About this Issue

This issue of Interface is the last of our academic year. Wanting to finish on a strong note, we offer you a wide range of outstanding pieces. A number of them are the final installments in a series, and I think you will find that each of these, taken together, offer considerable insight into a wide variety of the impacts of the Internet.

Our Feature is by Professor Mike Charles, and is the last installment of his Berglund Research Fellowship essay. It is found at: http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/2007/03/charles.php Mike's series has been a wonderful introduction to current (and past) thinking about education and technology.

Our technology editor, Mike Geraci, finishes his highly regarded series on typography and the web with a bonus fifth installment, "Getting Classy with CSS" found at: http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/2007/03/geraci.php We have received an unusually high volume of appreciative comments on this series from professionals in the field and recommend it to anybody working in HTML.

Our Medical Editor and Berglund Research Fellow, Professor Shawn Davis, takes a useful retrospective look at on-line health information with "Internet-Based Tailored Health Communications: History and Theoretical Foundations" found at: http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/2007/03/davis.php

Legal Editor Leonard Duboff offers "The Importance of Corporate Compliance" which goes to the very heart of corporate law, the assumption that the corporation is recognized as a hypothetical legal "person." Anyone involved in any form of corporate organization could save himself or herself a great deal of grief by reading this piece, found at: http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/2007/03/duboff.php

Game Editor Chris Pruett gives us a personal retrospective on his development as a game programmer with "The Independent Army" found at http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/2007/03/pruett.php Chris, as always, gives us very thoughtful insights into the current and coming generations of games, gamers, and those who work in the game industry.

Digital Hygiene editor Charles Boulet sums up this wonderful series with " Digital Hygiene: A Network Grows Up" found at: http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/2007/03/cboulet.php This piece ends with a powerful argument for Internet Identity Authentication and Management which is both robust, but also protective of users' privacy. For those unfamiliar with this issue, it promises to be a very important one in the immediate future.

Pat McGregor, our Security and Privacy Editor, finally answers the age-old question "what do life insurance, birth control, and UV-blocking eyewear have in common?" in her usual witty manner. Found at http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/2007/03/mcgregor.php "How Much Protection is Enough?" gives what should be mandatory advice to every Internet user.

In this issue I review two books, Robert D Atkinson's Digital Prosperity. Understanding the Economic Benefits of the Information Technology Revolution and Charles Kenny's Overselling the Web? Development and the Internet in an editorial essay, "Development, Productivity, and the World Wide Web" found at: http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/2007/03/atkinson.php

As always, we hope you will find this issue of Interface useful and interesting, Please look for us again in late August.

Jeffrey Barlow
Director, the Berglund Institute for Internet Studies
Pacific University