Concurrently, we encounter problems that no one anticipated as we collectively
built the internet as we know it today. This seminar will consider some of the
most intriguing of the issues to which the advent of the internet has given and
continues to give rise. It will focus on a cluster of topics about which any
computer user likely knows a good deal already: spam, spyware, peer-to-peer file
sharing, personal privacy, and e-commerce. It will also venture into a few
issues-like blogging, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), social software, and
internet filtering-that may be less familiar.
Jeffrey Whitlock on 05 Oct 10I highly suggest checking out this pretzi on microfinance. It might be a bit hard to understand if you are just becoming acquainted with the subject. I might suggest reading the Wikipedia article on it first.
