e-Clippings 1.19.2004 *Not Latin for Fair and Balanced
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

Kurzweil's Law (aka "The Law of Accelerating Returns")
Evolution applies positive feedback in that the more capable methods
resulting from one stage of evolutionary progress are used to create
the next stage. Each epoch of evolution has progressed more rapidly
by building on the products of the previous stage.
http://www.edge.org/q2004/page4.html#kurzweil

Sterling's Law of Ubiquitous Computation
First, your home is a constant, while the Net is a place you go; then
the Net becomes a constant while your home is a place you go.
http://www.edge.org/q2004/page7.html#sterling
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I know I am bit late on some of the social networking software –
but thanks to Judy Brown, I just tried LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) and
was fairly impressed at first blush. I don't know if I have the
courage to upload my entire contacts file but maybe some of them…

Cool Tool #2: Grokker 2 (www.groxis.com) offers a visual
interpretation of search engine results. While visually appealing,
like so many of these products, I am arrogant enough to leave it
wanting more. Take a look though.
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NEWS

WellPoint Unveils $40M Plan To Furnish Doctors With Free Computers:
WellPoint, the nation's second largest health insurer, has launched a
$40 million project to provide doctors with handheld or desktop
computers to support e-prescriptions and cut paperwork.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89117,00.html?nlid=PM

(from OLDaily)
Participation in On-line Courses – How Essential Is It? The
author touches lightly on several issues related to online
discussions
in courses: the role of lurkers, measuring online participation, and
whther participation shpuld be graded, for example. Discussion of
this paper in the IFETS forum starts Monday. By Bill Williams, IFETS,
January 19, 2003
http://ifets.ieee.org/discussions/discuss_january2004.html

(from Kaironews)
Mary Hodder reports that Jon Johansen, or "DVD-John," the creator of
decryption tool DeCSS, was acquitted in a copyright case in Norway.
Johansen was only 15 years old when he wrote DeCSS, which he claims
he wrote so that he could play DVDs using Linux. DeCSS also, however,
enabled the copying of DVDs, as it broke the copy protection on the
DVD (Hodder says that "the [Norwegian] court also took into
consideration the fact that DVDs are easy to damage and so backing
them up is also a consumer right." Good for Norway!
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/001712.html

Study: Music Piracy Rising: Associated Press
10:31 AM Jan. 16, 2004 PT: The number of people downloading music
illegally surged a month after recording companies began suing
hundreds of music fans, a marketing research firm said Thursday.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,61943,00.html

COPYRIGHT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Online Sites, Artists Divided on
Pay-for-Play: Performance and publishing copyright laws, marketing
decisions, artists' egos and negotiating power plays can stop people
from legally buying songs on the Internet.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W0RH05D8E14742C97E3623EAEBB23

LESLIE WALKER'S WEB WATCH: Google Improves Searches
Google added five features that boost its numerical smarts, providing
specific results in response to particular numeric searches.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W0RH05D8E127E2C97E3623EAEBB23

(from OLDaily)
A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services: The aggregation of
online library resources has grown tremendously in the last year, as
this comprehensive report demonstrates. Still not a complete summary
(I didn't see EdNA or CAREO listed, among others) the compilation
nonetheless raises in my mind visions of the potential before us:
imagine all of these services in a single network offering open
access to all these resources. By Martha L. Brogan, The Digital
Library Federation, January, 2004
http://www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan/

(from OLDaily)
Product Reviews: This is a neat idea, though the incompleteness of it
is frustrating. From a database of 760 educational products, readers
can search by keyword or product name. the idea is that this takes
them to a product review. Or does it? I found no reviews in my
searching, just a short description and a link to a website. What
would have been nice would have been links to reviews, studies,
anything, in fact, that would help inform readers about the product.
In addition I didn't see open source products listed; the free stuff
should be listed side by side with the pay. And the system should
generate an RSS feed of the results, so people can stay up to date.
By Various Authors, TechLearning, January, 2004
http://www.techlearning.com/resources/product_guide.jhtml

(NYTimes.com requires free registration)
Power Players: Big Names Are Jumping Into the Crowded Online Music
Field By JOHN SCHWARTZ and JOHN MARKOFF: January 12, 2004
People watching the online music industry say two things about that
digital marketplace: business is booming, and the business stinks.
Dozens of companies have opened online music stores, drawn by the
promise of riches if even a fraction of the tens of millions of
people illegally downloading songs turn to legitimate services. But
profits in selling songs are slim at best, and the industry is
already
too crowded.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/12/technology/12tune.html?


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Toyota Unveils All-New Highlander Hybrid SUV and FTX Full-Size Pickup
Concept The all-new 2005 Toyota Highlander Hybrid gas-electric
mid-size sport utility vehicle (SUV) made its world premiere at a
press conference today at the 2004 North American International Auto
Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The press conference also featured the
unveiling of the FTX full-size pickup concept truck, offering a
glimpse into Toyota's future full-size truck strategy.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Jan/1022598.htm

10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World
Transformative technological developments sometimes seem to come from
nowhere. But Technology Review's editors keep their ears close to the
ground, listening for the early rumbles of inventions and innovations
that are likely to gather force over the coming years--the things
destined to spring out of their laboratory and entrepreneurial
origins and land in our lives with enormous impact. Among this year's
top 10: software that can translate between any languages,personal
genomics, and "T-rays"--an imaging technology that reveals not only
the shape but also the composition of hidden objects, from explosives
to cancers. For each technology, we've identified a researcher
whose
ideas and efforts epitomize the field.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/emerging0204.asp?trk=nl


TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

"This new white paper from Donald Clark, CEO of Epic Group plc,
argues that we have to look at the research to consider the strengths
of each media type as well as its relationship to other media in the
mix against the nature of the target audience and type of learning.
Just as blended learning is recommended for channels of delivery, a
blend of appropriate media is recommended for e-learning." White
Paper: Media and media mix in e-learning
To get your free copy contact: mailto:marketing@...

Four Antidotes to Change Resistance: By John Jones, Claudia Staub,
and Elizabeth Powers: Four techniques can mitigate the emotional and
cultural challenges of achieving strategic transformations in
organization
http://www.strategy-business.com/resilience/rr00003

(NYTimes.com requires free registration)
My So-Called Blog: By EMILY NUSSBAUM
Published: January 11, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/magazine/11BLOG.html

(from Kaironews)
UCLA World Internet Report: UCLA's Center for Communication Policy
has releasd what its calling the World Internet Report today.
According to the report those using the Internet, blogging, IMing,
etc. do not as is commonly believed withdraw from the 'real' world,
but rather remain or become even more engaged with friends,
colleagues, and other social aspects of their lives. More importantly
Internet 'use' is accompanied by a decrease in television viewing,
"use of the Internet is reducing television viewing around the world
while having little impact on positive aspects of social life."
http://ccp.ucla.edu/pages/NewsTopics.asp?Id=45

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Nokia unveils 6620 smartphone with EDGE: Phone giant launches first
EDGE-capable phone in the USA: the 6620, boasting streaming video,
full web browsing, camera and Series 60 by Spring 2004.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4494.html

W3C Moves Ahead With Mobile Web Standard: The new technical
specification will, for example, allow a mobile phone to tell a
server its display size so content is delivered in a format that fits
the screen.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89145,00.html?nlid=PM

GAMING SECTION

Weblog: Teaching Parents About Video Games Ratings
Blogger Henry Jenkins weighs in on a new effort by the Mothers
Against Violence in America to educate parents about the importance
of
paying attention to the video games ratings system. Although a
longtime defender of video games against the claim that they cause
violent behavior, Jenkins "applauds [the group's] efforts to educate
parents about the content of current games and to get shopkeepers to
pay more attention to the ages of people purchasing their products."
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1234&trk=nl

SECURITY SECTION

Microsoft Issues Warning About VOIP Vulnerability: Microsoft Corp.
issued its monthly security bulletin, warning users about a critical
vulnerability in a component of the Microsoft Internet Security and
Acceleration (ISA) Server used to control IP (Internet protocol)
telephony traffic.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89047,00.html?nlid=SEC2

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

(From elearningpost)
IDEO: EXTRA SPECIAL: A new book that examines IDEO's design of
interactive elements.
http://www.ideo.com/case_studies/spatial/intro3.htm

What's Geocaching? What happens when techies gain access to a
multibillion-dollar defense satellite system? They play. Days after
the May 2000 order making precision GPS data available to civilians,
GPS enthusiast Dave Ulmer hid some goodies in the hills of Oregon and
posted the GPS coordinates online. Mike Teague found the booty,
logged the event—which he called the GPS Stash Hunt—and a
sport was
born. Jeremy Irish and two friends from a failing dot-com started an
official site to promote what is now commonly called geocaching. The
items stashed are often whimsical: Irish's first find was a bottle of
Sunny Delight and a log book
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-458-3-3-187403-31830-1
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