Technology hooked up to education is usually thought to enable economies of scale rather than more personal interactions. Enthusiasts herald the arrival of universal access to information.
Skeptics warn of the commodification and privitization of that information.
Either way, the debate is framed in the rhetoric of broadcasting. And in many respects, the broadcast metaphor is a useful and familiar way in which to evaluate a website. Site usage can be tracked with a fair degree of accuracy using logfile analysis programs. These pageviews were requested by 28,115 distinct hosts, which can be understood as individual users, although multiple users may share the same host. The site contains 18,500 separate text and image files.