References

1. Search Engines

Brin, S. and Page, L.,
The Anatomy of a Search Engine
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html∞
Explains the algorithm of google, by its creators.

Hiler, J.
Google Time Bomb Will Weblogs blow up the world's favorite search engine?
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm∞

Google Watch
http://www.google-watch.org/∞
A look at how Google's monopoly, algorithms, and privacy policies are undermining the Web.

How Google Searches Itself
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/60/google.html∞
Google has become one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley by helping millions of Internet users search the Web smarter and faster. But how does this wildly popular search engine find the new ideas that will keep its business moving forward? By googling itself.

Anti-Google
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/∞
A crusading webmaster says the popular search engine's page-ranking algorithm is "undemocratic."

Google Erasure of Anti-Scientology Links
http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Intellectual_Property/Copyrights/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act/Google_Erasure_of_Anti-Scientology_Links/∞

Waiting for Google: What's Not Speedy About the Web Search King? Its Plans for An IPO
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/google020618.html∞

Wiggins, R.W.
The Effects of September 11 on the Leading Search Engine
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_10/wiggins/∞

2. Web surfing as an epistemic practice

Harrison, C.
Hypertext Links: Whither Thou Goest, and Why
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_10/harrison/index.html∞

See also the the ressource page on the ethnography of Web practices.

3. Democratisation of knowledge

Sperber, D.
Pour un utopisme raisonné
http://www.dan.sperber.com/utopisme.htm∞
The author points out that information is a very specific good: in the general case, information acquires its value by being given and spread rather than by being scarce (as with material goods). This property of information, together with the advent of the Net, which nearly abolish the cost of the means of the propagation of the information, should let us hope that Marx’s communism according to which one will produce according to its ability and consume according to its needs, may be feasible in the domain of information. The author thus invite us to an utopist, but informed, reflexion on the Information Age.

Harnad’s publications about free online scholarship:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/intpub.html∞
Harnad is strongly advocating (and actively promoting) to free the Online-Only Refereed Literature. His numerous articles are rich of arguments for promoting online scientific communication.

Text-e
http://www.text-e.org/∞
Virtual symposium dedicated to investigating the impact of the Web on reading, writing and the diffusion of knowledge.


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Seely Brown, J.
Growing Up Digital: How the Web Changes Work, Education, and the Ways People Learn
http://www.aahe.org/change/digital.pdf∞

Steve Lawrence's papers on online publishing, impact and citation analysis
http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers.html∞
The Author argues and show how online archiving of scientific paper, together with intelligent software (such as Cite Seer) can improve scientific research. He also developed software for organising scientific knowledge on the web.

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4. Distributed Cognition

Snellen, I.
Caveats for knowledge Management
http://falcon.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/workshop/snellen.doc∞

P. Wright, R. Fields, M. Harrison
Analysing Human-Computer Interaction As Distributed Cognition: The Resources Model
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/bobf/papers/res-hci.pdf∞

5. Miscellaneous publications

Steve Hitchcock, Donna Bergmark, Tim Brody, Christopher Gutteridge, Les Carr, Wendy Hall, Carl Lagoze, Stevan Harnad
Open Citation Linking The Way Forward
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/hitchcock/10hitchcock.html∞

Ross Anderson
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html∞
Articles on trusted computing. Opens interesting perspectives on legislative and economical stakes, and on the future constraints on data and information exchange on the web.

Joseph M. Whitmeyer
Effects of Positive Reputation Systems
http://coof.ba.ttu.edu/zlin/readings/SO000663.pdf∞

Web epistemology: Tracking and authoring reliability
http://residence.aec.at/rhizome/email/msg00092.html∞

R. Rogers, (ed.),
Preferred Placement - Knowledge Politics on the Web,
Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Editions, 2000
Preferred placement turns the tables on web analysis to date. Instead of celebrating the web and all its prospects for creative artistry, democracy and e-commerce, the volume authors calmly go backstage. How are search engines, portals, default settings and collaborative filtering formatting the surfer and offering passage to the media? A colourful spectrum of thinkers queries the medium's preferencing and recommendation mechanisms with an eye towards articulating, and learning from, the new Knowledge Politics on the Web.

Social Epistemology
Volume 16, Number 1 (July 2002)
http://www.catchword.com/titles/02691728.htm∞
Special issue on social epistemology and ICT, contains:
- Introduction: Social Epistemology and Information Science, Don Fallis
- Shera's social epistemology recast as psychological bibliology, Jonathan Furner
- Social epistemology, information science and ideology, Archie L. Dick
- On defining library and information science as applied philosophy of Information, Luciano Floridi
- Trust and information: the role of trust in the social epistemology of information science, Ashley McDowell
- Social epistemology, contextualism and the division of labour, Christopher Smith
- Cross-cultural epistemic practices, Soraj Hongladarom
- Jesse Shera, social epistemology and praxis, John M. Budd
- Digital libraries and practices of trust: networked biodiversity information, Nancy A. Van House