that may detract from their primary role within an organization. As such, business researchers have repeatedly raised concerns about email overload, constant interruptions, technology addiction, attention deficiency and productivity loss. And that doesn’t take into account social media and social bookmarking sites like twitter, facebook, [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Ashish Gupta, & Ramesh Sharda. (2008) SIMONE: A Simulator for Interruptions and Message Overload in Network Environments. Int. J. Simulation and Process Modelling, 4(3/4), 237-247.
- February 9, 2009
- 08:00 AM
- 1,221 views
Who Has Your Vote?
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Identity theft is on the increase, but it’s not only your bank account and private life you have to worry about, what about your vote?
Jungwoo Ryoo of The Pennsylvania State University-Altoona, and colleagues explain that as governments gradually migrate to web-based electronic systems for voting, lobbying, and interacting with politicians, criminals and those seeking to [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Jungwoo Ryoo, Tae Hwan Oh, Seungjae Shin, & Young B. Choi. (2009) A comprehensive readiness assessment framework for identity theft safeguards in web-based electronic government systems. Electronic Government, An International Journal, 6(1), 19-40.
- September 22, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,195 views
Web Stats Data Mining
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
What can online businesses learn from their web logs? According to Xueping Li of the Intelligent Information and Systems Laboratory, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and colleagues, analyzing the information you can gather about the traffic to your website, whether…... Read more »
Xueping Li, Laigang Song, and Alberto Garcia-Diaz. (2008) Adaptive web presence and evolution through web log analysis . IInt. J. Electronic Customer Relationship Management , 2(3), 195-214.
- May 28, 2009
- 08:00 AM
- 1,168 views
Students and Cybercrime
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
At the height of an economic recession when computer security is high on the agenda the last thing we should do is to forget the future. To ensure we can address future cybercrime, now is the time to educate the next generation of computer professionals into the ways of the cyber world.
Margaret Ross, Geoff Staples, [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Margaret Ross, Geoff Staples, & Mark Udall. (2009) Cybercrime – raising awareness for future professionals. Int. J. Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 2(2), 228-238.
- February 23, 2009
- 08:00 AM
- 1,144 views
Dynamic Quality Control for the Web
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
At the end of January, Google flagged up all websites on the internet as containing malware. Apparently, it was a human error in that someone had a slash on the database and it dampened the search engine’s output. I reported on the issue from Sciencetext and via Twitter until the problem was resolved and Google [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Surya B. Yadav. (2008) Automation of webpage quality determination . Int. J. Information Quality, 2(2), 152-176.
- July 21, 2009
- 09:00 AM
- 1,126 views
Testing is as Easy as Alpha, Beta, RC
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
I’ve discussed the concept of vaporware on Sciencetext before. Vaporware is software promised by a company that never seems to be released. Games, operating systems, upgrades…dozens of companies are guilty of producing vaporware. Often it’s down to technical problems, occasionally it’s a marketing ploy.
What about the opposite of vaporware? Software that gets released on to [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Bagchi, T. (2009) Risks in software development with imperfect testing. International Journal of Advanced Operations Management, 1(1), 1. DOI: 10.1504/IJAOM.2009.026522
- May 19, 2009
- 08:00 AM
- 1,080 views
Metallica, Napster, and Marx
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
A quite bizarre research paper appears in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Critical Accounting, coincidentally the month the Metallica Guitar Hero pack is released. The paper is entitled: “Structural change in the music industry: a Marxist critique of public statements made by members of Metallica during the lawsuit against Napster”
The research paper [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Kieran James, & Christopher Tolliday. (2009) Structural change in the music industry: a Marxist critique of public statements made by members of Metallica during the lawsuit against Napster. International Journal of Critical Accounting, 1(1), 144-176.
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