CSC448 for the week

[scarfman]

For class blogging this week we were to look at netcraft.com, visualware.com, showmyip.com, and internic.net/whois.html, and answer the question: What is an application of this data when applied toward the digital divide, or empowering someone to have knowledge? Will this type of info assist in the competitive bidding, sales marketing, and revenue? Does that give someone power?

Maybe my imagination is failing me, but I don't see how being able to trace IPs empowers you over someone on the other side of the digital divide, who hasn't got an IP. And I'm not sure how it applies to marketing and business competition, except that that's the way to compile geographic demographics, if you can dig'em out from under proxies.

Comments

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

My main use for such info isn't demographics, it's tracking down spammers and blocking them.

[scarfman]

I was right: failure of imagination on my part.