Operationalizing The Law of Jurisdiction: Where in the World Can I Be Sued for Operating a World Wide Web Page?

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Reid
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Page ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law

scholarly journals A Simulation of the Structure of the World-Wide Web

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moses Boudourides ◽  
Gerasimos Antypas
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Small Worlds ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Simple Simulation ◽  
The World

In this paper we are presenting a simple simulation of the Internet World-Wide Web, where one observes the appearance of web pages belonging to different web sites, covering a number of different thematic topics and possessing links to other web pages. The goal of our simulation is to reproduce the form of the observed World-Wide Web and of its growth, using a small number of simple assumptions. In our simulation, existing web pages may generate new ones as follows: First, each web page is equipped with a topic concerning its contents. Second, links between web pages are established according to common topics. Next, new web pages may be randomly generated and subsequently they might be equipped with a topic and be assigned to web sites. By repeated iterations of these rules, our simulation appears to exhibit the observed structure of the World-Wide Web and, in particular, a power law type of growth. In order to visualise the network of web pages, we have followed N. Gilbert's (1997) methodology of scientometric simulation, assuming that web pages can be represented by points in the plane. Furthermore, the simulated graph is found to possess the property of small worlds, as it is the case with a large number of other complex networks.

Stigmergic Hyperlink

2012 ◽  
pp. 260-272
Author(s):  
Artur Sancho Marques ◽  
José Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Change ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Web Page ◽  
The World ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Ecological Treatment

Inspired by patterns of behavior generated in social networks, a prototype of a new object was designed and developed for the World Wide Web – the stigmergic hyperlink or “stigh”. In a system of stighs, like a Web page, the objects that users do use grow “healthier”, while the unused “weaken”, eventually to the extreme of their “death”, being autopoieticaly replaced by new destinations. At the single Web page scale, these systems perform like recommendation systems and embody an “ecological” treatment to unappreciated links. On the much wider scale of generalized usage, because each stigh has a method to retrieve information about its destination, Web agents in general and search engines in particular, would have the option to delegate the crawling and/or the parsing of the destination. This would be an interesting social change: after becoming not only consumers, but also content producers, Web users would, just by hosting (automatic) stighs, become information service providers too.

Transforming the Law: Essays on Technology, Justice and the Legal Marketplace. By Richard Susskind. [Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. xiii, 292, and (Index) 9 pp. Hardback £19.95. ISBN 0–19–829922–2.]

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 463-492
Author(s):  
Daniel Bates
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Crystal Ball ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Comprehensive Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Oxford University Press

InThe introduction to Transforming the Law Professor Susskind supposes that the development of the World Wide Web has created a population of people who read in short digestible chunks, leaving the “cover-to-cover experience” uniquely for readers of fiction novels. If this is indeed the case, then this book is ideally suited to such a reader, being a collection of Susskind’s own brand of legal IT strategising and crystal-ball-gazing in self-contained and comprehensive chapters. Readers who have heard Susskind speak will recognise some proportion of the various essays. However, the book does also provide an extremely comprehensive collection of his thinking on developments in the practice of the law at many different levels.

Where in the (World Wide) Web of Belief is the Law of Non-contradiction?

Noûs ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Arnold ◽  
Stewart Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The World ◽  
Web Of Belief ◽  
The Law

scholarly journals Last writes? The law review in the age of cyberspace

First Monday ◽  
1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Hibbitts
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Extended Version ◽  
Review System ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Law ◽  
Recent Editorial ◽  
Legal Writers

This article reassesses the history and future of the law review in light of changing technological and academic conditions. It analyzes why law reviews developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and describes how three different waves of criticism have reflected shifting professorial, professional and pedagogical concerns about the genre. Recent editorial reforms and the inauguration of on-line services and electronic law journals appear to solve some of the law review's traditional problems, but the author suggests that these procedural and technological modifications leave the basic criticisms of the law review system unmet. In this context, the author proposes that legal writers self-publish on the World Wide Web, as he has done in an extended version of the present piece. This strategy would give legal writers more control over the substance and form of their scholarship, would create more opportunities for spontaneity and creativity, and would promote more direct dialogue between legal thinkers.

The Quality of Medical Information on the Internet

2011 ◽  
pp. 220-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmine Sellitto
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Page ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
Health Consumers

This chapter provides an overview of some of the criteria that are currently being used to assess medical information found on the World Wide Web (WWW). Drawing from the evaluation frameworks discussed, a simple set of easy to apply criteria is proposed for evaluating on-line medical information. The criterion covers the categories of information accuracy, objectivity, privacy, currency and authority. A checklist for web page assessment and scoring is also proposed, providing an easy to use tool for medical professionals, health consumers and medical web editors.

The Wide World of the World-Wide Web

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Marylin J. Raisch
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
School Child ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Open Books ◽  
Text Revision ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
Textual Research

A prominent jurist once described the law as a “seamless web.” This description of linked knowledge actually applies to all fields of scholarship and investigation, and it is not only lawyers who experience the need to move through the library constantly, each open text citing another or suggesting another avenue of inquiry. The pile of open books on the library table, and the constant recourse to catalogue and stacks, epitomize the image and the process of textual research, both for the advanced scholar and for the school-child writing her first essay. Computers clearly have the capacity to enhance the quality of our lives, but in my opinion their contribution to library reference work lies chiefly in this: to liberate us from the “up-and-down-and-fetch” mode of research as well as the “scissors-and-paste” method of text revision. This liberation is promised today in the hypertext features of all Windows-based or icon-clicking applications in use now, particularly with the incorporation of graphics and images, be they decorative or illustrative, from Netscape creatures to art, archaeology, or architecture.

Paleontology on the World Wide Web

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
Steven H. Schimmrich
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Multimedia Information ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Web Page ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Text ◽  
Text Images ◽  
Vast Network ◽  
The Web

The Explosive growth of the World Wide Web, a vast network of interconnected computers, has resulted in the availability of large amounts of information useful to K-16 teachers. The Web allows you to seamlessly access multimedia information (text, images, and binary files) from servers anywhere in the world. The problem is finding this information and being sure it's correct (almost anyone can create a Web page). This paper is an attempt to bring some order to the chaos. It refers to a listing of many paleontology resources on the Web which may be of interest to K-16 students and instructors; and provides some tips on how these resources may be used in a classroom setting.

scholarly journals The Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking Web Page: A Pilot Study in Telehealth Promotion on the World Wide Web

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 333-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic W Grannis
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Web Page ◽  
The World ◽  
E Mail

BACKGROUND: Diseases caused by tobacco products are the number one preventable health problem.STUDY OBJECTIVES: A pilot study was performed to determine the characteristics of persons searching the World Wide Web (WWW) for information on tobacco-caused diseases, the type of information sought and the feasibility of meeting informational needs.METHODS: The Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking Web Page at the unique reference location <http://www.smokinglungs.com>, created in January 1996, consists of hypertext metafile language files in a ‘frequently asked questions’ format on tobacco-caused diseases, nicotine dependence and smoking cessation. Links to other Web pages, a counter, e-mail access and Web forms were included.SETTING: Personal computer.PARTICIPANTS: People browsing the WWW.RESULTS: Between April 1996 and March 1999, there were more than 150,000 hits and 1510 individual e-mail or form responses; 597 (51.3%) of the respondents were female and 566 (48.7%) were male. They ranged between nine and 79 years of age, with a median of 29 years and a mean of 34 years. The percentage of respondents 20 years old or younger was 34.3%. Five hundred thirteen people resided in 45 American states, and 195 individuals resided in 39 other nations. Students, people with tobacco-caused diseases, and relatives or friends of persons with tobacco-caused diseases made up the large majority of correspondents. Smokers represented 40.2% of the respondents, ex-smokers 34.3% and never-smokers 25.5%. There were three main types of questions: questions for information on the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, for help with smoking cessation and for information on tobacco-caused diseases from students working on a school-related project. Images of tobacco-caused diseases were requested frequently.CONCLUSIONS: An educational WWW page is a potentially important resource in the control of tobacco-caused diseases because it fosters primary prevention of smoking in young people, facilitating smoking cessation and providing information on the diagnosis and treatment of tobacco-caused diseases.

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