I know I am behind. I'll publish the newsletter tomorrow. For today, let us
remember those lost, pray for those living and strengthen our resolve to see
this conflict through.

Mark Oehlert, Editor

e-Clippings  8.28.02

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect
liberty when the Governments purposes are beneficent. Men born to
freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by
evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious
encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without
understanding."-- Louis D. Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States, 1928
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New To Me: This is just SO classic and proves the point that people
like Valenti, Rosen, and the rest of RIAA and MPAA don't get...you
will not be able to stop the copying - nor is it inherently bad for
business - what is bad is this insistence on trying to maintain an
antiquated status quo.

Turn That CD Into an MP3: RipFlash by PoGo Products gets around copy
protection. By JIM HEID, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES, March 18 2002
http://www.pogoproducts.com/press_latimes.html
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Transforming DoD Training to Better Enable "Joint" Operations
Conference and Exhibit
Date: September 16, 2002 to September 19, 2002
Place: Hilton-Alexandria Mark Center
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
http://www.trainingsystems.org/events/21L0/index.cfm
"This Conference and Exhibition is designed to investigate the
Transformation of the Department of Defense (DoD) Training.
Transformed training is the key enabler to achieve the operational
goals of the overarching Transformation of the DoD. Among the
principal determinants of transformation are a new and continuously
changing environment, the need for improved and expanded "jointness,"
and the opportunities made possible by advanced technologies.
Opportunities exist for the Federal- and private-sectors to
collaborate on large- scale development and implementation of
Training, Learning and Job Performance Technologies that can
transform training and learning throughout the U.S. military and with
our international partners."
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FY 03 Call for ADL Prototype Proposals
ORLANDO, FLORIDA, August 12, 2002 - The Joint Advanced Distributed
Learning Co-Laboratory (Joint ADL Co-Lab) will be seeking Proposals
from military organizations for ADL Prototypes. As in prior years,
military organizations first submit White Papers and those who are
selected will then be asked to submit a Proposal.
The FY 03 Prototype Program will be a Data Driven Program focusing on
advancing the state-of-the-art in ADL and the requirements of the
services. In addition to the Prototype product(s) delivered at the
end of the effort, Organizations will be required throughout to
submit data that documents their process and provide the foundation
upon which to build future ADL applications. This data will help
support the larger ADL Community.
The formal Call for Proposals will be September 18, 2002. This Call
for Proposals will contain detailed instructions on the White Paper
format, the specific information required within the White Paper,
instructions for submitting and the submission deadline. A supporting
document that will be referenced in the Call for Proposals, explains
the rationale for the data that is being requested in both White
Papers and subsequent Proposals.
Check back to ADLNet.org for more information.
http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsid=87
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Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002
by Lawrence Lessig: 08/15/2002. Here is the complete transcript of
Lawrence's keynote presentation made on July 24, 2002.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html
--I have also copied this into a Word doc and uploaded it to the
eClippings's site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group
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U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher
http://www.house.gov/boucher/internet.htm
Friend to all who see the Internet/Web retain even some modicum of
freedom!
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NEWS

In 9/11 Events, Mixture of Pain And Patriotism: Disparate U.S.
Ceremonies Have a Common Thread By Lois Romano, Washington Post Staff
Writer Monday, August 26, 2002; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61125-2002Aug25.html

Lancaster team present evaluation engine for e-learning resource
brokerage platform. Wilbert Kraan, CETIS staff: August 23, 2002: A
team from the Department of Communication systems at Lancaster
University developed an evaluation engine that helps rank e-learning
resources in the "Universal Brokerage Platform for Learning
Resources".
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020823174106

Is our children learning? Each year more than $5 billion is spent on
computers in the classroom. But it's the tech companies that benefit.
By Julie Landry August 21, 2002
http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/08/classroom082102.html

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Palmtops in the Operating Room: By IAN AUSTEN
WHEN nurses make rounds at the cardiovascular surgery unit of Miami
Children's Hospital, there is one piece of medical equipment that is
missing: the clipboard. Instead of writing information about the
patients on pocket-size cards, nurses tap away on hand-held
organizers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/22/technology/circuits/22MEDI.html

Distance-Education Alliance Backed by Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Will
Offer Courses to the Public: By SCOTT CARLSON: A nonprofit
distance-education company supported by three elite universities will
begin offering online courses to the general public today. The
company, until now known as the Alliance for Lifelong Learning, will
also dump its unwieldy name for a more marketable one: AllLearn.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002082201t.htm

Academic-Library Groups Still Oppose Modified Software-Licensing Act:
By ANDREA L. FOSTER: Academic-library groups say they're still
opposed to a model law intended to make software-licensing agreements
uniformly enforceable in all 50 states, even though the legal group
that drafted the measure eased some of its provisions this month. The
library groups say the changes to the law, called the Uniform
Computer Information Transactions Act, or Ucita, are a step in the
right direction, but don't go far enough to protect scholars'
interests.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002082101t.htm

E-learning comes to CRM: By Jennifer Vollmer and Timothy Hickernell
August 7, 2002: Meta trend: In 2002, enterprise e-learning
initiatives will remain fragmented, with management prioritizing
best-of-breed learning management systems (LMSes). By 2003, the
e-learning market will adopt an "ecosystem" model incorporating
real-time, asynchronous, and content management capabilities. Through
2005, e-learning services will increasingly be delivered as embedded
components within enterprise portals, applications, and collaboration
systems.
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/mai
n/0,14179,2875894,00.html

OMB Puts A Freeze On Tech Spending $1 Billion in Plans Land In Limbo
By Renae Merle, Washington Post Staff Writer, Saturday, August 24,
2002; Page E01 : The Office of Management and Budget has ordered
seven of the 22 agencies slated to make up the proposed Department of
Homeland Security to temporarily halt spending on more than $1
billion in information technology projects while it looks for savings
and compatible technology.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55084-2002Aug23.html

NETg Courses Qualify for College Credit: Wednesday August 21, 9:28 am
ET: NAPERVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2002--NETg, a
worldwide leader in corporate education and training and part of The
Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC, TSX: TOC), today announced that the
American Council on Education (ACE) has recommended that NETg's e-
Learning and Wave Boot Camp product lines be eligible for college
credit.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020821/212172_1.html


TRENDS SECTION

Walk Your Data Into Port: By Paul Boutin: 2:00 a.m. Aug. 26, 2002 PDT
Out: The Internet. In again: Sneakernet. While Internet speeds
stagnate and firewalls proliferate, portable storage media have been
screaming ahead in capacity, transfer speed and, most importantly,
ease of use. As a result, computer users are bypassing cyberspace and
burning discs or toting plug-and-play drives instead.
http://ln.doubleclick.net/adi/wn.ln/culture;sz=120
x600;ptile=2;pos=2;!category=adult;ord=1253332611?

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Nintendo Will Sell Web Game Adapter: By BLOOMBERG NEWS
TOKYO, Aug. 23 (Bloomberg News) - Nintendo said today that it would
begin selling an adapter in October to enable owners of its GameCube
console to play one another over the Internet at high speeds.
Nintendo will begin selling the adapter in Japan on Oct. 3 for 3,800
yen ($32). The company said it would sell the adapter in the United
States later. The adapter will serve as the link between Nintendo's
GameCube and a modem with Internet access.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/24/technology/24NINT.html

For Young Fans, the Name Of the Video Game Is Gore: By Stephen A.
Crockett Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer, Saturday, August 24, 2002;
Page A01: On a pleasant Sunday afternoon a little after church had
let out, Kimothy Wilson Jr., aka KJ, 16, picked up his 2000
Lamborghini Diablo at the garage where he had stashed it, then drove
to the back entrance of the AmmuNation gun shop and retrieved a 9mm
automatic. He chased down a pimp who had been giving his boss
problems, and within seconds, he pinned the pimp's ride between his
car and a storefront, killing three pedestrians. A bloody shootout
killed two more. They all died screaming. Game Over.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55183-2002Aug23.html

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From Unseemly to Lowbrow, the Web's Real Money Is in the Gutter: By
JOHN SCHWARTZ: Life is good at the bottom of the cyberspace pit. When
the Arizona attorney general's office recently shut down a Scottsdale
company, CP Direct, it offered a glimpse into the spoils of the
Internet's dark side. The company sold pills via the Web that
promised to increase penis length, bust size and body height.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/technology/26CYBE.html

Blogging for Dollars: Businesses are starting to use weblogs as
powerful tools for knowledge management and communications. By Dylan
Tweney, August 23, 2002
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,43097,FF.html

Ray Ozzie's Weblog: Saturday, August 24, 2002
Weblog Policy:  A number of people at Groove have started blogs, and
I'm really trying to encourage more to do the same. The more we live
it, the more that we'll learn from it, and the more that we'll learn
through it as we're engaged in conversations with our customers. And
thus, the sooner that we'll be able to improve our products and
services based upon what we learn. Of course, there are many
questions that arise when an employer encourages employees to operate
more "in the open", and so our counsel, Jeff Seul, has taken a first
pass at creating a "blog policy". Check it out.
http://www.ozzie.net/blog/2002/08/24.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Students Complain About Devices for Reading E-Books, Study Finds: By
SCOTT CARLSON: E-book technology needs some improvement before
students will be willing to use e-books instead of textbooks,
according to a report on a study conducted at Ball State University.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002082601t.htm


SECURITY SECTION


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

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An Uninvited Bassist Takes to the Internet: By NEIL STRAUSS
A muso, according to one definition, is slang for someone, usually a
musician, who is obsessed with the minutiae and technical details of
music-making. Musos don't listen to music the way you and I do. When
they hear the Detroit duo the White Stripes - with Jack White on
guitar and his former wife, Meg White, on drums - they don't hear
raw, bluesy stomps that announce the return of quality rock to
mainstream ears. No, they hear a band that is missing a bass player.
And they find this incredibly irritating and aesthetically
wrongheaded.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/arts/music/25SPIN.html

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'Edison's Eve': A History of Automatons: By MIRANDA SEYMOUR
Gaby Wood is the author of a book on the life of Caroline Crachami, a
renowned midget whose skeleton is still, disconcertingly, on
exhibition in a London museum, standing knee-high to her cabinet
companion, an Irish giant. It seems appropriate that Wood's new work,
''Edison's Eve,'' should end with a chapter on the Schneiders, who
progressed from circus work to comedy films in which their size
enabled them to masquerade as delinquent babies. Calling themselves,
for obvious reasons, the Doll Family, the Schneiders cheerfully
exploited their diminutive proportions to baffle their audiences:
Were they still objects, brought to life? Were they mechanical?
''Were they born or manufactured? Their performance was not just a
song and dance act, in other words: it was a balancing act, treading
the fine line along each of these borders of perception.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/books/review/25SEYMOUR.html

Hit Charade: The music industry's self-inflicted wounds. By Mark
Jenkins Posted Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 8:19 AM PT: 2001 may not
be the year the music died, but the pop biz did develop a nagging
headache, and it's not going away. The recorded-music industry's
first slump in more than two decades continues this year; the number
of discs sold is slipping and so is the appeal of last year's stars.
Britney Spears' latest album has moved 4 million copies-a big number,
but less than half what its predecessor did.
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069732

Vote against a paid-for Pigopolist pol! By Andrew Orlowski in London
Posted: 08/23/2002 at 12:19 EST
http://www.theregus.com/content/6/26095.html

Bulk fax outfit sued for $2.2 trillion in junk fax claim By John
Leyden Posted: 08/23/2002 at 06:24 EST: A California businessman has
launched a class action lawsuit against fax outfit Fax.com claiming
truly gobs smacking damages of $2.2 trillion.
http://www.theregus.com/content/7/26089.html
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e-Clippings  8.21.02

Editor's Note: I must say that the stories in this issue from
copyright to emerging tech have combined for a great issue - I don't
usually carry on like this but man! there is some good stuff in here.
Please read on! --Mark Oehlert

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance; which condition if he break[s], servitude is at once the
consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." --John
Philpot Curran, on the right of election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin,
speech before the Privy Council, Dublin, Ireland, 10 July 1790

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect
liberty when the Governments purposes are beneficent. Men born to
freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by
evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious
encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without
understanding."-- Louis D. Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States, 1928
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New To Me: SpamNet (Cloudmark): If you love spam, quit reading now!
If you are still reading, I'll assume you hate this stuff as much as
I do.  Now comes SpamNet from CloudMark, a free (for now?)
service/download for Outlook. The people behind this are no
lightweights, they include Jordan Ritter, co-founder and Chief Server
Architect of Napster and Vipul Ved Prakash, known as the creator of
"Razor," which is "used by more than sixty medium-sized ISP's and is
featured in several high-profile IT publications including
'slashdot'." The idea is that when you download SpamNet, you get a
little button on your Outlook bar. When you get spam, you hit "block"
and the email is moved into your "spam" folder (where you can review
all emails before they are deleted). The cool thing that happens in
the background is that the program sends a unique snapshot of that
email to the Spamnet servers and shares that identifer with everyone
else's Outlook who has installed the system. That way the power of
the network is leveraged to turn everyone else into people helping
you ID more and more spam. Percentage "catch" rates have been
reported as high as 90%! (It seems to be working well for me).
http://www.cloudmark.com/
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**If any of you are in the area.........
Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2002 "Tech Tuesday"
The Washington Metropolitan Distance Learning Association
Presents Mobile Device / PDA Update & The NAVY'S
"LEARNING SHIP" Project Presenters:
- Rick Blunt, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Mark Oehlert, Deputy Director for Communications, ADL Co-Lab
Date: Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2002 "Tech Tuesday"
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (ET)
(6:30-7:30 networking & 7:30-8:30 presentation)
Place:  The George Washington University
	 Media and Public Affairs Building
	 805 21st Street, NW. Room B02
	 Corner of 21st & H Streets (Lower Level)
	 Washington, D.C. 20052
RSVP is Mandatory: @ 703-998-1651 & president@...
Cost: FREE for members & $10 non-members...Membership is only $45 per
year.
For more information & location map: http://www.wm
dla.com/page914802.htm
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Transforming DoD Training to Better Enable "Joint" Operations
Conference and Exhibit
Date: September 16, 2002 to September 19, 2002
Place: Hilton-Alexandria Mark Center
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
http://www.trainingsystems.org/events/21L0/index.cfm
"This Conference and Exhibition is designed to investigate the
Transformation of the Department of Defense (DoD) Training.
Transformed training is the key enabler to achieve the operational
goals of the overarching Transformation of the DoD. Among the
principal determinants of transformation are a new and continuously
changing environment, the need for improved and expanded "jointness,"
and the opportunities made possible by advanced technologies.
Opportunities exist for the Federal- and private-sectors to
collaborate on large- scale development and implementation of
Training, Learning and Job Performance Technologies that can
transform training and learning throughout the U.S. military and with
our international partners."
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FY 03 Call for ADL Prototype Proposals
ORLANDO, FLORIDA, August 12, 2002 - The Joint Advanced Distributed
Learning Co-Laboratory (Joint ADL Co-Lab) will be seeking Proposals
from military organizations for ADL Prototypes. As in prior years,
military organizations first submit White Papers and those who are
selected will then be asked to submit a Proposal.
The FY 03 Prototype Program will be a Data Driven Program focusing on
advancing the state-of-the-art in ADL and the requirements of the
services. In addition to the Prototype product(s) delivered at the
end of the effort, Organizations will be required throughout to
submit data that documents their process and provide the foundation
upon which to build future ADL applications. This data will help
support the larger ADL Community.
The formal Call for Proposals will be September 18, 2002. This Call
for Proposals will contain detailed instructions on the White Paper
format, the specific information required within the White Paper,
instructions for submitting and the submission deadline. A supporting
document that will be referenced in the Call for Proposals, explains
the rationale for the data that is being requested in both White
Papers and subsequent Proposals.
Check back to ADLNet.org for more information.
http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsid=87
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NEWS

!*!*!*!*!*!*!*IF YOU READ ONE THING IN THIS WHOLE NEWSLETTER, READ
THIS ARTICLE!*!*!*!*!*!
Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002
by Lawrence Lessig: 08/15/2002
(From O'Reilley Network) Editor's Note: In his address before a
packed house at the Open Source Convention, Lawrence Lessig
challenges the audience to get more involved in the political
process. Lawrence, a tireless advocate for open source, is a
professor of law at Stanford Law School and the founder of the
school's Center for Internet and Society. He is also the author of
the best-selling book Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Here is the
complete transcript of Lawrence's keynote presentation made on July
24, 2002.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html
--I have also copied this into a Word doc and uploaded it to the
eClippings's site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group
/eClippings/files/free%20culture%20-%20lessig.doc

! Another ray of light!!
Congressman vows Pigopolist legislation: By Andrew Orlowski in London
Posted: 07/09/2002 at 21:29 EST Congress' most enlightened public
representative Rick Boucher has vowed to introduce a bill that
outlaws share-denial jinxed audio CDs, and as a bonus, has promised
to re-examine the webcasting copyright racket that forced so many
small-time webcasters to quite the airwaves recently.
http://www.theregus.com/content/archive/25540.html

--You gotta go to this page and check out some of the other stuff
Rep. Boucher has written! I might just move into his District so I
can vote for him!
http://www.house.gov/boucher/internet.htm

Virginia Looks for Economic Lift From Academic-Technology Center
By DAN CARNEVALE: Despite budget troubles, Virginia has found money
to begin construction of an $18-million academic- technology center
that officials hope will spur economic development in the southern
part of the state.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002082001t.htm

Study shows no demonstrable link between choice of MLE and
educational approach. Wilbert Kraan, CETIS staff: August 20, 2002
A team of Dutch researchers investigated the relation between various
educational approaches (e.g. traditional, guided learning, active
learning and experience-based learning) and the design and use of
different virtual learning environments (VLE). Conclusion: it's not
really possible to map an educational approach to a specific type of
VLE.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020820131543

Teaching with technology is urged: By Bob Weinstein , Globe
Correspondent, 8/11/2002: It is part of Bryan Finnegan's mission to
bring technology to every potential college student in Georgia, from
those who have high-speed modems to those with dial-up modems to
those who don't have PCs.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/223/learning/Tea
ching_with_technology_is_urged+.shtml

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Wired Students Prefer Campus News on Paper: By MARCIN SKOMIAL
Here's news. Even though college campuses are some of the most wired
places on Earth, printed versions of college newspapers remain far
more popular than their online editions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/technology/19PAPE.html

Microsoft's grant has strings attached?: By Margaret Kane  Staff
Writer, CNET News.com August 16, 2002, 9:59 AM PT
update A collegiate grant from Microsoft has created an uproar after
one of the recipients agreed to require a class in a Microsoft
programming language as part of the deal.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949945.html?tag=cd_mh

!!What!! And the world didn't end!!
N.C. University Students Discuss Readings in Islam: Christian Group
Sought to Bar Assignment on Koran: Associated Press: Tuesday, August
20, 2002; Page A02 CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Aug. 19 -- University of North
Carolina students discussed a controversial summer reading assignment
that conservatives had gone to court to stop.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37789-2002Aug19.html

**Now this is e-Learning!!!
POINT, CLICK -- AND SAVE A FROG: (Source: CIO) A plethora of virtual
dissection Web sites teach students who want to be kind to their
web-footed friends all about frog anatomy without having to wield a
scalpel.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=730652

RECORD LABELS SUE ISPS OVER ACCESS TO SITE: (Source: ITworld.com)
Five major record companies have sued four of the biggest ISPs in an
attempt to stop what the record companies say is blatant copyright
infringements occurring at a music Web site.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=730516

Marconi axes Irish jobs: Liquidation looming
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/26735.html

IBM, RIM Drafted for Defense: The two companies open up new doors by
meeting Department of Defense standards.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article/0,,10849_1448711,00.html

Video Games Haul In Big Bucks: Wired News Report
10:05 a.m. Aug. 20, 2002 PDT: As one of the few bright spots on Wall
Street, video-game companies such as THQ and Activision (ATVI) are
cranking out new software to keep every household entertained. And
it's not just kids who are pressing the fire button -- the whole
family has embraced the once-geeky pastime.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54653,00.html


TRENDS SECTION

Music sales dive--don't blame pirates: Reuters
August 14, 2002, 5:58 AM PT: LOS ANGELES--Video may have killed the
radio star, but Forrester Research on Tuesday said Internet piracy
was not to blame--as record labels have claimed--for the 15 percent
drop in music sales in the past two years.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-949717.html

INTERVIEW: JEFF RAIKES OUTLINES THE FUTURE ROLE OF OFFICE:
Microsoft's group vice president discusses .Net strategies and
SharePoint Team Services.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=730387

DOING IT WITH MEANING:  (Source: CIO) Semantics tools promise a world
of universally compatible data.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=730222

BROWSER WARS:  Browsers are making modest improvements, but users
need revolutionary change.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=730592

ANALYSTS: DELL MOVE INTO PRINTERS, PDAS BENEFITS USERS: Competition
will drive down prices.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=729948

Freeing Information: Is it Time to Make Peer Reviewed Research Free?
By Lee Dye: Special to ABCNEWS.com: Aug. 7 - A few leading scientists
are asking a simple question that could have a profound impact on how
information about scientific research is disseminated. Here's the
question: Why shouldn't scientific research be available to anyone
anywhere in the world, free of charge?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DyeHard/dyehard020807.html

Earthlink tops ISP survey: By Tim Richardson
Posted: 08/20/2002 at 09:04 EST: Atlanta-base EarthLink has topped a
customer satisfaction survey of US ISPs. According to the JD Power
and Associates 2002 Internet Service Provider Residential Customer
Satisfaction Study (blimey- that's a bit of a mouthful), Earthlink
was ranked number one in the survey for its dial-up service thanks to
a high scores for performance and reliability, email and customer
service.
http://www.theregus.com/content/6/26045.html

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Familiar Themes Sounded at Aspen Tech Summit
By REUTERS: Filed at 9:39 p.m. ET: ASPEN, Colo. (Reuters) - Top
executives from technology, telecommunications and media have
gathered in this ski resort town, looking for ways to rekindle growth
from the ashes of recent years' dot-com and telecom flame outs.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-aspensummit.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

PDAs: Always Pushing The Barrier Aug. 12, 2002: Limitations to what
PDAs can handle are a moving target, Giga VP Carl Zetie says. Check
out the latest changes before ruling PDAs out of--or into--your
platform plans. By Carl Zetie
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020809S0008

*Requires free registration
August 19, 2002: Apple's Chief in the Risky Land of the Handhelds
By JOHN MARKOFF: AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 - It has long been Silicon
Valley's favorite guessing game: What is Steven P. Jobs going to do
next? The question is particularly engrossing as Apple Computer
prepares to introduce the new version of its Macintosh OS X software
operating system. There are signs that, with the new version of the
Macintosh OS, Mr. Jobs, Apple's founder, chairman and chief
executive, may be approaching a precipice like the one that led to
the downfall seven years ago of the man who was then Apple's chief
executive, John Sculley.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/technology/19APPL.html

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In Three Dimensions, Words Take Flight. Literally.: By MATTHEW
MIRAPAUL PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Robert Coover stood in the middle of the
dark room, reading. He turned to view the section of the short story
being projected on the wall to his right, then pointed his computer
mouse at it. When he clicked, the word "just" seemed to peel away
from the wall and drift across the space until it hovered, waist
high, in front of him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/arts/design/19ARTS.html

Notebook overhaul on the horizon: Strong demand is driving major
design changes for notebooks. Within five years, notebooks should run
three to 10 times longer without a recharge, and drift between
cellular and Wi-Fi communi-cations. New technologies--like
methane-converting fuel cells and organic LEDs--will bring higher
costs and additional marketing risks to the vendors. I'm waiting for
one with a flexible  screen I can fold up and put in my pocket like a
piece of paper.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=93-V4ZmQSd7FaNv03qcFk24rLrsJRRR

*DOH!!
Palm handheld's color claims fade: Palm owns up to what some users
had suspected for some time: Its low-end Palm m130 isn't capable of
displaying the 64,000-plus colors the company had claimed it could in
ads.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=7b-pr__IBZPgszsohLbkei6258DZsRR

ANALYSTS: PALM PLAYING CATCH-UP: Palm's deal with IBM adds enterprise
clout to its PDAs, but leading industry analysts say the peripatetic
OS still has a tough row to hoe. If Palm has any real hope of
surpassing Microsoft, it'll need to pull a few more rabbits out of
its hat.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=fe-xkIgQwgmVwcFpFkeEy9bgVhuv59R

ENTERPRISE PDAS: SET YOUR PRIORITIES
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=13-NxSZI3XzQYec3FUssGgfzAGV7rcR

WHAT PDA/PHONE CAN PASS THE TEST?: What should you be looking for in
your next cell phone/PDA hybrid? David Berlind offers some guidelines
and presents his revised phone/PDA buyers checklist.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=28-A2wXIRd3gNpIlFiELoQ1VPVMQiRR

Haiku'da Been a Spam Filter: By Michelle Delio:
2:00 a.m. Aug. 20, 2002 PDT Refined poetry and ruthless legal
prosecution have been brought together in the latest effort to stop
spam. A hidden scrap of copyrighted poetry embedded in e-mails will
be used to guarantee that any message containing the verse is spam
free. And if spammers dare to hijack the haiku, they will be
aggressively sued for copyright infringement.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54645,00.html

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Opposition to Nanotechnology: By BARNABY J. FEDER
The great Gray Goo debate is beginning to matter.: The controversy
involves the potential perils of making molecular-size objects and
devices, a field known as nanotechnology.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/technology/19NECO.html


SECURITY SECTION

Real security for Win2k Pro: There's no shortage of security
checklists for Win2k Pro, but the Center for Internet Security's
benchmarks and analysis tool are the real deal. Here's how to stay
updated and keep Win2K Pro in the clear.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=3c-tK9RIcIo_K0PNjpYn6Tj8TRhXdRR


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

BLOCKBUSTER OFFERS TRY-BEFORE-YOU-BUY DVD PROGRAM
Blockbuster has launched a new Rent it! Like it! Buy it! program that
gives members a deep discount on DVDs. --DVD News
http://cma.zdnet.com/texis/TIB/pdisplay.html?docid=90358175

E-MAIL IS FOREVER: (Source: Computerworld) How many of us realize
that corporate e-mail has effectively become our own self-created
permanent record? And how many IT managers realize they're now in
charge of it - forever?
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=730653

SUCH A DEAL? THE BEST & WORST PLACES TO BUY ON THE WEB:  (Source: PC
World.com) From big names to cheap no-names, we rate today's PC gear
sites for price, selection, and service.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=730595

PGP is back!: Old hands at new venture
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26734.html
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e-Clippings  8.19.02  **Special Monday Issue
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect
liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient...The greatest
dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,
well meaning but without understanding." -- Supreme Court Justice
Louis Brandeis

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New To Me:

Collegiate Broadcasters Inc. (CBI)
WEBCASTING FEES!: CBI Board Statement on the Webcasting Rates
The CBI board has reviewed the webcasting rate decision made by the
Librarian of Congress. While we are not pleased with the
determination, we realize that the Librarian was working within the
constraints of the law. Unfortunately, the rates set today (6/20/02)
announced what could be the beginning of the end for many Educational
and student programs at Colleges and Universities around the country.
We are saddened that the process has prevented the Librarian and the
Copyright Office from setting rates and recordkeeping requirements
that appropriately reflects our members ability to comply and pay
those fees. In the coming days, we will be communicating with our
members concerning the options available to them and then move
forward with an agenda. We are hopeful that the members of Congress
have been mindful of the process and can see that the outcome is
detrimental to students across the country, the general public and
will result in a loss of revenue for the copyright holders. A quick
legislative solution is needed to help save the student programs.
http://collegebroadcasters.org/


SAVE OUR STREAMS
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~willr/cb/sos/
--For great action ideas and to see the growing list of stations that
have been killed by this insane ruling...and if you don't think it's
insane, check out the content restrictions below...

Fees force college stations to stop Webcasting : In anticipation of
the fees, which were finally announced earlier this summer, dozens of
college radio stations stopped transmitting music over the Internet.
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i49/49a03301.htm

Royalty fees killing most Internet radio stations USA TODAY - 7/21/02
More than 200 Internet-based radio stations have shut down because of
a royalty fee that takes effect in September, and more are closing
daily. Most of the estimated 10,000 radio Webcasters are expected to
follow suit, "with the exception of Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft and other
deep-pocketed conglomerates who can afford a loss leader," says Kurt
Hanson, editor of the Radio and Internet Newsletter
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-07-21-radio_x.htm

Content Restrictions
No interactivity - Program can not be created for the user. Requested
songs not played within the hour or at a specified time.
No more than 3 songs in a two hour period from the same album/CD
No more than 2 songs in a row from the same album/CD
No more than 4 songs in a two hour period from the same artist or box
set
No more than 3 more than three songs in a row from the same artist.
No advance notice (published) of music, unless the format is
classical and you have a history, prior to 1998 of doing it.
Archived programs must be at least 5 hours long and not available for
more than 2 weeks.
Looped programs (accessed in progress) must be 3 hours or longer in
duration.
May not repeat a program that is less than 1 hour more than 3x in a
two week period. More than 1 hour? 4x in a 2 week period.
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**If any of you are in the area.........
Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2002 "Tech Tuesday"
The Washington Metropolitan Distance Learning Association
Presents Mobile Device / PDA Update & The NAVY'S
"LEARNING SHIP" Project Presenters:
- Rick Blunt, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Mark Oehlert, Deputy Director for Communications, ADL Co-Lab
Date: Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2002 "Tech Tuesday"
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (ET)
(6:30-7:30 networking & 7:30-8:30 presentation)
Place:  The George Washington University
	 Media and Public Affairs Building
	 805 21st Street, NW. Room B02
	 Corner of 21st & H Streets (Lower Level)
	 Washington, D.C. 20052
RSVP is Mandatory: @ 703-998-1651 & president@...
Cost: FREE for members & $10 non-members...Membership is only $45 per
year.
For more information & location map: http://www.wm
dla.com/page914802.htm
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Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Conference & Exhibit
Date: September 16, 2002 to September 19, 2002
Place: Hilton-Alexandria Mark Center
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
http://www.trainingsystems.org/events/21L0/index.cfm
"This second annual Conference and Exhibition is designed to
investigate the Transformation of DoD Training. Transformed training
is the key enabler to achieve the operational goals of the
overarching Transformation of the Department of Defense. Among the
principal determinants of transformation are a new and continuously
changing environment, the need for improved and expanded "jointness,"
and the opportunities made possible by advanced technologies.
Opportunities exist for the Federal- and private-sectors to
collaborate on large-scale development and implementation of
Training, Learning and Job Performance Technologies that can
transform training and learning throughout the U.S. military and with
our international partners."
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FY 03 Call for ADL Prototype Proposals
ORLANDO, FLORIDA, August 12, 2002 - The Joint Advanced Distributed
Learning Co-Laboratory (Joint ADL Co-Lab) will be seeking Proposals
from military organizations for ADL Prototypes. As in prior years,
military organizations first submit White Papers and those who are
selected will then be asked to submit a Proposal.
The FY 03 Prototype Program will be a Data Driven Program focusing on
advancing the state-of-the-art in ADL and the requirements of the
services. In addition to the Prototype product(s) delivered at the
end of the effort, Organizations will be required throughout to
submit data that documents their process and provide the foundation
upon which to build future ADL applications. This data will help
support the larger ADL Community.
The formal Call for Proposals will be September 18, 2002. This Call
for Proposals will contain detailed instructions on the White Paper
format, the specific information required within the White Paper,
instructions for submitting and the submission deadline. A supporting
document that will be referenced in the Call for Proposals, explains
the rationale for the data that is being requested in both White
Papers and subsequent Proposals.
Check back to ADLNet.org for more information.
http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsid=87
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A D-Minus for Computer Exams (Making the Grade 2:00 a.m. PDT):  It's
been three years since officials phased out paper-and-pencil exams in
favor of the computer-based version of the Graduate Record Exam, but
critics say that computer-adaptive testing remains flawed. By
Kendra Mayfield.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/school/0,1383,54459,00.html/wn_ascii

Wireless Games The Next Internet Goldmine: By Seng Li Peng
Whether or not wireless games will be the killer application of
tomorrow, as Datamonitor puts it, it will be the next Internet
goldmine for entrepreneurs. Results from other research companies
seem to corroborate the theory.
http://www.80211-planet.com/news/article/0,4000,1481_1445341,00.html

MILITARY COMPUTERS EASILY CRACKED, EXPERTS SAY:  Tens of thousands of
U.S. military and government computers containing sensitive
information are easily accessible over the Internet, a computer
security firm that cracked the networks said on Friday.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=729753

WHO SHOULD OWN WHAT?:An interview with Lawrence Lessig on patents and
the Internet.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=729222

Syllabus: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: SIMULATED WORKPLACE BUILDS
SKILLS, CONFIDENCE An innovative twist on work-preparedness training,
EnterTech combines instructor-led classroom learning with a Web-based
simulated high-tech environment. Students inhabit a virtual
plant-called EnterTech-to engage in role play exercises, solve
problems,
collaborate on projects, and learn how to succeed in the world of
work.
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6594

Syllabus: A MOVING TARGET: ELEARNING VENDORS TAKE AIM IN A CHANGING
ENVIRONMENT To help make sense of the eLearning landscape, we've
taken a snapshot of today's market-a brief inventory of eLearning
companies who offer products in four broad categories. As a guide to
understanding the product categories and related technologies, we've
also provided a basic glossary of current online learning labels,
standards acronyms, and buzzwords.
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6589

UK learning and skills council report on elearning released
Wilbert Kraan, CETIS staff: August 14, 2002
The Distributed and Electronic Learning Group (DELG) has published a
final report into the role of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC)
in relation to e-learning. The report was commissioned by the LSC.
With regard to e-learning technology, the main recommendations focus
on using and promoting standards and ensuring accessibility. The
promotion of standards is seen to be most effectively promoted by
building on existing work in the field, and by the establishment of a
new standards conformity agency. The shape of that agency would be
much like it is outlined in our earlier article: it would reside
under the office e-Envoy, be part of the Government Interoperability
Framework and involve the greatest possible number of agencies.
Accessibility would be promoted by adhering to W3C standards,
adopting best practices and by asking JISC's TechDis group to produce
clear guidelines.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020814175448
The full report is available from the LSC website (MS Word only,
unfortunately).
http://www.lsc.gov.uk/news_docs/DELG_REP0627.doc

August 13, 2002: MS LearningXP: .Net Meets E-Learning
By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch :Microsoft Research's Learning
Sciences & Technology division is building an experimental
online-learning architecture based on .Net.  While Microsoft hasn't
gone so far as to label its Learning Experiencing Project
(LearningXP) environment "Education.Net," it might as well have.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,465404,00.asp

The media titans still don't get it: Corporate America lost billions
on the Net. That doesn't mean the medium has no value -- but the
moguls remain clueless about where it lies.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/13/media_titans/index.html

*What if America wasn't America?
(http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/campaign_for_freedom/)
Student Gadfly Runs Afoul of American U.:Taping of Tipper Gore Brings
Sanction: By Amy Argetsinger: Washington Post Staff Writer: Monday,
July 22, 2002; Page B03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=
article&node=&contentId=A41882-2002Jul21

Dell mocks MS' mandatory-OS regime: By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 08/15/2002 at 03:44 EST
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25985.html

Microsoft EULA requests root rights - again: By Andrew Orlowski in
London Posted: 08/02/2002 at 13:35 EST: An addition to Microsoft's
End User Licensing Agreement has alarmed Register readers.
Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 contain a
new condition which asks you to allow Windows to go and install
future updates. "You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may
automatically check the version of the OS Product and/or its
components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes
to the OS Product that will be automatically downloaded to your
computer," is the new bit you'll be interested in.
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25859.html

A Gartgantuan Gathering of Gamers (Games 2:00 a.m. PDT):  More than a
thousand hard-core players lug their laptops to QuakeCon for four
days of battling, shooting and destroying. Brad King reports from
Mesquite, Texas.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/games/0,2101,54484,00.html/wn_ascii


TRENDS SECTION

Rip, Mix, Burn: The Politics of Peer to Peer and Copyright Law by
Kathy Bowrey and Matthew Rimmer: Whereas Lessig's recent work engages
with questions of culture and creativity in society, this paper looks
at the role of culture and creativity in the law. The paper evaluates
the Napster, DeCSS, Felten and Sklyarov litigation in terms of the
new social, legal, economic and cultural relations being produced.
This involves a deep discussion of law's economic relations, and the
implications of this for litigation strategy. The paper concludes
with a critique of recent attempts to define copyright law in terms
of first amendment rights and communicative freedom.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_8/bowrey/

Journal of Digital information, volume 3 issue 1: Themes: Hypermedia
systems, Information discovery 2002-05-17: Peer reviewed paper
Hypermedia and the Semantic Web: A Research Agenda
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman and Lloyd Rutledge
CWI Amsterdam, Kruislaan 413, P.O. Box 94079,
1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/VanOssenbruggen/

Mock cyberwar fails to end mock civilization: By Thomas C Greene in
Washington Posted: 08/14/2002 at 07:17 EST
http://www.theregus.com/content/6/25978.html

DIS-INTEGRATION:  (Source: CIO) When it comes to business, I'm a
committed singer in the integration choir. But when it comes to work
and play, office and home, I'm a disintegrator of the first order.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=729439

THIS PRICE IS RIGHT:  Web sites are slowly moving toward paid content
and services, which raises the question: Just what are people willing
to pay for, besides porn?
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=729216

ANALYSTS: DELL MOVE INTO PRINTERS, PDAS BENEFITS USERS:  Competition
will drive down prices.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=729225

elearnspace: LEARNING WITH CONFIDENCE: This paper examines whether
students are developing skills which allow them to confidently tackle
challenging problems, generate creative solutions, and learn and
adapt from mistakes made. An overview of strategies which help to
create an atmosphere of fearless learning in the classroom is also
presented. The roles of teachers and students are also discussed,
evaluating the benefits and liabilities of the current structure as
well as examining what changes need to occur in order to create an
atmosphere of fearless learning in the classroom.
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/valueoffailure.htm


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Intel lends a hand for handheld software: By Richard Shim
Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 14, 2002, 2:55 PM PT
Intel is rolling up its sleeves to help improve applications that run
on the handheld version of its XScale processors.
http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1040-949846.html?ty
pe=pt&part=msnbc&tag=alert&form=feed&subj=cnetnews

Ricochet to offer wireless: Firm names Denver first 'revival' market
By Steve Caulk, Rocky Mountain News August 14, 2002
Ricochet Networks will begin selling its wireless, high-speed
Internet access in Denver on Thursday.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/technology/a
rticle/0,1299,DRMN_49_1324401,00.html

Xbox Live set for November 15 launch: By gamesindustry.biz
Posted: 08/13/2002 at 09:14 EST
The Xbox finally goes online on November 15 this year, exactly one
year after the original launch of the console. But only in the US,
where Microsoft rolls out its Xbox Live service, along with six
online- enabled software titles.
http://www.theregus.com/content/54/25970.html

He Was Blind, Now He Can See (Wired magazine 2:00 a.m. PDT):  The
quest to develop artificial sight is a half-century old. Now, the
miracle that could never happen has become a reality. By Steven
Kotler from Wired magazine.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vision.html

Open Sourcers Say Grid Is Good (The Linux Effect 2:00 a.m. PDT):
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and IBM honchos don't always see eye to eye,
but at LinuxWorld they agree that grid computing needs to be part of
their future. By Michelle Delio.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/linux/0,1411,54554,00.html/wn_ascii


SECURITY SECTION

White-Hat Hate Crimes on the Rise (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT):  A group
of black-hat hackers, in a campaign called 'Project Mayhem,' have
declared war on white-hat hackers who've gone to work for security
firms. By Brian McWilliams.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54400,00.html/wn_ascii


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Green: A Thing Raitt Talks About (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT):  Blues
rocker Bonnie Raitt, who advocates sustainable living and alternative
energy sources, walks the walk with solar and wind- generated power
fueling her current tour. Brad King reports from Austin, Texas.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54557,00.html/wn_ascii
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"Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking
together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal
pool."
Mary Catherine Bateson
Currently Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education.
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New To Me:
Warchalking
Collaboratively creating a hobo-language for free wireless networking.
http://www.warchalking.org/
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Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Conference & Exhibit
Date: September 16, 2002 to September 19, 2002
Place: Hilton-Alexandria Mark Center
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
http://www.trainingsystems.org/events/21L0/index.cfm
"This second annual Conference and Exhibition is designed to
investigate the Transformation of DoD Training. Transformed training
is the key enabler to achieve the operational goals of the
overarching Transformation of the Department of Defense. Among the
principal determinants of transformation are a new and continuously
changing environment, the need for improved and expanded "jointness,"
and the opportunities made possible by advanced technologies.
Opportunities exist for the Federal- and private-sectors to
collaborate on large-scale development and implementation of
Training, Learning and Job Performance Technologies that can
transform training and learning throughout the U.S. military and with
our international partners."
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FY 03 Call for ADL Prototype Proposals
ORLANDO, FLORIDA, August 12, 2002 - The Joint Advanced Distributed
Learning Co-Laboratory (Joint ADL Co-Lab) will be seeking Proposals
from military organizations for ADL Prototypes. As in prior years,
military organizations first submit White Papers and those who are
selected will then be asked to submit a Proposal.
The FY 03 Prototype Program will be a Data Driven Program focusing on
advancing the state-of-the-art in ADL and the requirements of the
services. In addition to the Prototype product(s) delivered at the
end of the effort, Organizations will be required throughout to
submit data that documents their process and provide the foundation
upon which to build future ADL applications. This data will help
support the larger ADL Community.
The formal Call for Proposals will be September 18, 2002. This Call
for Proposals will contain detailed instructions on the White Paper
format, the specific information required within the White Paper,
instructions for submitting and the submission deadline. A supporting
document that will be referenced in the Call for Proposals, explains
the rationale for the data that is being requested in both White
Papers and subsequent Proposals.
Check back to ADLNet.org for more information.
http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsid=87
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**ARRRGGHH!!! Geez! No one could have seen this coming right?! Way to
go copyright hawks - you have now managed to stifle that huge
powerhouse of college radio. I hope all the people involved in this
are happy that America is now a dimmer and less interesting place due
to their efforts and our inactions!

RADIO SILENCE: Anticipating fees announced by the librarian of
Congress in June, many college radio stations have shut down their
online transmissions. "As soon as I saw the suggested rates, I
thought, 'I don't even want to play this game anymore,'" says Nick
Martinez (above), general manager of San Jose State University's
KSJS-FM. (8/12/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i49/49a03301.htm

August 14, 2002: SCORM 1.3 development update.
Following plugfest 6, Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), the
custodians of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM),
revealed a few more details of what will be included in the SCORM
version 1.3 application profile.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020814124542

US education consortia release "manifesto" on web services:
HEKATE - The Higher Education Knowledge and Technology Exchange -
have released a white paper entitled "Web Services Enabling
Technology for Application Integration and Assembly". Beneath the
somewhat clumsy title is a bold manifesto for using XML-based
middleware services in the (higher) education sector. But can it live
up to the hype?
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020723173948

Syllabus: University of Texas at Austin: Simulated Workplace Builds
Skills, Confidence: An innovative twist on work-preparedness
training, EnterTech combines instructor-led classroom learning with a
Web-based simulated high-tech environment. Students inhabit a virtual
plant-called EnterTech-to engage in role play exercises, solve
problems, collaborate on projects, and learn how to succeed in the
world of work.
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6594

elearning Magazine: Find Jobs, Track Industry Health on the Internet:
Studying job listings can provide insights on the types of jobs being
created within the e-learning segment: * 30 to 40 percent of all jobs
are contract positions for project teams * The two biggest job
categories in e-learning are instructional design and sales/marketing
* More than 70 percent of the open jobs from e-learning suppliers and
vendors are sales jobs.
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=26846

EDUCAUSE AWARDS: Educause, a nonprofit association that promotes the
use of information technology in higher education, has announced its
award winners for 2002. The honorees will be recognized at the
association's annual conference, to be held in Atlanta this October.
(8/14/2002)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/08/2002081402t.htm

'HANDBOOK TO ONLINE LEARNING'
For Kjell-Erik Rudestam and Judith Schoenholtz- Read -- both
associate deans of psychology at the Fielding Graduate Institute --
compiling a guide to online learning was a natural extension of their
own research and practice. Their book offers tips for both college
instructors and corporate trainers. (8/ 13/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002081301t.htm


TRENDS SECTION

**There are some important points and themes in this article.*
eWeek: Getting an Answer Is One Thing, Learning Is Another
In the process of attempting to inform people via IT, it's ironic
that we may be misinforming or disinforming them more than ever
before. We're helping people find the most popular sources of what's
often inaccurate or misleading data; we're answering people's
questions, instead of questioning their implied assumptions. We're
applying the ever-more-impressive technologies of Internet search and
context-sensitive help toward counterproductive ends.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,427029,00.asp

Fortified by Defense Dollars: Government Contractors Help Stabilize
Region's Economy: By Renae Merle and Neil Irwin: Washington Post
Staff Writers: Wednesday, August 14, 2002; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14781-2002Aug13.html

(NY Times free registration required)
Scholarly  Reviews Through the Web: By SARAH MILSTEIN
Web-based peer-review programs are reducing turnaround time, postage
bills and workload at many scholarly journals
  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/technology/12NECO.html

CURTAINS FOR PUBSCIENCE?: The U.S. Energy Department wants to shut
down a Web site it operates that lets scientists search journals for
citations and abstracts in the physical sciences. The department says
the site duplicates commercial services. (8/14/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002081401t.htm

WIRED: Born Digital
We learned to crawl alongside the PC. We came of age with the
Internet. Early-adopting, hyperconnected, always on: Call us Children
of the Revolution, the first teens and tweens to grow up with the
network. It takes a generation to unlock the potential of a
transformative technology - we are that generation. From IM to MP3 to
P2P, we lab-test tomorrow's culture. While others marvel at the
digital future, we take it for granted. Think of it as the difference
between a second language and a first. And imagine the impact when
full fluency hits the workplace, the shopping mall, the living room.
In the past, you put away childish things when you grew up. But our
tools are taking over the adult world. Check it out: The technology
is trickling up.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/borndigital.html?pg=1

HBS Working Knowledge: Knowledge Management Just-in-Time
Doctors need to stay current on 10,000 diseases, 3,000 medications,
1,100 lab tests and 400,000 articles added to the biomedical
literature each year. Sounds like a job for the field of knowledge
management. This excerpt outlines how Partners HealthCare in Boston
attempts to keep doctors up to date by "embedding" knowledge in
technology doctors use everyday.
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?i
d=3049&sid=0&pid=0&t=knowledge

elearn Magazine: What Is "Usable" e-Learning?
Usability guru and fellow eLearn Magazine Advisory Board member Don
Norman gives us a clue about how we can start this critical
conversation. He is quoted as saying that for e-learning, "usability
is not the major issue; learnability is." I believe this is a
profoundly important statement, but it is also one that is difficult
to unpack and translate into practical terms. My aim in this article
is to look a little deeper into Dr. Norman's statement-deep enough
that I can begin to define a research program for usability in
e-learning.
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?sect
ion=4&list_item=6&page=1

**Do you mean that Ray Ozzie just figured out that culture is
important?
Ray Ozzie: Why "collaboration"?
We spent years and years at Lotus trying to convince people of the
"higher order" value of collaborative processes, sharing, and KM.
And I learned the hard way that fighting what appear to be natural
organizational and social dynamics is very tough. Which is why eMail
is the most popular collaboration tool on the planet: it works the
way that people naturally want to work.
http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2002/08/04/why.html

The Languages of the Semantic Web: by Uche Ogbuji: June 2002
"To create the Web as we know it, Tim Berners-Lee put aside much of
the existing research on hypertext technologies and built a simple
system that was easy to understand, use, and maintain. This
simplification became an important factor in the Web's rapid growth.
Despite this success, the realities of information management are
illuminating some problems of simplification. While the Web continues
to be useful for retrieving information from individuals or
organizations of close collaborators, it is much harder to use if you
want to gain a broad understanding of a particular subject."
http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2453/ne
w1020218556549/index.html

Intercultural Challenges in Networked Learning: Hard Technologies
Meet Soft Skills by Mackie Chase, Leah Macfadyen, Kenneth Reeder and
Jörg Roche
This paper gives an account of themes that emerged from a preliminary
analysis of a large corpus of electronic communications in an online,
mediated course for intercultural learners. The goals were to test
assumptions that electronic communication is internationally
standardized, to identify any problematic aspects of such
communications, and to construct a framework for the analysis of
electronic communications using constructs from intercultural
communications theory. We found that cyberspace itself has a
culture(s), and is not culture-free. Cultural gaps can exist between
individuals, as well as between individuals and the dominant
cyberculture, increasing the chances of miscommunication. The lack of
elements inherent in face-to-face communication further problematizes
intercultural communications online by limiting opportunities to give
and save face, and to intuit meaning from non-verbal cues. We
conclude that electronic communication across cultures presents
distinctive challenges, as well as opportunities to course planners.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_8/chase/index.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Digital Web Magazine: Smarter Content Publishing
There are several steps in the traditional content management process
that require manual work which could be made more efficient. One area
is telling the system how to assemble content components into
pages... If we can provide pre-determined rules for the system to
assemble the content components, we could simply enter the content
and let the system do the rest.
http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2002-08.shtml

EBONI: Electronic Textbook Design Guidelines As described in today's
Scout Report: "EBONI's Electronic Textbook Design Guidelines is a
list of baseline standards for the design of hypertext books. The
document covers two distinct areas -- on-screen and hardware design
guidelines -- and could be of value to online writers and publishers,
information professionals, e-book hardware and software developers,
and anyone else interested in the creation of scholarly digital
resources." By Ruth Wilson and Monica Landoni, University of
Strathclyde, August, 2002
http://ebooks.strath.ac.uk/eboni/guidelines/

A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The
University of North Texas Libraries' Experience
by Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, Samantha Kelly Hastings, and Cathy Nelson
Hartman
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_8/alemneh/index.html


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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Making the Perfect Iced Tea
A Foolproof Recipe for a Cool Glass of 'Southern House Wine'
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/aug/icedtea/index.html
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OK - I'm so far behind now it's ridiculous! I'm just going to keep chugging
through this stuff until I get caught up so please forgive the irregular
publishing schedule coming up.

Why so far behind Mark? Several reasons and thanks for asking. Plugfest 6. For
those who don't know, Plugfests are ADL's (www.adlnet.org) technical conferences
where we work out the state of the art in e-learning standards. Once again, this
one set records, specifically:

"The registered participants of Plugfest 6 included 68 Learning
Management/Learning Content Management Systems vendors (up from 30 at Plugfest
5), 46 authoring tool vendors (up from 23 at Plugfest 5) and 106 learning
content providers (up from 50 at Plugfest 5) and at least 41 other vendors. A
complete listing of participant organizations is posted on the ADLNet Web site
at http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Plugfest6Participants.  Over 400
people participated in the technical testbed, "Plug-N-Play" event."

Everyone here at the Co-Lab put in ridiculous amounts of work, especially Karen
Sossong and Kristin Hasselbrack. Briefings and presentations are being posted to
the ADLNet site as we can get to them.

What else? Getting caught back up at my paying job (this newsletter is a labor
of love) and then slightly sick baby (he's fine thanks). So there. I'm back!
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New To Me:
Campaign for Freedom
The Advertising Council, Inc.
http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/campaign_for_freedom/
Yes, that's right. I am purposefully sending you to the Ad Council's Web site. I
had not seen these spots (with a 2.5 year old, I watch mainly Thomas the Tank
Engine).  The Main Street one is great and the library, et al are all chilling.
I think it really points out that our openness as a society is both our greatest
strength and a vulnerability (Note I didn't say weakness). The war on terrorism
has many fronts.
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September 16-18, 2002
Transforming DoD Training, Conference & Exhibit
Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, Alexandria, VA
Event #21L0 Room Block is open through August 17th.  Call the Hilton Alexandria
Mark Center to make your reservations, (703)845-1010 or (1-800)445-8667. Ask for
the NTSA/ADL conference rate of $149/Government or $189/Industry (rates
available for the evenings of Sept. 16th and 17th only)Further details can be
found on the NTSA website at: www.trainingsystems.org/events Tentative
Conference Agenda has been posted!
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Imagine a world where all digital media technology is controlled by
Congress and Hollywood. Senator Ernest Hollings and a powerful group
of Hollywood entertainment interests are pushing Congress to pass an
anti-consumer bill called the Consumer Broadband and Digital
Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) to bring just such a world into
existence. What YOU Can Do Now: This is YOUR chance to voice your
opposition to CBDTPA. - Subscribe to the new EFF Action Center and
send your member of Congress an email, letter or fax. You can take
action by going to: http://action.eff.org/tinseltown/
Read all about it here: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/
Or view the e-Clippings Special Report on Intellectual Property here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eClippings/message/180
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NEWS

IBM Showcases E-Learning Standards Leadership (Internet Wire): IBM Corporation
today exhibited its e-learning standards leadership with the demonstration of a
sequencing engine, built to support the upcoming SCORM 1.3 specification. SCORM
is a set of e-learning specifications compiled by the U.S. government's Advanced
Distributed Learning Initiative to support interoperability.
http://rd.yahoo.com/alerts/email/news/
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/020731/045097.html

House Bill Could Shut Down File Sharing: A California Democrat introduced a bill
Thursday that would make sharing of copyrighted files illegal, and would
indemnify copyright holders from taking whatever actions they chose to prevent
the sharing of those files.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eRTg0CdiPZ0HX60pDN0AA

A new bill would make it legal for Hollywood to cyber-attack anyone who may have
violated U.S. copyright law.  But they'll need to get past the antivirus
industry first...  Read http://Vmyths.com/rant.cfm?id=503&page=4  before you
watch another "grade Z" horror flick.  (Text & audio available.)

IBM grabs PWC for $3.5 billion: IBM has agreed to buy PricewaterhouseCoopers'
consulting arm
for an estimated $3.5 billion in a deal that expands its already extensive
services business. As other companies such as Sun,Dell, HP and EDS seek to beef
up their own services, this
acquisition bolsters an area of comparative weakness for IBM Global
Services--the planning and installation of high-end software.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=9a-b6TGQTMpGk0gwVpF674iVPlA0dRR

Will Ashcroft Target P2P Sites? (Politics Friday):  Members of Congress ask
Attorney General John Ashcroft to prosecute file-swapping networks and users,
saying the Justice Department should 'devote more resources to policing online
copyrights.'
http://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54460,00.html/wn_ascii

SECURITY FLAW FOUND IN SHOCKWAVE FLASH: Vulnerability could be exploited anytime
a Web browser views the  infected files.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,103841,tk,dn080902X,00.asp

Minn. Firm to Buy LearningElements
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61718-2002Aug8.html?referer=email


TRENDS SECTION

PENTAGON TESTS NOTEBOOKS IN DRILL: The Defense Protective Service tested rugged
notebook PCs configured for emergency workers during a recent bioterrorism
exercise in the Pentagon courtyard.
http://www.gcn.com/12_21/dodcomputing/19441-1.html

Who Needs Paper? Not Iowa College (Making the Grade 2:00 a.m. PDT):  One
Midwestern community college is nixing the paper and working toward an
all-digital campus, all the time. The school has no library or books and depends
almost entirely on e-textbooks and online
resources. By Katie Dean.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/school/0,1383,53747,00.html/wn_ascii

Pressplay to offer unlimited downloads: Bowing to tepid demand, the
industry-backed music service offers unlimited streams and downloads.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=29-SgTrIjM3H2SzeOZNVKo0tPQIrRRR

HP backs down on DMCA warning: HP has backed away from legal threats it made
against security analysts, emphasizing that it would not use the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act to pursue researchers who publicized a vulnerability in
the company's Tru64 Unix. HP's dramatic
threat earlier this week appears to be the first time the controversial
copyright law has been invoked to stifle security- related research.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=b2-M4LwQX043ZMOzOSjdEFuBA0qLdRR

WORKERS HAVE POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARD TELECOMMUTING: Over half of U.S. adults in
a recent survey said their quality of life would improve if they could
telecommute.
--Internet Business News
http://cma.zdnet.com/texis/TIB/pdisplay.html?docid=89494038

Game Theory for Real People (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT):  'Our simple models are no
longer sufficient,' said an eminent game theorist, who is calling for human
passions and quirks to be taken into account, too. Diana Michele Yap reports
from Stony Brook, New York.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,54131,00.html/wn_ascii

Massively Multiplayer: Massively multiplayer online games are hugely popular.
They
will only become more so as broadband usage mushrooms. Here we review some
current games you might not know about yet and preview exciting games to come.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eRTg0CdiPZ0HX60pJQ0AJ

"802.11b+" Protocol Bridges 802.11a, 802.11b: With the standardization of the
802.11g specification pushed  out until about next May, some companies are
turning towards
the proprietary "802.11b+" specification to fill the gap.
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eRbp0DPscz0FBc0pY30AU

JAPAN LAUNCHES ID NETWORK AMID 'BIG BROTHER' ANGST: Japan launched a compulsory
ID system aimed at bringing government into the electronic age in the face of
stiff protests
calling it a violation of privacy and a temptation to hackers.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=722950

Certificate Magazine: CERTMAG'S GUIDE TO E-LEARNING: Simply finding the newest
training software or the cheapest online vendor is not enough to produce the
real skills and ability your career needs-or the results your company is looking
for. Several factors are key to a successful outcome with online learning. The
following checklist will help you determine whether or not your company's
program or the provider you're considering has them...
http://www.certmag.com/issues/aug02/feature_yost.cfm

Anonymizer  preps Private Surfing  2.0:  Takes shot in privacy arms race
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26519.html

The Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative (DKRC) is a consortium of
individuals and groups dedicated to the study of how knowledge is produced,
shared, negotiated and co-constructed within distributed communities, and the
ways in which technologies support these exchanges. DKRC members assume that
understanding distributed knowledge processes requires the perspectives and
methodologies of multiple disciplines. Our consortium members and approaches are
multidisciplinary, drawing from and contributing to the sociology of scientific
knowledge, computer mediated communication studies, social network analysis,
information science, management, education, and writing studies. The DKRC
operates on the assumption that some knowledge processes, at least, can be
distributed, including our own. Several of the consortium projects are
distributed--by discipline, time, and geography.
http://www.dkrc.org/



EMERGING TECH SECTION

AF UNVEILS NEW IT-CENTRIC STRATEGY: A soldier lies on the ground in unfriendly
territory. Strapped to his leg is a digital screen called a Smart Knee Board
that he can mark up with an electronic pen to alert commanders to his position.
http://www.gcn.com/12_21/news/19458-1.html

NTT DoCoMo to sell Pocket PC device
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=33-vUNnINjcKjgmwhSziitAHKYRNdRR

MailSite: A viable alternative to Exchange: This year, a few vendors plan to
introduce improved messaging products to compete with Microsoft Exchange. One
such contender, Rockliffe's MailSite, will soon support the Outlook client.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=1b-wAdhI3N1IaJf9e5Q2TqK4FoTRdRR

CREO SIMPLIFIES E-MAIL WITH LAUNCH OF SIX DEGREES SOFTWARE.: Six Degrees linking
software at the trade show. The software, compatible with the Mac OS X and
Windows XP platforms, allows users to automatically connect the related e-mail
messages, files and people's names on...07/31/02 (Article indexed)   Technology
Advertising & Branding Report 07/29/02
http://cma.zdnet.com/texis/TIB/pdisplay.html?docid=89651023

More Memory on the Way (Technology 2:00 a.m. PDT):  A new type of memory will be
able to process up to 256 bits of information instead of the standard 32 bits.
By Andy Patrizio.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54294,00.html/wn_ascii

FUEL CELL COMING TO A HANDHELD NEAR YOU: Posted August 08, 2002 04:37 Pacific
Time
IT MAY BE years before your car is powered by a fuel cell, but your handheld
computer won't have to wait too long if engineers at MTI MicroFuel Cells have
their way. On Thursday, MTI Micro unveiled the latest prototype of its direct
methanol fuel cell, a power supply that is
about the size of a deck of playing cards and promises to let handheld
computers, cell phones and other small computing devices work away from a power
outlet for about 10 times as long as they can today, according to MTI Micro
Chief Executive Officer Bill Acker, who detailed the fuel cell pack in an
interview.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/08/020808hnmit.xml?0809fram


SECURITY SECTION

"Giving Your Number To Others: If a business or other enterprise asks you for
your Social Security number, you can refuse to give it to them. However, that
may mean doing without the purchase or service for which your number was
requested. For example, utility companies and other services ask for your Social
Security number, but do not need it; they can do a credit check or identify
their customers by alternative means.
Giving your number is voluntary even when you are asked for the number directly.
If requested, you should ask:
why your number is needed;
how your number will be used;
what happens if you refuse; and
what law requires you to give your number.
The answers to these questions can help you decide if you want to give your
Social Security number. The decision is yours.
Our primary message is this--be careful with your Social Security number and
your card to prevent their misuse.
If you think someone is misusing your number, ask us for the leaflet, When
Someone Misuses Your Number (Publication No. 05- 10064)."
http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10002.html

Microsoft releases Windows 2000 fixes
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=2d-OxXyIbKx-rGDuZJVM4zgyzhVQRRR


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Cement.com and Other Dead Weight (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT):  The latest offering
from the dot-com crash bookshelf neatly packages an era in 299 folly-filled
pages. Charles Mandel reviews Inside the Cult of Kibu, by Lori Gottlieb and
Jesse Jacob.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54181,00.html/wn_ascii

Roses Are Red, Your PDA Is Dead (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT):  Creepy poetry comes to
a handheld near you. 'It's simple! And fun! And sick!' Also: Sci-fi author Jack
Vance and a cast of hundreds ... and more, in M.J. Rose's notebook.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54330,00.html/wn_ascii

From: Today's Refdesk Link of the Day
This special online-only edition of Exploring takes a closer look at the sweet
lure of chocolate. Site examines the fascinating -- and often misreported --
history of chocolate, follow the chocolate-making process, and take an online
visit to a chocolate factory. Also explored is the science of chocolate, and
find out about the latest research into the possible health effects of its
consumption.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/exploring_chocolate/

How Windows Product Activation Works: When you activate Win XP an Installation
ID code, which is made up of a Product ID and a value based on the hardware
configuration of your system.
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eReX0DPscz0FBc0pe30AL
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Text of bill as introduced:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/berman.coble.p2p.final.072502.pdf

Section-by-section analysis, prepared by Rep. Berman and friends:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/berman.coble.p2p.analysis.072502.html

Berman's statement:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/berman.coble.p2p.statement.072502.html

Compare and contrast to draft of bill circulated in the last week (no
major
changes):
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/berman.coble.p2p.draft.072402.pdf
(warning:
1+ MB file)

Previous Politech message:
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     Hollywood hacking bill hits House
     By Declan McCullagh
     July 25, 2002, 10:25 AM PT

     WASHINGTON--Copyright owners would be able to legally hack into
     peer-to-peer networks, according to a bill introduced in the
House of
     Representatives on Thursday.

     As previously reported by CNET News.com, the measure would
     dramatically rewrite federal law to permit nearly unchecked
electronic
     disruptions if a copyright holder has a "reasonable basis" to
believe
     that piracy is occurring.

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e-Clippings  7.24.02

"The screen lights up fast
The words from it trickle down
It's like falling rain"
Peter Taves, a seventh- grader at Frost Middle School
Writing in Haiku about his HP Jornada
*See story in Trends section*

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New To Me:

**You know, just when I thought Sen. Hollings' work was the pits,
the bottom falls out. You MUST read this article just for the sake of
the feeling of vertigo it will give you. This is really beyond the
pale!

Congress to turn hacks into hackers By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 24/07/2002 at 18:17 GMT: If House Hollywood sock puppet
Howard Berman (Democrat, California) gets his way, it will become
legal to hack a network in efforts to impede the on-line illicit
trade in copyrighted works.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26357.html

Excerpt of relevant section: "A copyright holder shall not be liable
in any criminal or civil action
for disabling, interfering with, blocking, diverting, or otherwise
impairing the unauthorized distribution, display, performance, or
reproduction of his or her copyrighted work on a publicly accessible
peer-to-peer file trading network."
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03792.html
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It has been brought to my attention that perhaps I was a bit sketchy
in my coverage of the E-Learning Festival in Dublin and since we are
all committed to customer service here at the e-Clippings
Corporation, I will now endeavor to be a bit more verbose. One
general feeling from the meeting was how similar the U.S. and
European marketplaces are. Both are still somewhat groping toward the
promised e-learning land. The trend that I have seen here in the
States of e-learning companies beginning to morph more into total KM
companies was also present – not many are far down this road but
you can begin to see it in the briefings.

·Not very 'festival' - like. The Euro-elearning marketplace is
suffering just like its North American cousin.

·ADL and SCORM continue to rise in terms of market awareness and
perceived relevance. More and more presenters (in addition to Wayne
Hodgins and Elliott Masie) proclaimed the importance of the effort.

·The establishment of the partnership lab in the UK is being seen
as a positive indication of ADL's commitment to play on a global
stage vice U.S. only.

·Tremendous reaction and interest in a session when I was asked
to define "e-learning success" for DoD and I replied "increased
readiness." Seemed to resonant among corporate types along the lines
of 'competitive advantage.'

·Tremendously impressed with the work of Giunti Labs (Italy). The
briefing not only covered a great deal of SCORM detail but also
embedded a great deal of effort to tie technical work to the
principles of ISD.

·Saw elements of the growth of the idea that SCO's could actually
be applied to more than just learning/training, i.e. you could create
sharable, reusable content out of all the digital information in a
company. This seems to be a logical progression of the marketplace
from LMS to LCMS to HCMS. Be interesting to see how this is evident,
or not, at Plugfest.
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Call for Papers
The European Conference on e-Learning, held at Brunel University,
Uxbridge in the UK on the 4-5 November this year, invites submissions
of papers on the theory and practice of all aspects of Web-enabled
technology in learning and teaching. The conference in November 2002
seeks qualitative, experience-based, and quantitative papers as well
as case studies and reports of work in progress from academics,
teachers, practitioners, vendors, and government departments.
http://www.mcil.co.uk/2I-ecel2002-home.htm

OutStart to Anchor Navy e-Learning: July 15, 2002: By
boston.internet.com Staff: Boston-based OutStart has won a 4-year,
$7.5 million contract to help the U.S. Navy establish an e-learning
system. In collaboration with its partner THINQ, a Billerica, Mass.,
maker of training software, OutStart will help the service establish
standards for content development, collaborative authoring, workflow
and use in a variety of mediums (Web, classroom materials, printed
documents and PowerPoint slides).
http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/1404771

From eMarketer: Online Education Usage in Canada: 17 July 2002:
Ipsos-Reid recently found that 25.3% of Canadian internet users have
searched online for e-learning courses, and 7.5% have taken a class
offered online. According to a Q1 2002 online education study from
Ipsos- Reid, 25.3% of internet users in Canada have searched online
for e-learning courses, though only 7.5% have actually taken an
online course. Additionally, Ipsos determined that 23.8% have
researched offline classes at traditional institutions online. Ipsos
surveyed 1,134 people and found that the higher the education level
of the respondent, the more likely he or she was to have gone online
to research both on- and offline courses. Only 4.6% of those with
less than high school education have gone online looking for
traditional institution courses, whereas 23.1% of those with some
post-graduate education have looked for such courses and 29.7% of
those with university degrees have done so as well.
http://www.ipsos-reid.com/pdf/media/mr020711-2tb.pdf
http://www.emarketer.com/news/article.php?1001364&ref=ed#article

Online Language of Choice for Hispanic Youth?
Think it's Spanish? Think again -- Cultural Access Group and Sapo
Communications found in June 2002 that 91% of Hispanic young people
in Los Angeles say the predominant language of the sites they visit
is English.
http://www.emarketer.com/news/article.php?1001369&ref=ed

House Committee Votes to Ease: Thursday, July 18, 2002
Copyright Restrictions on Distance Education: By ANDREA L. FOSTER
The enactment of a bill that would make it easier for educational
institutions to use films and songs in online instruction was all but
assured Wednesday after a key House of Representatives committee
approved the legislation.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002071801t.htm

From: PocketAnywhere
on 04/10/02 04:40 PM by Jim McCarthy: Crossing Over, Moving from the
Palm OS® to Pocket PC (Table of Contents): Shortly after I decided
to use a Pocket PC I realized I had a lot of questions. After
realizing my Pocket PC was not my Palm OS device I started a project
to write a set of articles, Crossing Over: Moving from Palm to Pocket
PC Guide, with the goal to provide guidance on how to successfully
(and gracefully) move data between platforms, understand new
terminology, design concepts and find additional resources that will
help a Palm OS user have a better Pocket PC experience.
http://www.pocketanywhere.com/?view=1&showMore=91

DIGITAL COPY LOCKS: NO INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS: European, U.S.
lawmakers debate but disagree on how to protect digital  copyright.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102765,tk,dn071702X,00.asp

Tech activists protest anti-copying: By  Declan McCullagh, Staff
Writer, CNET News.com
July 17, 2002, 5:55 PM PT WASHINGTON--Enthusiasts of free software
disrupted a Commerce Department meeting Wednesday, insisting on their
right to debate the entertainment industry over anti-copying
technologies.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-944668.html?tag=politech

Faculty Attitudes Toward Online Resources This brief article (in PDF
format) describes the results of a survey of about 4,000 U.S.
professors on their attitudes regarding online resources. Opinions
varied widely, which is not surprising, and if there is any trend, it
seems to indicate change. The author concludes, "electronic resources
have become an invaluable tool for research, and faculty will become
even more dependent on them in the future; and hard-copy archives
should not be replaced entirely by electronic archives, but
preserving electronic journals for the future is extremely
important." So - is somebody saving OLDaily? By Bruce Heterick,
EDUCAUSE Review, July, 2002
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0248.pdf

From OLDaily: Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education
Useful resource site trolled by Distance-Educator.Com that provides
links and resources related to online collaboration. The intent of
the site is to "specialise at the intersection of tertiary education,
asynchronous online delivery, and collaborative learning." I won't
pout (too much) about not being listed in the names section. By Tim
Roberts, Lissa McNamee and Sallyanne Williams, Central Queensland
University, December 31, 200-31 8:33 p.m.
http://musgrave.cqu.edu.au/clp/clpsite/index.htm

Herding Cats in eEurope: Current achievements in Learning Technology
Standardization This article, a quick summary of learning technology
standards efforts in Europe, is most useful for its links. Especially
recommended is the link to the recently completed Repository of
Taxonomies and Vocabularies for a European Learning Society. This
takes you to a page where you can select from a type of vocabulary
(rights, for example, or costs) and view a list of available
standards. For those researching different standards efforts this is
a very useful resource (and pretty dry reading for the rest of you).
Links to a number of European standards bodies are also provided. By
Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet, July 5, 2002
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/_News_search_ne
ws/content.cfm?lang=en&ov=16408

Library Websites Integral Part of College Studies: 24 July 2002
An OCLC survey of US college kids finds that 70% use their campus
libraries' website for some of their assignments, and only 29% say
the websites do not have what they need
http://www.emarketer.com/news/article.php?1001391&ref=ed

WebCT And HP Confirm Higher Education Institutions Can Effectively
Scale e-Learning To Thousands Of Users (Internet Wire)
WebCT and HP today announced they have successfully completed
performance testing on WebCT's latest higher-education e-learning
software products running on HP ProLiant servers. The results confirm
that higher education institutions can scale reliably to hundreds of
thousands of users without performance degradation.
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/020724/044861.html

JPEG Committee Speaks Out on Forgent IP Claim: The committee in
charge of the JPEG file format said it will  strike back in response
to the patent claims being musted by  Forgent Networks Inc.
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eRRS0DPscz0FBi0pB20AR

African Schools Get a Tech Boost (Making the Grade 2:00 a.m. PDT):
SchoolNetAfrica is working to bring technology resources to children,
many of whom have never even seen a computer. By Katie Dean.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/school/0,1383,54045,00.html/wn_ascii


TRENDS SECTION

From LineZine: CULTURAL ADAPTATION: NECESSITY FOR GLOBAL ELEARNING
There are many reasons for this apparent lack of enthusiasm: poor
technology infrastructures in some regions; lack of design expertise;
fear of technology on the part of users, and so on. But there's one
readily identifiable cause that seems to go ignored: lack of cultural
adaptation. Based on extensive anthropological and cross-cultural
research, we suggest that the lack of cultural adaptation is a
leading reason why elearning fails to work for a globally distributed
audience.
http://www.linezine.com/7.2/articles/pdamca.htm

From LineZine: START MEASURING YOUR ELEARNING PROGRAMS NOW: In
implementing elearning at many corporations, I find, repeatedly, that
one of the biggest differences between elearning and other forms of
training is that elearning is completely trackable. You know
everything that every learner did, unlike classroom training. You
have the opportunity to measure precisely the impact of your
elearning investment. This article reviews a proven methodology for
measuring elearning, how widely it is being used, how effective it is
in transferring knowledge, and, most importantly, how much impact it
has on the bottom line.
http://www.linezine.com/7.2/articles/jbsmyelpn.htm

Handheld tested as teaching tool: BY Dibya Sarkar: July 19, 2002: You
could say Peter Taves, a seventh- grader at Frost Middle School, took
his English  assignment to heart: He wrote a haiku about his handheld
computer.
The screen lights up fast
The words from it trickle down
It's like falling rain
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0715/web-frost-07-19-02.asp

The Bandwidth Capital of the World: In Seoul, the broadband age is in
full swing - online games have become a national sport, and
cybercafes are the new singles bars. By J. C. Herz
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/korea.html

Professor of Desperation: Bad pay, zero job security, no benefits,
endless commutes. Is this any way to treat PhDs responsible for
teaching a generation of college students? (Post, July 21, 2002)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15182-2002Jul16.html

Gaga for Google? When results don't count: When my Web search on a
leading IT exec came up almost empty, what was I to think? As it
turns out, the lack of Web tracks is not necessarily a sign of
irrelevance.  And it offers a lesson or two
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=06-fPCuI481hKWtFabm4AQ4RvAkYsRR

THE LITTLE ENGINES THAT COULDN_T: Go to almost any search engine and
-- quick -- tell us which are the paid listings. Hard to tell? That's
the point.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=714143

LIBRARIANS AT THE GATE: E-books are killing the happy marriage of
libraries and publishers. Libraries can now lend the same book to
thousands of readers simultaneously. Publishers say it_s not fair.
What_s the answer?
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=714141

Ontologies Come of Age: Ontologies have moved beyond the domains of
library science, philosophy, and knowledge representation. They are
now the concerns of marketing departments, CEOs, and mainstream
business. Research analyst companies such as Forrester Research
report on the critical roles of ontologies in support of browsing and
search for e-commerce and in support of interoperability for
facilitation of knowledge management and configuration. One now sees
ontologies used as central controlled vocabularies that are
integrated into catalogues, databases, web publications, knowledge
management applications, etc.
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/onto
logies-come-of-age-mit-press-(with-citation).htm

Point. Click. Think?: Welcome to the world of Net thinking, a form of
reasoning that characterizes many students who are growing up with
the Internet as their primary, and in some cases, sole source of
research. Ask teachers and they'll tell you: Among all the influences
that shape young thinking skills, computer technology is the biggest
one.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9729-2002Jul15.html
**Here is a quick note about stories from the Washington Post. After
14 days, stories move into their "archive" and you have to
pay for them – it's not much but still. However, the Post
currently gives you the option to email the entire text of the story
to someone, so if you really want to keep that story, just send it
out to yourself!

A PRELIMINARY LOOK AT THE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES OF HIGHER EDUCATION
CLASSROOM COMMUNITIES IN TRADITIONAL AND ALN COURSES: A. Alfred P.
Rovai, Ph.D.: School of Education, Regent University
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/Vol6_issue1/6_1rovai.htm

PUTTING CONTENT IN CONTEXT: (Source: CIO) Many companies are using
digital asset management to provide a centralized way for employees
and partners to locate and manipulate content_a big time-saver for
all.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=716568

AN INTERVIEW WITH WILL WRIGHT: (Source: GamePro.com) GamePro talks to
Will Wright, the man who spent seven years giving birth to The Sims.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=716569

Palm Joins Forces With IBM (Business Tuesday):  The world's leading
maker of PDAs teams up with IBM in an effort to better compete
against Microsoft
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,54055,00.html/wn_ascii


EMERGING TECH SECTION

A Flashy Web Communication Tool: Macromedia's new Flash Communication
Server MX application is creating waves of excitement among the
streaming and long-distance collaboration crowd. You know who you
are. Lisa Delgado reports from New York. in Culture
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53983,00.html

Kilmist DailyQuote for Pocket PC: Price: $4.99
Pocket PC and Pocket PC 2002 Compatible!!! Kilmist DailyQuote
provides you with these gems of wisdom daily on the Today screen of
your Pocket PC for every day of the year. DailyQuote is a Today
screen plug-in that ships with 370+ quotes from 300+ different
personalities.  The compilation includes quotes from a wide variety
of personalities from authors and leaders to comedians.
http://www.kilmist.com/DT_Default.asp

Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX: Unite communications and
applications by adding streaming, multi-way audio, video, and live
data to your websites and Rich Internet Applications. Built for
streaming media, rich-media messaging, and real-time collaboration,
Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX provides an easy, powerful,
and open environment for developing groundbreaking communication
functionality—and deploying it to the widest possible audience.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashcom/

**Might have to try this one.
jumpstart.com Offers Free Analysis of Children's Preferred Learning
Styles
http://www.jumpstart.com/

*The 60 GB PC Card version is $649.95 but think about having a fully
bootable backup of your ENTIRE system! How much is that peace of kind
worth?*
The Automatic Backup System (ABSplus) with a USB 2.0 or Firewire
interface was created for notebook and desktop computers, with the
same backup software as the PCMCIA version of the ABSplus. The
ABSplus is the only complete all-in-one hardware and software
solution offering instant disaster recovery and a bootable hard
drive. Simply plug it in and the ABSplus backs it up!
http://www.cmsproducts.com/products.htm

XBOX TO GO LIVE WITH LEVEL 3: (Source: IDG.net) Level 3
Communications will be providing the broadband infrastructure for
Microsoft's Xbox Live online game service in North America and Europe
when it unveils later this year.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=716188


SECURITY SECTION

HOLE IN PHP COULD GIVE ATTACKER SERVER CONTROL: (Source: ITworld.com)
A security hole in the PHP scripting language used on many Web
servers could allow an attacker to execute code on affected systems
or even take control of them.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=716186

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

TELCO CUSTOMER DATA GOES UP FOR GRABS: FCC's contentious ruling gives
'affiliated' parties default access to customer data, requires opt-in
for others.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102743,tk,dn071702X,00.asp

What Buddhists Know About Science
Tibetan Buddhists described advanced neurological concepts 2,000
years before science had the technology to discover them. By
Daithí Ó hAnluain.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,53820,00.html

Second law of thermodynamics "broken": 09:21 19 July 02
NewScientist.com news service: One of the most fundamental rules of
physics, the second law of thermodynamics, has for the first time
been shown not to hold for microscopic systems.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992572
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"When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with
empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage
their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell
us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?"
-William C. Bagley, Craftmanship in Teaching

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New To Me:

e-Learning Festival 2002 (Dublin, IE) Conference Report: It's all
about culture. As an anthropologist and a historian, I can tell you
that culture is all too important to be as ignored and neglected as
it is. This conference in Dublin featured some very smart people
working on ways to "localize" content. I think that Elliott
will actually be hosting a site with a lot of the content from the
conference and if so, I'll pass along the URL when it goes live.
One thing that continues to bother me though is that while it's
easy to say and fairly easy to understand that culture is important
in terms of porting e-learning to foreign environments, it amazes me
how many corp. leaders fail to understand or appreciate that the
lesson also applies within their own home bases? How many corp.
anybodies actually understand that there is such a thing as a living
breathing corporate culture that does not exist on any organization
chart and may or may not give a flying fig about the mission
statement?

eLearning Magazine: FOREIGN FAUX PAS: Globalization is not a feature
of the product but a function of the product." It requires the
delicate handling of experts with cultural sensitivities. After all,
if the point of any e-learning module is that the user learn
something, you don't want them being distracted-or, worse,
offended-by the material in question.
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=23125

Research Assignment: I am looking for some good resources discussing
the "paradigm effect," i.e. the mentally constricting impact
of paradigms. I could just Google, but then I thought someone out
there might just be an expert on it so I thought I would take a shot.
So far, I have just found mentions like: "The Paradigm Effect:
The situation turns problematic when multiple and overlapping
associations occur. Generally, people are more likely to form
conceptual associations which are similar to associations which they
already have. Familiar ideas are easier to accept and believe, they
are re- affirming and supportive of a point of view."
This might be all well and good but the researcher in me needs more,
like references, books, articles, etc. I'll gladly pass back to
the list any info I collect. And it turns out that the example I
always heard of this theory, the advent of ATMs and their original
placement in bank lobbies seems to be wrong – seems the first
modern ATM was placed outside.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blatm.htm

P.S. Tomorrow is my birthday in case any of you have any last minute
shopping to do!
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Imagine a world where all digital media technology is controlled by
Congress and Hollywood. Senator Ernest Hollings and a powerful group
of Hollywood entertainment interests are pushing Congress to pass an
anti-consumer bill called the Consumer Broadband and Digital
Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) to bring just such a world into
existence. What YOU Can Do Now: This is YOUR chance to voice your
opposition to CBDTPA. - Subscribe to the new EFF Action Center and
send your member of Congress an email, letter or fax. You can take
action by going to: http://action.eff.org/tinseltown/
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New Journal:
The Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment (JTLA) is a
peer-reviewed, scholarly on-line journal. The JTLA was established in
response to a growing interest in the intersection of computer-based
technology, learning, and assessment. The JTLA provides an
interdisciplinary forum where initiatives that combine technology,
learning theory, and assessment are shared. The JTLA is housed
jointly in the Technology and Assessment Study Collaborative and the
Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy at
Boston College.
http://www.bc.edu/research/intasc/jtla.html

E-Learning Part of Federal Nurse Training Grant: Broward (Fla.)
Community College has been given a $1.1 million grant from the U.S.
Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration to help
create programs to meet a critical shortage of local nurses. As part
of the school's strategy, 100 inactive registered nurses will update
their skills through testing, customized e-learning modules and
individually designed clinical rotations. Another strategy is aimed
at upgrading 100 licensed practical nurses to become registered
nurses through an online transition program. The grant will provide an onli=
ne program accessible 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week so they can complete=
  seven nursing lecture courses at their convenience. Students who choose to =
attend campus-based lectures will have access to the online portion of the c=
lasses at the college's computer labs.
http://www.broward.cc.fl.us/

Another new journal:
Computer Game Studies, Year One: by Espen Aarseth
Welcome to the first issue of the first academic, peer-reviewed
journal dedicated to computer game studies. This is a noteworthy
occasion, and perhaps the most remarkable aspect is that such a
journal has not been started before. As we know, there have been
computer games for almost as long as there have been computers:
SpaceWar, arguably the first modern game, turns forty this year, and
commercially the genre has existed for three decades. So why not
something like this before?
http://www.gamestudies.org/

Learning Circuits: A FIELD GUIDE TO LEARNING OBJECTS: Learning
Object. Modular building block. Chunk. Reusable information object.
Nugget. Whatever. The list goes on. But what is a learning object,
exactly. More important, how and when should they be used? Learning
Circuits in collaboration with SmartForce breakdown the types of
learning objects--instruction, collaboration, practice, and
assessment--that are currently developed by most e-learning
suppliers. [Note: pdf file, 480kb]
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/jul2002/smartforce.pdf

Allison Rossett: JUST ELARNING JARGON?: What are knowledge
management? Blended learning? Performance support? Instructional
design? And what do they have to do elearning and performance
improvement?  [Web site is based on Allison Rossett's 2002 ASTD
Elearning Handbook]
http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/authors/rossett/

ALBA: CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: The third European conference on
organizational knowledge, learning, and capabilities -OKLC 2002-
successfully concluded.
http://www.alba.edu.gr/news/index.asp?full=113

eLearning Magazine: LEARNING PERSPECTIVES: SLOW DOWN, YOU MOVE TOO
FAST Elliott Masie: Not all e-learning must be focused on speed. Learners a=
nd organizations must make the rate of learning and the duration of learning=
  a strategic choice, and the content marketplace should provide those option=
s.
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=23119

Minnesota Court Rejects Out-of-State Defamation Suit Over Scholars'
Online Spat: By SCOTT CARLSON: A decision on Thursday by the
Minnesota Supreme Court could influence libel cases connected with
chat rooms, newsgroups, and e-mail discussion lists. The court ruled
that an Alabama scholar could not enforce a libel ruling from her
state after a Minnesota scholar criticized her in an online newsgroup.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002071201t.htm

Appeals Court Rules Against Researcher Who Claimed Patents on
Online-Database Use: By VINCENT KIERNAN: A federal appeals court on
Tuesday ruled against a researcher employed by the University of
California who maintains that, a decade ago, he invented and patented
a key aspect of Web surfing: using a database from a distance.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002071101t.htm

New Web Site Will Help Universities and Companies Match Students With
Jobs: By SCOTT CARLSON: A group of 27 major universities and two job-
recruiting organizations have developed a new Web site where students
will be able to post résumés and employers will be able to post
job openings. Officials at the universities and the organizations
hope the site will be more secure, more responsive, and more stable
than similar commercial services.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002071001t.htm

Silicon.com: BBC E-LEARNING PLANS 'WILL COST BUSINESS £400M': The
private sector could lose up to £400m if the BBC goes ahead with
plans to spend millions of pounds of licence payers' money to develop
an online curriculum for schools, according to a new report.
http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=
&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=54583


TRENDS SECTION

Interview: Chapter 12: A Conversation with Howard Rheingold: In this
final excerpt from Chapter 12, I have a conversation with Howard
Rheingold: What many members of the web generation don't know is that
virtual community existed way before the web. For an inside
perspective on the history of virtual communities and a glimpse at
the future, there's no one better to talk with than Howard Rheingold.
http://designforcommunity.com/conversations/messag
es.pl/showThread?id=80

A New Code for Anonymous Web Use: By Noah Shachtman: 2:00 a.m. July
12, 2002 PDT: NEW YORK -- Peer-to-peer networks such as Morpheus and Audiog=
alaxy have enabled millions to trade music, movies and software freely. A gr=
oup of veteran hackers is about to unveil a new peer-to-peer protocol that m=
ay eventually let millions more surf, chat and e-mail free from prying eyes.=
  Hacktivismo, a politically minded offshoot of the long-running hacker colle=
ctive Cult of the Dead Cow, will announce the protocol -- called "Six/Four,"=
  after the June 4, 1989 massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square -- in a prese=
ntation Saturday at the H2K2 hacker conference in New York City.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,53799,00.html

HACKERS TACKLE CENSORSHIP WITH NEW TOOL: Camera/Shy encrypts
messages into images, intended for political dissidents but useful
for any secrets.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102620,tk,dn071202X,00.asp

**Here is another tip from Cub Reporter Suveer (bucking for a
promotion to Ace Reporter obviously!)
ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative engaged in
supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among
underserved communities and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to
create a culture of open-source design innovation, with ongoing
collaboration among individuals, communities and organizations around
the world.
http://www.thinkcycle.org/about

MICROSOFT: PALLADIUM NOT JUST FOR WINDOWS: Following widespread
skepticism of Microsoft's motives for developing its trusted
computing platform, the software giant this week moved to reassure
the software community that Palladium will not be limited to
Microsoft's platforms.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=4e-0Y45InZASFtxYVkIJPd20Lb2n9RR

WHY WE CAN'T TRUST MICROSOFT'S 'TRUSTWORTHY' OS: David Coursey says
Palladium remains a slippery subject, in large part because Microsoft
seems to be talking out of both sides of its mouth.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=63-tPIjIHWSgVhQkQCgldAosSJ2EsRR

F U Cn Rd Ths, So Can Translator (Unwired News 2:00 a.m. PDT):  A
Canadian company put up a website that lets mobile-phone users
translate text messages into proper English. It's not the most
practical tool for long-time SMS users, but for newcomers, it sure is
:-). By Elisa Batista.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,53626,00.html/wn_ascii

No Bells, No Whistles: Just Games (Games 2:00 a.m. PDT):
Best-selling video games come packed with big-budget graphics and
high-end digital sound. The best video games, though, may come with
neither pictures nor music. This is Skotos. Brad King reports from
Berkeley, California.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/games/0,2101,53738,00.html/wn_ascii

  Games Started Off Without a Bang (Games 2:00 a.m. PDT):  The world
is moving faster these days, and video games reflect that. Big
sounds. Big explosions. Big productions. Those drive the industry.
But there was a quieter time. By Brad King.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/games/0,2101,53765,00.html/wn_ascii


EMERGING TECH SECTION

**I MUST have one of these!! Think about it, 10 hours of laptop
power!!
The N-Charge™ Power System is a revolutionary, rechargeable
battery system featuring Valence's breakthrough Saphion™
Technology. This stand-alone tool provides easy-to-use, anytime,
anywhere power for a wide variety of portable electronic devices. The
N-Charge Power System allows you to charge/power your notebook
computer and handheld electronic device, simultaneously, due to its
innovative design that incorporates Valence's proprietary Adaptive
Sensing Technology™. Saphion™ Lithium-ion Technology, High
performance, low cost batteries Environmentally friendly,
electrochemically stable, No memory effect, Excellent Run Time, Up to
10 hours continuous notebook computer operation* or Up to 5 days of
continuous cell phone talk-time or PDA* use Unmatched Versatility
Capable of accommodating a wide variety of notebook PC's, cell
phones, PDA's, etc. Simultaneous powering/charging of two mobile
devices Superior Recharge and Long Life Cycle Capability  Fast
recharge time: up to 4 hours Cycle life of over 600 charge-discharge
cycles to 70% capacity Ease of Use  No need for individual handheld
device adaptors, Simple on/off switch - just plug in device(s) and
go, Flicker-Free Viewing, Notebook display operation mimics AC mode,
No dimming due to detection of battery power source Slim, Sleek
Design , Fits easily into your briefcase or computer bag.
Model VNC-130 $350
http://www.valence.com/ncharge.asp

*Can't say enough about this series of articles (up to Part X
now). If you really wanted to understand what is going on inside
Half-Life and Everquest but didn't want to get a Computer Science
degree – this is the place for you.
Game Engine Anatomy 101, Part I
Part I: Intro to Game Engines, The Renderer, and Creating a 3D World
By Jake Simpson
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,594,00.asp

Where TabletPC will succeed--and why: OK, OK, you readers were right
all along. I now believe that Microsoft"s TabletPC can be a big hit.
Where? Vertical markets. Why? Development tools.
> Why you won't be buying one from Dell
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=ba-m-95QXpKAfSYck_xuqL0lFEBWdRR

eWeek: WEB CONFERENCE CALL: University of Wisconsin System evaluates
nine Web-based meeting and collaboration systems.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,341722,00.asp

*This would also be cool.
FM201 Type I CF card also has perfect compatibility like PK series
products with Pocket PC and handheld PC based on Microsoft's Windows
CE platform via CF slot. You can display radio function on any Win CE
platform like Compaq iPAQ 31xx?36xx?37xx?38xx series?HP Jornada 56x
series?CASIO Cassiopeia E-200?UR There @ migo-600Cand so on. FM201
equipped with Type I CF card but it both supports Type I & II CF card
or if you are a PCMCIA port user, just buy a CF convertible card and
still lightly enjoy radio entertainment. If you desire to upgrade
your PDA peripherals, please notice Prolink's related N&C
products.
http://www.prolink.com.tw/new_web/index_english.htm

*And this!
Wrist PDA/PC - FX2002: Price: $145.00
Fossil's Wrist PDA-PC is the ultimate companion to your PocketPC! The
seamless infrared interface easily downloads the information from
your five main handheld applications, stored on your PocketPC into
your Wrist PC! The information can then be accessed through the
different applications on the watch. Carry your contacts, calendar,
tasks, and notes all on your wrist. Other features include a special
Today application, customized watch faces, convenient drop down
menus, view screen options, EL backlight, and a joystick for easy
navigation. Water resistant up to 30 meters. See size. 4.5 cm x 6 cm
x 1.7 cm
http://www.fossil.com/Product/Product.asp?Tier1=Me
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SECURITY SECTION

Cybersecurity-Research Bill Stalls in Senate: By DAN CARNEVALE
Washington: A bill to expand research on securing computer networks
from hackers has stalled in the Senate because critics have denounced
provisions that would require federal agencies to adopt technology-
security standards.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002071202t.htm

**Folks – here's a little tip from a e-Clipping's Cub
Reporter Suveer, who reports that much like Yahoo!, MSN has now
automatically set your Hotmail preferences to `share with the
world,' to correct keep reading (p.s. I don't use Hotmail so
I haven't done this myself but if you use Yahoo! there is a
similar situation: "Hi Folks,  Did you know that about 2 months
ago MSN added 2 little boxes in all the profiles? These boxes if
marked share your email with other users.  One box, if ticked, gives
other people the right to see your information including your
address. Now MSN has taken all the passports that were created before
they added this and marked YES SHARE MY INFORMATION.  This means that
your name, hotmail address and registration info is being shared
freely across the internet. That's the number one reaon why you're
getting so much junk mail.  How do I remove this setting? Simple.
Sign in to your hotmail account, then click on "Options". Then click
on "Personal Profile" and scroll down to the bottom of the page. You
will see two checkboxes, which share your info. Just uncheck those
boxes and Update your profile. This will decrease all that junk mail
that you've been getting. Check it out yourself.  Thank me later,
Nischint."

New security standards urged for PC, software vendors: The move is
aimed at helping system administrators improve security and save time
and money configuring new systems.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C72789%2C0.html?nlid=PM

Settings Aim to Secure Windows 2000: Top U.S. and private sector
security experts today will unveil Windows 2000 standard settings
that aim to help administrators lock down networks.
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eRKw0DPscz0FBc0oxJ0A6

PGP Outlook plugin has major security hole: Relax, there's a patch
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26145.html

SERIOUS SECURITY FLAW FOUND IN OUTLOOK, IE: Researchers say hole
could allow hackers to read files and execute programs on vulnerable
PCs.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102596,tk,dn071102X,00.asp


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Fighting the Pigopolists with bricks not bluster:     Letters Routing
around the RIAA
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/26154.html
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"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
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New To Me:
O.K., I'm still in Ireland but I wanted to go ahead and send this out
in an attempt to catch-up.  Should be back on track by next week with
the conference re-cap.
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Imagine a world where all digital media technology is controlled by
Congress and Hollywood. Senator Ernest Hollings and a powerful group
of Hollywood entertainment interests are pushing Congress to pass an
anti-consumer bill called the Consumer Broadband and Digital
Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) to bring just such a world into
existence. What YOU Can Do Now: This is YOUR chance to voice your
opposition to CBDTPA. - Subscribe to the new EFF Action Center and
send your member of Congress an email, letter or fax. You can take
action by going to: http://action.eff.org/tinseltown/
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NEWS

**I just got another chill down my spine.
Denmark - Danish newspapers win deep linking battle
In a ruling expected to ricochet through the world of online linking,
a
Danish court has ordered online news service Newsbooster to stop deep
linking to 20 Danish newspapers.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=11385

VCampus Completes Reverse Stock Split: Every ten shares of common
stock have been reclassified and changed into one fully paid share.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article/0,,10849_1381311,00.html


TRENDS SECTION

Promising Chapter in E-Book Story (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT):  Demand
for e-books might be gaining momentum. Also: A thesaurus by any other
name ... and more in M.J. Rose's notebook.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53699,00.html/wn_ascii

*Can anyone say `understatement?
World - Record labels need to rethink P2P fight: The labels need to
provide an alternative that addresses some of the real issues that
have caused the decline in music sales, including high
CD prices and a lack of commitment by the labels to develop new
artists.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=11389

Estonia - Estonia leads Baltics for internet users: About 31 per cent
of Estonia_s population 15-74 is using the internet, while Lithuania
hovers around 18 per cent and Latvia around 16 per cent.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=11412

WE - 27m 'e-workers' in Europe by 2010: Around a sixth of Europe's
entire workforce will be 'e-workers' in Europe by 2010 according to
the UK Institute for Employment Studies (IES).
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=11415

REPORT: VIDEO GAMES HURT YOUR BRAIN: (Source: GamePro.com) More than
two hours a day affects the bit of your brain that controls your
personality, according to a new study. No wonder we don't have any
friends.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=709402

MS'S PALLADIUM: WHY YOU THINK IT'S A CROCK: By David Morgenstern YOUR
TALKBACK: When TalkBack discussion turned to Microsoft's  new digital-
rights architecture, Palladium, your reaction was almost unanimously
negative. In fact, many of you see this technology as a reason to
switch to Linux. David digests your digs.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=cf-eb0-QLw2hC7IdX0J4ir0gzRTodRR

Dancing at the Microsoft Palladium: LettersDo the share-denial quick-
step
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/26085.html

MICROSOFT SECURITY CHIP OPEN TO DISCUSSION: Software giant says info
about Palladium was released too soon, and  that the plan is subject
to change.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102473,tk,dn070802X,00.asp


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Macromedia Server Brings Life to Web Sites: Macromedia Inc. announced
the availability of Macromedia  Flash Communication Server MX, its
new server that unites
communications and applications.
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eRDn0DPscz0FBc0ojp0AF

World - Wireless gaming market to hit E9.4bn by 2008: But before this
sector can realise its full potential, market participants will have
to implement micro-billing systems, a new report
argues.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=11386

Hardware: WRITE ON TARGET: The options for portable storage range
from trusty old Iomega Zip drives to high-end DVD-RW and DVD+RW
systems that can write and store gigabytes of information.
http://www.gcn.com/21_18/hardware/19212-1.html


SECURITY SECTION

WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER FLAW PUTS PCS AT RISK: (Source: PC World.com)
Security hole in media player's antipiracy feature could allow
hackers to access your computer.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=708400

WHO'S PROTECTING CYBERSPACE?: (Source: PC World.com) Feds consider
new organizations, policy to guard against cyberterrorist threat.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=708405

E-mail Clients: More on Outlook E-Mail Security: Our User-to-User
item "When Is an Update Not an Update?" (January 15, 2002) pointed
out a restriction imposed by the Outlook 2000 and 2002 E-Mail
Security Update. You won't be able to access an attachment if its
extension matches
one in a list of almost four dozen that the update considers unsafe.
To find out what the solution is, click below:
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eRAx0DPscz0FMz0oep0Ap


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

INTERNET ATTACKS UP 28 PERCENT IN 2002: The Internet is an
increasingly dangerous place for companies with cyberattacks up 28
percent for the first half of 2002 over the last half of 2001.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=709396

BEST OF TODAY'S WEB: GREATEST HITS AND HIDDEN GEMS: (Source: PC
World.com) We do the digging so you don't have to:50-plus Web
winners, from new and little-known sites to powerful
features buried in your everyday bookmarks.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=709565

Quiet, Sad Death of Net Pioneer (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT):  Gene Kan
was a champion of Gnutella and file-sharing systems, well-known among
the open-source crowd. It's ironic, then, that word of his untimely
death spread so slowly. By Michelle Delio.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53704,00.html/wn_ascii

FAX FROM YOUR PC--WITHOUT A SCANNER! By Preston Gralla KILLER
DOWNLOADS: Want to fax documents to others, but don't have a scanner
or a fax machine? No problem. Preston has three downloads that let
you send and receive faxes on your PC by using the print function in
Windows apps.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=f9-mtITQxOWLf9_HDbSdWd4MDVmf9RR

Wrestlers want back into the Pentagon: From National Journal :
Bodyslammed by critics who say its television programming is too
violent and racy, World Wrestling Entertainment—the home of such
luminaries as Hollywood Hulk Hogan and The Rock—is trying to get back
into the ring. Make that the Pentagon's E Ring, to be precise.  The
wrestling federation has hired Charles L. Cragin, now a partner at
Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley, and until June 2001 the undersecretary
of Defense for personnel and readiness, to help it win back lucrative
advertising contracts with the Defense Department.  The Army, Navy,
Air Force, and Coast Guard had been sponsoring WrestleMania, knowing
that their target recruiting audience—young people ages 18 to 24—
watches such programs. But the Pentagon dropped its ads more than two
years ago after the Parents Television Council, a Los Angeles-based
conservative group, called on advertisers to boycott WWE.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0702/070802nj2.htm
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**PLEASE NOTE that the job announcement I sent out previously, deals
only with candidates in the NY/NJ area – i.e. the company will
NOT relocate you.
M. Oehlert, editor

***Please Note #2: This issue is late due to some travel that is
actually relevant – I am writing this as I sit at the
International E-Learning Festival in Dublin, Ireland. I did wanted to
get this truncated and belated issue out but rest assured, it will be
followed soon by a more complete one with the additional bonus of a
little conference coverage of European e-learning goings-on.
Mark Oehlert, Editor
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New To Me:
BookCrossing.com
http://bookcrossing.com/home
This looks really cool. Raise books in your home and then release
them into the wild! This site/movement encourages you to
`release' books, i.e. leave them in public places to be
picked up, sure to spread books – which is good – but you get
the added bonus with BookCrossing on being able to track your book.
You place one of their downloadable stickers in the book with a
tracking number and instructions on how to get to the site, the new
person picks it up, reads it and logs onto the site and tells you
where the book is, maybe if they liked it and what they did with it.
You can also check the site for planned releases and try to find one
of the books people have left.
I'm downloading labels as I type and can't wait to release a
couple of books and see what happens..
Mark Oehlert, Editor

Related news item: Spreading the word: Bay Area book lovers play
'follow the reader' in global giveaway with online tracking
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2
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Imagine a world where all digital media technology is controlled by
Congress and Hollywood. Senator Ernest Hollings and a powerful group
of Hollywood entertainment interests are pushing Congress to pass an
anti-consumer bill called the Consumer Broadband and Digital
Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) to bring just such a world into
existence. What YOU Can Do Now: This is YOUR chance to voice your
opposition to CBDTPA. - Subscribe to the new EFF Action Center and
send your member of Congress an email, letter or fax. You can take
action by going to: http://action.eff.org/tinseltown/
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NEWS

BBC News Online: Monday, 1 July, 2002, 10:37 GMT 11:37 UK
Computers reach one billion mark: One billion personal computers have
been sold across the world, according to hi-tech consultancy Gartner
Dataquest. And the number of computers is set to explode in the next
few years, reaching the two billion mark in by 2008.  The greatest
growth is expected to be in areas such as China, Latin America,
eastern Europe and India, predicts Gartner.  "With over half the
world's population residing in Asia Pacific, we can expect a
significant contribution from this region towards the next billion
PCs sold," said Gartner Dataquest's Ian Bertram.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_2077000/2077986.stm


TRENDS SECTION

Thanks to George Koch for pointing this one out:
No End to New Ideas: Stephen Crocker Helped Invent the Net. That Was
Just the Start. By Michael Barbaro Washington Post Staff Writer,
Monday, July 1, 2002; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5581-2002Jun30.html

Blurb from Stephen Downes at OLDaily: "Attendee-Centered
Conference Design This item contains just a flavour of what should be
a larger work. The author hints at some user-hostile conference
design strategies, such as the fixed mic and the deferred question
period. I could name so many more. Little things, like the need for
signs. Big things, like completely inappropriate (and ill- informed)
keynote speakers. Odd things, like the lack of online registration.
Necessary things, like the need for a cybercafe or (better) wireless
LAN. By Meg Hourihan, O'Reilly Network, March 19, 2002"
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/03/19/megnut.html

Instant messaging joins the firm: Jun 20th 2002 : From The Economist
print edition With the immediacy of the telephone and the written record of=
  e-mail, instant messaging is no longer just a handy way of chatting online.=
  It is fast becoming a secure and flexible tool for business
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1176089

THE NEW 'SUPERARCHIVES': Online collections by institutions may
challenge the role of journal publishers. "We want to give faculty
the infrastructure that supports alternative forms of publishing,"
says MacKenzie Smith (above), of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where technology for such archives is being developed.
(7/ 1/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm

UNIVERSITAS 21: Will Universitas 21 succeed in its plans to market
courses and academic programs in developing countries in Asia and
elsewhere? What impact will Universitas 21 have on distance
education? Read a transcript of a live discussion with Alan D.
Gilbert, the former chairman of Universitas 21 who also is vice
chancellor of the University of Melbourne. (6/ 27/2002)
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2002/06/universitas/

**I usually don't include stories from the NY Times because they
require free registration (something I think is quite reasonable for
the quality of their content) but I wanted to include the following
three stories because I thought they were important but also as a
test case – if people don't mind the registration at NY
Times, I'll start including more of their stories – just let
me know.***

U.S. Warns Web Sites to Label Sponsorships:
By DAVID F. GALLAGHER: he Federal Trade Commission has warned the
operators of several major Internet search engines to make it clearer
to their users when companies have paid to be included in Web search
results.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/technology/02SEAR.html

July 1, 2002: Grudgingly, Music Labels Sell Their Songs Online
By AMY HARMON: Increasingly desperate to woo customers away from an
Internet music piracy party that shows no signs of abating, several
major record labels have resolved to make more music legally
available for less money online — even if it means sacrificing
lucrative CD sales.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/technology/01TUNE.html

***This one is just plain scary – as a parent, really send
shivers down my spine and as a historian (at least by education) this
is repugnant, offensive and vile.**

Textbook Publishers Learn to Avoid Messing With Texas: By ALEXANDER
STILLE
Out of Many," the work of four respected historians, is one of the
biggest sellers among American history college textbooks in the
United States, but it is not likely to be available to Texas high
school students taking advanced placement history. Conservative
groups in Texas objected to two paragraphs in the nearly 1,000-page
text that explained that prostitution was rampant in cattle towns
during the late 19th century, before the West was fully settled.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/29/arts/29TEXT.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION



SECURITY SECTION


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Eisner's John Law debuts on Modern Tales!
June 26, 2002
This is not The Spirit. This is not Sin City. It's John Law. And
Crossroads, USA.
Comics master Will Eisner has contracted award- winning writer/artist
Gary Chaloner to develop all-new adventures featuring the one-eyed,
pipe- smoking Crossroads cop. These stories, the first original John
Law adventures since Eisner worked on the character in 1948, will be
exclusive to ModernTales.com from July 7!
http://moderntales.com/eisner/law_pr_MT.zip

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Contact info at the top.

v/r
Mark Oehlert, editor


Contact Info:
Josh Sacks
The Glenmont Group
http://www.glenmontgroup.com
jsacks@...
855 Bloomfield Ave, Suite 205
Glen Ridge, NJ 07028
(973) 259-9990

Professional Development
Position: Project Manager, Online Learning Development
Reports to: Manager, Learning Development
Overall Role:
Design and project management of online learning solutions including
web-based learning, online assessments, EPSS, and online communities.
Responsibilities:
· Organize, facilitate and participate in data gathering to
collect information needed to analyze and define and online learning
project.
· Create design documents that clearly communicate learning
strategies, interactive strategies, content outline, flow, technical
specifications, and overall project scope.
· Write detailed storyboards that represents program content,
flow, features and functionality.
· Blend sound learning principles with creative online design
strategies to create highly engaging and interactive programs …
on-time and within budget.
· Collaborate and communicate design with a team of graphic
artists and programmers (internal and external)
· Collaborate with our Learning Design team to create cohesive and
engaging blended learning programs.
· Support and continually enhance a process that facilitates rapid
application development (RAD)
· Assist and coach other staff members in e-Learning design and
development process.
· Research and remain current on online learning marketplace,
technologies and advanced design strategies.
· Consult with both internal Professional Development groups and
external departments on ways to leverage online learning with respect
to their business plans and goals.
· Monitor online learning projects, timelines and deliverables to
ensure they are on track. Report progress.
Experience and Education Required:
· 5+ years experience in learning design and design of web-based
learning
· Masters level with specialty in business or behavioral sciences
preferred (e.g., instructional design). Bachelors level with specific
training/certificate program completion in learning design would be
considered
· Experience working in the Financial Services industry a plus.
Skills Required:
· Knowledge of user interface (UI) design for web-based learning
· Strong creative and business writing skills
· Strong knowledge of the Inter/Intranet and related technologies
· Working knowledge of HTML, DreamWeaver, Flash and streaming
media technologies
· Basic knowledge of graphic creation and editing tools
(PhotoShop, PaintShopPro)
· Basic knowledge of Javascript and XML
· Project Management skills (including knowledge of MS Project)
· Knowledge of MS Office software (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
· Strong verbal communication and consulting skills
· Knowledge of instructional design and online learning
development methodology.
· Awareness of tools and technologies (e.g., web-based learning
design, EPSS, synchronous and asynchronous tools, collaborative
learning technologies)
· Experience with Learning Management Systems (LMS), Learning
Content Management Systems (LCMS), and industry standards (SCORM,
AICC)
· Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build effective work
relationships with others

e-Clippings  6.27.02

"Patriotism is a national responsibility, demonstrated not by short,
frenzied outbursts of emotion, but instead through the tranquil and
steady dedication of a lifetime."
-Adlai Stevenson

The Dept. of Defense and the United States lost a great man this past
weekend. David "Doc" Cooke, known as the "Mayor of the
Pentagon, served as the director of administration and management at
the Pentagon. He had worked in the building for 50 years. According
to a recent GovExec.com article, Doc oversaw "the creation of the
Defense Intelligence Agency, the Defense Supply Agency, the Defense
Investigative Service, and the Defense Mapping Agency. He helped
create a Public Service Academy at Anacostia High School in
Washington for disadvantaged students and is the recipient of several
awards and honors, including the President's Award for
Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, which he received in 1999. He
will be greatly missed.
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The Long Bets Foundation
http://www.longbets.org/
"The Long Bets Foundation was started in 02001 as a 501(c)(3)
public education nonprofit foundation, based in California. It is a
partial spin-off from The Long Now Foundation, which is building a
10,000-year Clock and tools for a 10,000-year Library. Long Bets is
one of the Library tools."
The idea is that various luminaries, or even regular folk with a
minimum of $1,000 to spare, can make bets on topics that are
"societally or scientifically important."
Some current bets and bettors include:
-A computer - or "machine intelligence" - will pass the Turing Test
by 2029.
02002 – 02029 (27 years)
Ray Kurzweil vs. Mitchell Kapor $20,000 ($10,000 each)
- By 2010, more than 50 percent of books sold worldwide will be
printed on demand at the point of sale in the form of library-quality
paperbacks.
2002 – 2010 (8 years)
Jason Epstein vs. Vint Cerf  $2,000 ($1,000 each)
- The US men's soccer team will win the World Cup before the Red Sox
win the World Series.
02002 - ? (? years)
Mike Elliot vs. Ted Danson $2,000 ($1,000 each)

p.s. Watched "Vanilla Sky" last night – there's two
hours of my life I'll  never get back!

Mark's Techno Wish List:
Snap-N-Type Mini-Keyboard for iPaq 3800 series
Price: $39.95
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From: eMarketer:
*Of course this is a report from an e-learning vendor reported by an
e-marketing vendor so maybe a grain of salt is in order? The full
report is at: http://www.knowledgeanywhere.com/trainingreport
Using Technology to Instruct: 21 June 2002:
An April 2002 survey from Knowledge Anywhere, conducted among 183
executives and employees at small, medium and large US corporations,
found that 42% of companies were using online learning as a way to
train and educate employees. Another 14% were using video
conferencing, but only 7% were using webcasts. A sizeable amount of
respondents (37%) also said they were using a combination of
technologies for education and training.
http://live.emarketer.com/news/article.php?1001275&ref=ed#article

TOMORROW THE WORLD?: Universitas 21, an international consortium of
17 universities, expects to begin offering online courses soon.
Supporters, competitors, and critics are watching closely. Peter W.
Low (above) of the U. of Virginia, one of the participants in
Universitas 21, expects the consortium to help his institution
achieve prominence in online education without risking a lot of
money. (6/24/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i42/42a02801.htm

USA News: E-LEARN AND EARN: But can companies and institutions make a
profit from E-learning? People are still reluctant to pay for online
content generally–one study found that 70 percent of adult
surfers didn't see why anyone would pay. Yet the University of
Phoenix Online, a division of distance-learning company Apollo Group
that trades as a separate tracking stock, made $31.8 million in
fiscal 2001 and $23.6 million in the first six months of fiscal 2002.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020624/biztech/24elearning.htm

Certification Magazine: SIMULATIONS: VIRTUAL REALITY FOR CERTIFICATION
For years we have heard mention of simulations and how they will
impact the certification industry someday. The reality is that
simulations are here now, and they are gaining a critical mass that
will ultimately result in a quantum leap in how we are tested.
Certification providers such as Novell and Cisco have already
incorporated simulations into their exams. Microsoft has announced
its own plans to add simulations to its certification testing.
Virtually every other major certification provider is exploring
similar options.
http://www.certmag.com/issues/jul02/feature_vallejo.cfm

HOMELAND SECURITY PAGE SUCKS: (Source: Darwin) Government site is big
on PR, useless for meaningful information.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=699833

U.S. GOV'T. HALVES WEBCASTING ROYALTY RATE: (Source: IDG.net) U.S.
regulators set a per-song royalty rate for radio Webcasters Thursday
that was half the previously proposed rate, but online radio stations
still fear the rates may drive them off the air.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=703304

*Think that a 50% fee is fair?
Big name microcasters pull the plug:Culturecide
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25840.html

World - Librarian of Congress decision a dark day for webcasters
Although the US Librarian of Congress slashed the royalty rates
internet radio stations had to pay to licence music in half, he
upheld a payment model that still means many small stations will have
to shut down.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=11109

COLLEGE STATIONS ALARMED: The librarian of Congress on Thursday
released a final schedule of the fees that radio stations must pay to
record companies when the stations play music online. The fees are
slightly lower than those recommended in February by an arbitration
panel, but college radio stations say they're still too high, while
record companies insist that they're too low.  (6/21/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002062101t.htm

TABLET PCS TAKE OFF... DELL PDAS?... OPEN SOURCE: JUST AS SECURE...
By Sylvia Carr
  NEED TO KNOW: A slew of tablet PC products are set to debut this
week. Will they succeed? Plus: Dell may be preparing  to jump into
the handheld market. And new research proves open source and
proprietary software are equally secure.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=11-l8ciI2-4PLchB-bXA6nzuBKxq9RR

High Court Rules Against Students (Privacy Matters Thursday):  The
nation's schools are now protected if they need to break laws
requiring them to keep records secret, according to a landmark
Supreme Court ruling Thursday.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,53367,00.html/wn_ascii

*Well, that didn't take long from Audio Galaxy going down. Hmm, I
wonder if this kind of stuff will just keep happening…Be sure to
check the notes at the end of the article…which still lists Audio
Galaxy…
LET THE MUSIC PLAY: MY FAVE FILE-SHARING SOFTWARE By Preston Gralla
KILLER DOWNLOADS: Love trading files online, but hate the new
Morpheus software? Don't worry--there are lots of other good
file-sharing programs out there. Preston shows you three of his
favorites for swapping music—and other files, too.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=6a-z_20IeWiZSF65FKzXrttT4AXL9RR

*Sounds like a handy service (pointed out to e-Clippings by Rick
Blunt)
"Cloudmark Wednesday launched SpamNet, a Microsoft Outlook
plug-in that uses peer-to-peer technology to ward off spam. Designed
by open source developer Vipul Ved Prakash and Napster co-founder
Jordan Ritter, and available for free download at the Cloudmark Web
site, SpamNet software enables the user to delete a spam message by
clicking on a toolbar option. The message is then assigned a
signature for inclusion within a filtering data base to keep it from
clogging mailboxes throughout the SpamNet community. "
http://www.cloudmark.com/


TRENDS SECTION

**Wow. You mean standards are important?! This reads like an early
ADL slide.
"The mission of the Open Mobile Alliance is to grow the market
for the entire mobile industry by removing the barriers to global
user adoption and by ensuring seamless application interoperability
while allowing businesses to compete through innovation and
differentiation."
http://www.openmobilealliance.org/

June 17, 2002: Curl Takes Web Apps to Clients By Scot Petersen
A Cambridge, Mass., startup is set to deliver an application
development solution that turns the thin-client model of Web
computing on its head, recalling the day when fat clients ruled the
enterprise.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1803,00.asp

Cisco iQ: THE NEW CLASSROOM: Schools, government agencies, business,
and others seeking to improve learning are migrating online.
They're finding that e-learning, portals, and other tools are
making it possible to teach more effectively and better manage
administrative processes...
http://business.cisco.com/app/tree.taf?asset_id=85775

NEWSGROUPS GET A NEW LIFE:  (Source: PC World.com) Usenet's ranks
swell as surfers discover the ad-free haven and piracy heaven. But
how long will it last?
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=703168

Web Thinkers Warn of Culture Clash: The Internet's potential for
promoting expression and empowering citizens is under threat from
corporate and government policies that clash with the medium's
long-standing culture of openness, some leading Internet thinkers
warned. -The Associated Press
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A205
77-2002Jun20.html?refe

BLENDED TRAINING: PREREQUISITES AND PURPLE MONKEYS: I've been a
learner trained with online prerequisites, a manager trying to
implement blended solutions, and an instructor struggling with less
time to teach more. Below are some insights gained from past failures
and current successes.
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/jun2002/elearn.html

FROM E-LEARNING FAILURE TO E-LEARNING REDEMPTION: It's easy to spot
e-learning courses that don't measure up to current standards.
These products are a black eye to the e-learning industry which is
already struggling for credibility and resources. But all is not
lost; bad e-learning can be redeemed.
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/jun2002/mayberry.html

Facing the Music: Rock stars and music-industry execs once ruled the
earth, but now -- in terms of size and profit margins -- the music
industry is becoming the book business (minus the literacy). BY
MICHAEL WOLFF
http://www.nymag.com/page.cfm?page_id=6099


EMERGING TECH SECTION

IBM'S NANOTECH PUNCH CARDS HIT TERABIT DENSITY: (Source: IDG.net) A
new nanotechnology take on the old punch-card storage system has
enabled IBM researchers to demonstrate a breakthrough in data storage
capacity.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=699931

MIT PROJECT SHOWS FUTURE INTERFACE TECHNOLOGIES: (Source:
InfoWorld.com) Project Oxygen aims to add human touch to technology.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=703309

First Look: A Heavy-Hitting PDA/Phone Combo: Yes, it's a bit
brick-like, but once you flip open the Nokia 9290 Communicator
phone/PDA you realize  the need for its unique size and shape. In
fact,  it's so packed with features that you could make it your sole
mobile device. Still, it is over half a pound, is not exactly
inconspicuous in a pocket, and can be a tad, well,  complicated to
use. Find out why this unit rated a three out of five in our First
Look.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eQvT0DPscz0EvR0oHq0Ad


SECURITY SECTION

USERS QUESTION JPEG VIRUS, MCAFEE STANDS FIRM: (Source: IDG.net)
Users and antivirus vendors are questioning the seriousness of a
virus announced last week by McAfee Security, as well as the manner
in which McAfee doled out details about the virus.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=703308


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

The International Journal of Educational Technology (IJET) is an
online journal published twice a year and co-sponsored by the
University of Illinois and the University of Western Australia.
http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu/ijet/

Jailed Man Removes Disputed Site (Politics Thursday):  A Seattle man
jailed for 111 days in a free-speech standoff with a judge takes down
his website but vows to continue his fight in court.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53392,00.html/wn_ascii

With GPS, World Is Your Canvas (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT):  Have you
seen the Port Meadow Spider? The Brighton Elephant? They're part of
the landscape, if you know how to look. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52989,00.html/wn_ascii

When the Dance Is the Game (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT):  Capacitor, a
San Francisco group of experimental movement artists, combines video
game technology with dance to create a striking performance piece. By
Lisa Delgado.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,53277,00.html/wn_ascii
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"The Technology Almanac 2002
http://www.italmanac.com/
This 16th edition presents a marketplace of companies and their
executives vital to technology companies searching for quality
teaming partners, customers and vendors to expand their business
opportunities.
Published by the Post Newsweek Tech Media, the Almanac is part of a
family of products under the Washington Post Company umbrella. Post
Newsweek Tech Media includes several other publications and trade
shows: Washington Techway, Washington Technology, Government Computer
News, and FOSE. Along with Washington Techway, Tech Almanac is also
allied with Washtech.com.If you would like to have your company
profiled in Tech Almanac, please see Advertise in the 2003
Almanac."

*Note on article links to the Chronicle of Higher Education: If you
see a story that interests you and who's URL look like this
(http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061401u.htm) you might want to
click on it sooner rather than later since after a certain time, the
Chronicle places article into its premium archive – which is
really not a bad deal if you involved in the Higher Ed mkt.
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Syria, Eyeing Advantages of Education, Opens a Virtual University
By DANIEL DEL CASTILLO
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061901t.htm

Ed-Tech Eyes Bigger Than Budgets (Making the Grade Wednesday):  So
many gadgets, so little cash. Educators responsible for spending
dollars earmarked for tech find many options. Katie Dean reports from
the National Educational Technology Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/school/0,1383,53328,00.html/wn_ascii

Teachers Wanna Hold a Handheld (Making the Grade 2:00 a.m. PDT):
Educators look to handhelds, not laptops or desktop PCs, as the way
to achieve a one-to-one ratio of students to computers. Katie Dean
reports from San Antonio, Texas.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/school/0,1383,53329,00.html/wn_ascii

Controversial 'Most Wired' List Will Be Compiled Differently,
Magazine Editors Say By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061801t.htm

Thomson Buys Education Assets From McGraw-Hill (Reuters): Thomson
Corp. said on Wednesday it acquired courseware, technology and
e-learning assets from the lifetime learning division of McGraw-Hill
Cos. .For the full story, go to:
http://rd.yahoo.com/alerts/email/news/*http://stor
y.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020619/wl
_canada_nm/canada_media_thomson_col_1

*How do you feel about your Pocket PC now?
DEVICE GIVES POCKET PC UNIVERSAL CONTROL
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=701296

*Check this out for internal KM projects
GOOGLE SEARCH APPLIANCE GAINS TRACTION: Google on Monday plans to
roll out several new features to its Search Appliance, an integrated
hardware and software device designed for use behind corporate
firewalls.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=701446

FTC declares war on Rambus:'Deception of Standard-Setting
Organization'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/25804.html

Audiogalaxy runs up white flag: Kowtows to RIAA
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25792.html

Conference to Focus on Future of Internet
By Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 19, 2002; Page E05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A779
1-2002Jun18.html?refer

Public Protests NPR Link Policy (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT):  Anyone
linking to NPR's site must get written permission, a policy one
blogger says is borne of 'either cluelessness or evil, and I'd like
to think that the Car Talk and tote bag people aren't evil.' By
Farhad Manjoo.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,53355,00.html/wn_ascii


TRENDS SECTION

Former Administrator Sues U. of Tennessee at Knoxville Over Released
E-Mail Messages By ANDREA L. FOSTER
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061802t.htm

Your E-Mail Message to a Colleague Could Be Tomorrow's Headline:
Public colleges find that open-records laws apply to seemingly
private communication: By ANDREA L. FOSTER
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i41/41a03101.htm

Microsoft Relents on Software- Licensing Terms Objectionable to
Colleges By FLORENCE OLSEN
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061702t.htm

Tailor-Made Distance Programs Benefit Companies and Employees,
Colleges Say By DAN CARNEVALE
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061401u.htm

DOOM III DOMINATES E3 AWARDS: Source: GamePro.com) Id Software's PC
mind-trip snatches up five awards, including Best of Show, leaving
everything else in the dust. Check the complete list inside.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=701908

Schools' Tech Support: Students (Making the Grade 2:00 a.m. PDT):  A
survey reveals that students are providing technical support to their
districts in striking numbers. Teachers aren't too surprised.Katie
Dean reports from San Antonio, Texas.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/school/0,1383,53278,00.html/wn_ascii

The tech success that Ivory built: As the epitome of a traditional,
conservative corporation,Procter & Gamble hardly evokes images of
cutting-edge technology. But the company, which has a 165-year
history has gotten digital religion in a relatively short period. In
a recent interview with CNET News.com, CIO Stephen David discussed
how the company's future is linked inextricably to its use of new
technology.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=f2-OZwTQUwEqlqGgf70Bz0J6OnRmsRR

BIG FIVE LABELS SUED OVER COPY-PROTECTED CDS: (Source: IDG.net)
Heightening the tension surrounding the music industry's efforts to
guard its content in the digital realm, the five major record labels
were hit with a class action lawsuit last week for producing and
distributing CDs with copyright protection controls.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=700812

WHO'S BUYING INTO COPY CONTROLS?: Entertainment industry bolsters
its digital rights testimony with  targeted campaign contributions.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,101988,tk,dn061802X,00.asp

Want to Read This? Ask First (Culture 5:59 a.m. PDT):  So, National
Public Radio wants to control who links to their pages, just as a
Dallas newspaper tried earlier this year. What is this, the Iron
Curtain Wide Web? Commentary by Jon Rochmis.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53358,00.html/wn_ascii

Published in a New York Minute (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT):  Online
techniques and technologies give publishing a new urgency. Also:
Innovative new authors ... shrinking iUniverse ... and more in M.J.
Rose's notebook.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53219,00.html/wn_ascii

NECC 2002 Progam: Research Papers: From the 23rd annual National
Educational Computing Conference (NECC) being held in San Antonio.
http://ccenter.uoregon.edu/conferences/NECC2002/pr
ogram/research_papers.php


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Fromm the US Navy's OTT Spider: Title: Wearable Computers
Resource Type: Technology Area Submitted:  06/19/2002 Summary: A
number of sites describe the introduction and use of wearable
computers.  Click on the title for more information.
URL: http://www.ott.navy.mil/index.cfm?RID=TTE_OT_1000051

SMART ALTERNATIVES TO INTERNET EXPLORER
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=701292

Tablet PCs to get Windows XP beta
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=7f-bnCKIIPbRbOvxJI9zqNdftxHUsRR

ALLTHEWEB.COM CLAIMS TO OUTPACE GOOGLE: (Source: Computerworld)
Search engine AlltheWeb.com claims it has  out-Googled Google by
indexing more Web pages than its rival.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=701442

AT&T to provide satellites for Connexion by Boeing: AT&T and
Connexion by Boeing have signed a deal calling for the broadband
provider to supply satellite links for the aircraft  anufacturer's
in-flight broadband Internet service.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C72106%2C0.html?nlid=PM

*Disappearing Tech *
CNN: Chalkboards slowly erased from schools
While the old-fashioned chalkboard remains a fixture in most U.S.
classrooms, school designers have all but eliminated it. Taking a
page from the business world, they're outfitting most new and
remodeled schools with whiteboards, in some cases installing
high-tech devices that turn them into virtual computer screens.
http://fyi.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/06/02/
vanishing.chalkboards.ap/index.html

Personal Technology: Gadget Mania: The rule--at least in our book--is
that for anything to be labeled a gadget, it *must,* when handled or
looked at by  someone, elicit the word cool. We can say with some
confidence that all 30 of the products in our big portable gadget
roundup qualify. Check out the best in portable security, power, I/O
devices, PDA tools, storage, presentation tools, and more. Plus, in
an extra you won't find anywhere else, we take a look
at some of the things you might wear and tote to carry all this cool
stuff.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eQtc0DPscz0EvR0n3c0AG

PHILIPS SHRINKS CD TO 1.2 INCHES
Blue laser technology supports tiny drive for use in phones, PDAs.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102000,tk,dn061802X,00.asp

Striking a Blow for Chip Tech (Technology 2:00 a.m. PDT):  Using
technology analogous to that of a typewriter, Princeton engineers
develop a method for making chips faster, and perhaps 10
times cheaper, than the current process. By Mark K. Anderson.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53248,00.html/wn_ascii

Toshiba integrates Wi-Fi, but not Bluetooth?: On the bleeding edge of
Pocket PC-based handhelds, the Toshiba e740 boasts Intel's new 400
mhz XScale processor, CF and SD expansion slots, and a built-in Wi-Fi
adapter. So why didn't Toshiba go that one last step and build in
Bluetooth?  After using Wi-Fi on an iPaq, I believe that
Bluetooth--with its sub-WiFi power requirements and its potential for
cable replacement--would have been a better choice.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=40-6PL4IdnrV7xLo0neyhtf0-jPKdRR


SECURITY SECTION

Alert: Frethem worm wants to give you a password: An e-mail promising
to reveal a password is nothing more than a pesky worm. Frethem,
technically known as Frethem.e (w32.frethem.e@mm, also known as
Frethem.d and Frethem.f by some vendors), uses its own SMTP engine to
send e-mail using addresses obtained from infected systems. Mac and
Linux users are not affected. Because Frethem spreads only by e-mail
and does not cause any data damage, this worm rates a 4 on our Virus
Meter.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=de-7tLkQMWGwp0QvjTtTbE2-BxjxsRR



HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Riversoft unleashes mother of all disclaimers: Warning: Reading this
headline may damage your liberty
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/25800.html
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Imagine a world where all digital media technology is controlled by
Congress and Hollywood. Senator Ernest Hollings and a powerful group
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BRITAIN GOES BACK TO SCHOOL: eLearning hasn't quite captured the
imagination of the working public. The survey showed that on-line
learning is the least favourite way of training, with work place
orientated training proving the most popular.
http://www.it-director.com/article.php?id=2930

STRONGER STUDENTS BENEFIT MORE FROM ONLINE COURSE, TEXAS STUDY FINDS:
A study by two psychologists has found that students who have good
general-comprehension skills benefited more from taking a course
online than did students with less ability.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061001u.htm

AN E-LEARNING LESSON: IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED: SmartForce's
aquisition of Skillsoft...Both companies will have to develop a way
to integrate the styles of their courseware, which are quite
different, Meta Group analyst Jennifer Vollmer says. "My clients have
concerns with the formatting of SkillSoft content," Vollmer says.
SkillSoft courses are two hours long, while SmartForce's E3
courseware runs about an hour, she says. Vollmer questions how both
companies will make all formats of their products match so there's
continuity in the product set.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/IWK20020611S0003

E-LEARNING COMPANIES SMARTFORCE, SKILLSOFT COMBINE: SmartForce PLC
and rival SkillSoft Corp. said on Monday they would combine in a
stock deal to become a stronger maker of electronic learning products.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/10/020610hnelearn.xml

CREATING LEARNING OBJECTS WITH MACROMEDIA FLASH MX: Learn to use
Macromedia Flash MX to design, develop, and share Learning Object
files, movie clips, and other components with this whitepaper and its
companion assets.
http://www.macromedia.com/resources/elearning/

PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO: Since its first
experiments with instructional video in 1995, Duquesne University has
gained significant experience in producing and delivering video for
multimedia, video conferencing, and Web-based courses. Here, three
campus technology leaders examine the evolution of instructional
video at Duquesne and explain how a collaborative planning process is
shaping its future.
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6394

CULTURAL ADAPTATION - A NECESSITY FOR E-LEARNING: Despite
e-learning's promise of global, scalable business benefits, it
appears that the spread of e-learning around the world is patchy. We
know from experience that learning activities must adapt to different
cultures, yet there is little evidence that the current producers of
e-learning are taking this into account. We examine current best
practice and suggest that e-learning will only fulfill its promise if
it truly embraces cultural adaptation.
http://www.learningbites.net/learningbites/main%20feature1a.htm

ONLINE EDUCATION'S DRAWBACKS INCLUDE MISUNDERSTOOD E-MAIL MESSAGES,
PANELISTS SAY: E-mail makes it easier than ever for professors and
students to communicate -- and, unfortunately, to miscommunicate.
Some distance-education professors say they are surprised at how
often students misinterpret messages online.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061101u.htm

FINAL ANALYSIS: Any time a new technology makes its debut, the
excitement and enthusiasm it generates attracts the interest of both
the media and end users. Little thought is given as to whether it
actually delivers results, let alone provides a return on investment
(ROI). That's because in the beginning people get caught up in the
possibilities and the "gee-whiz" features.
-- How AT&T adapted Kirkpatrick's evaluation tools to e-learning then
applied the same rigor to selecting vendors.
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=21253

Guardian Unlimited: UNIVERSITIES LEARN THE LEXICON OF BUSINESS: "The
sort of market needed for e-learning means that a lot of institutions
are going to look at whether they are the right size and have the
critical mass. I expect to see at least a 10% reduction in the number
of universities over this decade."
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,727011,00.html

WIRED: BLOGGING GOES LEGIT, SORT OF: Teachers at every level from
elementary school to MBA are trying to bring blogs into their
classrooms. They're finding the most success when they use the blog
as a "classroom management tool" --- a way to broadcast homework
assignments, keep parents informed, and provide links to research
materials...
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,52992,00.html

BLENDED BASICS: Determining the right blend of technology-delivered
and classroom-based learning is almost like perfecting a recipe.
Because so much training still takes place in the classroom, many
trainers suffer from a lack of vision as to how they might
incorporate technology-based lessons into their stand-up courses.
Also, trainers must get past thinking that technology-based training
sacrifices basic learner needs, such as being mentored by an
instructor and interacting with peers.
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=21258

MEASURE THE METRICS: Training managers and executives understand that
if there isn't a business strategy behind an e-learning program, it
is bound to fail. And if you don't measure business effectiveness,
you're offering the learning equivalent of junk mail-lots of stuff
that may or may not have an impact.
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=21256

AN E-LEARNING PLAYER ON THE FUNDING GAME: When Alec Hudnut and his
partner, Tom Geniesse, decided to start a business in what would
eventually be called e-learning--education and training online--they
had marvelous dreams and a little financial backing.
http://news.com.com/2009-1017-933826.html?tag=fd_nc_1

CONTENT, TECH INDUSTRIES DEBATE DIGITAL COPY PROTECTION: The raging
debate over digital copy protection is playing out in Hollywood,
Silicon Valley and, most recently, Washington, D.C.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=698756

MORE THAN JUST TRAINING: Some colleges and universities are reaching
niche markets by creating tailor-made distance- education programs
for employees in specific industries. The colleges have put the
programs online so the employees can work while pursuing their
education. (6/14/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061401u.htm

DOT.EDU CLONE
Leaders of an Educause project designed to build up the high-tech
capacities of minority-serving institutions say they are looking for
colleges to operate distance-learning facilities that other
minority-serving institutions could use. (6/12/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061201u.htm

Bank Saves More Than $1 Million in One Month
WALTHAM, Mass., May 20th, 2002 -- X.HLP Inc. announced that Den
norske Bank (part of the DnB Group), Norway's largest financial
institution, saved more than $1 million within the first month of
implementing the X.HLP Adaptive Learning Platform
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=21308

Online Learning = Learner Satisfaction
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 22, 2002 -- Eighty-nine percent of learners
who are currently taking online-only coursework in higher education
are satisfied or very satisfied with their educational experience,
according to a survey . . .
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=21320


TRENDS SECTION

World - 40m Americans use file-swapping sites: Young Americans are
leading the P2P pack, as about 80% of 12_24 year olds have used
file-sharing sites to download music or MP3s.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=10959

IBM HINTS AT TAKING WI-FI ACCESS NATIONAL: IBM and others are
beginning to talk about the creation of a single, virtual wireless
LAN with seamless coverage across North America.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=698748

EU PUSHES PUBLIC SECTOR ONLINE: (Source: ITworld.com) The European
Commission has just raised the bar for all national and regional
public sector services, arguing at the end of May that its initial
target of getting all schools online has largely been met.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=698749

INSIDE INFORMATION: Knowledge management—what a crock. Nobody in
business needs to manage knowledge for its own sake. We have enough
to manage already, thanks: projects, deadlines, clients, employees,
quarterly earnings, and so on. There are stacks of books and too many
million-dollar software programs designed to help companies dive into
knowledge management. But all any business really wants to do—and
this is harder than it sounds—is deliver information to workers
when they need it to do their jobs.
http://www.smartbusinessmag.com/article/0,3658,s%2
53D103%2526a%253D26585,00.asp

THE CULT OF COMMUNITY: Sell more stuff, get free R&D, and cut support
costs. All you have to do is turn your customers into corporate
groupies.
http://www.smartbusinessmag.com/article/0,3658,s%2
53D103%2526a%253D26652,00.asp

Business2.0: INSIDE THE (TWISTED) MIND OF THE AVERAGE CONSUMER:
Ariely is one of a new generation of researchers shaking up classical
economics by challenging some of its bedrock principles -- that
people act rationally and in their own best interest, and that they
know what goods and services are worth to them. In other words,
principles on which billion-dollar business decisions are based every
day.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40428,FF.html

e-JIST: RESEARCH IN ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY: Online learning
community has been considered as one of the most important learning
concepts in technology-based instructions. Yet online learning
community has not been well-defined or well-examined. The social
learning process has been suggested as the fundamental factor to
examine in an online learning community to ensure online participants
and the community will grow and evolve in terms of their knowledge
acquisition. Four basic elements and four theoretical constructs in
online learning community suggest an ideal theoretical framework for
future research. The purpose of this paper is to examine current
literature and current research concerning online learning community,
to discuss the impacts of online learning communities on human
learning, and to propose a theoretical construct for future
development of online learning communities.
http://www.usq.edu.au/electpub/e-jist/docs/html2002/chtu_frame.html

UNIVERSITIES LEARN THE LEXICON OF BUSINESS: The talk in the common
rooms and quads of British universities is of cross-border alliances,
mergers, new global brands and public private partnerships. The
lexicon of the business world has well and truly entered academe, and
it is likely fundamentally to change the way knowledge is delivered.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,727011,00.html

Dissecting the Data on Digital Music Downloaders : Ipsos-Reid reports
that 19% of people in the US age 12 and up have downloaded digital
music files, which represents 41.5 million people.
http://www.emarketer.com/estatnews/estats/edemogra
phics/20020614_ipsos.html?ref=ed

EXEC TOUTS SEMANTIC WEB: The Semantic Web, a concept in which
documents and data are
composed with precise XML descriptors for Web deployment, has been
misunderstood but offers promise for improving Web-based
communications.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=698430


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Germany - Researchers create XML database for PDAs: Scientists from
the Fraunhofer institute IPSI say they have developed the world_s
fastest XML database software written in Java.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=10955

SCIENTISTS HATCH QUANTUM-COMPUTER BUILDING BLOCKS: Science merged
with science fiction Thursday as the National Institute of Standards
and Technology announced it has successfully paired the first ion
traps, creating the building blocks for quantum computing.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=698752

VIRTUALLY HUMAN: (Source: Computerworld) Scientists are hoping to
build, organ by organ, a virtual human being. Its body would be
distributed over a wide area but would work as a single being.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=698833

FUTURE GEAR: NEW ULTRAPORTABLE PCS: (Source: PC World.com) Forget
PDAs. Soon you'll be able to put a full-fledged PC in your pocket.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=699148

AIR FORCE USES TABLET PCS TO DIRECT AFGHANISTAN AIRSTRIKES: Source:
Computerworld) The Air Force has deployed 20 tablet PCs to F-15
aircrews operating in Afghanistan in a rush development program to
provide smart targeting and navigation to crews of older aircraft.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=699112

Your Technology Future, According to Bill: In his 2002 CEO Summit
last month, Bill Gates took to task his own industry, the software
manufacturers, for not offering simpler, more intelligent products.
He also continued to champion the still not-yet-widely-popular tablet
PC form factor.
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eQoM0DPscz0FBc0nzN0A4

JAPANESE PC MAKERS ANNOUNCE SUPPORT FOR TABLET PC: (Source: IDG.net)
Two Japanese personal computer makers have added their names to the
list of companies supporting Microsoft's Tablet PC system.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=699115


SECURITY SECTION

KAZAA USERS UNWITTINGLY SHARE PRIVATE FILES: (Source: IDG.net) Users
of the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing network are unwittingly
trading private files due to the confusing and somewhat misleading
nature of the software's user interface.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=698750

MCAFEE: NEW VIRUS IS FIRST TO INFECT IMAGE FILES: (Source: IDG.net) A
new virus can infect image files, meaning that it could be spread
through Web sites containing infected image files, and force
antivirus companies to re-engineer their products.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=698834

Virus Defense Gets Fortified: NAI and Symantec have developed
automated signature-delivery
technologies that they say should help head off the outbreak of
fast-moving viruses such as Klez and Nimda. To read the story, click
here:
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eQer0DShie0DSr0nrz0AF


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Contributed by The Business Reader -- Capsule reviews of the best new
business books in May 2002.
http://www.emarketer.com/analysis/ebusiness/bizbookreview.html?ref=ed

TOM'S CRUISER: In "Minority Report", Tom Cruise rides around in a
Lexus from the future.
What technology is realistic, and what's pure Hollywood?
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/article/0,12543,260875,00.html

Scenes From a 'Weird' Tech Fest (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT):  The
'Festival of Inappropriate Technologies' brings together geeks of all
colors, from physicist Freeman Dyson to techno DJs to singing robotic
birds. Karlin Lillington reports from London.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52814,00.html/wn_ascii
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eLearn Magazine: WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN A LEARNING CONTENT MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM To begin with, evaluating enterprise-class applications is
inherently hard. Even the IT professionals aren't always very good at
it. To make matters worse, the tools are constantly evolving and
previously distinct software categories are merging as vendors rush
to cram every feature imaginable into their offerings in an effort to
stand out in the crowd. This article is my attempt to help you sort
through at least some of the noise by helping you to answer one
important question: What do you really need?
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?sect
ion=4&list_item=4&page=1

ASPNews: E-LEARNING EVOLVES TO ASP MODEL: In what's amounting to a
natural evolution, many of the companies that provide e-learning
services to corporations are turning to the ASP model to deliver
their offerings. Is there something intrinsic to e-learning that
makes it better-suited to the ASP delivery model, or is there
something about the users of e-learning that makes the ASP model
particularly attractive to them? In other words, why do e-learning
and ASP work well together?
http://www.aspnews.com/trends/article/0,2350,9921_1159611,00.html

Hollywood vs. High-Tech: Disney's Michael Eisner and others say
Hollywood will defend its intellectual property at all costs. Silicon
Valley eminences like Andy Grove say those are fightin' words -- if
it means trampling consumers' rights and squashing innovation. By
James Lardner, May 2002 Issue
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,39428,FF.html

Technophobia Over the Years: Historically, the courts have refused to
let copyrights block technology. By Matthew Maier, May 2002 Issue
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,39436,FF.html

FBI wants to track your Web trail: It's no secret that people's
digital trails provide stunning insights into their beliefs and
habits. Now the Senate is looking into giving the FBI new license to
mine publicly available databases and monitor Web use. Backers
describe such reform as a long overdue end to restrictions that have
hobbled investigators. Civil liberties advocates warn of a return to
the days when investigators compiled dossiers on innocent American
citizens based on their religious and political practices.
Necessary tool or throwback?
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=94-rOwNQaIRDZfA6BoJvrrE8_Rtn9RR

Air Force tracks warfighters' knowledge: The Air Force Information
Warfare Center has started using a learning management system from
Plateau Systems Ltd. to account for all its personnel's knowledge.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0527/web-afiwc-05-29-02.asp

Maine Laptop Funding Threatened: Maine's fledgling program to provide
laptops to students throughout the state is getting rave reviews, but
its funding is being eyed by shortfall-strapped groups. By Katie Dean.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,52743,00.html

The Penguin Continues Its March: The United States as well as
governments all over the world is adopting Linux as the open- source
operating system of choice.
http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,52863,00.html

The War in All its Online Glory: Commanders exchange information chat
rooms, generals pore over positions on instantly updated maps,
intelligence is posted on secure pages: yes, the war in Afghanistan
is being conducted online.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html

*A little under the radar but relevant.. "Cut-and-Paste Can Be
Sticky": MICHAEL S. OVERING Does copying another site's ideas
constitute copyright infringement?  A caution to anyone who thinks
that even paraphrasing another site is acceptable.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/law/1022721486.php

ONLINE LANGUAGE CLASSES: Iowa's three state universities -- Iowa
State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of
Northern Iowa -- have formed a partnership to jointly teach Eastern
European languages and culture via an Internet-based
videoconferencing system. (6/3/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002060301u.htm


TRENDS SECTION

Whose laws rule on the Wild Wild Web?
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=1b-wAdhI3N_z0Jm9rGQ2TqK4FoTRdRR

Knowledge Management: It Takes a Community: Communities of practice
are the latest technique for getting employees to share what they
know. Here, excerpted from "Cultivating Communities of Practice," are
seven ways to encourage them in your company.
http://www.cio.com/archive/051502/excerpt.html

Games People Play: Many Americans and Europeans are avoiding the 'all
work and no play' syndrome by devoting time to computer and video
gaming.
http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/applications/art
icle/0,,1301_1152221,00.html

Origin of Species: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love life
as a machine. By Christopher Locke
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/view.html?pg=2

Eight Technologies That Will Change the World: What happens when
today's tech trends begin to intersect and feed off one another?
They'll spawn new fields of knowledge that will transform everything.
By Brad Wieners, June 2002 Issue
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40435,FF.html

At 92, Peter Drucker Is Still a Must-Read: By Mickey Butts, June 2002
Issue
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40549,FF.html

Untangling the Future: Technologies never move in straight lines.
They wander. They cross-pollinate. And they create opportunities
you'd never expect. By Paul Saffo, June 2002 Issue
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40434,FF.html

Cyberspace is the latest frontier to attract the attention of
mapmakers. Why is it so important for us to know what the Web looks
like?
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/040102/charting.html

EU - European Commission unveils new 'eEurope' plan: By 2005, Europe
should have modern e-government and e-health services and widespread
broadband access at competitive prices, the European Commission said.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=10736

Blogging Goes Legit, Sort Of (Making the Grade 2:00 a.m. PDT):
Blogging, a latter-day home page for some and a place to pretend
you're a journalist for others, is now part of a major university's
J- school curriculum. By Noah Shachtman.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/school/0,1383,52992,00.html/wn_ascii

Scientific American: 2002 WEB AWARDS: In this, our second annual
Scientific American.com Sci/Tech Web Awards, the editors have again
done the work of sifting through the virtual piles of pages to find
the top sites for your browsing pleasure. We've selected an eclectic
mix of 50 sites--five sites in each of 10 subject categories. The
sites run the gamut from the serious and information-packed to the
more whimsical, and even playful, sides of science and technology.
http://www.sciam.com/explorations/2002/060302webawards/


EMERGING TECH SECTION

BLUETOOTH VS. WIFI: WHY IT'S NOT A DEATH MATCH: Two wireless
networking technologies--Bluetooth and WiFi (aka 802.11b)--are now on
the market. Are they competitors? Or are they complementary? I think
the answer is: both!
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=a2-6-07QXZuFgNTYpD9CattDfD5gdRR

Do-It-Yourself Wi-Fi: How to build a high-speed wireless home network
of your own. By Owen Thomas, May 2002 Issue
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,39276,FF.html

When you realize how much you spend on storage, you'll want to find
out how to manage it better.
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/040102/squirrels.html

Open-source group unleashes Mozilla 1.0: Open-source development
group Mozilla.org finally unleashed its long-awaited Mozilla 1.0
browser suite today after four years of toil and testing.
http://computerworld.com/developmenttopics/website
mgmt/story/0%2C10801%2C71718%2C00.html?nlid=PM

Data Collection: More the Merrier (Technology 2:00 a.m. PDT):  Five
universities put their collective computing heads together in a
project that represents the next step in the advancing field of
distributed computing. By Andy Patrizio.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52909,00.html/wn_ascii

BEST PRODUCTS OF 2002: (Source: PC World.com) Our gala celebration of
2002's best hardware, software, and sites -- plus a few of the
all-time greats.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=694324

SECURITY SECTION

INSTANT MESSAGING: THE NEXT HACKER TARGET: Just as we're learning to
guard ourselves against e-mail viruses, hackers have found a new
target: instant-messaging apps. How can you protect yourself? Robert
says stop using the usual IM clients--for starters.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=0c-_Y2DIc8hF7xcKVWWkoeT7YvT6RRR

Cypherpunks aim to torpedo RIP key seizure plan: Open source projects
aims to frustrate key seizure scheme
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25499.html

Alert: Plug the Gopher hole in Internet Explorer: Before there was
the World Wide Web, there were older Internet protocols that found
and displayed files. One of them is Gopher. A security company is
reporting that malicious users can hijack this protocol to send rogue
code to your PC via Internet Explorer. Since there's no patch yet
available from Microsoft, you may want to create this simple
workaround to protect yourself from the Gopher hole recently found in
Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=0b-0NK-INQSMZl2DaTGftJMCt8x6sRR

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business: In a perfect world, a list like
this would not exist. In a perfect world, businesses would be run
with the utmost integrity and competence. But ours is, alas, an
imperfect world, and if we must live in one where Enron, Geraldo
Rivera, and Cottonelle Fresh Rollwipes exist, the least we can do is
catalog the absurdities. By Tim Carvell, Adam Horowitz, Thomas Mucha,
April 2002 Issue
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,38604,00.html

Inside the (Twisted) Mind of the Average Consumer:Classic economics
assumes that people always act rationally when it comes to money.
Behavioral economists like Dan Ariely are proving that the truth is
much stranger. By Paul Keegan, June 2002 Issue
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40428,FF.html

The Busy Executive's Cultural Briefing: By Business 2.0 Staff, May
2002 Issue
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,39245,FF.html

February 26, 2002: Top 100 [undiscovered] Web Sites By Sean Carroll
http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D25087%2526a%53D22115,00.asp

Norwegian library needs help of cyberlocksmiths: A library in Norway
received a valuable collection, but it's in a database that can't be
cracked because the database author died without writing down his
password.
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/e
ncryption/story/0%2C10801%2C71721%2C00.html?nlid=PM

WEIGHT DEBATE: THE BEST TECH FOR TAKING OFF POUNDS: Blame it on bad
genes or sedentary jobs, but I'm not the only guy around AnchorDesk
with weight issues. Luckily, there's a mini-boom in software and Web
services to help us. Here's my take on a few of the leaders.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=67-PnOkIOEVCnTOOAFWuGelJVvqLsRR

MOBILE COMPUTING TIPS: TAKE A PDA INSTEAD OF A NOTEBOOK: (Source: PC
World.com) Tips and tools that make a handheld device as useful as a
notebook.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaaoDPaaSrhEa9n1Ozb/
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Intellectual Property
Spring 2002



"The first hint Mr. Slippery had that his own True Name might be
known — and, for that matter, known to the Great Enemy — came
with the appearance of two black Lincolns humming up the long dirt
driveway that stretched through the dripping pine forest down to Road
29."
Vernor Vinge, "True Names", 1981

Vernor Vinge,o  n  l  i  n  e    p  r  o  p  h  e  t
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/05/vinge/


I am trying really hard not to turn this into a rant. I really
believe that this is an area that we all need to be more aware of and
that is the goal of this special issue. Two Jefferson quotes leap to
mind:

"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but
the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not
to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
--Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278

"Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do
not understand." --Thomas Jefferson: Opinion on Apportionment Bill,
1792. ME 3:211

So let's hope that the two black Lincolns pulling up in your
driveway are fairly distant, fictionally speaking – but the
specter of someone like Sen. Fritz Hollings showing up in the
manufacture of your next computer is almost as scary and a great deal
closer (see sites on CBDTPA). I want to make something clear up front
– I am not advocating some kind of totally free state on the
Internet, nor am I saying that people/companies should not receive
compensation for work to which they own the rights. I AM saying that
reason must prevail and that all of us need to adjust to the new
realities of our world. A good friend of mine tells the story of how
none of the companies that made ice for iceboxes at the start of the
20th century made the jump into producing refrigerators. Why? They
confused their activity with their value. They thought they sold ice
and their customers thought they were buying the ability to keep
lettuce fresh and beer cold. Content producers need to think about
that one.

So, what follows is a listing, a directed listing, focusing on
resources, Web sites, etc. that hopefully you can use to become
better informed on the current and emerging state of copyright and
intellectual property specifically as it relates to those principles
operating in cyberspace. Lists like this are by nature incomplete and
also instantly out-of-date  - so please if I have excluded your
favorite resource or site, just let me know.

Mark Oehlert, Editor

p.s. Remember that stuff I said about not going on a rant? Well,
strike that. I just cannot read through this stuff without getting a
burning ulcer. Who do these people think they are? This is despicable
and it threatens to turn us (Americans) into that which we despise
most – a closed, repressive society – no, we won't close
thought and expression down with religion – we'll do it under
the banner of commerce. Never mind the fact that during the period of
time when these technologies were coming of age, we were enjoying the
most prosperous single time period in all of American history.

Now here is the real ugly truth…we elected these creeps and we
keep the Hollywood creeps in business by voting with our $$. If we,
the consuming electorate, continue down this apathetic and lethargic
way, then we will get exactly whet we deserve. FAX! WRITE! EMAIL!
CALL your Senators and Reps.!

Another thing – if you came here looking for balanced coverage
– my apologies – but you ain't gonna get it. You can ask
Hollywood and Capital Hill about that – they are one who paint
all of us as crooks before we have committed a crime – read PK
Dick's story "Minority Report" (soon a major motion
picture). In the story, criminals are arrested on the basis of vision
by "precogs", people who can see the future.
Hollywood/Capital Hill goes one better by just convicting everyone up
front. We are all being sentenced to life without parole in copyright
prison because we might make copies of something that may or may not
be copyrighted.

I need a Tums.


Legislation

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf

DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT
This presents Congressional bills, reports, amendments and floor
comments on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (introduced
as H.R. 2281, WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act). A
following section presents similar material on subsequent copyright
legislation related to the DMCA.
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/dmca/

Briefs filed in Eldred v. Ashcroft
The case concerns the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright
Term Extension Act (CTEA) which, following intense lobbying by media
conglomerates such as Disney and Time Warner, was enacted by Congress
in 1998 and extended the term of all existing and future copyrights
by twenty years. Eric Eldred, who maintains a website that gives
readers free access to materials whose copyrights have expired,
challenged the CTEA with the assistance of the Openlaw project of the
Berkman Center. Although Eldred has lost in both the district and
appellate courts, the case has been accepted for review by the
Supreme Court Read a short summary of one of the amicus briefs on
LawMeme:
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/
Read all the briefs:
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/legal.html

Declan McCullagh's – Politech's Archive on the CBDTPA
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=cbdtpa

Sen. Fritz Hollings' Consumer Broadband and Digital Television
Promotion Act
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/

Senator Hollings' Home Page
http://hollings.senate.gov/


Organizations

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: A joint project of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, and University
of San Francisco law school clinics. Do you know your online rights?
Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a
Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about
liability for information that someone else posted to your online
forum? If so, this site is for you.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/

Creative Commons: a non-profit organization founded on the notion
that some people would prefer to share their creative works (and the
power to copy, modify, and distribute their works) instead of
exercising all of the restrictions of copyright law.
http://www.creativecommons.org/

New site to help students, educators find royalty- free works
From eSchool News staff and wire service reports
May 20, 2002
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=3727

Public Knowledge is a public-interest advocacy organization dedicated
to fortifying and defending a vibrant "information commons" - the
shared information resources and cultural assets that we own as a
people.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/

Duke Law School's Intellectual Property Program
http://www.law.duke.edu/ip/

Silent Theft: Lear Center Senior Fellow David Bollier's new book
tells the great untold story of our time: the staggering
privatization of the American commons, including the broadcast
airwaves, the Internet, and the public domain of knowledge and
creativity.
http://www.silenttheft.com/


DigitalConsumer.org
·You buy a CD but can't take it to the gym. The Audio Home
Recording Act legalized our right to copy music for personal use --
for example, making a tape of a CD to use in a Walkman. But new
copyright legislation makes it a crime to extract music from
copy-protected CDs.

·You pay for cable but you aren't allowed to use your VCR. In the
Betamax case, the Supreme Court ruled that making a copy of a TV show
was a legal, non-infringing use of broadcast content. But new HDTV
standards will make it illegal to copy a digital broadcast without
the permission of the TV station.

·You buy a DVD but you can't watch it the way you want to. It
seems obvious that users should have the ability to fast-forward and
rewind movies as they see fit. But new copyright laws threaten that
right: it is a crime to sell a DVD player that would allow a consumer
to fast-forward through the ads at the beginning of a DVD!

·You own an electronic book, but you can't lend it to your son at
college. Your right to lend a physical book is protected by the
"first sale doctrine." This law states that purchasers of copyrighted
works such as music or books have the right to dispose of the works
in any way that they wish: they can sell them, loan them, rent them,
or give them away. But new copyright laws criminalize all of those
activities for digital content such as electronic books.
http://www.digitalconsumer.org/

The Norman Lear Center: A multidisciplinary research and public
policy center exploring implications of the convergence of
entertainment, commerce, and society.
http://entertainment.usc.edu/

Berkeley Center for Law & Technology: to foster beneficial and
ethical advancement of technology by promoting the understanding and
guiding the development of intellectual property and related fields
of law and policy as they intersect with business, science and
technology.
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/

The Consumer Project on Technology
http://www.cptech.org/

The Future of Music Coalition: a not-for-profit collaboration between
members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual
property law communities. The FMC seeks to educate the media,
policymakers, and the public about music / technology issues, while
also bringing together diverse voices in an effort to come up with
creative solutions to some of the challenges in this space. The FMC
also aims to identify and promote innovative business models that
will help musicians and citizens to benefit from new technologies.
http://www.futureofmusic.org/

The Legal Information Institute
http://lii.law.cornell.edu/

the Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School: a
research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study,
and help pioneer its development.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/


Readings

The Right to Read by Richard Stallman
This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of
the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Google finds the hazards of the DMCA By Dave Winer
Special to ZDNet March 25, 2002, 4:20 AM PT
COMMENTARY--One of the hazards of the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, or DMCA, came home Thursday in a decision by the leading search
engine, Google, to ban a site that's critical of the Church of
Scientology. The net effect was that a search for the term
Scientology yielded links only to sites controlled by the church
itself.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-867708.html

Another Punch for Copy Protection By Declan McCullagh
12:00 p.m. March 28, 2002 PST
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51400,00.html

The DMCA Is the Toast of D.C. By Declan McCullagh
2:00 a.m. May 17, 2002 PDT
WASHINGTON -- Champagne was flowing freely in room B-340 of the
Rayburn House office building on Thursday afternoon as scores of
politicos gathered to toast a controversial copyright law.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52602,00.html

Time to rewrite the DMCA By  Rick Boucher (Rick Boucher represents
Virginia's Ninth Congressional District.)
January 29, 2002, 12:00 PM PT
The American public has traditionally enjoyed the ability to make
convenient and incidental copies of copyrighted works without
obtaining the prior consent of copyright owners. These traditional
"fair use" rights are at the foundation of the receipt and use of
information by the American people. Unfortunately, those rights are
now under attack.
http://news.com.com/2010-1078-825335.html

EFF "Intellectual Property - Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)"
Archive
http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/DMCA

Two depressing views on the state of information security
Tue, 21 May 2002 10:54:16 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03560.html

A Bad, Sad Hollywood Ending? Open-source software could find itself
locked out of a whole industry if the entertainment giants get their
way on copyright protection http://www.businesswee
k.com/technology/content/may
2002/tc20020515_8741.htm

DOW, LOHNES & ALBERTSON
1255 Twenty-Third Street • Washington, D.C. 20037-1194
Telephone (202) 857-2500 • (202) 857-2900
A Primer on Distance Learning and Intellectual Property Issues
Kenneth D. Salomon, Esquire
Dow, Lohnes & Albertson Washington, D.C.
http://www.teletrain.com/copyrigh.htm

Anti-Copy Bill Hits D.C. By Declan McCullagh
2:00 a.m. March 22, 2002 PST
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51245,00.html

WHY NAPSTER IS THE GOOD GUY (AND THE RIAA IS NOT):  Why does Napster
have such a bad rap? It's the record companies that are ruining the
music business, says guest columnist Steve Case. File-sharing sites
are just the latest stage in the ongoing evolution of music
distribution.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=88-ecGPQQKhbqKeSXJ-QTNajV_4U9RR

Music Industry Sues Napster-Like Firm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A758
5-2002May24.html?referer=email

Microsoft 'Barraging' Military: The Pentagon is pressed to drop its
use of free, open-source software. Jonathan Krim
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html

"Fair Use" Is Getting Unfair Treatment
Two recent federal court rulings in Hollywood's favor could undermine
consumers' historical rights to use the content they buy.
MAY 14, 2002, COMMENTARY , By Stephen H. Wildstrom
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may
2002/tc20020514_1528.htm

Lawrence Lessig: The "Dinosaurs" Are Taking Over
If the media giants have their way, the Net freedom fighter says,
content will be rigidly controlled and innovation stifled
MAY 13, 2002, SPECIAL REPORT -- THE FUTURE OF E-BUSINESS
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782610.htm

Copyrights -- or Mothballs?
Congress' continual extension of the protection period -- under
publishers' tenacious lobbying -- has all but ended fair use
MARCH 4, 2002, PERSPECTIVE By Heather Green
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar
2002/tc2002034_6498.htm

A "Speed Bump" vs. Music Copying
Master cryptographer -- and code cracker -- Edward Felten says
technology isn't the answer to digital copyright violations
JANUARY 9, 2002, NEWSMAKER Q&A
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2002/nf2002019_7170.htm

Ted Waitt: Defender of downloads By  Charles Cooper
Special to ZDNet News
May 29, 2002, 8:00 AM PT
If he finds himself dining at Spago anytime soon, Gateway CEO Ted
Waitt isn't likely to receive any bear hugs from the Hollywood moguls
who favor this perennial Los Angeles hot spot.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-927533.html

But who are the real pirates?
Alex Cox, Monday May 27, 2002, The Guardian
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,722669,00.html

On May 21, 2002, the Librarian of Congress, based upon the
recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, issued an Order
rejecting the Panel's determination proposing rates and terms for
these licenses. In such cases, the law provides that the Librarian
shall issue his final determination within 30 days of his decision to
reject the Panel's proposed rates and terms. The final determination
is due on June 20, 2002.
http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting-rates-order.html

On February 20, 2002, the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP)
reported its determination to the Librarian of Congress in the
above-captioned proceeding. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 802(f), the
Librarian is given 90 days from date of delivery of a CARP report to
review the determination and issue a decision setting forth the final
royalty fee and terms of payment. However, if the Librarian rejects
the CARP's determination, section 802(f) provides an additional 30
days for the Librarian to render his final determination. The
Register of Copyrights recommends, and the Librarian agrees, that the
CARP's determination must be rejected. A final decision will be
issued no later than June 20, 2002.

Webcast Royalty Plan Rejected By Kevin Featherly
Tuesday, May 21, 2002; 12:20 PM
Librarian of Congress James Billington today rejected a proposal that
would force Internet radio stations to compensate musicians and
labels for the songs they broadcast, a plan that many Webcasters said
would drive them out of business
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50778-2002May21.html

Media firms look to number CDs, DVDs
By Matt Loney , Special to ZDNet News May 28, 2002, 8:40 AM PT
Every CD or DVD disc manufactured in the European Union would have to
carry a unique code if proposals by media representation groups are
adopted in the EU Enforcement Directive.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-923314.html

Cypherpunks aim to torpedo RIP key seizure plan: Open source projects
aims to frustrate key seizure scheme
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25499.html

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Microsoft 'Barraging' Military: The Pentagon is pressed to drop its
use of free, open-source software. Jonathan Krim
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html

'TANTALIZINGLY CLOSE'
Last fall, the three providers of learning- management software with
the most customers -- Blackboard Inc., eCollege, and WebCT Inc.--
predicted they would be profitable sometime this year. But they
haven't gotten there yet. (5/23/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002052301u.htm

Update to SCORM Conformance Self-Test released
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020524142402

Blackboard to adopt OKI specifications
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020521130358

Pocket PC a "dangerous" competitor: Palm's interim CEO outlines his
company's plans for businesses and explains why he is looking over
his shoulder at Microsoft.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=23-sFrGINMQKws1nOai3zjRtcn9jsRR

GovExec: Central e-learning site for federal workers takes shape
The Transportation Virtual University site will be recast as the
National Learning Center, and will offer a host of courses to federal
workers. These will include mandatory training in such areas as
ethics and sexual harassment; managerial training in such topics as
interviewing techniques; and computer courses in such areas as
database management and Web development.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0502/051602b1.htm

U.S ARMY LICENSES EPIC GAMES' UNREAL ENGINE FOR PC GAME
Raleigh, NC, May 21, 2002 - Epic Games announces its industry-leading
'Unreal Engine*', has been licensed by the U.S. Army to power the
revolutionary "America's Army" PC game. The game and game details
will be revealed to the computer and video games industry at the
upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo from May 22-25 in Los Angeles
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?show=365

Who said that? Metadata, trust, and the Semantic Web:A new paper from
researchers in Stockholm looks to the future of metadata in
eLearning, and in particular the next-generation Semantic Web
proposed by Tim Berners-Lee and others. But to get there we need to
past some of our preconceptions about metadata - like the idea that
learning object metadata can ever be objective.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020514171444

Army Turns to Computer Games to Woo Recruits
http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=R
T0IKZK1PT4VGCRBAEZSFFAKEEATIIWD?type=technologynews&StoryID=998165

U.S. Army invades video game territory Posted on Thu, May. 23, 2002
By Anthony Breznican, Associated Press:LOS ANGELES - Uncle Sam is
going digital to attract new military recruits as the U.S. Army
unveiled two new computer games Wednesday that simulate life as a
soldier in combat and basic training. The military has supplied
advice to video-game makers for other titles over the years, but
``America's Army, the Official U.S. Army Game'' is the military
division's first foray into creating games itself. The PC software
consists of two separate titles, ``Soldiers,'' a role-playing
character-builder akin to the popular ``real life'' simulator ``The
Sims,'' and ``Operations,'' a first-person shooter game that takes
the player on missions to attack enemies.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3320345.htm

Army gives new meaning to war games — on a PC By Marc Saltzman,
special for USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2002/5/22/army-game.htm

A Chance to Be All That You Can Be -- In a Virtual Army
Game Lets Civilians Play Soldier By Jeff Adler
Special to The Washington Post Thursday, May 23, 2002; Page A31
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60462-2002May22.html

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Scott Wilson, CETIS staff, June 25, 2002
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/events/event-items/20020524105807

ADLNet now offers a French translation of the SCORM 1.2 documents
titled SCORM_1.2_doc_French.zip. ADLNet is not responsible for any
translation problems. Question or comments should be directed to LCdr
Roger St-Pierre, Canadian Department of National Defense.
http://adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=scormdown

INSIDERS SLAM NAVY INTRANET: (Source: Computerworld) As Navy IT
managers voiced concerns about mismanagement of the massive N/MCI
intranet project, the project's director last week ordered the
installation of more than 20,500 outsourced seats by June 30.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaanvVaaSiVHa9ndSPb/


TRENDS SECTION

THE 24-HOUR PROFESSOR: Online courses have redefined the relationship
between faculty members and their students and have turned the notion
of office hours on its head. Lee M. Grenci (above), a meteorology
instructor at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, often
is online by 4:30 a.m. (5/28/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i38/38a03101.htm

Younger Generation Embraces Third Generation Technology
29 May 2002: A recent survey of internet users and mobile phone
owners in 30 countries around the world, from Taylor Nelson Sofres
(TNS) finds that 25% of consumers in the US, 26% in Eastern Europe
and 22% in Western Europe possess a "high" interest level in 3G
applications. In fact, TNS determined that the age group in each
region with the greatest amount of consumers with a high level of
interest in 3G is the under 25 age group.
http://www.emarketer.com/estatnews/estats/wireless
/20020529_tns.html?ref=ed

TEACHING TO STANDARDS
Most teachers are eager to incorporate technology into their courses,
but fewer know how to use it well, says the creator of an online
course from Harvard University. In the course, she hopes to train
educators to use a wide range of technologies, but to do so with
curricular goals in mind. (5/24/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002052401u.htm

SEVEN WAYS TO ENCOURAGE COMMUNITY IN YOUR COMPANY: (Source: CIO)
Informal groups known as communities of practice are the latest
technique for getting employees to share what they know.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaanvVaaSiVxa9ndSPb/

HOW TO SUCCEED WITH DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES: (Source: Computerworld)
Good companies don't fail because of radical new technologies. They
fail because of the companies' reactions to those new ideas.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaanvVaaSiVJa9ndSPb/

Gamers Don't Mess Around: An NPD Group survey reveals that computer
and video game players stick with their hobby for the long haul. And
they made game sales top $6 billion last year.
http://www.emarketer.com/estatnews/estats/edemogra
phics/20020528_gamers.html?ref=ed

ONLINE GAMES EVOLVE: Electronic Arts drops groundbreaking Majestic,
but takes popular Sim series online.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,101478,tk,dn052802X,00.asp


EMERGING TECH SECTION

HANDSPRING'S TREO 90: WHY THE PRICE ISN'T RIGHT: I thought
Handspring's Treo brand stood for "wireless PDA." Looks like I
thought wrong. The new Treo 90 is a perfectly good standalone
organizer. But is there a future for unconnected handhelds? Not when
they cost this much.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=33-vUNnINj-0EzwsT7ziitAHKYRNdRR

GAMES GET REAL WITH TACTILE TOOLS: (Source: PC World.com) E3
spotlights input devices, from VR gloves to a new-age mouse and other
keyboard alternatives.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaanvVaaSiVFa9ndSPb/

The 'new' HP unveils a range of products
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=d3-GZokQJPSYB8bH03KqnxI2b8okRRR

PDAs make easy pickings for data thieves:  Flaky security hands
crooks bank details and more
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25478.html


SECURITY SECTION

Opera vuln gives up local files:  Time to upgrade
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25459.html

Klez surpasses SirCam in virus stakes
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=12-ja1KIl--Yr9-cb9-B27MbpjyqsRR

PRIVACY BILL CARRIES HIGH IT PRICE: (Source: Computerworld) The
measure could force companies to provide information access.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaanAWaaSjJva9ndSPb/


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Greener Management International: The Journal of Corporate
Environmental Strategy and Practice: A quarterly journal: Published
Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter Greener Management International:
The Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy and Practice (GMI) is
the leading quarterly management journal drawing together strategic
environmental and sustainability issues as they affect organisations
worldwide. Articles are available in PDF format for a fee.  Abstracts
are available in HTML format.
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No..not gone, I've just been VERY busy! Got caught up in finals
there for a week or two, then believe it or not, I had to go to
Hawaii on business! (No, really, it was business…really..never
mind). AND then, Yahoo! goes on the fritz – near as I can tell, I
haven't been able to log into the site for about 3 days now.
Anybody else use Yahoo! mail and have similar problems?

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post but I am hoping that I can just get this newsletter out. Anyway,
just for a heads-up, I will also be sending out shortly a special
issue in intellectual property issues in the cyber-age; believe it or
not, this is one of the most important issues facing citizens of the
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ADL's own Michael Parmentier!!*********************************
WashTech: PENTAGON COMMITMENT HELPS ADVANCE E-LEARNING STANDARD
"The eventual advantage is that we're going to provide a digital
knowledge environment where chunks of knowledge are going to be
shareable and reusable. If they exist somewhere, you will be able to
find them," said the Pentagon's Parmentier. "Eventually we'll have a
world where knowledge flows like water or electricity."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11555-2002May13.html

Arghhhh!!!!
Washington Post: STUDENTS' HISTORY KNOWLEDGE LACKING, TEST FINDS
Nearly six in 10 of the nation's high school seniors lack even a
basic knowledge of American history, a finding virtually unchanged
from seven years earlier, according to results released today from a
widely respected national test.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60096-2002May9.html

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A true loss…………..
Distance Educator: ROBERT GAGNE DIES AT AGE 85
It is with deep sadness that we report the passing of Robert Mills
Gagne, one of the most influential scholars in instructional design.
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NEWS

STANDARDIZING DISTANCE EDUCATION
New technical standards are being developed to allow colleges to
customize distance-learning programs by blending online-learning
software from several companies. But such projects sometimes
encounter opposition from faculty members who fear that the standards
will hamstring their teaching, says Judy Brown (above), executive
director of the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab.
(5/20/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i37/37a03301.htm

LESSIG LEADS COPYRIGHT CRUSADE:  Copyright as we know it is dead and
patents hinder innovation, right?
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaam21aaSd4Ma9n1Ozb/

E-learning Magazine: IS E-LEARNING FLOUNDERING?: Is e-learning as we
know it a failure? According to Forrester Research, 70 percent of
those who start an e-learning course never complete it... As Bill
Horton, author of "Evaluating E-learning" and winner of several
international awards points out, "E-learning doesn't change anything
about how human beings learn." E-learning is failing because the
instructional design principles currently used to develop the
majority of e-learning courses are wrong.
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=18563

eLearn Magazine: HOW HAS THE UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX ONLINE MANAGED TO
ATTRACT SO MANY STUDENTS?: We don't try to replicate what most people
think about in terms of higher education in an online classroom. The
elements of our learning model are a practitioner faculty member, a
working adult student, simply created curriculum, a small-group
process, implicit emphasis on heavy amounts of int
eraction—student-to-student, and student-to-faculty member—a
great deal of collaboration, and a heavy emphasis on practical
application. And almost every single course has a heavy emphasis on
written and oral communication. We believe all those elements provide
the best environment for working adult students.
http://www.elearnmag.org/

OMB TIGHTENS GRIP ON E-GOV PURSE STRINGS: The more important
e-government becomes, the tigher the purse strings for getting it
done. That's the latest word out of OMB, where cross-agency funds
sharing is being pushed even harder than a few months back. Read the
details of this latest trend in today's Government Computer News.
http://www.gcn.com/21_11/news/18670-1.html

E-learning Magazine: A FRANK CONVERSATION AMONG WALL STREET AND
CORPORATE E-LEARNING BUYERS: Given the buying patterns described by
the participants, consolidation is a near-term reality. Companies
worth owning in the content market include those with large libraries
and a dominant market presence. In knowledge infrastructure, those
companies that have distinguished themselves with respect to brand
recognition and product functional-ity should be increasingly
dominant.
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=18577

T&D: MEET THE NEW CHIEF LEARNING OFFICERS:CLO positions are predicted
to grow in number and stature in the near future. A March 2000 report
by the Conference Board found that although only 6 percent of the
companies surveyed had integrated learning functions, 60 percent
planned to extend those programs company-wide within five years. In a
recent ASTD Learning Link online survey, 22 percent of respondents
said their organization has someone who functions as the chief
learning officer.
http://www.astd.org/CMS/templates/index.html?templ
ate_id=1&articleid=27663

DOD CLASS PINPOINTS E-GOV DEFINITION: And what exactly is
e-government? A National Defense University class thinks it has found
the ultimate definitions.
http://www.gcn.com/21_11/manager/18662-1.html

CETIS: WHO SAID THAT? METADATA, TRUST, AND THE SEMANTIC WEB: A new
paper from researchers in Stockholm looks to the future of metadata
in eLearning, and in particular the next-generation Semantic Web
proposed by Tim Berners-Lee and others. But to get there we need to
past some of our preconceptions about metadata - like the idea that
learning object metadata can ever be objective.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020514171444

Secret network wakes up in Kazaa: Paid content will invade the Kazaa
file-swapping network Monday in a major commercial test of a service
that until now has lured millions of people with free music, video
and other digital files. Along with finding search results that point
to unfettered MP3s, Kazaa users will begin to see links to songs for
sale from record labels and advertisements linked to keyword
searches. May 19, 2002, 9:00 PM PT
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-917348.html?tag=dd.ne.dht.nl-sty.0

Electronic-School: THE CONNECTED TEACHER: Convenient, flexible, and
cost-effective, online professional development is helping teachers
meet those changing expectations. Most teachers turn to online
training to learn about technology and how to integrate it into the
curriculum, but more and more are going online to learn teaching
strategies, earn graduate credit, or gain recertification.
http://www.electronic-school.com/2002/01/0102f1.html

Videogames are already big business. Online gaming could make the
industry even bigger.
May 20, 2002
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,40665,FF.html?ref=cnet

CIO: BUILDING A BETTER BATTLESHIP: NAVSEA had to get its 45,000 team
members working around the country to participate in the new KM
system. Given that the Navy's culture emphasizes internal competition
rather than cooperation, instilling the need to share information was
a tough roadblock...
http://www.cio.com/archive/050102/battleship_conte
nt.html?printversion=yes

Training becomes more animated:Public-sector agencies try holding
attention with a program
that adds a little character to presentations.
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0513/web-vox-05-17-02.asp

Learning Circuits: SCENARIO-BASED E-LEARNING: A STEP BEYOND
TRADITIONAL E-LEARNING
Scenario-based learning is similar to the experiential model of
learning. The adherents of experiential learning are fairly adamant
about how people learn. Learning seldom takes place by rote. Learning
occurs because we immerse ourselves in a situation in which we're
forced to perform. We get feedback from our environment and adjust
our behavior. We do this automatically and with such frequency in a
compressed timeframe that we hardly notice we're going through a
learning process.
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/may2002/kindley.html

Information Week: E-LEARNING STRUGGLES TO MAKE THE GRADE: Some of the
stumbling blocks that trip up users of E-learning technologies are
integration and interoperability problems among elements of
E-learning systems; product limitations; inadequate support services;
and vendors' financial woes.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020509S0011

FT.com: EMPLOYEES NEED QUICK AND EFFECT IVE ACCESS TO LEARNING: Two
of the most disturbing pieces of research on the management and
development of people to emerge this year were published by the
110,000-strong Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. The
first, Voices from the Boardroom, suggested that chief executives are
ignorant about human resource management...The second, How do People
Learn?, showed that the rise of e-learning and the heightened
emphasis on knowledge meant organisations needed to know more about
how people actually learn at work. Put the two together and you have
a formula for making your mind turn over the resulting potential for
wasted opportunities.
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020507003036

Educational Technology & Society: SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLES: Theme:
Integrating Technology into Learning and Working
http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/vol_1_2002/v_1_2002.html


TRENDS SECTION

XBOX READY TO HIT THE NET: Microsoft will launch an online gaming
service to boost sales of its console, published report says.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,100143,tk,dn052002X,00.asp

Boxes and Arrows: MOVING FROM FLATLAND TO HYPERSPACE: THE "EVOLUTION
OF A MINDSET" To the human eye, the web is fundamentally a collection
of text,figures, and images viewed a few at a time as pages on a
two-dimensional computer screen. Sometimes I envision it as a net of
text linked together with web pages placed at critical
intersections-the pages functioning much like road signs as they
guide travelers to other web pages, information destinations. When
viewed as a whole, the web's level of complexity is so astounding as
to be inconceivable.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002616.php

HBS Working Knowledge: 'SCREEN LANGUAGE': THE NEW CURRENCY FOR
LEARNING According to John Seely Brown, there is a new kind of
digital divide now and it is the divide between faculty and students.
Faculty, stuck in yesterday's analog world, are confronted with
students who arrive nicely fluent in digital technology and the
virtues of hyperspeed. Students already have a handle on how to
convey their emotional states electronically. It's up to adults to
learn that vernacular, he said. Educators who create programs for
adult learning and distance learning need to apply the vernacular and
deepen and strengthen these new means of communication.
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?i
d=2930&sid=0&pid=0&t=knowledge

WashTech: A VISUAL RATHER THAN VERBAL FUTURE: Control, after all, is
what Shneiderman thinks is still missing from the computing
experience. Computers and the Internet are too darned frustrating, he
says, and the only way to put people back in control is through new
software designs that are more human-centered, chiefly by leveraging
our powerful visual sense.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56499-2002May8.html

  Learning Circuits: LEARNING OBJECT APPROACH IS MAKING INROADS: The
findings from a survey conducted by the Learning on Demand program of
SRI Consulting Business Intelligence, which researches e-learning
trends, in conjunction with Learning Circuits, found substantial
interest in learning object methodologies from training professionals
and others in a wide range of industries.
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2002/may2002/barron.html

Yahoo News!: COMIC BOOKS USED TO TEACH PHYSICS: Kakalios, who has
taught physics at the school since 1988, is entering his second
semester teaching an elective course for freshmen called Science in
Comic Books. Or, as he calls it in his syllabus, "Everything I Know
of Science I Learned From Reading Comic Books."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/
20020509/ap_on_sc/comic_book_physics_1&e=1&ncid

Syllabus: MORE THAN DIGITAL CONTENT: LONG LIVE YOUR COURSE: When MIT
announced that it was providing free access to the materials from all
of its courses, I was immediately called by several reporters all
asking variations of the question: "If MIT is giving away their
courses for free, why would anyone pay for courses from UMassOnline?"
I would ask the reporter if MIT was giving away access to their
classes, their academic credit, their faculty, their students, their
campus, their library, or any other aspect of their educational
environment. The answer was always no. MIT is planning to give away
free access to some or maybe even most of their content. That is all.
Of the entire value chain of higher education, content is the least
valuable part. - May 2002 TOC
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/magazine.
asp?month=5&year=2002


EMERGING TECH SECTION

MOTION COMPUTING TO SHOW TABLET PCS: Tablet PC prototype in
development by veterans of Dell, Apple, Compaq, and Fujitsu.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,100304,tk,dn052002X,00.asp

YOU CAN COUNT ON COOL, NEW GADGETS: As memory cards (in all their
competing formats) grow in capacity,  expect more robust handheld
devices.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,100163,tk,dn052002X,00.asp

OPTICAL DISC HITS 100GB: Taiwanese researchers claim breakthrough
will boost capacity of CDs, DVDs.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,100284,tk,dn052002X,00.asp

IBM PROVES NANOTUBES CAN BEAT SILICON: IBM has improved its carbon
nanotube (CNT) transistors to the point where they can outperform the
most advanced silicon
transistors in prototype today, it said Monday.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaam21aaSd4Na9n1Ozb/

LAB GETS PERSONAL WITH FIVE OF THE LATEST PDAS: Color PDAs--they're
sexy, but do they really do the job mobile government managers need?
See the GCN Lab's eval of the latest handheld computers.
http://www.gcn.com/21_11/reviews/18661-1.html

A Small Blow to Big Blue: With its amazing new pocket-size computer,
San Francisco's OQO gets the jump on IBM.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40364,FF.html?nl=602mag4

New, Less Expensive iPAQ: The new H3830 iPAQ Pocket PC is very
similar to the H3850. Cosmetically, they're indistinguishable, but
the new 3830 retails for $499 whereas the 3850 goes for $599. What
makes the 3830 cheaper? The processor is the same, but the H3830 has
32 Mb of RAM instead of 64 Mb like the 3850.
http://www.compaq.com/products/handhelds/pocketpc/H3830.html


SECURITY SECTION

Altnet wakes up as worm spreads through KaZaA :    Coincidence,
cock-up or conspiracy?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/25365.html

ALTNET OPENS KAZAA'S DOORS TO PAID CONTENT: (Source: IDG.net) If a
new peer-to-peer upstart has its way, users of the popular Kazaa
file-sharing network will soon see secure, copyright-protected
content popping up at the top of their query results.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaam21aaSd4Ca9n1Ozb/

CADETS KEEP NSA CRACKERS AT BAY: Also read about the latest Army-Navy
game. Not football, but an interservice cyberwarfare faceoff that
involved the Marines and Air Force as well. GCN reports who won and
the lessons learned.
http://www.gcn.com/21_11/news/18671-1.html


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

REQUIEM FOR NAPSTER: (Source: PC World.com) Analysis: Outlaw music
site composed new tune for digital music, broadening listeners'
expectations forever.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaam20aaSd3Ba9ndSPb/

Opinion: Hack Your Car: Did you know that most cars built in the last
decade have a host of microprocessors that manage everything from
idling  to safety? Modern automobiles are basically computers on
wheels. So ExtremeTech editor-in-chief Bill Machrone is not too
surprised that people are finally getting around to hacking their
cars' built-in PCs. Read his column to find out just how far some of
these auto programmers have gone.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eQRV0DPscz0EvR0m340Af
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"But under whose care soever a child is put to be taught during
the tender and flexible years of his life, this is certain: it should
be one who thinks Latin and language the least part of education; one
who, knowing how much virtue and a well-tempered soul is to be
preferred to any sort of learning or language, makes it his chief
business to form the mind of his scholars and give that a right
disposition, which if once got, though all the rest should be
neglected, would in due time produce all the rest and which, if it
not be got and settled so as to keep out ill and vicious habit,
languages and sciences and all the other accomplishments of education
will be to no purpose but to make the worse or more dangerous
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New To Me:

National Military Appreciation Month begins today.
http://www.nmam.org/

***Here they come again. People…if you _ever_ want to own a new
computer that can actually make _legal_ use of the content you have
bought and paid for, read this article and jump into this fight!
CONSUMER ALERT: FEDS EYE COPY LOCKS FOR PC GEAR: Congress gets into
copy controls fray as tech firms, Hollywood duke it  out.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,95765,tk,dn050102X,00.asp

SF Gate: NET'S WEBBY AWARDS REFLECT CHANGING TIMES
The Webbys, the self-proclaimed Oscars of the Internet, feature 30
categories, such as activism, commerce, education, fashion and weird.
Web sites are nominated based on criteria such as content,
functionality and overall experience. The panel of judges includes
musician Beck and movie producer Peter Guber.
- Webby Awards: 2002 nominees
http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html

Pocket PC Summit, May 28-31, 2002, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world's first trade show and conference exclusively dedicated to
the Pocket PC storms into the historic Loew's Philadelphia Hotel.
Witness the most cutting-edge Pocket PC products, services and
technologies, including the new Smartphones. Industry networking
party on Thursday, May 30th.

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Blackboard Program Aims to Lure WebCT Clients
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A647
93-2002Apr28.html?referer=email

SAVE INTERNET RADIO! HERE'S WHY--AND HERE'S HOW: In a couple of
weeks, Internet-only radio stations will have to start paying double
the royalties of their over-the-air competitors. That's going to put
the Net radio business OUT of business. Let me explain what we can do
to keep that from happening.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=df-1kzhQLE3x2t3PsIfYf5rJTvNHRRR

WEBCASTERS GO SILENT IN MAY DAY PROTEST: Many online broadcasters
will protest proposed royalty rates with  sounds of silence.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,97823,tk,dn050102X,00.asp

IT Training: HP FINE-TUNES LEARNING PORTAL: Designed to handle the
entire HR, administrative and training functions for more than 90,000
employees around the world, the concept of the portal, known as @hp,
was initially developed by HP's HR division, which was looking
for a way to deliver HR services globally from a centralised location
while also cutting costs.
http://www.train-net.co.uk/news/news_story.asp?NewsID=706

In an interview with James Morrison, Eduprise founder William Graves:
discusses the current state of today's learning economy. Focusing
on the perspectives of four groups of players in the field--students,
instructors, institutions, and policymakers--Graves considers the
impact of technology on these groups, and reflects upon the further
changes in store for higher education.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=989

Chris O'Hagan explores the aims and methods of institutions with
apparent global ambitions to determine how such universities might
influence the trajectory of conventional schools. O'Hagan suggests
that highly selective institutions protective of their elite
reputations may have something to worry about as globalization offers
broader access to educational, intellectual, and economic
opportunities.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=906

Fastrak-consulting: THE END OF THE COURSE AS WE KNOW IT: Two
developments give us some hope that we can meet the challenges of
constant change and individual differences - one is new technology,
the other a new way of thinking. The technology has been around a
while now, in the form of personal computers and networks, and has
made it easier for learners to access courses on a self-study basis
or, with other learners, in virtual classrooms... The new thinking is
more significant and is not necessarily confined to
technology-assisted learning. It is based on a new paradigm, in which
training is no longer offered as ready-made, shrink-wrapped products,
but is instead built to order from a large variety of basic
ingredients. The offering is a personalised learning path. The
ingredients are learning objects.
http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/tactix/Features/theend.htm

George Lorenzo provides an up-to-date overview of eArmyU, a program
in which the U.S. Army has established partnerships with a range of
service providers, technical and managerial support services, and
educational institutions to provide online learning opportunities for
its personnel. For institutions looking ahead to the future of
education, eArmyU represents a promising catalyst for the further
expansion of online learning.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=998

eLearn Magazine: IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME: In compiling this
article both authors reviewed material addressing current practices
in assessing student participation in the online classroom. Careful
attention was given to information related to the construction of
threaded discussions as well as insight into the concerns that a
facilitator may have when determining the value of threaded
discussions within his/her online course.
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?sect
ion=4&list_item=3&page=1

If online courses show higher rates of attrition than traditional
courses, can we conclude that online courses are not as good? David
P. Diaz proposes that drop rates have a crucial relationship with the
typical characteristics and circumstances of online learners--factors
that do not translate into either their quality of learning or their
ability to succeed.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=981

NAVY FLOATS IM WITH ALLIES: (Source: Computerworld) The U.S. Navy
deployed instant messaging technology across its Pacific fleet almost
two years ago. Now, its allies in the war on terrorism have installed
the tool, and they're collaborating on everything from strategy to
medicine using chat software.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaairRaaRqBEa9tT0ib/

1 GHz Chips for Mobile Devices: U.K.-based ARM, developers of the
StrongARM microprocessors used in all current Pocket PC 2002s, has
announced its next generation of ARM chip technology. When
manufactured with imminently available foundry processes, the
architecture will support clock speeds in excess of 1 GHz. The ARM11
microarchitecture will use a new instruction set that has been
developed specifically for mobile and embedded devices, which
includes optimized multimedia and Java support. New chips
incorporating the ARM11 technology are expected to appear before the
end of this year.
http://forums.pdabuzz.net/showthread.php?threadid=37291

DISA to create XML clearinghouse:The Defense Information Systems
Agency will be responsible for creating a Defense Department
Extensible Markup Language clearinghouse, according to a new policy
issued this week.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0422/web-xml-04-26-02.asp

STUDY: KAZAA USE ROCKETS AS MORPHEUS DIVES: (Source: IDG.net) The
size of Kazaa's peer-to-peer file sharing network ballooned by nearly
70 percent over the last two months, while rival file-swapping system
Morpheus, which has recently undergone a platform change, has
experienced a precipitous decline, Redshift Research reported
Wednesday.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaalKFaaR1haa9n1Ozb/

House panel authorizes $73.4 billion military procurement: By George
C. Wilson and Mary Beth Warner, National Journal News Service: The
Military Procurement panel of the House Armed Services Committee
agreed by a unanimous voice vote Tuesday to authorize $73.4 billion
to buy ships, tanks, missiles and planes for the American military in
the coming fiscal year, National Journal News Service reported.
Subcommittee Chairman Curt Weldon, R-Pa., said the total was $3.2
billion more than President Bush had requested, but left unclear how
funds would be redistributed to keep the president's total fiscal
2003 request for the Pentagon within agreed-upon limits.  Armed
Services Chairman Bob Stump, R-Ariz., allowed Weldon and other
subcommittee chairmen to divvy up about $5 billion as they saw fit,
with the procurement panel allotted $3.2 billion. Stump is expected
to explain where the extra money will come from when the full
committee meets to mark up the defense bill today.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0502/050102cdam1.htm

TRENDS SECTION

The days may well be numbered for the course as the essential _unit
of learning_. The typical course is a shrink-wrapped offering where
every learner receives the same training, regardless of the job that
they do or the skills they already possess. As Clive Shepherd
demonstrates is this article, what_s needed is a more targeted
approach in which training is precisely tailored to job and
individual needs. To make this possible we require a new paradigm for
training delivery, one that is based on the intelligent deployment of
learning objects.
http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/tactix/Features/theend.htm

Technology Fear Factor: What do George Gilder, Ray Kurzweil and Jaron
Lanier have in common? They think there are some dangerous
technologies out there. Are we right to be scared?
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/0502/fear.html

Fear: Textbound: Should literacy be defined only as what we might
read in a book? What about on the computer? Some minds at MIT and
Harvard think both. What do you think?
http://www.darwinmag.com/connect/opinion/index.html

Site Barks About Deep Link (Politics 2:00 a.m. PDT):  The Dallas
Morning News demands that BarkingDogs.org stop linking to individual
stories from the newspaper's website and link to the front page only.
The controversy over deep-linking deepens. By Farhad Manjoo.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52213,00.html/wn_ascii

Hot Seat: Leadership Lessons from the Modern Military: Military
leadership methods hold unexpected how-tos for corporate CIOs.
http://www.cio.com/archive/041502/hs_leadership.html

POST 9-11: THE VIEW FROM ABROAD
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaalIeaaR0Pwa9nGBIb/

Can Apple Make the Grade? (Business 2:46 a.m. PDT):  The eMac will
attempt to recapture some of the education market that Apple has
lost. Also: Hynix creditors give the green light to selling company
assets to Micron.... and more.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,52171,00.html/wn_ascii

  Easing the Transition From Military to Civilian Life: Every year,
thousands of people take on one of the most challenging assignments
of their lives -- making the transition from the military
to a civilian job.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A647
87-2002Apr28.html?referer=email

From: eMarketer: 29 April 2002: University Students and Faculty Use
Library Less: According to a 2002 study from the Digital Library
Federation (DLF) and Outsell, Inc., 80% of US college and university
students and faculty believe the internet has changed the manner in
which they use campus libraries. Over 34% of respondents say they use
their schools' libraries less than they did two years ago. DLF and
Outsell surveyed 3,200 students and faculty members at US
universities and liberal arts colleges and also determined that of
the time undergraduate and graduate students spend looking for
research or coursework information, roughly 34% is spent in the
library. Undergraduates spend roughly 50% of their time researching
coursework in their residences. Professors spend roughly 10% of their
time in the library searching for research or teaching information.

EMERGING TECH SECTION

Kamen Gives the Kids a Shot (Making the Grade 8:25 a.m. PDT):  The
prize-winning inventor of the Segway Human Transporter turns it over
to the young 'bot builders as his national robotics competition
celebrates its 10th year. By Michelle Delio.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/school/0,1383,52166,00.html/wn_ascii

HANDHELDS: PDAS FOR TYPISTS: Sony and Sharp launch innovatively
designed personal digital assistants with trendy thumb keyboards.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,95767,tk,dn050102X,00.asp

Programmable Chips: Chips that change function on the fly will mean
more versatile handhelds.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/upstream0502.asp

Will the Web Save Comics?: Critics rave, sales plummet. It's the
Internet to the rescue.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins050102.asp

The Invention Factory: Nathan Myhrvold created Microsoft's research
group and left with a vast fortune. Now he's created his own
organization to keep innovation humming.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/schwartz0502.asp

SECURITY SECTION

STAY ONE STEP AHEAD OF HACKERS. HERE'S HOW :  As malicious
programmers become more sophisticated, they can generate code that
renders today's security tools instantly obsolete. So how can you
protect yourself from these new threats? Wayne has some answers.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=49-ZM9cIEpaf4w_0z2Vcn9OcuotnRRR

  HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

The Most Bizarre MS Update**
Q310510: Recommended Update: This update resolves the "Playback and
Copy-Protection Issues When You Try to Play the Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs DVD Movie" issue in Windows XP and is discussed in
Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q310510. Download now to be
able to play Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Platinum
Collection DVD.
http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/u
pdate/v3/static/RTF/en/5360.htm

WEB RESEARCH MADE EASY: HOW TO FIND AND STORE INFO: Do you spend
hours trolling the Net for information? Are you having trouble
keeping track of all those bits of data? Preston recommends three
tools for locating just about anything online--and then filing it
away for safekeeping.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=5e-ss5dIn0Y96PLdPehw4YGXaajd9RR
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
John F. Kennedy, Speech, May 21, 1963.

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
John Locke (1632-1704), Philosopher. Some Thoughts Concerning
Education, 1693.
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Ever wonder how the EU is addressing e-learning?

"The eLearning initiative of the European Commission seeks to
mobilise the educational and cultural communities, as well as the
economic and social players in Europe, in order to speed up changes
in the education and training systems for Europe's move to a
knowledge-based society."
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NEWS

Compaq iPaqs a Punch
Compaq reports in April 2002 that to-date it sold 2 million iPaqs,
the handheld device that rivals Palm. Compaq notes that in Q4 2001,
iPaq sales generated $160 million in revenue -- up 18% from the
previous year.

Autodesk CTO: Microsoft broke Windows: At the antitrust hearings,
Autodesk's CTO says that by dropping Java, Microsoft itself
fragmented Windows. He also concedes that he complained to the
software company about the move.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=ca-icRuQUg_RLkCyh0c_m2Hg_rhhsRR

WE - Microsoft launches e-book association: Only days after the
Frankfurt eBook Awards shut down because it lost Microsoft funding,
the US software giant announced it would start the International
eBook Association to promote 'policy and industry progress, not
prizes.'
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=10186

United Kingdom - Government launches iTV portal: The launch marks the
first stage of a government project that is expected to see the
majority of the UK government's services available via the web and
iTV by 2005.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=10187

SENATE MEASURE EMBRACES OPT-IN: (Source: Computerworld) The chairman
of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee last week introduced a major
privacy bill that will be the focal point of a contentious debate.
The bill would set a national standard for online privacy.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaalgsaaRV7Za9ndSPb/

JAPANESE PROJECT TO IDENTIFY EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: (Source: IDG.net)
Japan's central government has approved the formation of an emergency
project team that aims to report within a year on ways in which key
sectors of the country's high-tech and other leading industries can
avoid contraction and identify areas in which the country can
successfully create new industries. The project could lead to a much
more active technology transfer system between universities and the
private sector.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaalgoaaRV39a9tT0ib/

GATES ENDS ANTITRUST TESTIMONY: Proposed penalties would cripple
Windows and end marketing discretion,  Microsoft chairman complains.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,96344,tk,dn042402X,00.asp

Rotten Links Hamper Learning (Making the Grade 2:00 a.m. PDT):
Thousands of Web pages disappear regularly despite the ongoing growth
of the Internet. Researchers say 'link rot' is a serious problem that
could hinder online as well as offline courses. By Kendra Mayfield
and Katie Dean.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/school/0,1383,51700,00.html/wn_ascii


TRENDS SECTION

WE - Game firms and ISPs should link up: If game equipment
manufacturers hope to compete with set-top boxes as broadband becomes
more widespread, they'd better start linking up with service
providers, new research says.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=10193

DEBATING THE FUTURE OF PRIVACY TECHNOLOGIES: Experts say we need
legislation to protect consumers, while others  worry about our civil
liberties.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,95463,tk,dn042202X,00.asp

BEHIND-THE-SCENES MVPS:  (Source: CIO) Low-key strivers, those who
transform companies behind the scenes, may be an organization's most
valuable asset.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakYzaaRSYaa9ndSPb/

NetImperative: E-Learning: Still Psyched?: [t]he list of major
organisations that have invested in costly learning technology
independently of content grows. Having made huge capital investments,
they have found that budget restrictions have meant that employees
have been faced with a small number of generic off-the-shelf courses
that have limited relevance and provided limited return. If this
appears to be an attack on off-the-shelf courses - it isn't - there
is some excellent courseware (and some very poor examples too)
available on a range of generic topics, which can provide tangible
returns. The point is that once again, technology has been the
principal consideration and the importance of quality custom content
has been overlooked.
http://www.netimperative.info/cmn/viewdoc.jsp?cat=
all&ct=ft&docid=BEP1_Feature_0000009891

Federal Computer Week: E-LEARNING NO QUICK STUDY: Adequate funding,
ensuring computer security, providing accessibility for employees
with disabilities, overcoming the lack of up-to-date computer
resources in remote offices and the difficulty of gauging results are
some of the biggest challenges facing program managers, the
executives said April 11 at an e-learning conference...
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0422/mgt-learn-04-22-02.asp

*Hey..There's a thought..
Strategy+Business: WHO PROFITS FROM BRAINPOWER?
A healthy firm with a knowledge-based advantage must compensate all
stakeholders, but especially the employees whose intellectual capital
creates and sustains that advantage. Shareholders will realize a fair
rate of return, but key employees may keep the lion's share.
http://www.strategy-business.com/press/article/?art=313326&pg=0

WHY HANDSPRING IS LOSING ITS GRIP: It was once the shining hope of
the handheld market, the company that would make PDAs better for all
of us. But with its market share sliding and its finances suffering,
I have to wonder about Handspring's long-term prospects.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=37-EMpQIqz_Srj1PdWQtBDXU0sn-sRR

Lessons in Failure: A University of Maryland business professor has
received a grant to study and archive the boom and bust of the
dot-com business era.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A400
88-2002Apr24.html?referer=email


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Could digital pen kill off keyboards?: A four-year-old Israeli
start-up has won backing from several major computer and mobile
equipment makers for a digital pen that could provide the long-sought
after alternative to keyboards and mice. The potential breakthrough
from OTM Technologies allows mobile phone and handheld computer users
to gather and edit text from various sources, play games and sketch
drawings—even navigate a screen with mouse-like "point and click"
movements.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=db-rm79QJEIb1NOg31vB8C2sAJbVRRR

INTERACT BRINGS PORTABLE SCREEN TO GAMECUBE: (Source: GamePro.com)
Following up on their portable screens for the PSOne, Interact takes
a bold step and makes one for the GameCube.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaalgpaaRV40a9nkbob/

MICROSOFT SHARPENS VIDEO STRATEGY: (Source: PC World.com) ATI, NVidia
will support high-end Corona video codec in upcoming graphics cards.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaalgpaaRV41a9nkbob/

BOOSTING THE POWER OF NON-PC DEVICES: P2P connections for handhelds
and an Internet-based way to milk a cow  are just two highlights of
upcoming Embedded System Conference.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,87843,tk,dn030802X,00.asp

Wireless handhelds help Pepsi techs go paperless: Pepsi Bottling
Group has just rolled out a wireless handheld computer system to
service technicians. The new system speeds up service calls, helps
dispatchers zero in on a technician's location and eliminates 3
million pieces of paper a year.
http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO70490_NLTPM%2C00.html

What's New in England, MS-Style (Technology 2:00 a.m. PDT):  Far from
Redmond, Microsoft researchers in England tinker with the future,
such as picture-editing tools based on probability theory. Karlin
Lillington reports from Cambridge, England.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,51989,00.html/wn_ascii

SECURITY SECTION

KEEP YOUR FILES SAFE WITH THESE ENCRYPTION TOOLS: Worried someone
might read your confidential files? Then try these three downloads
Preston found. They'll encrypt your data and remove all traces of
deleted files, so roaming eyes can't get at your private info.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=a3-qXh6QYU3CJOeaPYfrQWQvP21gRRR

Virus writers outpace traditional AV:  One in ten 'protected' users
still get the pox
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/24996.html

FTC SLAMS SHUT SPAM SERVICE: Allegations of false offers of
PlayStation prize result in fraud charge.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,96324,tk,dn042402X,00.asp


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

DISASTER! HOW I WOUND UP IN HARD-DRIVE HELL: It started out as a
leisurely maintenance project. But it turned into a desperate
struggle to recover my data. After two days, three utilities, and
some serious bucks, I emerged with some hard-won lessons. Here's what
they are.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=0f-RM3lIqjOtLZ0V7lsZDRfSdpl6dRR

Managing Einsteins and leaderless teams: Book reviews: Authors offer
advice on how to motivate, discipline and lead "Einsteins," how to
lead a "conductor-less" IT team, and tips for rookie project managers.
http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO68648_NLTPM%2C00.html

Milk the Cow, and Udder Fun Games (Games 2:00 a.m. PST):
Macromedia's Flash software enables designers to build elaborate and
sophisticated games. But as one designer proves, simple is sometimes
better ... and addicting. By Farhad Manjoo.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/games/0,2101,50786,00.html/ascii
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e-Clippings  4.22.02 *Extra*
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by
eating it yourself. . . . If you want to know the theory and methods
of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine
knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Founder of the People's Republic of China.
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***Thanks go out to Scott, John and Paul so far for proving to be
great quote detectives – so far the emerging consensus is that
the Plato quote (See e-Clippings of 4.18.02) is awfully hard to
verify but the HG Wells' quote appears to be real – still
looking for a page number though!***Thanks guys!

Today's Refdesk Link of the Day is: Interactive Historical Timelines
This site is a database of people and events from 1000 A.D. to the
present. Create graphic timelines of periods in history and of the
lives of individuals.
http://www.sbrowning.com/whowhatwhen/index.php3

**This is a cool tip, I think…
From: SMART BUSINESS E-LETTER
TIP OF THE DAY:  POWER THROUGH YOUR POWERPOINT EDITS
"The free trick works in any version of PowerPoint. You can have
PowerPoint show you a shrunken quarter-screen-or-so version of your
slide show by holding down Ctrl, then clicking View | Slide Show.
(Unfortunately, even though F5 usually invokes a full-screen slide
show, Ctrl+F5 doesn't work.) The Lilliputian version behaves just
like a regular slide show, except it's smaller. If you click inside
PowerPoint itself while the slide show is under way, to edit your
slides, the show pauses and you get a button onscreen that allows you
to resume where you left off. And changes made to the slides "take"
immediately; you don't need to save the presentation or futz around
with launching the slide show again."
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-The Corporate University Xchange's next benchmarking conference:
Chief Learning Officer 2002: New Strategies for Human Capital
Management, will take place May 5-8, 2002, in Cambridge, Mass. For
more information or to
register, visit http://events.inetevents.com/corpu

June
-The ASTD 2002 International Conference and EXPO is being held June
2-6 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. The
event features three world-class keynote speakers, seven conferen
ces-within-a-conference, 300 educational sessions in 10 education
tracks, attendees from more than 80 countries, and training suppliers
from around the world in the EXPO. For more information, visit ASTD's
new interactive conference site at
http://www.astd.org/astd2002/tour_expo.html

-The Collaborate East Conference & Expo is being held June 25-27,
2002, at The Hynes Center in Boston. The conference is a showcase for
tools that enable organizations to increase profitability, enhance
performance, and accelerate productivity.
http://www.collaboratewebseminars.com/expo

July
- Now in its 3rd annual visit to Dublin, The International e-Learning
Festival presents a unique opportunity for delegates to focus on the
challenges of delivering e-learning across national, cultural, and
political boundaries. The focal point of the Festival will be the
International e-Learning briefing, hosted by Elliott Masie of The
MASIE Center. Supported by a week-long program of briefings, user
groups, and vendor showcases, this intensive two-day briefing is
essential for anyone facing the challenge of launching and
maintaining international level e-learning initiatives. The event
will be held from July 8-10 at The Burlington Hotel in Dublin. For
more information or to register, visit
http://elearningfestival.com/

International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2002)
3-6 December 2002
Auckland, New Zealand
http://icce2002.massey.ac.nz
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NEWS

Army closes Web back door: As part of a larger effort to scour the
Internet of sensitive information, the Army has set up a "proxy
server" on which it can host its Web sites for public viewing without
opening a back door for hackers.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0422/news-army-04-22-02.asp

Tele-immersion: The Virtual Meeting: Listen and watch as scientist
and visionary Jason Lanier (coiner of the phrase "virtual reality")
describes how the newest melding of virtual you-are-there with
videoconferencing might just save you the cost of a lot of business
trips in the future.
http://www2.cio.com/conferences/january2002/lanier.html

Gates takes the stand at remedy hearing: Microsoft Chairman and Chief
Software Architect Bill Gates took the stand today to explain how the
states' remedies in the antitrust case would harm his company.
http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO70385_NLTPM%2C00.html

The April issue of e-learning magazine featuring e-learning champions
is hot off the press but we didn't have room to showcase all the
impressive stories in the industry!
http://www.elearningmag.com/morechampions

Palm-sized device packs PC punch: Startup OQO is showing off a
full-fledged "ultra personal" computer this week at Microsoft's
WinHEC 2002 conference. The computer, slightly thicker but roughly
the same size as handhelds currently available from Palm or
Hewlett-Packard, is powered by a Transmeta Crusoe chip supported by a
10GB hard drive and 256MB of memory. Price? Around $1,000.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=1d-6K_jIGQ_7zGfjDKR_E1QCWAJC9RR

Blackboard Wins Codie Award: April 17, 2002: SIIA award honors
platform solution for delivering e-Education solutions.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article/0,,2101_1011021,00.html

IEEE Backs Off On Copyright Law - (Yahoo!)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=7
3&e=2&cid=73&u=/zd/20020417/tc_zd/5106398

New Samsung PDA Chip: Samsung will put a 400-600MHz ARM10
microprocessor on the market later this year. The new chip, designed
for mobile devices of all kinds, employs SOC (system-on-a-chip)
technology and is said by Samsung to consume half the power of
competing CPUs. Among other features, the new processor will include
USB host/device support, and it will support Windows CE.  If the URL
below is broken into two or more lines, please cut and paste it as
one line into the destination window of your browser:
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test=yes&AdvSearch=no&Keyword=&Brand=&Ind_id=all&C
ompanyName=&ReleaseID=KOR.07.00567.19042002.11937&catType=B2B

Total Telecom: CHINESE KEENER ON E-LEARNING THAN E-COMMERCE
More Chinese are showing interest in using computers at home for
education or work, but online shopping or e-commerce is proving slow
to catch on, according to a recent survey by market research group AC
Nielsen.
http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=50926&
pub=tt&categoryid=828

San Jose Business Journal: HUNDREDS OF JOBS ELIMINATED BY E-LEARNING
COMPANY Redwood City-based e-learning company SmartForce PLC says
it's cutting 421 jobs from its payroll immediately in an effort to
get into the black. That's 20 percent of its total headcount.
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/04/15/daily66.html

President Fox Key Speaker at Online University (Reuters): What do
Mexico President Vicente Fox and environmentalist Erin Brockovich
have in common? The delivery of a college commencement speech to an
online university.
For the full story, go to:
http://rd.yahoo.com/alerts/email/news/
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/
20020422/wr_nm/mexico_fox_university_dc_2


TRENDS SECTION

Virtual Maps: Ever wonder what cyberspace looks like? Ever wonder why
you should care? Enter the cybergeographer to tell us why we should
care (hint: because it'll help us deal with our
overcrowded e-mail inbox).
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/040102/charting.html

News alert: IBM's recent patent claim threatens royalty-free access
to yet another key Net protocol, leaving software developers, a
standards group, and the United Nations stunned--and IBM potentially
a step closer to owning a part of the Internet.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=c9-3OPLQpgOUBmmS_gjOaYe6rn9h9RR

  *Remember in Star Trek, the "Prime Directive" – observe
but don't change - ?
Spy, Then Innovate: Most companies have no clue how people use their
products. A little covert observation could help.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/schrage0502.asp

A Bad Year for Privacy (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT):  At the Computers,
Freedom and Privacy conference tech activists take on the latest
incursions on individual privacy from government and industry. By
Declan McCullagh.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,51987,00.html/wn_ascii



EMERGING TECH SECTION

Click2learn Announces Synchronous Addition to Aspen Suite: The
synchronous module will provide companies with virtual classroom, Web
conferencing, and instant messaging capabilities as an integrated
component to the Aspen suite…
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=15911

Game Engine Anatomy, Parts I & II: Professional game programmer Jake
Simpson begins his guided  tour on the inner workings of a 3D game
engine. Follow along  as Jake discusses the tradeoffs and challenges
of developing  a game engine within the limits of today's PC and
console systems.
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=ePsl0DPscz0FBi0mKq0AW

United Kingdom - Static to launch multi-player gaming for iTV Viewers
in the UK's 5.7 million digital satellite homes are to be able to
compete against one another, regardless of their location.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=10101

MOZILLA BROWSER MOVES CLOSER TO RELEASE: Version 1.0 of the
open-source browser is coming soon, after more than  four years in
development.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,94183,tk,dn041502X,00.asp

IE DITCHED FOR NETSCAPE... POCKET-SIZED PC... PHOTOSHOP 7.0 IS HERE!:
AOL-owned CompuServe has dropped Internet Explorer in exchange for
Netscape as its default browser, signaling a renewal of the browser
war. Plus: A new Windows XP PC is the size of your PDA, and Photoshop
7.0 arrives.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=d1-ulDzQpEXnCYg6dm1nxJAnVAuysRR

Automatic Networks:Devices that connect themselves could change
networking.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation10502.asp

Sharp Zaurus SL-5500: Not for newbies: This powerful, cleverly
designed PDA has tech heads buzzing. However, if you really make the
most of this pocket computer, you need quite a bit of technical
savvy. But future versions of the Zaurus may give Pocket PCs a run
for their money.
Red the review:
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=45-fNgJIKBRj0IxpVp-Lb7n0TqfJRRR
Check prices:
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=5a-ahO1IP0JdbcQnDM2akIZBSX3z9RR

E-BOOKS BAD, AUDIBLE BOOKS GOOD:Electronic books have never lived up
to their promise. But downloadable audio books, from a company called
Audible.com, prove that it's possible to offer text content digitally
in a way that's actually customer-friendly.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=c4-Iy4lQ0Wy9kspNEykxZa6NEdmuRRR


SECURITY SECTION

JEITA: Deleting Data From Hard Disks Won't Erase It: A group backed
by Japan's largest electronics companies warned PC users that hard
disks can be completely erased only by special software, so data on
scrapped PCs could potentially be read by malicious third parties.
http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV65-663_
STO70116_NLTSEC%2C00.html

WHY ONE VIRUS ALERT SYSTEM WON'T FIT ALL:  Some have suggested that
antivirus companies, when issuing alerts about viruses and worms, use
some sort of standard scale to tell us how dangerous each pest really
is. But Robert thinks that's a bad idea. Here's why.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=e6-qG-rQwyYVD7zdrPXSczfiBCi9sRR

Buying Guide Update: Handheld PCs: New handheld PCs (PDAs) are
introduced almost daily, and  that means that choosing the one that's
right for you is  becoming an increasingly daunting proposition. The
best  place to start your search is our Handheld Buying Guide.
Contributing editor Bruce Brown has revised it to include  the latest
technology decisions, features, and prices.  Read the guide, print
out the Top 10 Tips and then go shopping.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=ePwn0DPscz0EvR0mUV0An


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Slagging Over Sagging CD Sales (MP3 Rocks the Web 2:00 a.m. PDT):
Digital piracy is all the rage when it comes to assigning blame for
declines of record sales. But an increasing number of critics point
to the labels as the real culprits. By Brad King.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,51880,00.html/wn_ascii

'Black Mac' Shrouded in Gray Area (Cult of Mac 2:00 a.m. PDT):  A
mysterious Tempest-shielded computer is thought to have been built
for black-ops. Or maybe it was for testing other Apples. Or maybe it
belonged to Bill Gates. Or maybe drug smugglers.... The mystery
continues. By Leander Kahney.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51983,00.html/wn_ascii

History of the Future on Display (Wired magazine 2:00 a.m. PDT):  The
first computer game, Steve Russell's 'Space War,' is now 40 years
old. These and other futuristic relics are about to go on display at
a London gallery, billed as the largest collection of videogame
memorabilia ever assembled.  By Matthew Stibbe from Wired magazine.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/streetcred.html?pg=2

Comparisons: E-mail and How to Use It: As you'd expect from PC
Magazine, we've got the comparative  reviews of all the key e-mail
clients (system and Web-based).  But we've also thrown in
spam-prevention tools and advice  as well as a gaggle of e-mail tips
and tricks that are bound  to turn you into a veritable electronic
postman! Ahem. Sorry, but when it comes to email, we tend to go a
bit, well, postal. Get the all the info here:
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=ePwn0DPscz0EvR0mTz0AO
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"Science has provided the swiftest communication between individuals;
it has provided a record of ideas and has enabled man to manipulate
and to make extracts from that record so that knowledge evolves and
endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of an
individual."
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NEWS

*This is actually the GOOD kind of trustworthy, i.e. not the
Hollings/Eisner variety.
HOW MICROSOFT PLANS TO MAKE COMPUTERS 'TRUSTWORTHY': Ever since Bill
Gates ordered his minions to make security Job No. 1, they've been
touting the phrase "Trustworthy       Computing." But what, exactly,
does Redmond mean by that? It's not necessarily what you think. Let
me explain.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=e5-9ZYOQgyy_tj_gwoj0DFmoUX-99RR

Sydney Morning Herald: SUDDENLY, E-LEARNING IS MAINSTREAM
Paradoxically, by reducing contact hours to bits and bytes over the
Internet, students are getting up close and personal with their
teachers. Sometimes they see this as a benefit - and sometimes not.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/14/1018333438402.html

Silicon.com: FAILED E-LEARNING MARRIAGE TO HURT CENTRA AND SMARTFORCE
Significant financial troubles prompted e-learning content vendor
SmartForce to cancel its planned purchase of virtual classroom
provider Centra. But enterprises still want comprehensive suites from
one vendor.
http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=
&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=52495

IT Training: IRISH GOV'T BACKS E-LEARNING BOOM
Major growth in online soft-skills training will drive the e-learning
market over the next two years, according to a new report by the
Irish government. The study, conducted by Enterprise Ireland's UK
office, predicts that the UK market will be worth £390m by 2004
– which would be around ten per cent of the EU's total spend
on e-learning.
http://www.train-net.co.uk/news/news_story.asp?NewsID=670

Information Week: GET SMART ABOUT E-LEARNING SOFTWARE
Complaints about previous generations of E-learning products range
from integration issues and interoperability concerns, to bandwidth
and scalability problems, to a lack of features and functionality.
But the fact that businesses keep trying shows that they believe
E-learning tools can help them reduce costs and enhance
productivity-and new products aim to cement that impression.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020414S0009

IT World Canada: E-LEARNING STRUGGLES AS COMPANIES SLASH BUDGETS
"Training that is not related to a specific, strategic initiative
will suffer. Things like desktop application training, things that
are nice to have but you don't absolutely have to have it, that
has already suffered and it was the bread and butter of many
trainers. Training has traditionally been a knee-jerk reaction to a
need because they have implemented something and need to know how to
use it."
http://www.itworldcanada.com/itW/dailyItwire/viewA
rticle.cfm?v=A0166961-20B8-4EBB-8BCEB9579A775BB6

T&D: WE ALL WORK ON THE NETWORK
Networks now pervade the economy, changing the world of work and
training with it. A trucker now needs more than driving school; she
must know how to log onto getloaded.com to find cargo that needs to
be shipped, then be able to compose a clear email responding to the
shipper. Training needs, types, and techniques are expanding and
becoming more sophisticated, just like the network economy.
http://www.astd.org/CMS/templates/index.html?templ
ate_id=1&articleid=27609

USDLA: 2002 AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN DISTANCE LEARNING
he USDLA awards program was created to acknowledge major
accomplishments in distance learning and to highlight those
instructors, programs, and distance learning professionals who have
achieved excellence in the field. Categories include Higher
Education, Government, K-12 Education, Corporate/Business and
Telemedicine. This year's winners cover a broad spectrum of
educational expertise from new approaches to collaborative learning.
http://www.usdla.org/html/aboutUs/pressReleases/april2002_pr1.htm

Syllabus: AN INTERVIEW WITH ED WALKER
For many faculty, standards are a series of buzzwords that have
little relevance to teaching, even in the context of distributed
learning. But with the widespread adoption of education
technologies-particularly Web courses or Web-based resources-
standards and specifications have taken on real importance as the
underpinnings of the courses created and taught by those faculty.
Recently, Syllabus caught up with Ed Walker, CEO of the IMS Global
Learning Consortium Inc., between meetings of international standards
committees convened in Australia. We asked Ed to reflect on our
questions about standards and specifications from a practitioner's
perspective.
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6239

The Nation: THE KEYBOARD CAMPUS
Book review: Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020422&s=brier


TRENDS SECTION

WE - 200m Europeans to be online by 2006
A new report predicts that internet penetration in Europe will hit 67
per cent in four years, up from just 39 per cent in 2001.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=10119

Spain - Government to put broadband in schools
The 'Internet in school' project hopes to provide nearly 9,000
primary schools with broadband ADSL connections of at least 256Kbps,
and about 3,500 public high schools ADSL connections of at least
2Mbps within three years.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=10124

PORTABLE COMPUTING? YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET: (Source: PC
World.com) Microsoft's vision: retrieve desktop data from anywhere,
rent applications, and travel light.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakPQaaRRFWa9ndSPb/

GRID FORUM, NEW PRODUCTIVITY INITIATIVE JOIN FORCES: Wave of grid
advances shaping computing like a utility.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakPJaaRRAEa9nkbob/

MOORE'S LAW & ORDER: Is the statute of limitations ready to run out
on Moore's Law? Not if Ray Kurzweil has anything to say about it.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=ePeB0DShie0DSr0mQ80Ak

Deep Linking Returns to Surface (Politics 2:00 a.m. PDT):  The Danish
Newspaper Publishers' Association is trying to stop a news service
from linking to stories within its website in a case some fear may
alter the natural course of the Web. By Michelle Delio.
  http://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51887,00.html/wn_ascii

MSNBC: BUSINESS PROS FLOCK TO WEBLOGS
The experiment has been so successful that Javaid says he plans to
expand it until virtually everyone at his 60-person company,
Mobilocity, has a Weblog. Javaid's brief experience has convinced
him that far from an exercise in self-indulgence, Weblogs actually
can be used to increase worker efficiency.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/737986.asp

NY Times: HAS GRAMMAR LOST ITS TECHNOLOGICAL EDGE?
When a professor of English recently compared the grammar-checking
features in Word and WordPerfect, which is owned by Corel, he found
that Word 2000's grammar checker was unable to identify any of the
most common errors. WordPerfect did somewhat better, but still found
fewer than half.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/15/technology/ebusiness/15NECO.html

Boxes and Arrows: THE BIG O: IA LESSONS FROM ORIENTEERING
Designing effective catching features is similar to providing a
strong information scent. Effective labels and logical groupings of
content can help users create those ad hoc navigation rules that let
them move quickly to the area of the site they want. Images help
reduce the ambiguity of labels. You want to make the features of the
terrain as clear and unambiguous as possible, allowing your users to
move rapidly to their goal.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002584.php

IT-Director: E-LEARNING--TAKING A FEW LESSONS FROM IBM
The first stage is performance support and reference materials (read
it, see it, hear it) which is Internet based. Next is interactive
learning using simulation and games (try it, play it, experience it),
which is multimedia based. Third is collaborative learning, which
involves working with peers primarily through PC device based
interfaces. Finally, it's back to the old faithful classroom learning.
http://www.it-director.com/article.php?id=2766

O'Reilly: INVENTING THE FUTURE
So often, signs of the future are all around us, but it isn't until
much later that most of the world realizes their significance.
Meanwhile, the innovators who are busy inventing that future live in
a world of their own. They see and act on premises not yet apparent
to others. In the computer industry, these are the folks I
affectionately call "the alpha geeks," the hackers who have such
mastery of their tools that they "roll their own" when existing
products don't give them what they need.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/09/future.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

MS NAMES TECH TRENDS... HP RAISES PC PRICES... CELL PHONE GAMES...:
What's the Next Big Thing? Ask Microsoft. The technologies it
integrates into future versions of Windows could drive
the entire industry. Plus: Hewlett-Packard revamps its PC line, and
Sega wants  to bring video games to your cell phone.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=24-8DnMIczRqxACR5VgfTPHtocC8dRR

*Wahoo!!
U.S. ROBOTICS DOUBLES WI-FI SPEEDS: (Source: PC World.com) Wireless
LAN products hit 22 mbps, retain backward compatibility with other
802.11b devices.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakPQaaRRFTa9ndSPb/

*Dos Wahoos!
INTEL SHOWS OFF SPEEDY WIRELESS NETS: (Source: PC World.com) Ultra
Wideband technology can transfer data at 100 mbps, and company is
eyeing higher speeds.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakPQaaRRFUa9ndSPb/

COLOR PDAS FOR ALL POCKETBOOKS: Source: PC World.com) PCWorld reviews
new handhelds from Sony and Palm. Which one fits into your pocket,
and your budget?
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakPJaaRRAxa9nkbob/

MS to ship Bluetooth hardware, mouse, keyboard:  Takes plunge at last
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/24922.html

Designing for Tablet PC (Plus a Video!)
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=ePuC0DPscz0FBc0mRf0Ah

Jon Udell: GETTING INTO THE GROOVE
Groove 2.0, slated for release on April 15, delivers richer
collaboration for users and more control for corporate
administrators. Some might find these aims contradictory, but Groove
has never been a pure peer-to-peer product. The strategy was always
to empower end-users to spontaneously share information within and
across company borders while at the same time meeting IT requirements
for security, data integrity, and availability.
http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/ap/xml/02/04
/15/020415apgroove2.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html


SECURITY SECTION

UNCRACKABLE ENCRYPTION: IT'S NO LONGER JUST SCI-FI: Imagine an
encryption technology so secure that breaking it would violate the
laws of physics. It's now a reality. Wayne finds out how new quantum
physics research is being used to protect your data better than ever.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=4f-Iac4IIUNlvCVS2A8Oxl-w8BA0sRR

SYMANTEC WARNS OF BLENDED SECURITY THREATS: (Source: PC World.com)
Attacks are becoming more sophisticated, security vendor warns, while
promoting company's new tools.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakPQaaRRF0a9ndSPb/


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Rarest of Rare Apples for Sale (Cult of Mac 2:00 a.m. PDT)
One of the most collectible vintage computers on the market will go
on the auction block this weekend: a rare, hand-made Apple I
motherboard. By Leander Kahney.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51907,00.html/wn_ascii

Kazaa Lite: No Spyware Aftertaste (MP3 Rocks the Web 2:00 a.m. PDT)
Kazaa, the most recent darling of the file-trading world, angered its
users with spyware. Not for long though. A new application gets
around that program, which ironically enough, has Kazaa crying foul.
By Pete Rojas.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,51916,00.html/wn_ascii

*Pre-Order yours now at Amazon!
TMS: Twilight Zone Science? (Med-Tech Center 2:00 a.m. PDT)
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) messes with the electrical
activity in the brain and is used to study motor dysfunction, but
some scientists believe the technology can also make you smarter,
control minds and put you in touch with God. By Daithí Ó
hAnluain.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,51699,00.html/wn_ascii
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OK – These two quotes are driving me crazy! You see these quotes
in a lot of places that talk about learning, etc and you can see why.
My problem is this – as a historian by training, I have a hard
time with quotes that I can't go look up on my own. Now let'
see, Plato, well he only wrote a couple of things right – that
one shouldn't take too long to look up…and the HG Wells'
quote, I know it lists the book (or is it a book? An article? What? I
found an article by Wells talking about the "World Brain" and
while this language wouldn't be out of line with the spirit of
this article – I can't find it in there. SO, I need your
help…if anyone out there can provide my with specific
publication, page number kind of data then I'll…thank you in
public…not much of a prize but basically its all we have here at
e-Clippings. I will go now to eagerly await your research.

Mark Oehlert, editor

"Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren
will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many
hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the
wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge." –Plato

"An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered
about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve
all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and
unorganised. We need a sort of mental clearing house: a depot where
knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested,
clarified and compared."
- H.G. Wells in "The Brain: Organization of the Modern World", 1940.

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The way I have decided to handle this huge backlog of emails I have
to sift through is to just wade in, find the interesting points and
as soon as a I fill an "newsletter", I'll pipe one out.

Maybe next time I`ll actually hit Wednesday!
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The Benefits of Broadband, Part 3: E-Learning: 18 April 2002
By Ben Macklin
http://www.emarketer.com/analysis/technologies/20020418_at.html?ref=ed

E-GOV OFFICIAL TOUTS POWER OF THE INTERNET: (Source: PC World.com)
Bush administration is looking to the Internet to radically change
how it does business, one insider says.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakLqaaRQX4a9ndSPb/

The Chronicle: RESEARCH GROUP TO RELEASE TECHNICAL STANDARDS FOR ITS
FREE COURSE-MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE: A research team that is building
free course-management software plans today to release the first
technical standards that provide the framework of its forthcoming
software. Although the group is still months away from releasing a
fully functioning program, its leaders say they hope that sharing
their work so far will help build interest and support for the
project.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031101u.htm

Information Week: E-BUSINESSES HOPE TO LEARN THAT EDU-COMMERCE PAYS
Imagine browsing in a bookshop and discovering best-selling author
John Grisham in the back room, teaching a free class about his latest
novel. Or walking into a branch office of your brokerage house to
investigate investment opportunities and finding a free class on
Investing 101, scheduled to start whenever you choose to take a
seat...Several E-commerce players are investing in the virtual
equivalent of book seminars, branch workshops, and other
adult-education courses in a growing trend dubbed edu-commerce,
edu-tailing, or learning through commerce.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020222S0009

Michigan Virtual University: INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN STANDARDS FOR
QUALITY ONLINE COURSES
More than a year ago, MVU began developing rigorous standards to
guide the design and evaluation of online course quality. Based on
decades of research and the work of the best minds in the field of
Instructional Design, we have recently completed a comprehensive set
of standards that can now be used to design and evaluate online
courses.
http://ideos.mivu.org/index.tml

Potomac: WHAT EXECUTIVES MUST KNOW ABOUT E-LEARNING: Get past the
false objections. Three of the most common objections to e-learning
are 1) it does not work, 2) it is impersonal and 3) it only works for
dry, rote material. None of these is true; in fact, nearly all
comparison studies show that e-learning is as effective as classroom
instruction.
http://www.potomactechjournal.com/displayarticlede
tail.asp?art_id=55560

Training 2002: FREE SESSIONS ON THE WEB
- Dealing With Difficult Learners
- Talk Less, Teach More: Increasing Learner Retention
http://www.trainingconference.com/attendee/c_home_01.cfm?menu_id=1100

CIO: A TRAINING LESSON FROM THE EDUCATION WORLD: Top management
responsible for training and integrating new managers and supervisors
into the organization should take a lesson from educators and examine
carefully an innovative teacher training strategy implemented by
CalState TEACH. Immerse the new managers in full job responsibilities
but support them with long-term online training under the tutelage of
a coach and online instructor.
http://www.cio.com/analyst/030802_giga.html

Wired Radio: MISTER ROGERS' E-NEIGHBORHOOD
Fred Rogers was a pioneer in educating children through his
television program, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood... Here he talks with
Wired News about the Internet, education and kids.
http://www.wired.com/news/radio/0,1665,51006,00.html

Macromedia: FLASH MX FOR E-LEARNING: Macromedia Flash MX includes six
built-in learning interactions, including quiz templates and
stand-alone interactions, to help you quickly build interactive
courseware. These include true/false, multiple-choice,
fill-in-the-blank, drag-and-drop, hot spot, and hot object
interactions...Each individual Macromedia Flash learning interaction
can send tracking information to a server-side learning management
system (LMS). Additionally, the quiz templates track cumulative
results from a sequence of interactions and can pass them along to
the LMS using an enhanced data tracking functionality that conforms
to Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) and AICC
standards.
http://www.macromedia.com/resources/elearning/special/flashmx/

The Chronicle: PHILOSOPHER'S CRITIQUE OF ONLINE LEARNING CITES
EXISTENTIALISTS (MOSTLY DEAD): Mr. Dreyfus, a professor of philosophy
at the University of California at Berkeley, specializes in
phenomenology, the study of how people experience the world. In On
the Internet, (Routledge, 2001) he argues that the Internet's promise
of extending and improving human interaction through the digital
medium isn't everything it's cracked up to be. He specifically
criticizes distance education -- which offers the possibility of
learning without the physical presence of a building, instructor, or
other students -- as an overhyped, misunderstood trend that could
backfire and result in worse education, not better.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031501u.htm

Childnet: 2002 CHILDNET AWARDS SHORTLIST: Childnet International has
recently announced the winners of its annual Childnet awards program,
which recognizes children (and those working with them) who are
developing innovative Internet projects to benefit other children
worldwide.
http://www.childnetawards.org/english/index.html

Fast Company: THE REEDUCATION OF SILICON VALLEY: Just about everyone
in business gets excited at some point about "fixing" the schools.
And just as predictably, after a few years, the well-meaning
crusaders drop out, disappointed and dispirited. Nowhere is this
cycle of hope and frustration more evident than in the way that
Silicon Valley relates to the 30,000 people of East Palo Alto. The
Valley is packed with optimistic entrepreneurs whose success rests on
doing the impossible. If you can do great things with silicon or
software, the thinking goes, how hard can it be to transform a few
schools in a hurry?
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/57/reeducation.html

Guardian Unlimited: CLICK LIT
So, prepare yourself for books printed to order in your local shop,
and "select it yourself" compilations (useful for students) that can
be personalised to your needs. Eventually POD companies can move
towards paid-for secure downloads off the internet, where the rights
of both author and publisher are automatically covered using digital
rights management software.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,666679,00.html

Fast Company: ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO BLOG
What further distinguishes bloggers is their understanding of the
peer communities that they serve. For one thing, bloggers assume that
their readers are as smart as they are, if not smarter. What a
refreshing notion! When they're not focused on themselves, mainstream
journalists spend most of their time sucking up to sources and
writing with a keen eye toward source protection. Bloggers spend most
of their time engaged in constant communication with their readers.
In so doing, they create a network of sources who are always on the
lookout for interesting articles, columns, stories, and items.
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/57/jellis.html

LAW EXPERTS LEERY OF DRM SOLUTION: Even a conference room chock full
of copyright law experts and technologists could not determine
Tuesday what role digital rights management (DRM) should play in
balancing the rights of users and content providers.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakLqaaRQX5a9ndSPb/

The IE back-button attack: We're not making this up
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24902.html

FT.com: SPECIAL REPORT: UNDERSTANDING E-LEARNING
- A better way to learn, Desktop learning,Service providers, Wireless
training
- Financial sector
http://specials.ft.com/elearning/

IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover: Quietly, these two giants have been
building a toll booth
that could position them to collect royalties on most if not all
Internet traffic. Find out what they've been up to--and what it means
to you.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=87-izOOQ8n9WLSUNUdeBPlNjSTgZRRR

House approves Digital Tech Corps plan: The U.S. House of
Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill that enables a worker
exchange program between the government and the high-tech industry.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=c6-URl9QMLzOuRShzzWMUQPe1sVusRR

Jordan Times: CANADA TO GRANT EDUCATION MINISTRY $2.2M FOR E-LEARNING
INITIATIVE
According to a Canadian embassy statement, the project will
contribute to Jordan's determination to build its human resources
base with the skills to participate in the knowledge-based economy
and to qualify young generations to take on the new jobs that the new
economy will generate.
http://www.jordantimes.com/Fri/homenews/homenews6.htm

Learning Circuits: LMS SHOPPING
Learning management systems haven't caused any life-threatening
breakdowns that we know of, mental or system-wide, but they have been
known to cause their fair share of heartache. Here's some help in
learning the ins and outs of LMSs.
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/mar2002/schafter.html

BBC: DIGITAL CHANGE AT THE CHALKFACE
At a cost of several hundred pounds, the Mimio creates a digital
whiteboard that can project the internet and allow teacher and pupils
to write on the screen... Without needing to be connected to a
computer, the device can record up to 12 hours of information written
in the teacher's own handwriting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1858000/1858298.stm

e-learning Magazine: FIND A WINNING BLEND
Over the past few years I have had the opportunity to work with
dozens of companies on many different initiatives. Most of these
eventually worked technically, but some initiatives were wildly
successful and created significant competitive advantage, while many
others failed to meet even modest goals... I have noticed some
significant and consistent differences between the successes and the
failures, and I have developed data on this dichotomy that separates
the winners from the losers. Here are some of the approaches that are
common among the winners. - March 2002 Table of Contents
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/issue/issueDetail.jsp?id=714

Syllabus: A BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE: OBSERVATIONS ON BUILDING A DIGITAL
LIBRARY
Libraries today are not merely adjusting to changes in technology;
they have entirely new choices to make in the services they provide.
Rutgers University faced these challenges with a plan involving the
key stakeholders across its campuses.
- March 2002 Table of Contents
http://www.Syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/magazine.
asp?month=3&year=2002

CETIS: K-12 AND RIGHTS MANAGEMENT TAKE CENTRE STAGE AT IMS FORUM
The first IMS open technical forum meeting for 2002 was held on
February 27 in Sydney, Australia. Among the issues brought to the
fore included interoperability in schools or in the K-12 sector, and
rights management for digital resources.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020311155219

SXSW: 2002 SXSW WEBSITE COMPETITION WINNERS
- Online Education Resource: What is a Print
http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners.php


TRENDS SECTION

The Chronicle: NEBRASKA RESEARCHERS MEASURE THE EXTENT OF 'LINK ROT'
IN DISTANCE EDUCATION
Anyone who has surfed the Web knows the frustration caused by
hyperlinks to Web pages that have moved or ceased to exist. For
apparently the first time, two researchers at the University of
Nebraska at Lincoln have measured the impact of this "link rot" on
online education -- and it's not pretty.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002041001u.htm

* The search engine: a mix of partners
In a series of articles, Duncan Parry has talked to the UK versions
of several leading search engines. In this second part of a two-part
article, he summarises the emerging trends and looks at future
developments.
http://europemedia.net/showfeature.asp?ArticleID=9808

United Kingdom - UK to have national online voting by 2007
The country's e-envoy said full-scale electronic voting couldn't
happen any earlier because the legislation needs to be changed.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=9942

Mobile Wish List: Wireless users want relevant and up-to-date content
on their handheld devices but don't waste their time  --  or their
minutes.
http://cyberatlas.com/markets/wireless/article/0,,
10094_1007441,00.html

Consoles Will Lead Gaming Software Market
A report from Datamonitor predicts that by 2004, revenues derived
from gaming software will rise 22 percent from 2001, and consoles
will lead the way.
http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/applications/art
icle/0,,1301_1005731,00.html

CIO: FROM THEIR LABS TO YOUR DESKTOP
University research has traditionally been more about theoretical
rather than applied science. But an accelerating rate of practical
innovation on campus—particularly in IT—means that CIOs
willing to invest their time will find the effort worthwhile.
http://www.cio.com/archive/031502/labs.html

BBC: VIDEO GAMES 'STIMULATE LEARNING'
The UK study concluded that simulation and adventure games - such as
Sim City and RollerCoaster Tycoon, where players create societies or
build theme parks, developed children's strategic thinking and
planning skills.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1879000/1879019.stm

-- BBC (11/26/01): LEARNING GAMES DO NOT BOOST RESULTS: And while the
use of computers in data handling and simulations were seen to make a
positive impact - there was little sign that pupils who played
educational games made any greater progress.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1676000/1676869.stm

  On rumors of HTTP's death: Why doesn't SOAP work with HTTP? Larry
Seltzer examines the fate of HTTP in light of emerging Web services
protocols.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=5a-ahO1IP0JdGnbKDX2akIZBSX3z9RR

  POSSIBLEWORLDS AN AMAZING GAME FOR LINUX & WINDOWS: (Source:
ITworld.com) For those with enough horsepower and OpenGL,
PossibleWorlds provides a really cool game with amazing
graphics. It's an impressive feat of programming for two students.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakLkaaRQSQa9nkbob/

HP: LESSONS FROM THE DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT TRENCHES: This case study
examines a document management project implemented to provide storage
and accessibility to internal HP software documents. The Kalliope
project was undertaken to increase knowledge sharing, collaboration,
and communication between software engineers in various project teams
and labs at four or more HP locations worldwide. Design, planning,
and implementation of the project are described. Emphasis is placed
on several factors that affected the success of the project.
Important factors considered are: obtaining senior management
support, creating a motivation/incentive framework, building the
necessary organizational infrastructure, and developing a knowledge
sharing culture. This paper features a practical perspective on the
"lessons learned" during the implementation of this project.
[Note: pdf file, 290kb]
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2001/HPL-2001-230.pdf

Optimize Magazine: THE INNOVATION CZARS: CIOs are in the best spot on
the corporate ladder for creating and growing new business ideas--but
few do. You've got the contacts and the data. It's time to become an
activist for innovation.
http://www.optimizemag.com/issue/005/leadership.htm

text-e.org: AUTHORS AND AUTHORITY
What is the role of the expert and of the intellectual at a time when
information is accessible to virtually everyone? Do intellectuals
play the role of a "Web-filter"?
http://www.text-e.org/conf/index.cfm?switchLang=Eng&&ConfText_ID=11

Boxes and Arrows: BRINGING YOUR PERSONAS TO LIFE IN REAL LIFE: The
way you communicate the personas and present your deliverables is key
to ensuring consistency of vision. Without that consistency, you1ll
spend far too much time arguing with your colleagues about who your
users are rather than how to meet their needs. Let1s start with a
review of what we know about personas, and why they are useful.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002343.php

First Monday: THE INTERNET IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN SIERRA LEONE:
PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES
Sierra Leone is introducing the Internet in its educational
institutions in the year 2002. This article discusses some of the
prospects and challenges these institutions that the Internet will
bring to these institutions.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_3/kargbo/index.html

CNN: REPORT: BROADBAND USAGE OUTPACES DIAL-UP
High-speed Internet usage accounted for more than half of all time
spent online in January, outpacing dial-up Internet access for the
first time...
http://asia.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/03/05/broadband.reut/index.html

Gerry McGovern: THE MYTH OF INTERACTIVITY ON THE INTERNET
Words like 'interactivity' and 'community' have been hugely abused
and devalued over the last eight years. Nobody would call a group of
people in a nightclub a community. However, to some, all you have to
do is set up a discussion forum and you have an online community.
If you turn a page in a magazine or book, that doesn't exactly
qualify as interactivity. Yet, if you click a link on the Web, many
feel you are participating in an interactive activity. The reality
is, of course, that the Web is very often the antithesis of
interactivity and community.
http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2002/nt_2002_03_18_interactivity.htm

WebSelfOrganization: SELF-ORGANIZATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF WEB
COMMUNITIES Despite the decentralized, unorganized, and heterogeneous
nature of the web, where millions of individuals with different
backgrounds, cultures, and goals operate independently, the study
shows that the structure of the web self-organizes into communities
of related information. The study shows that a remarkable degree of
order emerges from the independent linking actions of individuals.
http://webselforganization.com/

eLearn Magazine: E-MODERATING AND IN GOOD COMPANY: THE SECRETS TO
SUCCESSFUL LEARNING COMMUNITIES: On the surface, E-Moderating: The
Key to Teaching and Learning Online, by Gilly Salmon, and In Good
Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work, by Don Cohen
and Laurence Prusak, would seem to have nothing in common... Scratch
the surface, though, and you'll soon discover that the two books
offer startlingly complimentary prescriptions to the problems that
they respectively set out to solve. That's because the challenge of
producing a successful group dynamic in collaborative e-learning
entails the challenge of building a culture of knowledge sharing
within a class.
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?sect
ion=6&list_item=4&page=1

Internet World: COMMENTARY-KNOWLEDGE IN CONTEXT
Given the ability for anyone to dramatically change the meaning of
something by changing its environment, or context, more thought needs
to be applied to how knowledge is interpreted by the knowledge
consumer... Liberal use of profiling, so that a reader can easily see
the profile of someone whose posting he is reading, can make a
difference. The very same posting by George Bush might be taken quite
differently than if it had been posted by Bill Clinton. Of course,
most people --and their ideologies--are not as well known, so having
access to a profile will help place an issue in context.
http://www.internetworld.com/news.php?inc=bi/03042002a.html

EMERGING TECH SECTION

**Couple of things here:
#1 I really don't need to see this when I JUST sent in my
purchase order for a new Toshiba!
#2 Whenever you see "gaming" think "PC-based Simulations
and Training"

Laptop Gaming Showdown: Gaming on the go just got a whole lot better
with the arrival
of these two tricked out mobile machines from Dell and Compaq.
->Touchy-Feelie
   Up close and personal with both machines.
   http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=ePl80DPscz0FBc0mIO0Ap
->And They're Off:   The race gets under way for the mobile gaming
crown.
   http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=ePl80DPscz0FBc0mIP0Aq
->Business at Hand:   Here's how they fare at non-gaming tasks.
   http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=ePl80DPscz0FBc0mIQ0Ar
For the full article:
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=ePl80DPscz0FBc0mIN0Ao

IBM leads charge on holistic computing: IBM is launching a major push
toward autonomic computing, the science of creating computing systems
that can configure, tune and even repair themselves.  Under autonomic
computing,  databases will continuously re-examine query routes for
more efficiency.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=db-rm79QJEzim2hwNJvB8C2sAJbVRRR

GOOGLE UNVEILS WEB SEARCH ENGINE QUERY API: Posted April 11, 2002
05:21 Pacific Time
GOOGLE ON THURSDAY released Google Web APIs service, which enables
developers to query more than 2 billion Web documents accessible from
the Google search engine via their own computer programs, according
to the company. The free beta service uses SOAP (Simple Object Access
Protocol) and WSDL (Web Services Description Language) Web services
standards so developers can program in their favorite environment,
including Java, Perl, or Visual Studio. Net, according to Google.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/11/
020411hngoogleapi.xml?0412fram

STANFORD RESEARCHERS MAY HAVE WORLD'S LARGEST DATABASE: (Source:
Computerworld) Experts at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(SLAC) at Stanford University believe they may have the biggest
database in the world.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakLqaaRQYea9ndSPb/

TOSHIBA UNVEILS ITS LATEST POCKET PC: Consumers shopping for a
Microsoft-based PDA now have another option, with Toshiba's e310.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,94663,tk,dn041702X,00.asp


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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

News: Baseball Sites: If you love baseball, then you likely have a
preferred way
of enjoying the games. Some of you love to see the action  on TV
while others listen to games on the radio and create the action in
your heads. With the emergence of the Web came
a new option--interactive gamecasts that feature neither real images
nor sounds of the game but capture every play in near real time. If
you've been using these services for years,
here's a chance to find out how they work. If not, here's an
opportunity to tune in to America's favorite pastime in a whole new
way.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=ePmX0DPscz0EvR0mIq0AW
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e-Clippings  4.10.02
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built
for."
Rear Adm Grace Murray Hopper

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New To Me:
O.K.! Well, actually sitting down to do this newsletter seems a bit
`new' right now. I truly appreciate all your patience and
will try to get back to a regular schedule.  I am sending out the
"latest" news today but fear not, I will also be digging
through the backfile and publishing those pieces I find that have not
yet sent out.

One thing that is certainly not new, unfortunately so, are the
ongoing efforts by people like Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.)
attempting to #1 mess with stuff they don't understand and #2
mandate that mess for the rest of us. Fritz's Big Adventure is
the "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act--once known as
the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA)."
You know it – I've mentioned it before – in a nutshell,
do you want to buy a car and then be told where you can drive it and
whom you can have in it?

Broadly speaking those would be the affects of Fritz's and his
buddy Mike Eisner's idea of putting chips into "trusted
computers" which would strictly control what you could do with
digital media. This is the language from the bill itself:

"To regulate interstate commerce in certain devices by providing
for private sector development of technological protection measures
to be implemented and enforced by Federal regulations to protect
digital content and promote broadband as well as the transition to
digital television, and for other purposes"

  Guess who gets to exercise the control? Having Mike Eisner work on
copyright protection legislation is exactly the same as having oil
execs work on energy policy – sure they know the business but do
you really think they'll put your interests first?

I'd ask that if you feel strongly on this issue, really on either
side, that you contact the Senators involved and let them know how
you feel. The saddest thing of all is not the bad legislation that
passes; it's the apathy that is shown in general to our political
process – so make your voice heard! *Here ends the soapbox  drill.
***************
COVERAGE:
Tech execs lash into piracy proposals: By Lisa M. Bowman
Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 14, 2002, 10:35 AM PT
A group of tech executives is asking Washington lawmakers to steer
clear of regulations requiring them to develop products to stop
piracy--especially those proposed by Hollywood studios.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-860192.html

Declan McCullagh's – Politech's coverage of the CBDTPA
Includes links to new stories, text of the bill itself, statements
and press releases.
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/

PC manufacturer Gateway on Wednesday launched a campaign to support
the popular consumption of digital music as Congress contemplates
legislation that would put the onus on the tech industry to battle
piracy.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-879811.html

The Web site for the Senate Judiciary Committee who has the bill:
http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/feature.cfm
Visit here to input comments!

Anti-Copy Bill Hits D.C.: By Declan McCullagh
2:00 a.m. March 22, 2002 PST
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51245,00.html

"IT'S CALLED THE Consumer Broadband and Digital Television
Promotion Act, or CBDTPA. The name and its acronym are clumsy
mouthfuls, but the upshot of the proposed legislation is clear.
Should it pass, technology you buy down the road will prohibit you
from copying any of your media in any way, shape or form.
"Policeware," some are calling it."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/734617.asp?cp1=1

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's CBDTPA Archive
Press releases, letters, text of bill, etc.
http://www.eff.org/IP/SSSCA_CBDTPA/

The "Help Stop the CBDTPA" Page at Digital Consumer.org
How to contact your senators, the Consumer Technology Bill of Rights,
Q&A and "How to get active" links.
http://www.digitalconsumer.org/cbdtpa/

The Digital Speech Project
http://www.digitalspeech.org/

Hollings, Ernest  (D - SC)
125 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6121
http://www.senate.gov/~hollings/webform.html
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NEWS
Rumsfeld Shakes Up Defense: New commanders who share Bush's radical
reform plans will be named.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29137-2002Apr10.html

Pentagon balances anti-terrorism efforts, transformation plans
By Molly M. Peterson, National Journal News Service : The Defense
Department's transformation programs were scrutinized on Capitol Hill
on Tuesday, as lawmakers sought ways to balance budgetary constraints
with the military's need to win the war on terror while also moving
from the industrial age to the information age.  "There's a limited
amount of resources we can devote, even in this time of great danger
to the country," Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., told Pentagon officials
during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "Frankly, the
appetite of the Department of Defense for systems and building things
is rather substantial."  Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky
shared some of Reed's concerns, arguing that President Bush's $379
billion fiscal 2003 Defense budget proposal is bogged down in
antiquated "legacy" systems that have been in development for up to
10 years. Full story: http://govexec.com/dailyfed/0402/041002td1.htm

CTO FORUM: CTO OF THE YEAR AWARD GOES TO MEYERRIECKS: The U.S.
Defense Department's Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) CTO
Dawn Meyerriecks last night attributed much of the military success
in Afghanistan to the deployment of commercial technology.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakgPaaRLHNa9tT0ib/

Pols Roasted Over Pet Pork: 2:00 a.m. 10.Apr.2002 PDT Citizens
Against  government Waste unveils its latest list of government
projects it deems pork. And some members of Congress reveal they
consider the group 'psychopaths' and 'a bunch of peckerwoods.' By
Declan McCullagh.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51675,00.html

U.S. Navy Extends Use of THINQ LMS: CNET will extend its use of the
THINQ's LMS to ships, submarines, Navy schoolhouses, and
classified networks around the world…
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=14852

SmartForce and Centra Terminate Merger Agreement: Instead, the two
companies have entered into a reseller and co-mark
etingpartnership…
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=14851


TRENDS SECTION

INTERVIEW: INTEL CTO OUTLINES FUTURE OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING:  In an
interview with InfoWorld Editor in Chief Michael Vizard and Test
Center Director Steve Gillmor, Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger outlines a
future of distributed computing that spans the globe, thanks to the
ever expanding principles of Moore's Law.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakgPaaRLHPa9tT0ib/

  CTO FORUM: TECH VISIONARY SAYS NEW IDEAS NEEDED TO ADVANCE WEB
SERVICES: John Seely Brown, the longtime chief scientist of Xerox,
offered some outside-the-box thinking Monday on the much publicized
but as yet largely unrealized Web services computing model.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakjLaaRMmZa9ndSPb/

IN-FLIGHT SATELLITE INTERNET SERVICE COMING SOON: U.K. satellite
communications company Inmarsat has made its in-flight Internet
access service available to the corporate jet market and expects to
do the same for commercial airlines by the end of the year.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakjLaaRMm6a9ndSPb/

FINANCIAL INDUSTRY EMBRACES INSTANT MESSAGING: Secure IM gains new
support as major financial institutions sign on.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,93744,tk,dn041002X,00.asp

Show and Tell: Trade shows have more to offer than a junket in a warm
place.
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/040102/contact.html

Technical expert backs 'unbound' Windows: A Princeton University
professor testified that he didn't think Microsoft's Windows
operating system would be at a competitive disadvantage if it were
stripped of extras such as a Web browser.
http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO70006_NLTPM%2C00.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

NEXT-GENERATION PDAS: (Source: PC World.com) Today's handhelds
finally offer something for everybody -- from bargain-price
organizers to the first PDA/phone combos that actually work. PC
World's tests of 16 models spotlight the best.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakgPaaRLHQa9tT0ib/

Nano Technology: - Business Week: Supertiny gizmos will soon
transform our way of life.
http://www.businessweek.com/bw50/content/mar2002/a3776078.htm

PIONEER DRIVE SPEEDS DVD FORMATTING: New DVD-R/RW drive can format a
disc in one minute, while competing  products usually take an hour.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,93643,tk,dn041002X,00.asp


SECURITY SECTION

TRICKY WORM CAN SPREAD VIA AIM, IRC: (Source: PC World.com) Low-risk
mass-mailed W32.aphex promises porn but delivers inconvenience for
buddies.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakgPaaRLHRa9tT0ib/

MICROSOFT FIXES 10 FLAWS WITH 'CRITICAL' PATCH FOR IIS: (Source:
ITworld.com) Microsoft released a patch Wednesday that fixes 10
security flaws in various versions of the Web server
component of Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaakjLaaRMm4a9ndSPb/


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Dear Readers,

Please excuse the recent dearth of actual issues of e-Clippings. I
have been buffeted by being out of town on business for about two
weeks, moving into a new house during that time and having a good
deal of work due for my graduate classes all at the same time.

I am now back at home base but am digging out from under all the
tasks that I could not get to for the past two weeks. I appreciate
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some _very cool_ things happening too!

Thanks again.

Sincerely,
Mark Oehlert, Editor

e-Clippings  03.13.02 *Late Late Edition*

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I
seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and
diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me."
Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
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New To Me:

**You've probably never noticed but I almost never include
articles/blurbs from the NY Times. The reason is that nytimes.com
requires registration, it's free – but still, I'd like
people just to click on the link and go to the story. Anyway, I
include this piece though because this is SUCH a disturbing trend. I
am all in favor of copyright protection, creators MUST get paid or
there is no incentive to create – BUT – SOME PEOPLE (see text
of article) think it is incumbent upon them to dictate to me what I
can do with their products AFTER I pay for them! Would you buy a car
from Ford if you had to check in with them to see what roads you
could drive on!?

I am reminded of two quotes:

"Why bother learning when ignorance is instantaneous?" Calvin
and Hobbes

and

"The ignorance of how to use new knowledge stockpiles exponentially."
Marshall McLuhan

Taming the Consumer's Computer Editorial from the New York Times
warning of the danger of proposed "trusted computers" soon to be
prepared for the consumer market. The discussion - and the lobbying
by the likes of Disney's Michael Eisner and News Corporations' Peter
Chernin - comes in the context of legislation being floated by U.S.
Senator Fritz Hollings that would "outlaw the creation, distribution,
or sale of "any interactive digital device that does not include and
utilize certified security technologies." The "trusted computers" are
being promoted under the guise of being reliable computers -
something we all want - but are intended to "determine what software
will and won't be allowed to run, what we can and can't do with the
information to which we're exposed, and what data about our online
activities will be collected." By Jonathan L. Zittrain, New York
Times, March 11, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/opinion/11ZITT.html
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World - Internet access hits half a billion worldwide: The a new
report found that 24m people gained access to the internet from home
in the final quarter of 2001, compared to just 15m new internet users
in the third quarter.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=8905

House Rep's Rap: Unshackle the CD (Politics 2:00 a.m. PST):  Anyone
who's ever bought a CD only to discover it only plays on certain
machines knows the problem with anti-copying technology. A
Congressman wants to put an end to the practice. Declan McCullagh
reports from Washington.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50886,00.html/ascii

Ithaca Journal: eCornell DISTANCES ITSELF FROM CONVENTION: When
officials from eCornell, Cornell University's for-profit
distance-learning subsidiary, introduced "Irate Joe" at a conference
in Florida, seasoned human-resources executives found the online
simulation of an angry employee chillingly real.  That kind of
gripping, interactive experience is just what eCornell's 50 employees
-- both in Ithaca and New York City -- are aiming for when they take
materials written by Cornell faculty and market them as online
courses for professionals.
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20020
307/topstories/1775722.html

mGen and Vermont National Guard Provide Distance Training: mGen's
distance learning software suite will remotely offer Information
Operations courses to soldiers located across the country…
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=11234

TRENDS SECTION

The Chronicle: HARVARD U COMMITTEE WILL REVIEW WHETHER TAKING COURSES
ON CAMPUS IS ESSENTIAL
A new Harvard University committee will reconsider a long-standing
policy that requires both undergraduate and graduate students to
spend at least a full academic year taking classes on campus to get a
Harvard degree. If the rule is changed, it could pave the way for
degree programs at the university in which students take some or all
of their classes online, rather than in classrooms.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002030501u.htm

National Post: RX FOR RESEARCH: The college has embarked on a bold
new learning prescription with plans to combine a doctor's quest to
seek answers to questions arising from daily practice, and the need
to earn mandated credits toward professional development. The result?
An online professional development portal called Mainport. Launched
this past fall, the portal allows doctors to create their own
personal learning projects using an electronic Web diary. The diary
links to a resource-rich database containing medical textbooks, drug
databases, full-text journals and more.
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/s
tories/20020218/86118.html

Write The Web: WHAT IS A K-LOG?: Some people are taking the concept
of weblogs and applying it to the wider concept of knowledge
management. The result is k-logging ("knowledge-logging"). But will
it catch on - will your employer dump Lotus Notes databases in favour
of browsers and blog-style brain-dumps? John Robb of Userland has
lots of thoughts about k-logs, so we asked him about them in a short
email interview.
http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=123

Corporate Training Leads to Stock Gains, Study Says: For every
increase of $680 in a business's training expenses per worker,
shareholders see a six percent increase in value the following year,
according to a study of 575 U.S.-based companies by the American
Society for Training and Development (ASTD). However, despite the new
evidence, businesses have been reluctant to invest in greater
training during the economic downturn, with the latest ASTD figures
showing training spending decreasing to just 1.8 percent of the
average payroll in 2000. Training through technology remained steady
at about 8.4 percent of all current training.
Original story from Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/2002/02
/24/business/2731849.htm

Thomson Learning Announces Research Study Findings:  The study shows
that structured blended learning programs have the power to increase
on-the-job productivity…
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/arti
cleDetail.jsp?id=11243

Part Man, Part Film, All Mann (Technology 2:00 a.m. PST):  Steve
Mann, who created the wearable computer and has always dreamed of
being a cyborg, merges technology with humanity in a new film,
Cyberman. Brad King reports from the South by Southwest Interactive
conference in Austin, Texas.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50976,00.html/ascii


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Structuring the unstructured: New automatic tagging platform:
ClearForest announces ClearTags 4.0, an auto-tagging platform that
includes semantic, statistical and structural tagging.
http://www.kmworld.com/news/index.cfm?action=readnews&news_id=2581

MICROSOFT ADDS WINDOWS MEDIA CONTROL TO POCKET IE: Posted March 06,
2002 09:04 Pacific Time WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER Control is now available
for Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer (IE) browser, the company said
Tuesday, allowing digital-media playback directly from a Web page
viewed with Pocket IE on the company's Pocket PC 2002 platform. The
ActiveX control will also let Web developers and corporate users
create customized wireless digital
media applications for devices running the Pocket PC 2002 platform,
allowing the same play, pause, stop and information retrieval
functions available through Windows Media for desktop PCs. Content
can be downloaded and played back, or streamed live with a wireless
or wireline connection, the company said.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/03/06/
020306hnmediaplay.xml?0307thunknown

Navy floats IM with allies: The U.S. Navy deployed instant messaging
technology across its Pacific fleet almost two years ago. Now, its
allies in the war on terrorism have installed the
  tool, and they're collaborating on everything from strategy to
medicine using chat software.
http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO68909_NLTAM%2C00.html

FUJITSU SHOWS OFF ITS FIRST PDA
Pocket Loox will feature Microsoft's operating system and an Intel
processor when it's launched later this year.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,88523,tk,dn031202X,00.asp

HP SHOWS EDIT-ON-DISK DVD DRIVES
Two DVD Writers to ship this spring; external drive supports both USB
and FireWire.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,88724,tk,dn031202X,00.asp

That Computer Looks Great on You (Technology 2:00 a.m. PST):  For
wearable computers, how your body moves is just as important as how
the technology works. Brad King reports from the South-by-Southwest
Interactive conference in Austin, Texas.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50975,00.html/ascii

No Pain, No Game (Games 2:00 a.m. PST):  Imagine a game where losing
a point means getting an electric shock. That's Painstation, a
tabletop creation by two guys who want to give
the gaming biz a jolt. Dermot McGrath reports from Germany.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/games/0,2101,50875,00.html/ascii

Finnish University Releases New E-learning Environment: The new Fle3
online learning environment, developed by the University of Helsinki,
is an open-source learning tool that allows students and instructors
to share their thoughts in a central database, allowing them to build
on each other's knowledge and to structure dialogues. Fle3 provides
both students and tutors a shared Web page, or "webtop," where they
can collaborate, sharing documents, links, and comments. The software
uses the ZOPE content management platform, which is supported by
Linux, Windows, and Macintosh, and is one of the first third-party
technologies made to support the Educational Modeling Language
created by Holland's Open University.
Read full story at CETIS
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020219092153


SECURITY SECTION

Netscape Navigator Browser Snoops On Web Searches: AOL Time Warner's
Netscape unit is snooping on searches performed by users of its
latest Navigator browser at Google and other search sites. Netscape
is capturing Navigator 6 users' search terms, along with their
Internet
protocol address, the date Navigator was installed and a unique
identification number.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175035.html

PC-CILLIN VIRUS PROTECTION GOES MOBILE
Trend Micro adds PDA software, personal firewall, and Trojan-horse
tools to antivirus package.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,88564,tk,dn031202X,00.asp

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

This Is a Real Quest for Maps (Technology 2:00 a.m. PST):  David
Rumsey's online map collection has introduced a revolutionary,
accessible way for people to experience old maps by comparing them to
modern geospatial data. By Kendra Mayfield.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50785,00.html/ascii

Suddenly Spyware?: Is media player spyware? Find out the truth about
those CD
and DVD cache files. Post your thoughts.
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eO3Z0DPscz0FBc0fcP0Al

Win2kPro--how do I remove IE and Outlook completely?: DEMONKNIGHT has
a new Windows 2000 installation and wants to  eliminate IE and
Outlook completely from his system.
Post your suggestions.
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eO3Z0DPscz0FBc0fcQ0Am
"West Wing" Watch: A guide for the discriminating viewer Full story:
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/westwing.htm
from Smart Business e-Letter
PROBLEM: I bought a USB hub -- one of those gizmos that daisy-chains
a single USB port so I can attach a half-dozen more USB devices. The
hub can be plugged into the wall, or it can just run off power from
the computer. Is there any reason why I should plug it in?

SOLUTION: Yep. Many USB peripherals (like mice and keyboards and
modems) draw all their power from the USB connection itself. USB hubs
increase the number of available USB ports,
and can thus increase the power demand. While the hubs themselves
don't draw much power at all, the cumulative effect -- particularly
from long-term use of power-hungry peripherals -- has fried more than
a few motherboards.
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"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or
system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most
important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
Abraham Lincoln
From the March 9, 1832 First Political Announcement

"Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always
right."
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New To Me:  This used to be the spot where I would point out a
certain new Web site that I had found that I thought was of
particular interest, a "cool" site if you will. Well, turns
out that function is not following form, i.e. I have used this space
in a variety of ways to highlight any number of things. So now, after
considerable editorial debate among the staff here, this will now
become the "New To Me" section. The only criteria for
items' inclusion in this spot being that I haven't heard of
them before. I hope you find it interesting, valuable and maybe still
a little `cool.' – Mark Oehlert, Editor

**Well, this explains a lot….
HARDWARE GLITCH KNOCKS YAHOO GROUPS OFFLINE
Community message board service remains unavailable one day after
problem was first reported.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,87323,tk,dn030502X,00.asp

NCES' "Digest of Education Statistics, 2001" provides a compilation
of statistical information covering the broad field of education from
prekindergarten through graduate school. Topics in the Digest
include: the number of schools and colleges; teachers; enrollments;
graduates; educational attainment; finances; federal funds for
education;employment and income of graduates; libraries; technology;
and international comparisons. The publication includes well over 400
tables of information. To download, view and print the entire
Digest, 2001 as a PDF file, or any of its individual chapters, please
visit:
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ED-MEDIA 2002
World Conference on Educational Multimedia,
  Hypermedia & Telecommunications
June 24-29, 2002  *  Denver, Colorado USA
FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/callfinal.htm
** Submission Deadline: March 31, 2002 **
Organized by  Association for the Advancement of Computing in
Education (AACE)
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**OK, really feeling the blood begin to boil with this story's
headline – how about we are raising a generation that refuses to
abide by outmoded economic schema that have been rendered irrelevant
by technology – how about we are hopefully raising a generation
that appreciate the need to change your business model over time and
to not confuse your value with your activity! AND what do you bet
this paragon of virtue speeds on the way home!!** Arrghh!!
News Corp. Exec Blasts P2P Piracy (E-Biz 6:27 a.m. PST): The COO of
News Corp. says file-trading services must be policed more heavily
because 'we're in the process of raising a generation to think that
stealing is OK.'
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,50798,00.html?tw=wn20020304

TOP UNIVERSITIES QUIETLY EXPERIMENT WITH E-LEARNING
Oxford, Yale, and Stanford universities are collaborating to put
courses online through the Alliance for Lifelong Learning project.
The alliance offers no credit for coursework, which is currently
aimed at alumni and other non-students. But the offerings could be
made available to the public as early as this year.
Read full story at International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=ar
ticleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=47798

PHILIPPINE UNIVERSITY EXPANDS ONLINE LEARNING INITIATIVE: Bent on
"breaking down the walls of education" not only locally but overseas
as well, the Philippine Women's University (PWU) on Wednesday sealed
a partnership agreement with technology provider Unisys Philippines
that will help the school to expand its distance education program to
different universities worldwide.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174686.html

"New" Microsoft Division Formed: Microsoft has announced that its
Network Service Provider and Mobile Devices groups are to be
combined. Twelve-year Microsoft veteran Pieter Knook will head the
new division. He has stated that he plans to work closely with the
Windows CE group, which handles Handheld PCs, Pocket PCs and the new
Smartphones. Knook previously worked as head of the NSP group and as
president of the Microsoft sales group in Asia.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2002/mar02/03-03knook.asp

House Cool to Copy Protection (Politics 2:00 a.m. PST):  Key
legislators in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of
Representatives aren't keen on embedding copy protection controls in
consumer electronic devices. Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate
report from Washington.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50784,00.html?tw=wn20020304

STANFORD'S LAWRENCE LESSIG TO LAUNCH LICENSING SERVICE
Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig has announced plans to launch
Creative Commons, an online source for intellectual-property licenses
that will allow content creators to control the use of their work.
The new licenses are intended to establish a useful middle ground
between full copyright control and the unprotected public domain.
Lessig and his collaborators have long criticized existing copyright
rules as hampering innovation, technological progress, and economic
growth. Read full story at The San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ga
te/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL

OOPS! BRITNEY EMAIL WORM WIGGLES THROUGH CYBERSPACE: Britney Spears
can add one more notch to her soaring global popularity: the perky
pop star has become the inspiration for a potentially destructive
email worm touring through cyberspace, security experts said on
Friday.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaah50aaRmt6a9nkbob/

LAPD EYES WIRELESS PDAS TO MONITOR RACIAL PROFILING: Capt. Randal
Quan, project manager for the Portable Officer Data Device System
program, said the Los Angeles Police Department is about to publish
its RFP to use handheld PCs to monitor racial profiling.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaah50aaRmt7a9nkbob/

UPDATE: DESPITE CONTROVERSY, BROADBAND BILL WINS HOUSE APPROVAL: The
contentious Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act, better
known as the Tauzin-Dingell bill, late Wednesday afternoon won
approval in the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 273-157
and now faces a battle in the Senate.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaah50aaRmuea9nkbob/

Web Special: Tauzin-Dingell Primer
http://www.washtech.com/specialreports/telecom_debate.html

Champions sought for e-gov fight: Mark Forman said he's working with
Congress to name e-gov champions on the appropriations committees to
ensure that projects are properly funded.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0304/news-egov-03-04-02.asp

Army gearing up for transformation: DOD soon will award a contract
that will serve as the centerpiece for Objective Force, which is
expected to change nearly every aspect of how the Army operates
during war and peace.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0304/news-army-03-04-02.asp

Ireland - Government project aims to increase access to technology
The CAIT II Initiative is meant to provide access to training and new
technologies for those who are not familiar with computers and the
internet.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=8867

Hungary - Hungarian teachers to choose between Windows and Linux:
Under state initiatives, more than 10,000 Hungarian teachers can get
a free PC, but in turn have to pass the so called ECDL international
examinations of computer usage.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=8733


TRENDS SECTION

Learning Circuits: CASE STUDY: CISCO SYSTEMS VENTURES INTO THE LAND
OF REUSABILITY
Here's how Cisco Systems transferred its instructor-led Career
Certification courses into an e-learning format to better streamline
lessons, allow thousands of employees to learn at their own pace, and
arm its closest learning partners with reusable learning objects they
could repurpose into customized course offerings.
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/mar2002/maddocks.html

Focus of the Week: What's Next for the Web
It's brilliant! It's overrated! It's the World Wide Web, the most
important new medium since Gutenberg—or the most overhyped since
smell-o-rama. In less than a decade, the Web has evolved from an
academic obscurity to gold rush boondoggle to… what? This week,
Technology Review focuses on what's next for World Wide Web.
http://www.technologyreview.com/index.asp

Knowledge Management Executive Guide: While there's no universal
definition of KM, just as there's no agreement as to what constitutes
knowledge in the first place, the knowledge management executive
guide will keep you up to date on this tricky topic with hot
questions, top links, ROI information and much more.
http://guide.darwinmag.com/technology/enterprise/knowledge/index.html

Information Technology and the Future of Education: An Interview with
Diana Oblinger, by James Morrison and Diana Oblinger: Oblinger
assesses the integration of information technology in higher
education: its driving forces, its specific applications, its future
development trends, and its current challenges. See
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=983

IT-Training: E-LEARNING FEELS THE IMPACT OF A SLOWDOWN
Elliott Masie: Recently, I have had a chance to review four major
corporate learning strategy documents from Fortune 1000 companies.
Some of these were on hold in the last quarter of 2001, and are now
making their way up the line for executive approval. It is
interesting to note that each of the strategies has added a strong
component about "Alignment with Business".
http://www.train-net.co.uk/columnists/columnist_article.asp?NewsID=641

World - International online copyright treaty draws fire
Combined with a sound recordings agreement, the treaty makes it
illegal to bypass security programs that protect copyrighted
material, such as encryption and aims to make sure royalties are
paid.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=8886

Content Spat Split on Party Lines (Politics 2:00 a.m. PST):  The
Senate debate on copy protection for digital content is falling out
predictably, with Democrats calling for regulations and Republicans
hedging. Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate report from Washington.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50754,00.html?tw=wn20020301

David Wiley & Erin Edwards: ONLINE SELF-ORGANIZING SOCIAL SYSTEMS:
THE DECENTRALIZED FUTURE OF ONLINE LEARNING: Our discussion of
self-organizing social systems online will begin with an exploration
of the issue of scalability and bandwidth in online learning, and the
means currently proposed for overcoming these issues: "learning
objects" automatically assembled by intelligent instructional
systems. We will discuss what we feel are weaknesses in the automated
learning objects approach. Finally, we will use these explorations
and discussions as a context for describing the OSOSS structure.
[Note: pdf, 386kb]
http://wiley.ed.usu.edu/docs/ososs.pdf

Informatik/Informatique: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
- Knowing is a Human Act (Richard McDermott): In the last decade many
companies have begun using information technology to leverage the
knowledge of their professional staff, hoping to get people in
different divisions and locations to document and share ideas and
insights. But most companies soon discover that leveraging knowledge
involves community building as well as information technology. This
is because people often need to share knowledge that requires a human
relationship to think about, understand and share. Ironically, while
information technology has inspired the "knowledge revolution," it
takes building human communities to realize it.
http://www.svifsi.ch/revue/pages/issues/n021/in021.html

ACCENTURE WINS STATE DEPARTMENT PILOT: The State Department chose
Accenture Ltd. to perform a pilot program that may be implemented as
an information sharing and collaboration system.
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/17882-1.html

EDS WINS FIGHTER WEB SOFTWARE CONTRACT: Electronic Data Systems Corp.
of Plano, Texas, has sold Web-ready collaborative software to the
Joint Strike Fighter program.
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/17875-1.html

The Early Days--Tech-Infested Personal Memoirs: Join ExtremeTech's
chief techie Nick Stam as he takes a personal  journey back to the
early days of the PC industry, celebrating the 20th anniversary of
the IBM PC. And he couldn't resist adding a few thoughts on current
topics such as WPA, Itanium, 3GIO, and other stuff.
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eOx70DPscz0FBc0fVU0AD

AN OLD-SCHOOL STORY: HOW HIGH TECH HAS CHANGED COLLEGE LIFE:
Computers and the Internet dominate colleges today, but it wasn't
always so. Guest columnist Steve Powers takes us back to 1977, when
disco ruled the airwaves and an electric typewriter was an
undergrad's idea of technology.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=93-V4ZmQSdNT6jGKNbcFk24rLrsJRRR

OPEN KNOWLEDGE AND OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVES: AN INTERVIEW WITH MIT'S
PHIL LONG
The open source software development approach makes the source code
of software freely and easily available to almost anyone. Ideally,
under the open source approach, a large community of capable
individuals contributes to improvements in that source code, while a
quality control system manages the interactions. This interview
focuses on two initiatives at MIT that are working to apply the open
source approach to produce the practices, tools, and content
necessary for higher education.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=979

USING A WEB-BASED COURSE MANAGEMENT TOOL TO SUPPORT FACE-TO-FACE
INSTRUCTION
While clearly advantageous, the above instructional strategies and
activities are often realized at considerable cost in terms of
faculty time and effort as well as institutional resources, a
situation exacerbated by the absence of guidelines for integrating
WBI and F2F instruction. This article discusses the challenges facing
faculty and students when interfacing between the two delivery
contexts and provides general guidelines for using a Web-based course
management tool to support F2F instruction.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=938

DO NOT PASS GO: Why do so many people leave online courses without
finishing them? Some learning professionals argue that people drop
out because most e-classes are too long and boring. Others, however,
say that's the wrong question. "I'd be appalled if the e-learning
drop-out rate meant students had lost interest, or if it meant they
didn't learn anything. But I'm not appalled if they dropped out
because they learned what they needed to know"...
http://www.onlinelearningmag.com/onlinelearning/ma
gazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1355614

WHY DOESN'T YOUR ROI ADD UP? YOU DO THE MATH: Y2K and the e-commerce
gold rush made ROI analysis little more than an empty formality at
most companies. Now ROI is back. We give you seven tips to see if
your method measures up.
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030102/roi.html

Back in the Bloghouse: Opinion Radical chic and the 'train
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24263.html

HighText Verlag: THE EUROPEAN E-LEARNING PROVIDER MARKET IN 2002
The findings of this survey show that standardized content dominate
only in two countries, namely Denmark and the Netherlands. With the
exception of Sweden and Finland where the emphasis lies on
personalized and/or personalizable contents, companies that offer
both standardized as well as personalized content form the greater
part.
http://www.ibusiness.de/shop/db/shop.4018jg.html

BBC: THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON E-LEARNING
Streamed live from Cardiff, 1 March 2002
Is e-learning all it's cracked up to be? How can you harness new
technology to help in education? Where in the world is it happening?
And how well does it work? What are the benefits, and what are the
potential pitfalls?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/ice/

EMERGING TECH SECTION

Toshiba Gets Its Feet Wet: In the world of PDAs, it's always nice to
see a new competitor enter the fray to drive a little more
innovation. It's especially nice when the newcomer arrives with a
great product.
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/020102/fittest_gadgets.html

CASIO ADDS LIFE TO MOBILE DEVICES: New fuel cell generates power
through chemical reaction, keeping  notebooks running for 20 hours.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,87324,tk,dn030502X,00.asp

New Palm a Tough Sell for Biz (Business 2:00 a.m. PST):  Analysts say
Palm's low-end PDA should do well with first-timers; but its other
new release, which is designed for business, doesn't impress. By
Elisa Batista.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50710,00.html?tw=wn20020304

Gnutella: File-Sharing Haven (MP3 Rocks the Web 2:00 a.m. PST):  A
rift between file-swapping companies FastTrack and Morpheus is a boon
for Gnutella. It's also good news for users who can't be booted off
the open-source system. By Brad King.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,50858,00.html/ascii

Wired: 3-D MED SCHOOL, HOLD THE CADAVERS: The facility places
scientists right in the picture, with four projectors displaying
representations of the body onto the walls of a 2.5-cubic-meter room.
Researchers view the images through glasses that are a bit like the
old-fashioned stereophonic glasses -- using a shutter flicking 30
times a second, and a special trigger to manipulate the images, they
create an immersive effect.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,50829,00.html

Enterprise PDAs: Pick your platform: Equipping your mobile workforce
with new handhelds is no easy decision. Palm, Pocket PC and
BlackBerry all want to be the half-pound gorilla in the enterprise.
Our special report will help you choose the  platform that's right
for your company.
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=43-cop5IBJlW8AslPp9UI0MXpGLKsRR

Picture This: Image-based rendering creates photorealistic 3-D models
from plain old pictures.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/leo022702.asp

REMOTE ACCESS PROGRAMS THE NEXT BEST THING TO BEING THERE: (Source:
PC World.com) These remote-control programs let you use a distant PC
as if you were sitting right in front of it.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaaib6aaRnuwa9nkbob/


SECURITY SECTION

Net saboteur faces 41 months: The network administrator who destroyed
Omega Engineering's network is facing 41 months in federal prison.
DocFinder: 8345
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/0304lloyd.html

Online Kit Lets Even Novices Create Viruses: Security vendors are
warning of a new Web site that contains a simple virus-generating kit
that would enable even the most inexperienced computer user to create
and release a virus.
http://extreme.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eOx70DPscz0FBc0fVQ0A8

He Hacks by Day, Squats by Night (Culture 2:00 a.m. PST):  Adrian
Lamo is gaining recognition in the hacking world for surreptitiously
slipping into computer networks. The fact that he's
homeless only adds to his reputation. Noah Shachtman reports from New
York.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50811,00.html/ascii


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Scholars Who Dig-itize Gutenberg (Culture 2:00 a.m. PST):  In an
ambitious project, the Library of Congress is digitizing its perfect
rendition of the Gutenberg Bible. These high-resolution images could
reveal more about Gutenberg's invention of moveable type. By
Kendra Mayfield.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50589,00.html?tw=wn20020304
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NEWS

Skeptics Stall 'Cyber Schools'A hot debate on the merits of new
distance learning lands in Pa. courts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1935-2002Feb25.html

Judge: If You Own Music, Prove It (MP3 Rocks the Web Friday):  The
judge in the Napster copyright infringement case questions whether
the record labels own copyrights to songs -- copyrights that are the
base of their suit. By Brad King.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,50625,00.html?tw=wn20020223

COURT ALLOWS NAPSTER TO LAUNCH ITS OWN PROBE: Beleaguered music
service will try to prove that recording industry is violating
antitrust laws.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,86183,tk,dn022502X,00.asp

IS E-LEARNING A FLOP IN INDIA?: Both technologists and educationists
agree that e-learning is possible, efficient and represents the
future. But the way e-learning has evolved does not give students the
confidence that it can replace classroom learning. Why is this so?
Where are the gaps? And what needs to be done to bridge these gaps?
http://www.india-today.com/ctoday/20020201/columns2.html

Can the World Be Copyrighted? (Politics 2:00 a.m. PST):
International treaties designed to globalize standards that currently
exist only the U.S. have advocates and opponents staking claims to
what is copyright and copywrong. By Brad King.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50658,00.html?tw=wn20020226

The Chronicle: ONLINE STUDENTS DON'T FARE AS WELL AS CLASSROOM
COUNTERPARTS, STUDY FINDS: The students who took the online sections
of the course tended to have more college experience and slightly
higher ACT scores. The online sections also had fewer than half as
many students as the traditional sections. But even with those
benefits going for them, the online students fared worse...
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022501u.htm

Guardian Unlimited: STUDENTS LEAVE BOOKS ON THE SHELF: Students are
increasingly turning away from course books and looking to the
internet for information, according to new research.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,656790,00.html

news.com.au: $33m E-Learning Deal: In a progressive rollout 1.33
million users - 1.2 million students and 130,000 teachers - will be
connected by June 2003. Students would be able to access learning
materials and library resources from a remote location and
participate in collaborative work groups across the state through
online discussion groups. Parents will also be able to ask their
child's teacher by e-mail about matters such as attendance and
academic progress.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,3840432%
255E1702,00.html

MS warns of 'critical' flaws: Microsoft has released patches for two
security holes in its Internet software that could allow hackers to
read files off a  user's computer or information in Web pages that
they visit. The company also patched server glitches that could let
attackers crash Web servers or take over computer networks attached
to Microsoft Web servers. Three of the four alerts were classified by
Microsoft as 'critical.'
http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=7d-FFBqIDLpdoDk-5rUVC5T-dp4URRR

ARMY OPENS MORE VIRTUAL DOORS TO EDUCATION: Soldiers at bases in
Colorado and Washington next month will be able to enroll in online
courses at 23 colleges, bringing to five the number of bases using
the eArmyU learning portal.
http://www.gcn.com/21_4/dod/17966-1.html

CENSUS, NAVY SUPERCHARGE WEB LIBRARIES: Librarians at the Census
Bureau and the Naval Research Laboratory are building Web portals
that give researchers faster access to a greater volume of higher
quality information.
http://www.gcn.com/21_3/news/17908-1.html

HOUSE TO VOTE ON BROADBAND BILL: Lawmakers will consider
controversial legislation designed to increase options in high-speed
access.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,86443,tk,dn022602X,00.asp

Mitnick Meets His Pigeon (Culture Thursday):  Kevin Mitnick and the
former Novell employee he duped into giving him access to the
company's computer network -- an act which eventually
sent Mitnick to prison -- finally meet face to face.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50585,00.html?tw=wn20020222

  Instant Diagnosis in Your Palm (Med-Tech Center Thursday):
Researchers develop a DNA detection system designed to instantly
diagnoses disease, as well as acts of bioterrorism. And it all comes
wrapped in a handheld device. By Kristen Philipkoski.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,50566,00.html?tw=wn20020222

'A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE': Professors at Michigan State University
have found that students who took an economics course online didn't
do as well as students who took the same course in a traditional
classroom -- a result that runs counter to the findings of other
studies. (2/25/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022501u.htm

Grateful Dead lyricist lambasts DMCA: It can only be EFF co-founder
Barlow...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24186.html

SEN. VOINOVICH INTRODUCES DIGITAL TECHCORPS COMPANION BILL
Interest in the idea of letting federal IT employees spend time
working in the private sector is growing in the Senate. Sen. George
Voinovich (R-Ohio) earlier this month introduced a companion version
to Rep. Tom Davis' (R-Va.) Digital Tech Corps bill.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18021-1.html

DOD AIRCRAFT TEAM WILL COLLABORATE WEB-STYLE
The Joint Strike Fighter program has bought Web-ready collaborative
software from Electronic Data Systems Corp.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18031-1.html

DORN CONFIRMED BY SENATE FOR NO. 2 OMB POSITION
Nancy Dorn yesterday officially became the new deputy director of the
Office of Management and Budget after the Senate confirmed her
nomination. Dorn replaces Sean OKeefe, who became NASA administrator
last November.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18016-1.html

EDUCATION IMPROVES ONLINE STUDENT LOAN APPLICATIONS
The Education Department's Office of Student Financial Assistance has
revamped its Web site for student aid, making the application process
quicker and easier.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18023-1.html


TRENDS SECTION

Persuasive, Pervasive Computing
Nearly two years after its inception, MIT's ubiquitous computing
project begins to bear fruit.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/brown022502.asp

TECHNOLOGY'S ROLE IN PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT: Kimberly Nelson, CIO
and assistant administrator for the Office of Environmental
Information, offers five thoughts about how
technology helps the EPA.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaahIEaaRhNia9nkbob/

Military transformation opens up new IT market: By William New,
National Journal's Technology Daily  The Defense Department is
seeking to return to its Reagan-era budgetary might, but the spending
of the future will look different. While the department still will
build big ships and airplanes, top Defense officials are pushing
a "transformation" of the military toward more efficient internal
systems and weapons driven by information technology.  Such a
transformation spells opportunity for the nation's IT sector, which
is looking for ways to contribute to the nation's security and for
products to help it recover economically, industry sources
say.  "What we're seeing is a whole array of companies stepping
forward with technology solutions," said David Colton, vice president
for strategic initiatives at the Information Technology Association
of America (ITAA). "Companies are looking at both homeland defense
and the Department of Defense as opportunities. Since Sept. 11, the
tempo has picked up."
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0202/022502td1.htm

Army online university expands in second year: By Brian Friel  The
Army plans to nearly double the size of an e-learning program that
provides free online degree courses to soldiers around the world, the
program's officials announced recently.  EArmyU.com, an online
portal that connects soldiers to degree programs at universities
across the country, enrolled 12,000 students in its first year of
operation, according to Barbara Lombardo, eArmyU.com coordinator for
PricewaterhouseCoopers, which is managing the program for the Army.
The Army plans to enroll another 10,000 students by the end of fiscal
2002.  Under the program, soldiers enroll in degree programs with
universities and certificate programs that offer courses online
through eArmyU.com. The Army then provides soldiers with free
laptops, Internet connections and printers so they can complete their
coursework. The program is in part a recruiting tool, aimed at
potential soldiers who don't want to have to choose between
enlisting in the Army and completing their college degrees. It's
also
a retention tool, since soldiers have to remain in the Army at least
three years beyond their initial enrollment in the program.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0202/022602b1.htm

Cultural barriers, not technology, blamed for poor information sharing
By Shane Harris : More than five months after the Sept. 11 attacks
exposed critical weaknesses in how the federal government shares
information internally and with state and local agencies, a panel of
agency chief information officers and corporate technology executives
testified Tuesday about what the government can learn from the
private sector to prevent future acts of terrorism. Appearing before
the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology and
Procurement Policy, the CIOs agreed that political, cultural and
regulatory barriers, not technological ones, are impeding the ability
of agencies to share terrorism-related information. Patrick
Schambach, CIO at the new Transportation Security Administration,
told the members of the subcommittee that his agency "will rely
heavily on information sharing and a solid technological platform on
which to operate." TSA has launched a search for a contractor to
oversee its most daunting task: putting in place more than 1,700
explosive-detection machines to screen luggage at every airport in
the United States by the end of the year. :
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0202/022602h1.htm

  Blast from the Past: You know your employees want more training, but
how can you tell if you are getting your money's worth? (From the
Feb. 15, 2001 issue of CIO.)
http://www.cio.com/archive/021501/roi.html

Blog This
Online diarists rule an Internet strewn with failed dot coms.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/jenkins0302.asp

EMERGING TECH SECTION

NASA Gets a New Fix on Problems (Technology 2:00 a.m. PST):  Driven
by an Oracle database, a computerized simulator will allow engineers
to create what-if scenarios on spacecraft, instead of having to build
mockups. By Andy Patrizio.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50552,00.html?
tw=wn20020222

Big Blue's Blue-Streak Chip (Technology 6:21 a.m. PST):  It's the
world's fastest microchip -- of the moment, at least. IBM says it has
built a 110-gigahertz chip out of silicon germanium.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50642,00.html?
tw=wn20020225

iAnywhere Sharp deal gives Linux PDAs boost: Pushing enterprise apps
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/24182.html

SNEAK PEEK: STARTLING NEW INTERNET DEVICES: Innovative companies are
hooking coffee machines, industrial gear, cars, product packaging,
and more into the Net. So what's the payoff? A $200 billion
opportunity for business -- and a bonanza for consumers.
  http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eOr60CdiPZ0FtC0fKH0AI

ATI  bests Nvidia in notebook graphics – McComas:head-to-
head
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/24215.html

SECURITY SECTION

**Here is an interesting tidbit. Whenever I click on a story from
IDG.net, if I really want to see it, I have to disable the feature
within Norton that blocks ads. I don't usually come across many
news sites that force that issue.**

THE HIDDEN PRIVACY HAZARDS OF HTML E-MAIL: (Source: ITworld.com) Many
mailing list companies offer a service that tracks the links that the
email recipients click inside the messages, and then sell this
clickstream information to its clients. How you disclose such
practices to your own customers will determine whether or not this
strategy backfires.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaahIOaaRhXoa9n1Ozb/

Three new MS security holes - two nasty:  Root access, credit data
compromises....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24168.html

Cutting edge P2P, crypto comes to your PC:  CodeCon Underground radio
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24183.html


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

DNA Unveils Ghost Town Secrets (Culture 7:05 a.m. PST):
Archaeologists are finding lots of interesting artifacts under the
floorboards of old buildings in Virginia City, Nevada, and they're
using DNA to discover what life may have been like.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50647,00.html?tw=wn20020225

Dvorak Online: Get Over Yourselves: With the big dot-com bust, you
may have thought the world  was safe from self-congratulatory
Internet blowhards. Columnist John C. Dvorak reveals that, sadly,
this just isn't true. Apparently the authors of The ClueTrain
Manifesto (a book devoted to the Internet culture and the idea that
the dot-com boom was a train you best get on or get run over by)
have, despite being proven wrong on many counts, reemerged in a
fairly popular Blog site (these are public online diaries--See
Dvorak's columns on Bloggers for a more
complete explanation). Suffice to say that Dvorak finds them spewing
even more ridiculous, touchy-feely technobabble. Join him in the fun
as he rips off their self-important veneer and reveals how
meaningless and ridiculous The ClueTrain Manifesto maxims really are.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eOpq0DPscz0EvR0fJF0AA
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MS warns of 'critical' flaws

Microsoft has released patches for two security holes
in its Internet software that could allow hackers to
read files off a user's computer or information in Web
pages that they visit. The company also patched server
glitches that could let attackers crash Web servers or
take over computer networks attached to Microsoft Web
servers. Three of the four alerts were classified by
Microsoft as 'critical.'
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