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Qik Stream
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Government spying on protestors
September 9, 2005Spying on the Protesters, by JOHN S. FRIEDMAN The Nation, [from the September 19, 2005 issue]. “…the FBI was more interested in intimidation than in trying to gather information.”
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United States Will Stand Firm On ICANN’s Authority
September 9, 2005United States Will Stand Firm On ICANN’s Authority. by Danielle Belopotosky, Technology Daily PM Edition, Sept 8, 2005. [subscription required] The Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) issued a report in August that called for dismantling or modifying ICANN. The report serves as the groundwork for an action plan on Internet governance that will be [...]
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Roundup of Recent Items of Interest
September 9, 2005Without comment, here are several articles of interest from the last week or so. Have a good weekend! Academic Libraries Join in Marking September 11 With Discussions of What Freedom Means Roberts Errs on Side of Secrecy as White House Counsel Public Being Shut Out of Environmental Right-to-Know Hearings At long last, it’s Lockheed for [...]
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Risks of Technology
September 5, 2005The Time Has Come: Taking Our Issues to the Public by Peter G. Neuman, (Sun, 28 Aug 2005) The Risks Digest Volume 24: Issue 2. How are we doing with our information infrastructure? Is everything moving along well and in the right direction? Peter Neuman, speaking of computer risks in general, notes that the “basic [...]
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How many people read blogs and use RSS?
September 5, 20056% of US Internet users read blogs, 2% use RSS. IT Facts / ZDNet.com Sept. 5, 2005. Ok, here is the caveat to the headline. The study, The State Of Consumer Technology Adoption by Forrester Research, evidently only counts “online consumers.” The summary of the report is available for free but does not reveal much [...]
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Guide to DRM restrictions
September 2, 2005EFF: The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User’s Guide to DRM in Online Music “This guide ‘translates’ the marketing messages by the major services, giving you the real deal rather than spin.” Imagine if Tower Records sold you a CD, but then, a few months later, knocked on your door and replaced the CD with [...]
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Internet Governance and WSIS
September 2, 2005Internet Governance: A Review in the Context of the WSIS Process by Carlos A. Afonso. Document prepared for Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM). July 2005. The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a UN sponsored conference organized by the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Its mission is to address both “The Digital Revolution” [...]
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Blog of the Month
September 2, 2005This month’s “blog of the month” is actually an “RSS Feed of the Month.” del.icio.us/popular This is an RSS feed of the popular page from del.icio.us. del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows people to easily keep track on the web of a personal collection of links, categorize those links with keywords, and share [...]
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Podcasting at University of Florida
September 1, 2005The University of Florida is doing some innovative things with audio and podcasting. The UF News Desk has begun including audio files along with press releases in text (University of Florida News). The news site includes information on general campus news (announcements, appointments, awards) as well as stories about research at the University. All the [...]
