A thorough look at the competing economic, technological, and social factors influencing the development of e-books. [First Monday]

Argues that the evolution of e-book technology is related to the penetrating impact of networks and information technology on society.

Discusses the future of information appliances, household appliances that interact with each other, and resulting flexibility, ease of use, complexity, innovation and frustration.

Journal article by Paul Wouters, Iina Hellsten, and Loet Leydesdorff. Examines the consequences and implications of internet search engines continuously reconstructing the past by updating their indices.

The authors present an analysis of Club Nexus, an online community at Stanford University. Through the site they were able to study a reflection of the real world community structure within the student body.

Peer-reviewed journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli.

One method of article discovery for free online journals has been through the use of Internet search engines. What happens to the accessibility of these journals with the advent of paid placement, inclusion, and submission?

This paper sketches out a proposal for the creation of a software completion bond market as a practical implementation of the Street Performer Protocol for the funding of open source software.

Scientific illustration and analysis of socio-technical approaches that make up a collaborative phenomenon termed Open Source Intelligence, which goes beyond the collaborative coding of software.

Article by Magnus Cedergren discusses models involving the driving forces in a theoretical open content value chain.