March 1997 issues of New Thinking

March 1997 New Thinking

Website content management

Home I About I Services I Clients I Contact

New Thinking Home

Subject Classification
Reader Feedback
Subscribing
Unsubscribing
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996

Books by
Gerry McGovern

Content Critical

Gaining competitive advantage through high-quality web content

The Web Content
Style Guide

The essential guide
for online writers, editors and managers

March 1997 New Thinking

The false democracy
March 31, 1997: When the great ‘unwashed’ public becomes part of the Internet, then and only then will we begin to see whether the Internet changes society, or whether society changes the Internet and retains the status quo. More

Endangered resources
March 24, 1997: Too much of anything is a bad thing. The very fact that the digital world is an essentially limitless place endangers the resources it offers. Waste not want not has lost nearly all meaning. We copy files with the ease of copying. We save without thinking. We create because it is so easy to create. More

The Internet's hidden costs
March 17, 1997: If time is money, then the Internet costs. Let’s say that you use the Internet as an information resource to help you do your job better. Let’s say that if you were charged out to a particular client it would be at 90 US dollars per hour. Every minute of your time is potentially worth $1.50 pound. More

Fast
March 10, 1997: The digital age is fast. Unbelievably fast. Everyone I know is busy. Software is forever reinventing itself, forever coming up with a new version. Hardware is powering ahead, forever increasing its capacity. But it feels like software is forever gobbling up hardware’s dinner, as each new version eats up more space and more capacity. More

The Internet: sofa or stage?
March 03, 1997: On the Internet, the medium is not the message. We shape our tools so that we can shape our world. Having shaped them they shape us. Is modern politics a reflection of modern society or modern media? Did we invent the sound byte or did the medium of television dictate its invention? Has society become an audience, watching itself watching itself? Is all the world a stage or a sofa? More

Next Month: April
Previous Month: February

New Thinking Newsletter
Subscribe to this free weekly newsletter covering the role and function of content on the Web.
More info | Privacy policy
Read the current issue

Content management seminar feedback
"Gerry's presentation was very well received by the more than 400 higher education delegates. I've chaired this meeting since 1994 and very few speakers have generated the same level of enthusiasm. Wit and wisdom is always an unbeatable combination."
Bob Johnson, American Marketing Association

“Excellent presenter ... thought-provoking and relevant. I hope we can persuade him to visit us again one day.”
Malcolm Davison
The British Association of Communicators in Business

"Hearing Gerry McGovern speaking, one can feel that he truly masters the subject of content management. He was voted ‘best speaker of the conference’ by delegates."
Toon Lowette
European Association of Directory Publishers

Find out more about Gerry McGovern's seminars