A new web portal (rather 1990's no?) for the UK Higher Education Academy's 24 subject centres has been branded a "mammoth waste of money". Too right. What is HEA for?
The deal aims to provide students with web space free from the restrictions of the university, 500MB of webspace and a bandwidth allocation of 2GB per month.
What is the Web for? And why do we care so much? Why has this simple technology sent a lightning bolt through our culture? It goes far beyond the Web's over-hyped economic impact: 500 million of us aren't there because we want a better "shopping experienc