William H. Dutton

With the permission of the author, Mallory Wober, I am posting his article, published in The Listener in 1973. The piece was based on the script of a talk he gave on Radio 3. Mallory thought it would be of interest to those seeing the new blockbuster film, ‘The Last King of Scotland’, and I’m [...]

I am asked often about the design of the OII’s logo and the related images, such as the networked world and wired people, used to help create the OII’s brand, and embedded within the Institute’s Web site and print materials. The logo and related designs of o’s and i’s mimic streams of 0’s and 1’s [...]

This year’s Information, Communication and Society (iCS) Conference will be held at the University of Florence, Italy. It is being organized by the Department of Political Science at the University of Florence, in collaboration with the Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU) in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. Brian Loader, the editor [...]

recommend this short YouTube Webcast of a recent interview with Douglas Englebart, entitlted the Invisible Revolution. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-TCtsFHYmQWe plan to repost this on the OII Web site in due course. My thanks to Frode Hegland of The Hyperwords Company for bringing this to my attention. See: www.hyperwords.net Frode has helped bring Douglas Englebart’s contributions to [...]

I was pleased to see a report by P. J. Benoit, W. L. Benoit, J. Milyo, and G. J. Hansen, entitled: ‘The Effects of Traditional vs. Web-Assisted Instruction on Student Learning and Satisfaction’. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri, 2006. Their central finding, that there was ‘no significant difference in amount of learning from traditional and [...]