Perception 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,” instead of a [...]
Secrecy 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, Charles Yost,
and [...]
Broadband 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 Internet AgeÓ
University of Colorado School of Law
Boulder, [...]
CFP 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 Source, Open [...]
Shrook 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 [...]
TNR 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 ways ill-suited for expressing and organizing dissent. [...]
Biblioserver.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. [...]
Silicon 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 an [...]
Open 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 be [...]
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