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PowerPoint doesn’t make bad presentations, People do.
March 31, 2004Perception Is Reality. By Peter Coffee. Eweek, December 1, 2003. Coffee does not go quite as far as Edward Tufte in his dislike of Powerpoint. But he does go at least as far in his dislike of bad presentations. Bad presentations result from people learning to write with a model of “topic sentence, body, conclusion,” [...]
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RAND: Govt Web Sites Of Little Use To Terrorists
March 30, 2004Secrecy News 03/30/04 Steven Aftergood reports on a new RAND study on government information. The complete RAND report is available in PDF Mapping the Risks: Assessing the Homeland Security Implications of Publicly Available Geospatial Information by John C. Baker, Beth E. Lachman, David R. Frelinger, Kevin M. OÕConnell, Alex Hou, Michael S. Tseng, David Orletsky, [...]
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The Four Internet Freedoms
March 30, 2004Broadband network neutrality: Advocates push for policy Recently FCC Chairman Michael Copps advocated a market approach to preserving four Internet freedoms. (Preserving Internet Freedom: Guiding Principles For The Industry PDF. Remarks of Michael K. Powell Chairman, Federal Communications Commission At the Silicon Flatirons Symposium on ÒThe Digital Broadband Migration: Toward a Regulatory Regime for the [...]
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Computer Freedom & Privacy Conference 2004
March 30, 2004CFP 2004 / Computer Freedom & Privacy Conference. Privacy. RFID. Constitutional Law in Cyberspace. Telecommunications Law. ‘Overseeing’ the Poor: Technology Privacy Invasions of Vulnerable Groups. The Hidden Power of Search Engine Technology. Nations vs. the Net: The UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Datamining the Unknown Unknowns. Organizing Online for Political Change. Open [...]
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New RSS reader for Mac OS X
March 29, 2004Shrook 2 – RSS and Atom for Mac OS X Shrook has several advantages over other news readers I’ve tried. First, it allows you to easily synchronize your news reading across more than one machine. This is super if you read news at work and home, for instance. No more weeding through the items you’ve [...]
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The Web Won’t Topple Tyranny
March 27, 2004TNR Online | Dictatorship.com. by Joshua Kurlantzick. The New Republic. Post date: 03.25.04, Issue date: 04.05.04. This article discusses why the Internet is not “naturally independent of the tyrannies [that governments] impose on us” as John Perry Barlow and others have been hoping. Why? In part because, as a medium, the Web is in many [...]
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An interesting idea: share your bibliographies.
March 27, 2004Biblioserver.com : Home This is an interesting concept, although a little limited at this point. It is a website that allows you to post a bibliography. The service supports browsing and searching of bibliographies and indexes of authors, keywords and sources. This will be a subscription service. A prime area for libraries to explore. We [...]
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Outlaw Uncontrolled P2P?
March 27, 2004Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal – Some in Congress Working to Outlaw Uncontrolled P2P Wired News reports a variety of efforts in Congress to ban peer to peer technology, or at least P2P that can’t be controlled by the copyright cartel and spied on by the police. If they succeed, you can kiss goodbye [...]
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States and cities develop repository of open source software
March 26, 2004Open Source > States Seek Common Ground On Open Source > March 23, 2004″ href=”http://internetweek.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18401422″>States Seek Common Ground On Open Source Internet Week March 23, 2004. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and several other states next month will launch a software repository designed to let government agencies make more efficient use of open-source software. The repository will [...]