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Vital Decisions: How Internet users decide what information to trust when they or their loved ones are sick May 22, 2002 The Rise of the E-Citizen: How People Use Government Agencies' Web Sites April 3, 2002 Getting Serious Online: As Americans Gain Experience, They Use the Web More at Work, Write Emails with More Significant Content, Perform More Online Transactions, and Pursue More Serious ...

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Welcome to the home of the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, a diverse group of public interest, non profit and industry groups working to educate the Congress and the public about important Internet-related policy issues. This site contains information about the program and activities of the Advisory Committee and the Congressional Internet Caucus -- a bi-partisan group of over ...

NetCoalition serves as the public policy voice for some of the world's most innovative Internet companies on the key legislative and administrative proposals affecting the online world.

Looking for this article recently at David Isenberg's site, we were surprised to find that the pointer to it was broken. To help keep these memes on the Web, here's a copy. Rise of the Stupid Network Why the Intelligent Network was once a good idea, but isn't anymore. One telephone company nerd's odd perspective on the changing value proposition by David Isenberg - isen@isen.com - www.isen.com ...

Home This is a slightly modified version of the Final Exam I recently gave to a class of college students taking a special advanced course on The Future Of Computing. A number of friends to whom I showed it suggested that it might be a good Final Exam for people considering passing thousands of new laws and regulations, to make sure that the Web is safe , and to eliminate the Wild West nature ...