How The Web Devalues Creativity

By lowering the barriers to communication, the Web has not made it possible for writers to make more money; instead large corporate aggregators are taking advantage of creators to make themselves rich. MaryAnn Johanson is the creator of one of the oldest independent film review sites on the web (flickfilosopher.com). In this lecture she addresses the problems of the long tail for the long tailees. How can a creative professional make a living through the Web, when all the power is held by the aggregators? So much for radical disintermediation... This share contains the lecture slides (see slide #29-30 for the summary of her argument), the lecture audio, further reading, a link to her web site and a critique of The Longer Tail from students at another Web Science Trust Network lab.

INFO2009 A presentation with quiz and tutorial on Web 3.0

A resource for the teaching of concepts involved in 'web 3.0', including a powerpoint presentation with quiz, and accompanying tutorial

Web design debugging

Lecture notes from Dr Sarvapali Ramchurn on web design debugging and Firebug.

What's in a name? The Semantic Web's identity crisis

WAIS Seminar, presented 29 Mar 2012

Web4All: Web Accessibility and Usability at the University of Southampton

"Web 4 All" promotes digital inclusion at the University of Southampton through a process set up to deliver web products that are accessible, usable and enjoyable to use.

Crowds: Anonymity for Web Transactions

This is the original Crowds paper from Reiter and Rubin. Please consider it required reading.