To All Those Who Subscribe;

Well, this has been quite the ride hasn't it? I started this little
effort using just a list of emails of folks who said they would like
to read some of the things that I found. Then it became this
fuller-fledged newsletter and then finally e-Clippings (not my most
imaginative work but one that stuck) found a home on the Web here at
Yahoo.

So now what. Well as time has passed my interest in investigating the
intersection of technology, culture and learning has not lessened.
Neither has my passion for sharing those items I find or my thoughts
about them. What has changed though, is the way I want to reach people
with those thoughts and items.

In case you don't know, I started my own blog a while back. You can
find it over at http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/

I love doing the blog - the pace fits my mental pace, the site
functionality allows me to do things like post files and photos easily
and with a great deal of control over the design. Its even been
reviewed nicely by some on the Web. I'm also not averse to continue
doing a newsletter. There is an automated function available in some
blogging software that would bundle all my daily posts and send them
out but my blogging software unfortunately doesn't have that feature.
There is a way you can stay informed though (other than visiting my
site).

Blogs use a technology called RSS (think of it as a radio station and
my posts are the songs). You can sign up for an "Aggregator" (think of
it as your radio). Then you "subscribe" (think tune in) to different
blogs using the aggregator to read what they're saying.

A really good free aggregator is available at www.newsgator.com. There
is also one at www.bloglinges.com. These are both free and can used to
subscribe to any blog not just mine. After you sign up with an
aggregator, you need to tell it which blog to listen to. You do this
by giving it the link to the RSS Feed (think tuning in to the station)
from whatever blog you want. My RSS Feed looks like this
http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/index.rdf and is called
"Syndicate this site" - other sites will have little button that say
"XML" that will have the right link. Anyway - this is all fairly easy
but if you want any help at all, you have a coupon as a reader of
e-Clippings to a free consultation via email with me on how to set
this up. Don't be shy about taking me up on this.

So I guess that's it - in case you haven't guessed, I will no longer
be publishing the e-Clippings newsletter through this site. I will
continue to pursue options for those who wish to get an email
subscription but the content will be from my blog at
http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/

I have and will continue to appreciate every single subscriber more
than you'll ever know, but the time has to move on to a different
pasture. I hope you will all come and visit.

With deep thanks,

Mark Oehlert, editor, e-Clippings Newsletter

e-Clippings  7.5.2004 *Not Latin for Fair and Balanced
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Folks, I am wrestling with something here. As you may have noticed,
this newsletter has been intermittent of late. Work, life, etc. have
all been rudely interrupting the publishing schedule here. The other
dynamic has also been the e-Clippings' blog.

Doing the newsletter and the blog really does seem like serving two
masters but every time I think about stopping the newsletter, I get
the feeling that the blog and the newsletter both serve different but
complementary purposes and audiences. So the question is, how can I
continue to try to do both and everything else and keep some
semblance of a regular publishing schedule?

One thing that I am going to try is to cap the newsletter at 5 pages
per issue period. Overflow items, etc. I will post to the blog but I
will try to distill the items down to a good digest. This will help
me to have a target to aim at and a finish line to cross. We'll
just try that for awhile and see if it helps.

So read on and thanks for sticking around.

Mark Oehlert, Editor
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Microsoft Posts Security Update /  Associated Press
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,64099,00.html
Patch available here.
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
08:41 AM Jul. 03, 2004 PT
NEW YORK -- Microsoft issued an interim security update Friday to
protect users of its nearly ubiquitous Internet Explorer browsers
from a new technique for spreading viruses.
The update does not entirely fix the flaw that makes the spread
possible, but it changes settings in Windows operating systems to
disable hackers' ability to deliver malicious code with it.
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NEWS

(From elearningpost)  E-LEARNING DASHBOARD
Check this out. Thanks to Kevin for including elearningpost on the
list of e-learning blogs.
http://www.e-learningguru.com/dashboard.asp

BLOGGING BEHIND THE FIREWALL
Insights from Infoworld's use of weblog in projects: "Weblogs
are not just for the hard-core techies. Our editorial staff recently
started its own Weblog to share updated style guides, edit calendars,
and other tools of the trade. I'm looking forward to seeing what
unexpected points of leverage they achieve with their Weblog.
It's amazing how a system so simple and easy can produce such
profound results."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/21/21OPconnection_1.html

SOMETHING WIKI THIS WAY COMES
Good to see grassroots technology like the Wiki finding its way into
businesses: "Peter Thoeny, creator of TWiki, a leading
open-source wiki program, says at least 35,000 people have downloaded
TWiki since 2001. Two-thirds of his programs are going into
businesses — Walt Disney, SAP, and Motorola among them."
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886138.htm

MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING: A ROADMAP
Interview with Jen Friedberg, a photojournalist at the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, on online visual storytelling in the newsroom. Here,
Jen shares his method of creating visual stories.
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=47


EMERGING TECH SECTION

TextAloud MP3 is the exciting new program that converts any text into
spoken words and MP3 files. It resides in your Windows tray, always
ready to read aloud your text from email, web pages, and documents.
You can listen immediately, or save to .wav or MP3 files to hear
later at your convenience.
http://www.voicefactor.com/txtaloud.asp

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

(From elearningpost) WHO KNOWS?
Jay Cross on the need to get social networks going: "Now that
business organizations have been de-layered, downsized and
re-engineered to the bone, how will they transfer their special ways
of doing things to new employees? The answer lies in exploiting the
savvy of seniors, the wise elders who have `been there, done
that' and can offer counsel and know-how to the newcomers. Old
hands
often make outstanding sales and service coaches, too."
http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_col_effectiveness.asp?
articleid=519&zoneid=105

(From elearningpost) DESIGNING COLLABORATIVE E-LEARNING FOR RESULTS
Nice description of the tasks that go into designing collaborative
e-learning. I can't stop thinking about the possibilities that
lie at the confluence of weblogs (see previous post) and the
collaborative strategies mentioned in this article. It points to a
move away from designing for discrete events to designing for
collaborative experiences.
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2004/may2004/mohr.htm

(From elearningpost  HOW TO USE WEBLOGS TO CREATE ENGAGING LEARNING
EXPERIENCES In this article for the Australian Flexible Learning
Community, I describe a simple method for using blogs in a corporate
learning situation. The method uses the 3 important aspects of blogs:
1) personal point of view, 2) chronological nature and 3) byte-sized
posts.
http://learnscope.flexiblelearning.net.au/learnscope/golearn.asp?
category=12&DocumentId=5723

Research: What's the Business Case for New Technologies?
June 1, 2004
By the Editors of CIO Insight
5.5% more CIOs called themselves early adopters this year than last
year
79% of CIOs say they've received a significant payoff from emerging
technologies
54% say business executives get involved in testing and deploying new
technologies
42% of companies won't adopt technologies if it means changing
business processes
55% of CIOs say they don't seek technologies developed outside the U.
S.
http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article/0,1406,a=129268,00.asp

BRINGING RADIO TO RURAL AFRICA
Story about hand-cranked radios from FreePlay: "In places without
electricity, the radio is still a vital source of information,
education, and entertainment. But, they are considered a status
symbol because they are expensive to own and operate – batteries
are not free… That is why a radio that demands no money to run
because it operates on hand-generated power is opening the airwaves
to
a new generation in Africa."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4953281/

(From elearningpost)
PICK AND CHOOSE MIGHT BE KEY
An important message lies in this Australian experiment — mixing
both information and instruction are essential for public use of
e-learning material. I wrote about this strategy in 2001 under the
title of Blending Information and Instruction. What I did then, and
guess what is still relevant today, is to look at companies that were
providing exemplar online support. I chose Macromedia, Adobe and
Apple back then and analyzed their online support strategy. These
companies offered both information in the form of knowledge bases and
instruction in the form of small modules and full-blown courses. This
is the same strategy the Austrade pilot has implemented with success.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/14/1087065076850.html?
oneclick=true
http://www.elearningpost.com/features/archives/002088.asp

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION


GAMING SECTION

In These Games, the Points Are All Political
By MICHAEL ERARD, Published: July 1, 2004
BY day, Jeremy Kenney, 33, fixes Web sites and databases for the
Republican National Committee. By night, on weekends and in his spare
time he dabbles in an emerging form of political marketing: the
online game. Part advertisement, part journalism, part cartoon, such
games put fun in the service of ideology - with varying
sophistication.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/technology/circuits/01poli.html?
ex=1246334400&en=46f28ed3481ccfa6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

COOL INTERACTIVE
Plan Your Future Park from the Gotham Gazette is an interactive game
that let's you "plan your own park, making choices that
communities all over the city have been facing."
http://www.gothamgazette.com/parksgame/

COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

EFF Publishes Patent Hit List By Daniel Terdiman
02:00 AM Jun. 30, 2004 PT
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is spoiling for a fight, and on
Wednesday it named the top 10 patents it wants killed, or at least
redefined. The EFF said all 10 patents are in some way illegitimate
and are being used to limit free expression.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64038,00.html

BBC TO OPEN CONTENT FLOODGATES
Nice things are happening in the world: "The British Broadcasting
Corporation's Creative Archive, one of the most ambitious free
digital content projects to date, is set to launch this fall with
thousands of three-minute clips of nature programming. The effort
could goad other organizations to share their professionally produced
content with Web users."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63857,00.html


SECURITY SECTION

Net Attack Aimed at Banking Data
By Mike Musgrove, Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 30, 2004; Page E01
Computer security experts warned yesterday of another new Internet
threat that can steal the passwords and account information of people
who bank online -- the second such discovery in a week.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16023-2004Jun29.html?
referrer=email

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This is no kidding folks.

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Firefox is available at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
US-CERT is at http://www.us-cert.gov/
Instructions on How to Protect Your Computer Are at http://www.
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**Also feel free to email me if you would like to try the other
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PC Users Warned of Infected Web Sites


By Brian Krebs
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Friday, June 25, 2004; 4:37 PM


Computer security experts and the federal government are warning
Internet users to take extra precautions when browsing the Web after
an Internet attack seeded Web sites with programs that hackers can use
to steal personal information.

The attack is more dangerous than most, according to the government's
US-CERT cybersecurity center, because infection is possible just by
visiting affected Web sites, according to US-CERT, a division of the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The attackers, whose identities are unknown, targeted a flaw in Web
sites powered by Microsoft's Internet Information Services Web server
(IIS). The sites hit by the attack were programmed to redirect the
Explorer browser to another Web site that contains code that hackers
use to record what people type on their keyboards -- including data
such as passwords, credit card and Social Security numbers. The code
then e-mails that information back to the attackers.

Computers that run Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsers are
vulnerable to infection, according to US-CERT. The CERT warning said
Internet Explorer users can protect themselves by turning off the
"javascript" function in their browsers. Javascript is a computer
language often used in building Web sites. The attack takes advantage
of two recently discovered security flaws in Internet Explorer.
Microsoft released a patch in April to fix one of the security holes;
the company is still working on a patch for the other flaw, which
security researchers publicly detailed less than two weeks ago.

CERT recommends that Internet Explorer users consider different
browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Communicator or Opera. For
people who continue to use Internet Explorer, CERT and Microsoft
recommend setting the browser's security setting to "high."

Among the several Web sites hit were kbb.com, the Internet address of
the Kelley Blue Book automobile pricing guide, and MinervaHealth, a
health care financing company based in Jackson, Wyo.

Robyn Eckard, a spokeswoman for the Irvine, Calif.-based Kelley Blue
Book, said the company learned about the problem late Wednesday after
Web site visitors said their antivirus software tipped them off to the
code. Eckard said Kelley Blue Book removed the malicious code from its
site by late Thursday afternoon.

Jennifer Scharff, vice president of marketing for the company
MinervaHealth, said some of the company's clients reported the problem
on Thursday. The company has since fixed its site, she said. Scharff
said no more than 50 visitors browsed the Web site during the time it
was serving up the hostile code.

In addition, at least one auction page on the eBay online auction site
contained a photograph that links to an infected Web site, said
Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the Bethesda, Md.-based
SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center.

Security experts said that the attack reveals the evolution of
"phishing" scams, a form of fraud designed to trick people into giving
up their personal data to criminals who have designed Web sites to
look like those of respectable companies.

Phishing scams are one of the most widespread types of online fraud
today, prompting the Federal Trade Commission, the Better Business
Bureau and many other companies and consumers' groups to find ways to
teach people to avoid getting scammed. "Phishers" normally persuade
people to visit fake Web sites by enticing them through e-mail
messages.

Thursday's Web site attack is a new direction for online criminals,
said Dave Endler, director of digital vaccine for TippingPoint, an
Internet security company based in Austin, Texas. "Instead of relying
on the typical phishing e-mail scams to social engineer users into
visiting malicious spoofed Web sites, these attackers actually went
straight to the source and compromised known trusted Web sites in
order to infect their visitors," he said.

Joe Stewart, senior security researcher for Chicago-based Internet
security firm LURHQ, said that the programs installed on victims'
computers were designed to wait until the user visited a Web site like
Paypal or Ebay. If the program had worked correctly, people would have
seen pop-up screens on their monitors asking them to enter their
credit card numbers or other financial data.

"Phishing has moved from an e-mail attack to one that's really being
brought to the desktop," Stewart said.

Ken Dunham, malicious code manager for Reston, Va.-based security
company iDefense, said the attack bears the trademark signatures of
the Hangup Group, a Russian hacker organization thought to be
responsible for unleashing the recent "Korgo" worms. Korgo worms allow
hackers to read what people are typing on their computers and scours
infected PCs for other financial information.

According to SANS, most large Internet service providers stopped
forwarding Internet traffic to the Russian Web site that hosts the
"keylogging" software.

FBI spokesman Joe Parris declined to say whether the agency is
investigating this particular attack. But Parris said hackers commonly
use similar Trojan horse techniques. "We work closely with Microsoft
in investigating matters of this type and always follow up on any
information provided by industry," he said.

Dunham and other security experts said they expect this kind of attack
to become more widespread in coming weeks and months.

"These guys have the tools, techniques and motivation to launch highly
sophisticated attacks that are very difficult for consumers to protect
themselves against," he said. "Whoever is responsible has just seen
how well this attack works, and other (hacker groups) are almost
surely going to take notice."

Stephen Toulouse, a security program manager at Microsoft, said the
company does not believe the attack is widespread. "Nonetheless, we
view this is a very real threat, with serious significance in terms of
the potential impact on our customers," he said.

Toulouse said the company is gathering information on the attack and
will hand it over to the FBI.

Security experts said it is not yet clear which Microsoft
vulnerability the attackers used to commandeer the Web sites. Ullrich
said the culprit is a flaw in the way IIS processes secure login pages
for Web sites that require users to enter a username and password.
Microsoft released a patch for that flaw in April in a massive bundle
of security fixes.

Toulouse said that the proprietors for the majority of sites affected
by the attack failed to install the patches.

Here are instructions on how to protect your computer.

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Sapolsky's Three Laws for Doing Science

Sapolsky's First Law
Think logically, but orthogonally.

Sapolsky's Second Law
It's okay to think about nonsense, as long as you don't believe in it.

Sapolsky's Third Law
Often, the biggest impediment to scientific progress is not what we
don't know, but what we know.

-ROBERT SAPOLSKY is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford
University and of neurology at Stanford's School of Medicine. He is
also a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya.
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(found at elearningpost)
BUILDING THE BUSINESS CASE FOR A KNOWLEDGE INITIATIVE IBM Global
Services offers a framework to build a KM business case: "In this
paper, we provide a framework for measuring and justifying
knowledge-related projects. Real world examples from the literature
and our interviews, as well as a case study from Intel Corporation,
are used to illustrate the framework. Further, we highlight effective
practices for each step in our approach to building a KM business
case."
http://www-1.ibm.com/services/strategy/e_strategy/esr_knowledgemgmt.
html

(found at elearningpost)
EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE
Corporate anthropology seems to be a growing trend: Ad agencies are
hiring anthropologists and ethnographers to study and film consumers
in their natural environments to see what they really eat, drink, and
buy.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/81/everymove.html

EMERGING TECH SECTION

(found at elearningpost)
INTERACTIVE DECISION OBJECTS
"Here's something that I did with two friends almost two years
ago. Interactive Decision Objects are interactive decision making
frameworks. They are designed to be used in a collaborative setting
with the sole aim of getting things done: be it making strategy
decisions, exploring information management choices, analyzing
cultural differences, etc. You can download the demo kit and play
with the five IDOs we've created. Have fun!"
http://www.elearningpost.com/features/archives/006660.asp

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

(found at elearningpost)
THE GUERRA SCALE
Nice recap on the user experience of online learning content.
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2004/mar2004/guerra.htm

(found at elearningpost)
IT'S A BLOG WORLD AFTER ALL
This article from Fast Company provides a nice run down on corporate
blogging. Although most see blogs as better PR vehicles, some
companies are experimenting with blogs for informal, ground-up
knowledge sharing: "Knowledge software often requires employees to
take both an extra step and extra time to record what they know, and
to fit their knowledge into a database of inflexible categories.
Internal blogs are more integrated into a worker's regular daily
communications."
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/81/blog.html

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

(found at elearningpost)
LEARNING GOES MOBILE
Mobile learning has big implications for e-learning, but I'm more
interested in e-paper, which is making good progress. Something that
has the affordances of a book and of digital devices ought to be
given serious thought.
http://www.workindex.com/editorial/train/trn0402-02.asp
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/36537.html

Tales From The Road: Global road warriors find they need to outfit
themselves with a plethora of gadgets to ensure wireless connectivity
anytime, anywhere.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,93136,00.html?nlid=PM

Dell announces a trio of handhelds: Sporting Intel's next-generation
XScale processors and Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, the new
Dell Axim X30 series sets new standards
in the Pocket PC arena. These models maximize battery life, and the
company's high-end model boasts a 624MHz processor--the fastest we've
seen to date. Find one that's right for you.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=d4-E0SqQ0EmfrGNKaV9Gwr32iY_y0ZR

GAMING SECTION


COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION


SECURITY SECTION

The Defense-in-depth Approach To Malware: With the right tools to
protect workstations and servers from malicious software, your
chances of suffering a catastrophic loss are greatly diminished,
writes columnist Douglas Schweitzer.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,93274,00.html?nlid=SEC2

Safari, IE Flaw Could Allow Malicious Code Execution: Security
company Secunia has issued an advisory to all Mac OS X users that
surf
the Web with the Internet Explorer or Safari Web browsers about a
"highly critical" vulnerability..
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,93233,00.html?nlid=SEC2

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20th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
August 4-6 2004, Madison Wisconsin
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Modern-day ruins...
Shaun O'Boyle takes some amazing photo essays of "abandoned
industrial, institutional and related architectural ruins."
Please visit his site and consider purchasing a print (reasonably
priced)to support this important work. Really, kids in the U.S. are
going to grow up so far removed from this industrial background that
it will appear alien to them.
http://oboylephoto.com/b_iron/bi3.htm
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Anybody read Dutch?
My good friend Marc van Gestel from Holland is fascinated with
American politics (specifically presidential politics - we met in
grad school where he was studying this). Guess what? He has a blog on
it - POTUS 2004. He is currently coming to the States for holiday and
asked me to guestblog a bit. I have posted one thing but I must say
its a bit disconcerting posting in a language you know is not the
audience's primary one. Still and all - if you are interested in the
U.S. presdiential race, covered in Dutch then head on over!
http://potus2004.blogspot.com/
http://potus2004.blogspot.com/2004_05_09_potus2004_archive.
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NEWS

What? Content for free? What kind of new madness is this?
Bookshare.org offers 17,000 royalty-free texts
By Corey Murray, Assistant Editor, eSchool News
May 7, 2004
For special-education teachers, providing required reading for blind
and learning-disabled students is a significant challenge. Now,
thanks to the aid of Bookshare.org, a non-profit digital book service
based in Palo Alto, Calif., educators have access to a library of
thousands of titles they can download and reproduce for use on screen
readers or as MP3 files.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=5057

Chocks away for RAF e-learning By Arif Mohamed [13-05-2004]
Royal Air Force works on scenario-based e-learning projects for first
aid and map reading. The Ministry of Defence is developing two
e-learning solutions, covering core first aid and map reading skills,
for its Ground Training Equipment (GTE) division.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1155117

They Should Have Called it Bloogle
This week, Google unveiled the Google Blog. The move is a big
departure from tradition for what has been a stubbornly introverted
organization.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1405&trk=nl

Play Games, Be Better Students?  By Daniel Terdiman
02:00 AM May. 11, 2004 PT
LOS ANGELES -- The conventional wisdom about the video-game industry
is that it's all about entertainment. But a group of 350 game
designers, educators and government officials think that games can be
used as a tool to teach critical thinking, and in the process,
improve American education.
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,63415,00.html

Diploma Mills: Federal Employees Have Obtained Degrees from Diploma
Mills and Other Unaccredited Schools, Some at Government Expense
GAO-04-771T  May 11, 2004 As requested, GAO conducted an
investigation to determine whether the federal government has paid
for
degrees from diploma mills and other unaccredited postsecondary
schools. Section 4107 of title 5, U. S. Code, only permits the
federal government to pay for the cost of academic degree training
provided by a college or university that is accredited by a nationally
recognized accrediting body. GAO was also asked to determine whether
federal employees who hold senior-level positions have degrees from
diploma mills and other unaccredited schools. This report summarizes
our investigative findings.
http://www.gao.gov/docdblite/summary.php?
recflag=&accno=A09993&rptno=GAO-04-771T


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Prototype for New RSS to Javascript Code
Toying with the new Magpie RSS parser, Alan Levine has built a
prototype version of a new build a feed page. This page (http://jade.
mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/build_nu.php) takes any RSS feed and
converts it into a Javascript command you can place on your web page.
By Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, May 13, 2004
http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/archives/2004/05/13/rss2js.
html
Found at OLDaily

RSS Search And Custom Feed Creation: XSNews
Robin Good writes of the new RSS search service, NewsXS, "NewsXS
generates an immediately accessible RSS feed for any search term you
use. By submitting your email, you can also create a personalized RSS
newsfeed based on five 'keyphrases' you provide." Note that while
newsxs.com works, www.newsxs.com is currently generating page errors.
By Luigi Canali De Rossi, Robin Good, May 13, 2004
http://www.masternewmedia.
org/news/2004/05/13/rss_search_and_custom_feed.htm
Found at OLDaily


TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

Linked Out: Blogging, Equality, and the Future feature: april 19, 2004
by Melanie McBride
With the mainstream media's interest in blogging at a fever pitch,
Mindjack's Melanie McBride takes a critical look at the future of
blogging and talks to some of the bloggers trying to shape it.
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/linkedout.html

Why Big Companies Can't Invent
R&D has become the ultimate corporate sacred cow. But, according to
venture capitalist Howard Anderson, corporations are too slow and
timid to capitalize on their own inventions.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/anderson0504.asp?trk=nl

Virtual Learning Environments in education: a review of the literature
This report examines the evidence of where Managed Learning
Environments and Virtual Learning Environments (and their constituent
tools) are being used, and the potential benefits which are being
claimed. It looks across all sectors, and takes an international as
well as a UK perspective. It also considers the potential
implications for the UK schools sector - what can be learnt that is
transferable to practice in schools? A review of the research
literature on the use of MLEs and VLEs in education.
http://www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/research/VLE_report.pdf

Experiences with Reusable eLearning Objects: From Theory to Practice
This paper examines the philosophy, creation, and use of reusable
elearning objects from a practical application at the Centre for
Economic Development and Applied Research (CEDAR) at Royal Roads
University, BC, Canada.
http://www.cedarlearning.com/CL/cedarlearning/pdfs/eLearningObjects.
pdf


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GAMING SECTION

Eco is always thoughtful...
from Misreadings: (http://www.amazon.
com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156607522/ref%3Dsim_books/002-2312069-0248842)
"Stefano, my boy, I will give you guns. Because a gun isn't a game.
It is the inspiration for play. With it you will have to invent a
situation, a series of relationships, a dialectic of events. You will
have to shout boom, and you will discover that the game has only the
value you give it, not what is built into it."
Found at Anne's (http://www.purselipsquarejaw.
org/2004_05_01_blogger_archives.php#108368751448030007) Via Rodcorp
(http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/05/various_art_and.html)

The Beer Game ROCKS! The Promise of Online Simulations
February 2004 - Bjorn Billhardt
Online simulations have the potential to add enormous value to
corporate training environments. Simulations are fun and engaging and
allow learners to internalize knowledge by applying new skills in a
risk-free environment. This can dramatically increase motivation and
retention rates—and provide a high return on training
investments. Despite their potential—and predictions of their
dramatic rise—online simulations are used infrequently by corporate
training departments. While many CLOs support the idea in principle,
most have not integrated simulations into their corporate training
offerings.
http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_feature.asp?
articleid=382&zoneid=29

An older story but still powerful...
Syria launches Arab war game By Kim Ghattas
BBC correspondent in Damascus Friday, 31 May, 2002, 21:41 GMT 22:41
UK The Middle East conflict is not limited to real life, but also
extends to cyber-space. Israeli and Arab hackers have been attacking
each other's web-sites. Now, a new video game has been launched in
Syria.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2019677.stm

I signed up for the 9 o'clock Sims class..
Colleges Offering Video Game Studies
Wed May 12, 9:38 AM ET By Holly McKenna
TROY, N.Y. (Reuters) - Playing video games is no longer just a
pastime of young boys. Now it's also homework for American college
students.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040512/lf_nm/leisure_videogames_dc


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RIAA's funny bookkeeping turns gains into losses
This very good, short article shows the way that the RIAA cooks its
books to create losses due to file-sharing when there's no indication
that file-sharing is costing them money. Peter sez, "I'm an economist
researching the issue too, and I've found the figures frankly
unbelievable for a long while. Now I know why."
http://www.kensei-news.com/bizdev/publish/factoids_us/article_23374.
shtml
Found at BoingBoing


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Latest entry for Mark's Wish List
So hot and yet so cool.
http://www.falcon-nw.com/fragbook.asp

WEBBY AWARDS 2004
The 2004 Webby Award winners are announced. There are some great
sites here. BBC's Human Body wins in the Education category.
http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/
Found at elearningpost
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NEWS

UKeU project to be 'scaled down' By Mark Samuels [28-04-2004]
Troubled online learning plan to be restructured: UKeU, the
government's flagship online learning scheme, is to be scaled down
and its work transferred to established universities.
http://www.computing.co.uk/News/1154748

(From EdTechPost)
"Finding Learning Objects - Walking the Talk: Today (like many
days) I was faced with a task I was not 100% sure how to do. I had a
set of ratings for different evaluators, and had been told by someone
who knew better than I that I should be trying to calculate their
'z-scores' in order to standardize the numbers. As I was about to
enter a handy-dandy Google search, I thought - "no wait! Why don't
you see if there are any 'learning objects' out there that could teach
you what a Z-score is, and how to calculate it." So I set out in
search of my closest learning object repository to see what I could
find."
http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/000539.html#more

Case Study: The Regence Group's Evolution into E-Learning
By Ken Steinman, CPT: Over the past four years, The Regence
Group's training department has migrated from exclusively
classroom training to predominately Web-based, instructor-led
offerings. This article describes the steps it took to get there and
guidance for managers leading a new staff through this journey. The
Regence Group is an affiliation of BlueCross/BlueShield health plans
in the Pacific Northwest. In 2000, the training departments from the
affiliated BC/BS plans formed a single department. As a manager in
the
department responsible for technology training for end-users, my role
was to standardize a curriculum that could be used across an
enterprise of approximately 7000 employees. To accomplish this, we
had
an automated training library that we were able to customize.
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2004/apr2004/steinman.htm

An Introduction to ADL and the SCORM (by the Academic ADL Co-Lab)
http://projects.aadlcolab.org/scourse/latestgreatest/viewer.htm


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(from CETIS)
May 06, 2004: New version of UK education metadata profile released
A new draft of the UK Learning Object Metadata Core (UK LOM Core)
profile has just been made public. This version of the IEEE LOM
standard is scheduled to become a full release in the summer, after a
consultation period.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20040506013116

MS seeks to merge Flash, HDD storage: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
6 May 2004 11:29
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/06/ms_flash_hdd/

(from OLDaily)
XML TV Listings in RDF: This item is a bookmark for my later use when
I turn my attention to events listings in RSS later this summer. By
Matt Biddulph, Hack Diary, September 7, 2003
http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000038.html

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

IBM's service science By Michael Kanellos: CNET News.com April 29,
2004, 4:55 AM PT: COMMENTARY--For years, IBM has been one of the
world's leading research bodies when it comes to semiconductors,
databases, electron microscopes and other "hard" sciences. Now, Big
Blue is getting into social sciences. The company's Almaden Services
Research group, a 22-employee outfit based in Silicon Valley, has set
out on a mission to discover--and then hopefully
exploit--quantifiable, predictive principles that underlie the
delivery of technology services. For many physicists and chemists,
the social sciences often rank up there with numerology and voodoo.
In other words, IBM is combining anthropology, game theory and
behavioral economics with technologies from its labs to see if it can
make corporate processes run smoother. The first person recruited
from
outside IBM to join the group was, in fact, an anthropologist.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-5201853.html

(from Boxes and Arrows)
Focus on the Student: How to Use Learning Objectives to Improve
Learning by Wendy Cown: As information architects we all know how
important it is to keep the user in mind. The same is true in
teaching IA: we must keep the learner in mind. Learning objectives
are
one tool to help keep your classes focused on the student. They will
also help you develop the syllabus, lesson plans, and assessment
methods.
http://www.boxesandarrows.
com/archives/focus_on_the_student_how_to_use_learning_objectives_to_im
prove_learning.php

FreeCulture.org is the home of an international student movement for
free culture.
http://www.freeculture.org/

Programs for Emerging Technologies (PET)
http://www.forecasting.tstc.edu/

*the Best/Most Important FREE Book you should ever read
FREE Culture by Lawrence Lessig
http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/

For Online Adjuncts, a Seller's Market: From the issue dated April
30, 2004 Part-time professors, in demand, fill many
distance-education
faculties By DAN CARNEVALE
http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i34/34a03101.htm

Illegal film downloading triples: The number of internet users who
illegally download films and TV series triples over the past year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3692999.stm

How the Word Gets Around?:  How does a meme travel through the
blogosphere? The Memespread Project seeded an idea and watched it
grow, learning a lot about information transmission along the way. By
Daniel Terdiman.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63344,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3

(found at OLDaily)
Surf's Down as More Netizens Turn to RSS for Browsing
The story in a nutshell: "While most Netizens still surf to Web sites
to catch the latest postings, more users have found that to be a
laborious, time-consuming way to browse. Instead they are installing
"newsreader" software that constantly plucks feeds from Weblogs and
news outlets and pulls them together onto a single screen." By J.D.
Lasica, Online Journalism Review, May 5, 2004
http://ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1083806402.php


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Nokia releases mobile content study: By: Jørgen Sundgot, Thursday
29th April 2004, 14:05 GMT: Pitching its content delivery solution,
Nokia releases a study conducted by NOP World which finds 'out and
about' consumers will pay more for mobile content.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4893.html

Pocket-DVD Studio: Carry DVD movies in your pocket. Turn boring time
into fun right from your pocket, anywhere, anytime. Let your children
have something to do and keep quiet while travelling. This software
makes life easier with much more fun. Convert DVDs into pocket pc
video is simple and fast. Any movie less than 3 hours long can be
compressed into a 128MB/256MB/512MB card.
http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?
&platformId=2&productType=2&catalog=30&siteId=159&productId=1111561


Symbian doubles sales: Big in Japan: 6 May 2004 11:44
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/06/symbian_sales/


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COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

The New Surveillance by SONIA KATYAL
Fordham Law School, Fordham School of Law, Pub-Law Research Paper No.
46 Case Western Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 297, 2004
"….today, strategies of copyright enforcement have rapidly
multiplied, each strategy more invasive than the last. This new
surveillance exposes the paradoxical nature of the Internet: It
offers both the consumer and creator a seemingly endless capacity for
human expression - a virtual marketplace of ideas - alongside an
insurmountable array of capacities for panoptic surveillance. As a
result, the Internet both enables and silences speech, often
simultaneously."
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=527003

DRM and Privacy Julie E. Cohen
"…Interrogating the relationship between copyright enforcement
and privacy raises deeper questions about the nature of privacy and
what counts, or ought to count, as privacy invasion in the age of
networked digital technologies."
http://www.law.berkeley.
edu/institutes/bclt/drm/papers/cohen-drmandprivacy-btlj2003.html

F*cked by the F*CC by JEFF JARVIS
[from the May 17, 2004 issue of The Nation]
Advertising Age says we are a nation not of red versus blue but of a
"moral minority" versus an "edgy elite." And the moral minority is
winning.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040517&s=jarvis


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*just go look and type in something for the chicken to do.
http://www.subserviantchicken.com/

More addictive than Tetris
http://www.popcap.com/gamepopup.php?theGame=bookworm

The Place to Go for all those TLA's
http://www.acronymfinder.com

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of things … and at the same time steady enough to fix and
distinguish their subtler differences; being gifted by nature with
desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to
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NEWS

Senate extends Internet tax moratorium: Legislators stop short of
permanent ban: By Grant Gross, IDG News Service April 29, 2004

WASHINGTON - After months of debate, the U.S. Senate has extended a
moratorium on Internet access taxes, but it stopped short of
permanently extending the ban on taxes specific to the Internet,
which the U.S. House did in September.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/29/HNextend_1.html

Google Files For $2.7B Public Offering: Market is agog -- and looking
hard at financial details revealed in filing.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,vdk,1,1n5e,gk5j,kdcl,8t40


'No Child' Law Leaves Schools' Old Ways Behind
By Michael Dobbs: Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 22, 2004; Page A01 WARREN TOWNSHIP, Ind. -- Raymond
Park Middle School lost its two arts teachers last year. Home
economics was eliminated, along with most foreign-language classes
and some physical education classes. The overwhelming priority these
days is getting students to grade level in reading and math.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32348-2004Apr21.html

The April 2004 issue of Learning Technology newsletter is now
available at:
http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/april2004/learn_tech_april2004.
pdf

(Found at eLearningPost)
VIRTUAL CHAUTAUQUA: From April 15-30, Brian Alger, author of The
Experience Designer, will be moderating this virtual chautauqua on
"brilliant new approaches for e-Learning and challenges creative
thinkers across business, education, government and culture to
elevate e-Learning to new levels."
http://groupjazz.com/chautauqua/current.html

Google and Akamai: The Cult of Secrecy vs. The Kingdom of Openness
As Google attempts to expand its empire into e-mail, the king of
search is tapping into what may be the largest grid of computers on
the planet. And the company remains extraordinarily secretive about
the technologies it has at its disposal—perhaps because it senses
a potential competitor in dotcom era flameout Akamai.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel042104.asp?trk=nl

Looks like CNET.com has created a free music download service for new
artists..
http://music.download.com/2001-1_32-0.html


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Visio schemas link data in diagrams: Posted April 16, 6:00 p.m.
Pacific Time Microsoft has released documentation that allows
corporate and third-party developers to take full advantage of the
XML-based schemas, called DatadiagramML, in its Office Visio
diagramming tool.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=61215F:1F4D50E


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**Honestly, I can't remember if I have sent this out before so
pardon this if it is a duplicate. Great thoughts though.
(found at eLearningpost and more e-learning sites than I care to list)
"I really enjoyed reading Don's presentation on the above topic.
He touches many aspects of ID, like sequencing, that rarely get
analyzed. Here's an anecdote from the article that I will be using
often: Back in the 60s, French director, Jon-Luc Goddard was sitting
on a panel of film luminaries at some or other film festival. A film
critic on the panel felt obliged to defend traditional film narrative
in the face of an onslaught by the French Nouvelle Vague, "Surely,
Mr. Goddard", opined the critic, "A film needs a beginning, a middle
and an end." Pausing only long enough to flick the accumulated ash
from his Gauloise, Goddard retorted, "... naturally I think a film
should have a beginning, middle and an end, but not necessarily in
that order." This article is filled with such refreshing insights,
including why Google is the best learning tool ever, and why ideas
are more important in ID than the straight jacket
fill-in-the-ADDIE-model process.
http://www.morrisonco.com/downloads/What%20Do%20Instructional%
20Desginers%20Design%2001.zip

Handicapping Social Networking Business Models: They exist. But
you'll only find them by asking the right questions: who's paying and
who's invited? BY STOWE BOYD
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/boyd.html

Scissors, Scotch® Tape, Post-its®, Magic Markers® and
Colorforms®:"LO-Tec" Tools (and Toys) for Creating Learning
Objects Daniel R. Rehak, Ph.D., Professor & Technical Director
Nina Pasini, Instructional Systems Designer
William H. Blackmon, Ph.D., Systems Architect
Abstract: How do authors really create learning objects? While a
range of sophisticated learning object creation tools is available, do
these fit the needs and processes used? Do the current tools let the
technology of learning objects and XML representations get in the way
of creating good content? Are simple tools and techniques what we
actually need? Can we go from such simple tools to develop effective
learning object authoring environments?
http://www.lsal.cmu.
edu/lsal/expertise/papers/notes/lotec05052003/lotec05052003.html

Patterns in Unstructured Data: Discovery, Aggregation, and
Visualization A Presentation to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation by
Clara Yu, John Cuadrado, Maciej Ceglowski, J. Scott Payne
http://javelina.cet.middlebury.edu/lsa/out/cover_page.htm

Personal Surfing Just Part of the Workday
[April 28, 2004] Internet usage for personal reasons has become as
habitual as morning coffee, as employees are nearly evenly split
between choosing their connection or caffeine.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,vef,1,8ld0,itlk,kdcl,8t40

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Coca-Cola To Deploy 28,000 Symbol Mobile Computers: Coca-Cola
Enterprises plans to deploy 28,000 new, rugged handheld mobile
computers from Symbol Technologies to route drivers in North America
and Europe.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92495,00.html?nlid=PM

How Secure Is Your Handheld? Misplacement and theft aren't the only
security threats you have to worry about.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92338,00.html?nlid=VVR

TOP PICKS FOR POCKET PCS By Jason Parker
KILLER DOWNLOADS: Plenty of you have Pocket PCs, and plenty of you
download apps for them. Which apps get downloaded the most? Jason has
the top three.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=35-d6JTIbIJYioe1zLZcTpTGnnP~HsR

29 Apr - Nokia releases mobile content study
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4893.html

Wal-Mart Begins RFID Trial In Texas: The much-anticipated pilot
program comes after the company set a January 2005 deadline for its
top 100 suppliers to place RFID tags on all cases and pallets
destined for its Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores in the Dallas/Fort
Worth area.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92806,00.html?nlid=PM

GAMING SECTION

4.29.2004 12:53:44 PM
Wall Street Presses Sony for PS2 Price Cut
A sharp drop in Sony's PS2 sales forecast could prompt the company to
cut the console price soon.
http://consolewire.com/news/item.asp?nid=2900

EA REPORTS RECORD FULL-YEAR REVENUES; BREAKS $1 BILLION IN EUROPE
Leading publisher Electronic Arts has reported record revenues for
the full year ended March 31st, with $2.957 billion recorded in
global turnover - while sales in Europe passed the $1 billion mark
for the first time.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/pub/3379

SONY PLANS TO SHIP 3 MILLION PSPS BY MARCH '05  The latest financial
report from Sony has revealed shipment  projections for the
PlayStation Portable launch period, with the  company planning to
have three million consoles on the market by  March 2005.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/ret/3377



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Just wanted to be sure that everyone knows about this – there
will be a quiz. Lawrence Lessig, the most widely known and highly
regarded evangelist and attorney on the side of right and sanity in
the copyright wars has published a new book:
Free Culture:  How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down
Culture and Control Creativity
Here is the kick – you can get it for free.
http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/
If however, you choose to buy it, http://www.free-culture.cc/get-it/
you can even designate which of three organizations that fight on
your behalf every day against the forces which seek to lock up
knowledge, will receive the commission from that sale.
So go get it. And read it.

DaimlerChrysler: Dismiss SCO suit
http://ct.com.com/click?q=c5-8BcDQzOtF~lPAk_La9DUKoeouIsR

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Somebody pointed out to me that I had left this section blank for a
couple of issues – well no more! Warning! Before you visit these
sites, clear all liquid from your mouth because they are so funny,
it'd be coming out your nose.

10 worst album covers of all time
http://porktornado.diaryland.com/albumcover.html

More album covers. Last one, I swear.
http://porktornado.diaryland.com/covers2.html
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Transcript: Copyright in the Digital Age
Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford Law School
Wednesday, April 14, 2004; 1:00 PM
Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig was online to discuss
his book, "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to
Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity." In his book, Lessig argues
that the entertainment industry conspires with Congress to use
copyright law to destroy our traditional notion of freedom in culture.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58249-2004Apr7.html?
referrer=email

Web Inventor Berners-Lee Wins $1.2M Technology Award: World Wide Web
inventor Tim Berners-Lee was awarded $1.23 million today as the first
recipient of  the Millennium Technology Prize. It is the largest
single sum he has made from an invention that has made many others
very rich.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92253,00.html?nlid=AM

(from CETIS)
Metadata Quality in e-Learning: Garbage In - Garbage Out?  One of the
first things I ever learned as a schoolgirl about computers and
computer programming was the acronym GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
As a grownup librarian working in e-learning, I was surprised to find
a few years back that those who were thinking about metadata for
learning objects appeared to have forgotten this truism.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20040402013222

10 Rules for Corporate Blogs and Wikis by Nick Wreden April 13, 2004
"The March 15 issue of the AMA Marketing News—usually a
weekly time capsule of conventional wisdom from a decade ago—had
a
cover story concerning how agencies and companies are using blogs to
promote brands and site visits. But the story was actually a case
study in what not to do, plus it failed to even mention wikis as an
emerging branding tool."
http://www.marketingprofs.com/4/wreden5.asp

(from CETIS)
Blackboard files for IPO at SEC: Some suit type acronyms for a
change: it means that Blackboard the VLE maker will be listed on the
stock exchange: as BBBB on Nasdaq, to be precise. Quite an
achievement for an almost pure e-learning vendor.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2004/03/05/rtr1288641.html

Innovation Futures: Productivity Prognostication
What will be the productivity gain for the first quarter of 2004?
According to our audience, there is a 66 percent probability that
productivity will increase between 3.01% and 3.5%. What do you think?
Join us in predicting the future of technology and business.
http://trif.technologyreview.com/bk/market/grpIndex.html?
_gid=15&trk=nl

EMERGING TECH SECTION

Info standards group releases draft: The proposed protocol from the
National Information Standards Organization defines a way to exchange
data between digital reference service domains.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0412/web-niso-04-16-04.asp

A New Search Engine from...Amazon
On Wednesday, Amazon.com's launched a new Web search
engine—called A9—that combines conventional Web search with
book results from Amazon and traffic information about sites from
Amazon's Alexa subsidiary. But it's still unclear how Amazon plans to
position itself in the great search engine race.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1366&trk=nl

Tearing Down IM Barriers: As enterprise instant messaging gains
momentum, user are running into interoperability barriers. Emerging
standards could help.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92045,00.html?nlid=AM

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

10 Principles of Change Management By John Jones, DeAnne Aguirre, and
Matthew Calderone A strategy is meaningless unless it can be
implemented. In large companies, that takes the sustained, collective
actions of thousands of employees who are responsible for designing,
executing, and living with the changed environment. Senior executives
must have an intimate understanding of the human side of change
management -- the alignment of the company's culture, values, people,
and behaviors -- to encourage the desired results. Booz Allen
Hamilton has identified a set of 10 key practices, tools, and
techniques for managing the human side of change.
http://www.strategy-business.com/resilience/rr00006

Sparking the Fire of Invention: Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief
technology officer of Microsoft, argues that big companies tend to
discourage invention—the often subversive effort to isolate new
problems and generate unexpected solutions. At corporate labs, he
says, "Invention is a side effect, not the focus." But Myhrvold
and former Microsoft chief software architect Edward Jung have set
out to establish a new kind of organization—a hothouse of ideas
where
staff have free rein to cross-pollinate insights from information
technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. The new venture,
Myhrvold says, has no mission other than to invent what the inventors
believe should be—or can be—invented.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/schwartz0504.asp?trk=nl

Schrage: Much Ado about Invention: We have no shortage of good
inventions, writes columnist Michael Schrage. What we need are better
ways to bring them to customers.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/schrage0504.asp?trk=nl

Linked Out: blogging, equality, and the future by Melanie McBride
With the mainstream media's interest in blogging at a fever pitch,
Mindjack's Melanie McBride takes a critical look at the future of
blogging and talks to some of the bloggers trying to shape it.
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/linkedout.html

Survey: Denmark Is Web-savviest Nation; U.S. Drops: Denmark is more
aggressive than any other country in taking advantage of the
Internet, according to research carried out by IBM and the
intelligence unit of British magazine The Economist.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92393,00.html?nlid=PM

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Portables sizzle at FOSE
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0405/tec-fose-04-05-04.asp

Symbol launches ruggedized Windows devices: Posted April 19, 7:00
a.m. Pacific Time: Promising that you can drop its newest model
handheld from six feet without damage, use it in the rain, and have
it tumble 2,000 times from a height of 1 meter, Symbol Technologies
on
Monday unveiled two ruggedized Windows-based devices, the MC9000K and
MC9000S.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=60943A:1F4D50E

Intel XScale Chips Grow Up: Intel has its eye on wireless broadband
applications for cell phones and PDAs. The company has announced a
new family of processors in the XScale line, saying the devices can
handle various forms of wireless broadband with enough muscle for
applications such as DVD-quality full-motion video conferencing on
cell phones. The chips include a new multimedia accelerator for 3D
rendering, and there is optimized software that could let mobile
device manufacturers bring XScale products to market faster. The chip
series, formerly known as Bulverde, will be called the Intel PXA27x
XScale family of processors.
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-673-3-3-187403-55863-1

You Want MP3s With That?: McDonald's plans to use its Wi-Fi network
to deliver digital content, including music files, to customers as
well as to support in-house business applications.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92233,00.html?nlid=PM

McDonald's: The Winner is Wayport
The fast-food chain's face-off between Wi-Fi hotspot providers comes
to an end with Wayport winning the contract to take the network
nation-wide.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,u6c,1,3dxd,bk11,kdcl,8t40

Linksys, Boingo ease Wi-Fi hotspot setup
Posted April 14, 3:57 p.m. Pacific Time
Small businesses can now turn on Wi-Fi hotspots to compete with
better known rivals without the hassle of setting up the whole
service themselves, according to Cisco Systems' Linksys division and
Boingo Wireless, which on Wednesday announced what they call Hot Spot
in a Box.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=5FB210:1F4D50E

IAnywhere updates Web application software
Posted April 12, 2:12 p.m. Pacific Time
IAnywhere Solutions Inc. released an upgrade to M-Business Anywhere
on Monday with features designed to make the mobile application
software more attractive to corporate users.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=5FB20F:1F4D50E


GAMING SECTION

An Engaging N-Gage?
It's a cell phone! It's a video game machine! And it's
not selling! Blogger David Kushner is doubtful that Nokia's
new-and-improved version of the N-Gage handheld gaming system will
cause many sleepless nights at rivals Nintendo and Sony.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1364&trk=nl

Ubisoft Joins America's Army
Ubisoft and the U.S. Army have entered into a deal that will see the
publisher develop and publish America's Army videogames for
consoles. The long-term agreement "marks the first time that the
U.S. Army has ever exclusively licensed its brand to a game
maker."
Ubisoft also stated that it would receive "unprecedented"
access to
Army resources as it attempts to transfer the hallmarks of the free PC
game to its new format. The first products to emerge from the
agreement are expected to be released in the summer of 2005. Nokia
has
unveiled its N-Gage QD mobile gaming deck, which will introduce a
variety of improvements over the original handheld. The QD will offer
a hot-swappable multimedia slot for "instant gaming,"
apparently meaning that gamers will no longer have to take the device
apart in order to change game media. Also on hand will be longer
battery life, a brighter screen, and "improved" gaming
controls. The
company will also include a new N-Gage Arena launcher application,
which it will also make available for download to current owners of
its N-Gage. The software will allow members to communicate with each
other, take part in events and activities, access exclusive content
and check rankings and stats.  "After six months on the market
with
the N-Gage platform, we wanted to expand our device portfolio based
on
the feedback we've received," noted Nokia's senior vice
president of
games, Ilkka Raiskinen The updated device is due out in North America
in June and is scheduled for release in Europe, Africa and Asia
Pacific in May. In the latter regions, the N-Gage QD will be offered
in two variants, GSM 900 and GSM 1800, while in North America it will
come as either a GSM 850 or GSM 1900. The decks will retail beginning
at $99.00 when a service contract is included, or starting at $199.00
in an unsubsidized form. The N-Gage QD will play existing N-Gage game
titles.

Journalist Earns Significant Salary Trading Virtual Goods: Julian
Dibbell reports that his year-long experiment in virtual item trading
from the fantasy world of Ultima Online netted him, in its final
month, a tidy profit of $3,917. Over the course of a year, that would
be $47,000. The self-imposed challenge here was to beat his best-ever
earnings as a writer, but that's not the only benchmark one could
apply.
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2004/04/journalist_earn.html

GDC 04 Notes from Greg Costikyan owner of Games * Design * Art *
Culture
http://costik.com/weblog/2004_03_01_blogchive.html#108057810865079041

COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

Chat Logs Are Protected
A New Hampshire court has ruled that the recording of chat logs
requires the consent of all chat participants.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1363&trk=nl

Insurance Group: Linux Free Of Copyright Violations: Legal experts at
Open Source Risk Management LLC studied the Linux code for six months
for potential copyright violations and found none after tracing the
origins of the code.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92390,00.html?nlid=PM

Google Sparks Trademark Debate: From eWEEK: Google is planning to
change its policy governing the use of trademarks in the keywords
that trigger its sponsored listings, stoking the debate over where
the lines should be drawn in the use of trademarks in search-based
advertising. Google has begun sending e-mails about the policy change
to advertisers and trademark holders who had filed past trademark
complaints, officials confirmed last Tuesday. The change should occur
in the next few weeks.
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-673-3-3-187403-55866-1

Restrictions and Price Remain iTunes Turnoffs: A flock of competitors
have followed Apple without catching up, but the iTunes Music Store's
success hides a couple of unsettling trends
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W3RH05896E56F2C97E3623E00B1AB


SECURITY SECTION

Cisco Releases WLAN Security Protocol: Cisco Systems released a
protocol and related patch designed to defeat dictionary attacks
targeting wireless LAN passwords.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92203,00.html?nlid=VVR

ETCETERA

Muller: Alaska is Melting. Can Kyoto Save It?
To residents of Alaska, the prospect of even a small rise in the
average temperature is a looming catastrophe. In fact, Alaska may
well be a particularly sensitive alarm—like a canary in a mine
shaft. The solution to global climate change, writes TechnologyReview.
com columnist Richard Muller, lies not so much in the
emissions-limiting
Kyoto Treaty (which would not restrain mega-polluters China and
India) but rather in supercharged R&D on efficiency technologies.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_muller041604.asp?trk=nl

(from boingboing)
"Sony's QRIO in action: The first time I saw a video clip of
QRIO, I thought it was neat, but not a big improvement over Honda's
ASIMO. However, this video clip of four dancing QRIO robots is mind
blowing."
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1218/sony_06.wmv

Duke University Cuts 8 A.m. Classes - Associated Press
Duke University is eliminating 8 a.m. classes and trying to come up
with other ways help its sleep-deprived students, who too often are
struggling to survive on a mix of caffeine, adrenaline and ambition.
The school is also considering new orientation programs this fall
that would help freshmen understand the importance of sleep.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040418/ap_on_he_me/sleepless_students_1

KEEPING WINDOWS SQUEAKY CLEAN By Jason Parker
KILLER DOWNLOADS: One of the leading causes of system slowdowns and
crashes: a dirty Registry. Jason has some utilities that scan this
system database, find errant entries, and let you get rid of them.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=e7-2y~GQmVQfNpZ7DTkRY~CdHW799dR
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The Pure Software Act of 2006: 100 years ago, Congress passed a law
requiring honest labeling of food and drugs. Now the time has come to
do the same for software. By Simson Garfinkel, The Net Effect, April
7, 2004
http://www.technologyreview.
com/articles/print_version/wo_garfinkel040704.asp

(from eLearningpost)
Optimize: THE INNOVATION/PRODUCTIVITY QUOTIENT
This article by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown describes the
convergence of e-learning, social networking, and easy access tools
like PDAs and mobile phones, to provide "collaboration on demand". In
my opinion, it will be this type of convergence, which is built
around solving real business needs and not around extrapolating new
delivery methods (m-learning,etc.), that will take center stage this
year. It's high time e-learning broadened its scope. http://www.
optimizemag.
com/issue/028/innovation.htm;jsessionid=R3YGZ3V40F32YQSNDBGCKHQ

(from eLearningpost)
PDMA: HOW "APPLIED ETHNOGRAPHY" CAN IMPROVE YOUR NPD RESEARCH PROCESS
"Applied ethnography is gaining widespread acceptance as a research
technique. But many companies are still puzzled by it, or do not know
how to use it effectively - especially in the new product development
process. This article will explain the fundamentals of this
technique, and give some examples of how it has been used effectively
in the NPD [New Product Development] process by companies in recent
years - and perhaps help you decide if applied ethnography is right
for your latest project."
http://www.pdma.org/visions/apr02/applied.html

EMERGING TECH SECTION

W3C Advances Specs For Web Interoperability
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has approved Document Object
Model (DOM) Level 3 Core and Load and Save specifications as official
W3C recommendations, a move that stamps out vestiges of the browser
wars and makes way for Web interoperability.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,twi,1,1lf2,68aj,kdcl,8t40

Stowe Boyd on Groove 3.0: Stowe reports in Get Real, Corante's
Industry Insider on collaborative, real-time technologies, on the
demo he recently got of the new beta from Groove. Stowe's reaction:
"Wow!I was bowled over, for a number of reasons: vastly improved user
interface and user experience, close integration with Windows shared
folders for sharing of files (including embedded presence of
workgroup members displayed in the Windows folders), and a great
alerting model..." See the article for extensive commentary as well
as several screen shots of Groove's latest:
http://www.corante.com/getreal/archives/002396.html

(from eLearningpost)
CETIS: SCORM AND THE ART OF SPECIFICATION MAINTENANCE
"SCORM 1.3 is dead, long live SCORM 2004! It is pretty much the same
thing, but the name change indicates some hectic manoeuvering to
satisfy the conflicting demands of stability and predictability
versus the need to fix issues. The new version is out now. Also, the
first public indications of ADL's desire to hand the present SCORM
'to the community' have surfaced in last week's co-located CEN/ISSS
and IEEE LTSC meeting."
http://cetis.ac.uk/content2/20040205151104

Who Owns Print-on-Demand?: On Thursday, a jury in a St. Louis federal
district court found that the print-on-demand services run by Amazon
and two other companies, Lightning Source and Ingram Industries,
infringed on a patent held by the On Demand Machine Corporation (ODMC)
, a company based in St. Louis. ODMC was awarded damages of $15
million for past infringement up to December 2003
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-577-3-3-187403-45195-1

SiteScape updates collaboration offering: Posted April 12, 6:00 a.m.
Pacific Time SiteScape on Monday rolled out an updated version of its
Web-based collaboration product dubbed Enterprise Forum 7.1.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=5EE913:1F4D50E

(from eLearningpost)
DIGITAL DASHBOARDS
Good introduction to digital dashboards with the emphasis on
visualizing business data: "a digital dashboard is a graphic
representation that contains a series of gauges and depictions that
summarise the state of the company."
http://www.infovis.net/E-zine/2004/num_143.htm

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

(from eLearningpost)
Stephen Downes: THE SEMANTIC SOCIAL NETWORK
"blogging network and RSS link content, but not identities, while the
social software network links identities, but not content.
Exaggerating this problem, on the side of social software, is that a
genuine network does not yet exist. Social software sites impose
barriers to entry, and are not connected with each other. The first
step, therefore, toward addressing the shortfalls of the two systems
is to break social software out of its site-specific mode."
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?
dbs=Article&key=1076792328&format=full

(found at eLearningpost)
"REALITY MINING" THE ORGANIZATION: It's time to mine commonplace
spoken interactions too: "Recently, managers have started mining data
from e-mail, Web pages, and other digital media for clues that will
help answer such questions. That's a start, but it misses the
real action: studies of office interactions indicate that as much as
80 percent of work time is spent in spoken conversation, and that
critical pieces of information are transmitted by word of mouth in a
serendipitous fashion." [Note: Free Registration required to view
this MIT Tech article.] http://www.technologyreview.
com/articles/wo_pentland033104.asp?trk=nl

(found at eLearningpost)
Learning Circuits: WE LEARNING: SOCIAL SOFTWARE AND E-LEARNING "This
article takes a look at software tools that are still in the future
for e-learning adoption, such as stage two collaboration technology
(known as open source), social networking software, proximity tools,
and virtual worlds. But can these tools really spread to the
education sphere? We point to some examples of this happening already
and postulate some others. Indeed, although many of these tools are
being developed and adopted by members of younger generations, a few
good visionaries—of any age—are needed to find more
innovative and
effective uses for e-learning."
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2004/jan2004/kaplan2.htm

(found at eLearningpost)
Bernie DeKoven: OF FUN AND FLOW
Using Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's well-documented observations and
research, Bernie draws a relationship between FUN and Flow -- "When
the challenge is greater than our abilities, we become anxious and
potentially dead. When the challenge is significantly less than that
of which we are worthy, we become bored, and potentially dead.
Maintaining the dynamic balance between abilities and challenge is
key to the fun experience in work."
http://www.deepfun.com/funflow.htm

(found at eLearningpost)
T.H.E Journal: CONTENT DELIVERY IN THE 'BLOGOSPHERE'
Nothing new here, but this article does provide some points to
ponder: "In this article, we will describe the pedagogy behind blogs.
We will address the reasons why blogs should be used as one of many
teaching and learning tools, as well as describe the potential
benefits of blogs for educators. Drawing on our own research and
teaching, we will conclude with specific strategies for using blogs
in the classroom."
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A4677.cfm

(found at eLearningpost)
Dina Mehta: REVISITING THE INTRANET - PRESENCE, COMMUNICATION,
COLLABORATION Great post by Dina on her initial research with a
company's archaic intranet system. She finds out that the company's
employees do not need a document management system (which might have
been an initial top-down decision); they just want presence
indicators, communication systems, and collaboration spaces. It is
interesting to note that these seemingly simple requirements are
almost always hidden and can only be uncovered by doing some initial
research.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/2004/02/19.html#a374

(found at eLearningpost)
LEARNING TO EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
This article talks about the "black swan" phenomenon -- the
unexpected events, the surprises -- and the need to learn from them
rather than view them with hindsight bias. Although the author uses
the black swan phenomenon to explain the progress of the 9/11
commission, I can relate it to many other instances involving a
company's culture and individual personalities.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb04/taleb_index.html

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Expert Releases Cisco Wireless Hacking Tool: The tool, dubbed Asleap,
allows users to scan the wireless network broadcast spectrum for
networks using Cisco's LEAP protocol, capture wireless network
traffic and crack user passwords.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92049,00.html?nlid=MW

Motion Computing Rolls Out New Tablet PC: It features wider viewing
angle, improved audio, Bluetooth and fingerprint reader.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92019,00.html?nlid=MW

Intel Launches Next-generation XScale Processor: Intel Corp. updated
its XScale processor family with the launch of the PXA270 series,
which is designed for handheld devices, cell phones and smart phones.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92170,00.html?nlid=MW


GAMING SECTION

`Wargaming.net  has launched its online strategy game Massive
Assault. The game can be downloaded for free, though a monthly
subscription fee of $6.95 will be required to play in all of eight of
the game's online worlds. Without paying the subscription charge,
players can still compete in single player games against AI, as well
as play via the Internet on the Emerald planet and receive tutoring
from live in-game mentors.     Massive Assault pits Free Nations
Union forces against those of the Phantom League secret alliance, as
they battle for world domination."
http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=31m,63p7,dat,79g3,cwqp,7oo6,5pc5

Video Coming to Portable Game Consoles: 4.6.2004 4:10:47 PM
Upcoming and existing handhelds are poised to provide video playback,
but games will still be the primary purpose of these devices.
http://consolewire.com/news/item.asp?nid=2888


COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

(from MindJack)
"The killing fields": Copyright Law and its Challengers by J.D. Lasica
"For years, all was peaceful in the house of Horowitz. Jed Horowitz,
a 53-year-old New Jersey entrepreneur with sharply chiseled features
and gleaming bald head, had been running a small video operation
called Video Pipeline that took Hollywood films, created two-minute
trailers to help promote them, and distributed them to online
retailers such as Netflix, BestBuy, and Barnes and Noble, as well as
public libraries. Then one day in 2000, the Walt Disney Co. sent a
cease-and-desist order, charging that Horowitz's company was
violating Disney's copyright by featuring portions of their movies
online."
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/killingfields.html

Lawfully surfing the Net: Disabling public library Internet filters
to avoid more lawsuits in the United States by Mary Minow
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/minow/


SECURITY SECTION

(from internet.com)
An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2
We conclude our talk with Kevin Mitnick as he provides a glimpse into
the mindset of a hacker, discusses attitudes toward security spending
and gives author Vince Barnes (and everyone else) a reason to think
twice before taking caller ID at face value.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,twi,1,8t5u,iwm0,kdcl,8t40

FDIC Warns Of Scam Targeting Consumers' Bank Accounts: The FDIC is
warning consumers and financial institutions about a new e-mail scam
that advises computer users to click on an attached file for more
information about alleged fraudulent activity regarding their bank
accounts.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,92050,00.html?nlid=SEC

IE Vulnerability Flagged: Other Web browsers could also be affected
because of a flaw in Internet Explorer's ITS protocol handler, CERT
warns.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,ty6,1,6hub,yew,kdcl,8t40


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION



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Don't Blame Downloads for Sagging CD Sales
New data from the Harvard Business School puts the lie to the music
industry assertion that Internet file sharing is destroying the
retail music business.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1352&trk=nl

Google Prepares Free E-Mail Service
If you're still getting over the jolt of Microsoft's announcement
that it will compete head-on with Google search later this year, then
hold on to your hats, because it looks like the two technology giants
are about to square off in the free Web e-mail space, too. Google
chose April Fool's Day to announce that it is offering a free Web
e-mail service, Gmail, which should compete with Microsoft's
market-leading Hotmail service.
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-635-3-3-187403-51873-1


EMERGING TECH SECTION

(from Internet.com)
Search Your Hard Drive in a Flash
Web search engines such as Google make searching the Web incredibly
fast and comprehensive. Pity you can't do the same on your PC. Or can
you? We put X1's desktop search program to the test and found nearly
everything we were looking for.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,tlb,1,dj4,fnqm,kdcl,8t40

Tadpole To Build Opteron Notebooks By June: They will ship with AMD's
64-bit chip and Sun's Java Desktop System.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91810,00.html?nlid=MW

FCC Policy-maker Lays Out VoIP Problem
From eWEEK: A Federal Communications Commission policy-maker
underlined the financial implications of voice over IP in a speech
last week. For months, FCC Chairman Michael Powell has argued that
the government should take a hands-off approach to VoIP, which uses
the Internet Protocol (IP) to transmit voice information. But if the
technology takes off, the government will lose an important source of
revenue that is being used to fund the communications needs of the
poor, said Bob Pepper, chief of policy development for the FCC,
during a speech at the Voice On the Net show. The problem touches on
a
core concern of US communication policy.
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-635-3-3-187403-51876-1

(from AnchorDesk)
MAKE MEETINGS MEAN MORE By Rafe Needleman
WORKS FOR ME: They're a staple of business life. So why are meetings
so often so useless? One big reason: It's too easy  to forget what
happens at them. Rafe has a few apps that'll help you remember.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=cb-CjRIQJscc7kSnqok~SoReQs4hS9R

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

**I love this!
(from Technology Review)
Garfinkel: The Pure Software Act of 2006: Spyware is the scourge of
desktop computing, says columnist Simson Garfinkel. To beat back this
menace, he proposes borrowing an idea from 100 years ago. Congress,
he says, should pass legislation requiring that software come with
product labels that would reveal to consumers specific functions
built into the programs. Such legislation would likely have the same
kind of pro-consumer results as the Pure Food and Drug Act of
1906—the legislation that is responsible for today's labels
on food
and drugs.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel040704.asp?
trk=nl

Camera Phones Fuel Mobile Diaries: With poor picture quality and
sloppy composition, why is "moblogging" becoming more popular?
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91958,00.html?nlid=MW

THE WAY FORWARD WITH WEB STANDARDS: This is a good comprehensive
report on making a business case for the adoption of web standards.
http://www.maccaws.org/kit/way-forward/

Liability Concerns Prompt Corporate P2P Crackdown: The accelerating
crackdown against illegal music-sharing is prompting companies to
shut down P2P activities on corporate networks.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91910,00.html?nlid=SEC


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

You can take it with you: Handhelds close to delivering anywhere
Internet access, but security, display issues remain.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0405/tec-portables-04-05-04.asp

(from AnchorDesk)
HOW TO READ E-MAIL ON YOUR PDA By Jason Parker
KILLER DOWNLOADS: Have a bunch of e-mail accounts to keep
track of? So does Jason. One way he keeps them manageable:
he downloads messages to his PDA and reads them when he has
the chance.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=73-__ZeIBBaWqcl9iD3QhBEnfqQBc4R

DoCoMo to Study Mobile Madness: Japan's leading cellular provider
will open a lab to investigate the social impact of cell phones.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1353&trk=nl

Wireless called key to global development
http://ct.com.com/click?q=aa-gBteQXUc2twu_1rzWTPBc5H~wauR

(from AnchorDesk)
POWER TO THE PEOPLE: THIS JUST IN: Want to get more juice out of your
laptop battery? Our guide explains how to extend battery life or
choose an external battery to do the job.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=f1-MtTuQpslEZOKfIXwFTQ8mMU0mPRR

Toshiba, Sandisk develop 4Gb flash memory: Posted April 6, 6:48 a.m.
Pacific Time: The new chip can store 4Gb (512KB) of data and the
companies said they are also working on a second new chip that
contains two of the 4Gb chips inside a single case for what is
effectively an 8Gb (1GB) flash memory chip.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=5D8EB8:1F4D50E


GAMING SECTION

New issue of ERCIM News: Games technology
A small sample of the contents:

-Games and Life - Introduction
by Milan Mares, Institute of Information Theory and Automation,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic/CRCIM, Czech Republic
-Enabling Computers to Play Games like Humans
by Stephen McGlinchey, University of Paisley, UK
-Game Artificial Intelligence that Adapts to the Human Player
by Pieter Spronck and Jaap van den Herik, Maastricht University, The
Netherlands
-Games with Wireless Dynamically Changing Input/Output Units
by Anthony Savidis and Constantine Stephanidis, FORTH Institute of
Computer Science, Greece
-Multi-Agent Technology Applied to Real Time Strategy Games
by Marco Remondino, University of Turin, Italy
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw57/

THE STRIKER ASSAULT VEHICLE: We take a look at the real titanic
tanker you can now play in 'America's Army.'
http://cgi.techtv.com/memberservices/newsletters?
click=46800&release=5587


(from eLearningpost)
DESPERATELY SEEKING SOFTWARE SIMULATIONS: Nice overview of where,
when and how software simulations should be used. It also includes
the different types of authoring tools that can be used for authoring
simulations -- from apps that create screen caps to apps that
automatically create practices, tests and even documentations.
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?
section=4&list_item=13&page=1

COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

Patent Enforcement
The U.S. intellectual-property system has distinguished itself in the
past several years for such gems as patents on privatizing
government, a method for using a playground swing, and a computerized
system that handles reservations for going to the toilet. But
patenting the obvious is by no means confined to the land of reality
shows and SUVs.
http://cl.extm.us/?fe9512717164017c7c-fe28167073670d7b771077


SECURITY SECTION

New Netsky Worms Change Their Stripes: Netsky.S and Netsky.T, the
19th and 20th editions of an e-mail virus that first appeared in
February, are now spreading on the Internet.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91978,00.html?nlid=PM

War Searching
A software company called Imperva has released a white paper showing
how it is possible to use automated search-engine-like software to
compile a list of every URL within a site that may be vulnerable to a
particular kind of security invasion. Such "war searching" would
enable a hacker to find 10,000 to 10,000,000 times as many points of
vulnerability as a typical worm program wending its way across the
Internet.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1349&trk=nl

Plan to Counterattack Hackers Draws More Fire
Now that Symbiot, Inc. has released information on its plans to
enable companies to counterattack digital threats, some security
analysts have stepped up their concerns that it could cause more
problems than it solves.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,tlb,1,b1ao,hylj,kdcl,8t40

New Products Focus On Client Security: Product announcements from
three security companies underscore the growing interest in so-called
"end point" security products that protect corporate networks from
infections introduced by mobile or remote employees.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91950,00.html?nlid=MW

(from Anchor Desk)
WHY I'M NOT SENDING YOU VIRUSES: By Robert Vamosi
SECURITY WATCH: E-mail spoofing is common these days--so much so that
innocent people are getting blamed for spreading the latest wave of
viruses. Here's what you need to know about spoofing.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=19-BLe0I2rQOPvLdmynzu3FI1BCRURR

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ONLINE EDUCATION PROGRAMS CONTINUE CLIMB
Eduventures reports that the number of online enrollments will reach
1 million by 2005.
http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2004/03/08/daily22.html

from InfoSyncWorld)
Consumers don't want it all, and they don't want it now
By: Anthony Newman, Wednesday 3rd March 2004, 09:03 GMT
New survey reveals that multi-function devices still losing out in
public opinion, but early-adopter niche growing. Many consumers are
not interested in handheld devices that offer multiple functions
beyond making phone calls or holding data, according to a survey by
Guideline Research, a custom market research firm. The survey of a
representative group of online consumers also found that 25% of
consumers think these multifunctional devices have limited
functionality.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4668.html

(from CETIS)
JISC programme to foster the pick 'n mix MLE: March 05, 2004
The concept of an institutional learning environment that provides
the information that people need, when and where they want it has
been around for a while, but has not been easy to realise. The JISC's
new e-learning programme includes the e-learning technical framework
strand, that is designed to make it more do-able. Now that the first
call for technical framework projects is out, we look at what the
framework sets out to achieve and how it intends to get there.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20040305162217

CONVERGYS BUYS DIGITALTHINK: Consolidation moves forward: Convergys,
which provides billing and other outsourced services, on Thursday
said it signed an agreement to buy learning services company
DigitalThink for about $120 million.
http://news.com.com/2110-1011-5179528.html?tag=nefd_hed

IM Spam Expected to Triple
[March 26, 2004] As if spam wasn't annoying enough, unwanted messages
are popping up on instant messaging screens too.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,sxb,1,izdk,iez7,kdcl,8t40

University Hits PeopleSoft With $510M Lawsuit: Claiming that student
administration applications from PeopleSoft were "vaporware" when
they first shipped and continued to have serious problems in later
releases, Cleveland State University is seeking a total of $510
million in damages.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91669,00.html?nlid=AM

Labor releases free e-learning app
By Joab Jackson, GCN Staff, 03/24/04
The Labor Department is offering agencies a free version of an
application it created to build multimedia training sessions.
http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/25392-1.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Macromedia announce FlashCast
By: Anthony Newman, Wednesday 3rd March 2004, 09:57 GMT
Mobile version of popular web tool allows Flash to be viewed on
handheld devices running Symbian - and soon Windows Mobile.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4086.html

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

(found at InternetTime.com)
Measurement Counts! Metrics, ROI, and Accomplishments (the missing
element)by Carl Binder, CPT:  "A recent publication, Metrics, by
Jay Cross of the Internet Time Group, presents an opportunity to
comment on some current issues in measurement and evaluation. The
author, who happens to be an old friend, is an entertaining and
wide-ranging thinker(some might say Renaissance Man), and his book is
noteworthy in part because of its unconventional form: a constantly
updated eBook available for purchase online. Jay's history in
financial services, training, marketing, and a whole host of cerebral
pursuits has left him most recently in the world of e-Learning, where
he has become something of a pundit. While I don't agree with
everything in Metrics, I recommend it because it's a quick and
enjoyable read, because it contains valuable references and links,
and
mostly because it challenges us to think outside many of the current
ruts in measurement and evaluation.
http://www.internettime.com/blog/archives/001281.html#001281

Found at elearningpost and too damn right!
THE HUMAN FACTOR: Kim Vicente, author of The Human Factor:
Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology gets this
absolutely right: "One reason is that technology [is difficult to use
is that it] overrides ease of use. Another is that the motivation is
on the organizational side, rather than the customer side. A
technology like voicemail makes things easier for the organization,
but sometimes makes life more difficult for the consumer. There's an
enormous, untouched market out there for things that are simple and
streamlined."
http://www.optimizemag.com/article/showArticle.jhtml;
jsessionid=VVMUG3KVVDWTMQSNDBGCKHQ?articleId=18201708

KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITIES IN JAPAN: A CASE STUDY: There is an interesting
revelation in this case-study: the Japanese believe more in online
knowledge communities than in face-to-face knowledge communities.
There is also the story on how a single newsletter started a culture
of knowledge sharing in Ricoh.
(remember to cut & paste long URLs)
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?
id=124054&d=1&h=417&f=418&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Microsoft Updates PDA, Smartphone OS
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition is a significant upgrade to
Microsoft.s platform for PDAs and smartphones. In addition to some
wireless enhancements, the most improved areas of the platform center
around the display with VGA and landscape support now native to
operating system.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,sxq,1,cm3,b1no,kdcl,8t40

from Infosync
Preview: ASUS MyPal A730: First out of the block with Intel's new 520
MHz processor, ASUS' new MyPal A730 is a veritable powerhouse with
VGA resolution: Jørgen Sundgot has spent time with it at CeBIT.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4756.html

Macromedia announce FlashCast
By: Anthony Newman, Wednesday 3rd March 2004, 09:57 GMT
Mobile version of popular web tool allows Flash to be viewed on
handheld devices running Symbian - and soon Windows Mobile.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4670.html

Opie puts Linux in your hand
By: Larry Garfield, Tuesday 5th August 2003, 17:15 GMT
The Opie project has reached its 1.0 milestone, offering a
standardized Linux-based platform for a variety of handheld devices.
The Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (Opie) project has announced
that the Opie 1.0 milestone has been reached, and the system is
available now. OPIE is a GNU/Linux-based software package designed
for portability across a large number of handheld devices from
multiple manufacturers.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/3922.html

A new breed of wireless headset
By: Jørgen Sundgot, Friday 19th September 2003, 16:03 GMT
Based on magnetic communications, a new wireless headset from
foneGEAR looks set to give Bluetooth a run for its money.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4086.html

Sandisk bring 4 GB CF to everyone
By: Anthony Newman, Thursday 12th February 2004, 15:24 GMT
New high-capacity card eliminates need for a FAT32 camera and fits in
any CompactFlash Type I slot, offers 4 GB of storage.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4086.html

IDC labels mobile device users
By: Anthony Newman, Friday 5th December 2003, 13:21 GMT
A new study from research group IDC, entitled 'Exploring Usage Models
in Mobility: A Cluster Analysis of Mobile Users', aims to
compartmentalise users of mobile devices.
Specifically, four types of user were identified. The first they
dubbed 'Display Mavens', who primarily use their devices to deliver
presentations and fill downtime with entertainment applications.
These would be the stereotypical road warrior, formerly carrying
laptops for their PowerPoint duties, but now favouring the
lightweight
solution of Pocket PC with foldable keyboard and VGA-out card.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4384.html

Montana State University Signs with UsableNet
The university will use UsableNet's LIFT Text Transcoder to help
support alternative devices and PDAs specifically used for assistive
learning.
http://www.usablenet.com/frontend/onenews.go?news_id=73


GAMING SECTION


COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

German company clogs SCO's legal machine: Posted March 26, 4:54 a.m.
Pacific Time: A tiny German software company has thrown some sand in
the gears of The SCO Group Inc.'s roaring legal machine.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=5B11C4:1F4D50E

SECURITY SECTION

Postini Antispam Patent Could Cause Headaches: If enforced, the
patent, which covers an e-mail "preprocessing service," could grant
Postini Inc. legal ownership of a wide range of antispam and e-mail
security methods.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91685,00.html?nlid=PM

Worm Activates in Outlook Email Preview Pane
Some security vendors have issued alerts for Snapper.A, a worm that
spreads via e-mail and is automatically activated when the e-mail
message is viewed through Outlook's Preview Pane.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,sxq,1,6787,7waj,kdcl,8t40


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION



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ONLINE EDUCATION PROGRAMS CONTINUE CLIMB
Eduventures reports that the number of online enrollments will reach
1 million by 2005. http://boston.bizjournals.
com/boston/stories/2004/03/08/daily22.html

(from InfoSyncWorld)
Consumers don't want it all, and they don't want it now
By: Anthony Newman, Wednesday 3rd March 2004, 09:03 GMT
New survey reveals that multi-function devices still losing out in
public opinion, but early-adopter niche growing. Many consumers are
not interested in handheld devices that offer multiple functions
beyond making phone calls or holding data, according to a survey by
Guideline Research, a custom market research firm. The survey of a
representative group of online consumers also found that 25% of
consumers think these multifunctional devices have limited
functionality.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4668.html

(from CETIS)
JISC programme to foster the pick 'n mix MLE: March 05, 2004
The concept of an institutional learning environment that provides
the information that people need, when and where they want it has
been around for a while, but has not been easy to realise. The JISC's
new e-learning programme includes the e-learning technical framework
strand, that is designed to make it more do-able. Now that the first
call for technical framework projects is out, we look at what the
framework sets out to achieve and how it intends to get there.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20040305162217

CONVERGYS BUYS DIGITALTHINK: Consolidation moves forward: Convergys,
which provides billing and other outsourced services, on Thursday
said it signed an agreement to buy learning services company
DigitalThink for about $120 million.
http://news.com.com/2110-1011-5179528.html?tag=nefd_hed

IM Spam Expected to Triple
[March 26, 2004] As if spam wasn't annoying enough, unwanted messages
are popping up on instant messaging screens too.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,sxb,1,izdk,iez7,kdcl,8t40

University Hits PeopleSoft With $510M Lawsuit: Claiming that student
administration applications from PeopleSoft were "vaporware" when
they first shipped and continued to have serious problems in later
releases, Cleveland State University is seeking a total of $510
million in damages.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91669,00.html?nlid=AM

Labor releases free e-learning app
By Joab Jackson, GCN Staff, 03/24/04
The Labor Department is offering agencies a free version of an
application it created to build multimedia training sessions.
http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/25392-1.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Macromedia announce FlashCast
By: Anthony Newman, Wednesday 3rd March 2004, 09:57 GMT
Mobile version of popular web tool allows Flash to be viewed on
handheld devices running Symbian - and soon Windows Mobile.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4086.html


TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

(found at InternetTime.com)
Measurement Counts! Metrics, ROI, and Accomplishments (the missing
element)by Carl Binder, CPT:  "A recent publication, Metrics, by
Jay Cross of the Internet Time Group, presents an opportunity to
comment on some current issues in measurement and evaluation. The
author, who happens to be an old friend, is an entertaining and
wide-ranging thinker(some might say Renaissance Man), and his book is
noteworthy  in part because of its unconventional form: a constantly
updated eBook available for purchase online. Jay's history in
financial services, training, marketing, and a whole host of cerebral
pursuits has left him most recently in the world of e-Learning, where
he has become something of a pundit. While I don't agree with
everything in Metrics, I recommend it because it's a quick and
enjoyable read, because it contains valuable references and links,
and
mostly because it challenges us to think outside many of the current
ruts in measurement and evaluation.
http://www.internettime.com/blog/archives/001281.html#001281

Found at elearningpost and too damn right!
THE HUMAN FACTOR: Kim Vicente, author of The Human Factor:
Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology gets this
absolutely right: "One reason is that technology [is difficult to use
is that it] overrides ease of use. Another is that the motivation is
on the organizational side, rather than the customer side. A
technology like voicemail makes things easier for the organization,
but sometimes makes life more difficult for the consumer. There's an
enormous, untouched market out there for things that are simple and
streamlined." http://www.optimizemag.com/article/showArticle.jhtml;
jsessionid=VVMUG3KVVDWTMQSNDBGCKHQ?articleId=18201708

KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITIES IN JAPAN: A CASE STUDY: There is an interesting
revelation in this case-study: the Japanese believe more in online
knowledge communities than in face-to-face knowledge communities.
There is also the story on how a single newsletter started a culture
of knowledge sharing in Ricoh.
(remember to cut & paste long URLs)
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?
id=124054&d=1&h=417&f=418&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Microsoft Updates PDA, Smartphone OS
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition is a significant upgrade to
Microsoft.s platform for PDAs and smartphones. In addition to some
wireless enhancements, the most improved areas of the platform center
around the display with VGA and landscape support now native to
operating system.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,sxq,1,cm3,b1no,kdcl,8t40

from Infosync
Preview: ASUS MyPal A730: First out of the block with Intel's new 520
MHz processor, ASUS' new MyPal A730 is a veritable powerhouse with
VGA resolution: Jørgen Sundgot has spent time with it at CeBIT.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4756.html

Macromedia announce FlashCast
By: Anthony Newman, Wednesday 3rd March 2004, 09:57 GMT
Mobile version of popular web tool allows Flash to be viewed on
handheld devices running Symbian - and soon Windows Mobile.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4670.html

Opie puts Linux in your hand
By: Larry Garfield, Tuesday 5th August 2003, 17:15 GMT
The Opie project has reached its 1.0 milestone, offering a
standardized Linux-based platform for a variety of handheld devices.
The Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (Opie) project has announced
that the Opie 1.0 milestone has been reached, and the system is
available now. OPIE is a GNU/Linux-based software package designed
for portability across a large number of handheld devices from
multiple manufacturers.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/3922.html

A new breed of wireless headset
By: Jørgen Sundgot, Friday 19th September 2003, 16:03 GMT
Based on magnetic communications, a new wireless headset from
foneGEAR looks set to give Bluetooth a run for its money.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4086.html

Sandisk bring 4 GB CF to everyone
By: Anthony Newman, Thursday 12th February 2004, 15:24 GMT
New high-capacity card eliminates need for a FAT32 camera and fits in
any CompactFlash Type I slot, offers 4 GB of storage.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4086.html

IDC labels mobile device users
By: Anthony Newman, Friday 5th December 2003, 13:21 GMT
A new study from research group IDC, entitled 'Exploring Usage Models
in Mobility: A Cluster Analysis of Mobile Users', aims to
compartmentalise users of mobile devices. Specifically, four types of
user were identified. The first they dubbed 'Display Mavens', who
primarily use their devices to deliver presentations and fill
downtime with entertainment applications.These would be the
stereotypical road warrior, formerly carrying laptops for their
PowerPoint duties, but now favouring the lightweight solution of
Pocket PC with foldable keyboard and VGA-out card.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4384.html

Montana State University Signs with UsableNet
The university will use UsableNet's LIFT Text Transcoder to help
support alternative devices and PDAs specifically used for assistive
learning.
http://www.usablenet.com/frontend/onenews.go?news_id=73


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COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

German company clogs SCO's legal machine: Posted March 26, 4:54 a.m.
Pacific Time: A tiny German software company has thrown some sand in
the gears of The SCO Group Inc.'s roaring legal machine.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=5B11C4:1F4D50E

SECURITY SECTION

Postini Antispam Patent Could Cause Headaches: If enforced, the
patent, which covers an e-mail "preprocessing service," could grant
Postini Inc. legal ownership of a wide range of antispam and e-mail
security methods.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91685,00.html?nlid=PM

Worm Activates in Outlook Email Preview Pane
Some security vendors have issued alerts for Snapper.A, a worm that
spreads via e-mail and is automatically activated when the e-mail
message is viewed through Outlook's Preview Pane.
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Blog format truce proposed By Paul Festa
CNET News.com: March 9, 2004, 4:35 PM PT
In an attempt to lasso support from Google, a key proponent of the
syndication format RSS has proposed that it merge with its challenger
under the auspices of an Internet standards body.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5171882.html

Eduventures: Online education programs continue climb
Boston Business Journal 1:52 PM EST Tuesday
Eduventures Inc., a Boston-based research firm, announced that it
expects total enrollment in online education programs to hit the 1
million mark by 2005. The report, Online Distance Education Market
Update: A Nascent Market Matures, found that the majority of U.S.
colleges and universities offer some form of online education,
helping the market grow more than 50 percent in 2002 to reach $3.7
billion. As the distance learning market matures, Eduventures found,
competition among the programs is increasing.
The report also estimates that the growth rate for online education
will exceed 30 percent for "a number of years" to come.
© 2004 American City Business Journals Inc.
http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2004/03/08/daily22.html

Review Could Change UkeU eLearning Framework
By Mark Samuels [10-03-2004]
Hefce to consider UKeU future: The UKeU's public sector partners are
awaiting the outcome of a review that could result in major changes
to the operations of the government-funded elearning scheme.  The
Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) is currently in
discussions with UKeU to agree a restructuring plan.
Computing last week disclosed that the scheme has consumed £28m
and attracted just 900 students, at a cost of £30,000 per student.
http://www.computing.co.uk/News/1153407

IDC: Tech Buyers Replacing PCs, Optimistic About IT Spending:
Research firm IDC cited strong fourth-quarter corporate sales of PCs,
especially notebook computers, as well as network servers,
applications and network gear, as key factors for revising its
forecast upward.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,91067,00.html?nlid=AM

EMERGING TECH SECTION

Groove Spreads Collaboration to Remote Users
By Dennis Callaghan  March 11, 2004
Groove Networks Inc. is launching an upgrade to its flagship
peer-to-peer collaboration platform designed to make it easier for
enterprises to add a collaborative element to their business tasks.
The company on Monday will release a public beta of Groove 3.0, which
has enhancements geared toward teams of workers spread out at
different locations.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1547184,00.asp


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e-learning's different but it works: Intensive distance learning
methods via the internet can have great effect: Kishan S Rana :
Published : March 10, 2004
http://www.business-standard.com/ice/story.asp?Menu=8&story=36013

(from elearningpost)
ReferralWeb: This is not a new site, but well worth a visit if you
are exploring social networks. The PPT slides are especially useful in
understanding the theory and the need for social network analysis.
"The ReferralWeb system lets you search and explore social networks -
the networks of friends, colleagues, and co-workers - that exist on
the WWW. It lets you find trusted information from trusted experts,
who are likely to help because they are friends of your friends!"
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/kautz/referralweb/


TVO gives children a head start
  Mar. 9, 2004. 01:00 AM: Children who watch educational television
are better prepared for school and gain an academic edge that they
carry right through.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?
pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1078787412673&call
_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

Productivity's Technology Iceberg
Productivity may be economists' single most important statistic.
Productivity determines the ultimate success of companies; it is the
source of the wealth of nations; and it is the key to our standard of
living. From the 1970s into the 1990s, U.S. labor productivity grew
by barely 1.4 percent a year. Many economists thought it would be
stuck at that level forever. Fortunately, the growth rate jumped to
more than 2.5 percent in 1995 and has averaged more than 4 percent
since 2001. MIT productivity expert Erik Brynjolfsson writes that
this boom is rooted in a revolution in the way American companies
apply information technology. However, he warns, organizations that
sit back and wait—assuming that technology alone will quickly or
automatically introduce gains—are setting themselves up for
failure.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_brynjolfsson031004.asp?
trk=nl

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Industry group seeks mobile top-level domain: Posted March 10, 8:59 a.
m. Pacific Time: Promising to spur the development and reliability of
mobile services and technology, a group of nine mobile industry
players said Wednesday that they are applying for a mobile top-level
domain (TLD) that would operate under a joint venture registry.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=577F6A:1F4D50E

GAMING SECTION

Digimation Launches Model Bank--A 3D Marketplace [03.04.04]
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=3511

Schools Proclaim Video Gaming An Art Form
By Shannon Henry: Thursday, March 11, 2004; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48315-2004Mar10.html?
referrer=email


COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

*more on why, even though I continue to use iTunes and my iPod, it
gives me pause…
"Yaaar! The music pirates' manifesto. By Annalee Newitz
WITH A GROAN , I peeled the transparent sticker off my brand-new
iPod. In the clean, cute font for which Apple is known, it read,
"Don't steal music." Even the wrapping paper on my smooth little
machine was full of antipiracy propaganda. But the software wrappings
Apple places around the music the iPod plays are far worse than
propaganda: they enforce, with no subtlety or charm, the licensing
preferred by corporate copyright holders."
http://www.sfbg.com/38/19/cover_noise_pirates.html

Ode to Napster, Music's Last Hope: Protection schemes, the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, and lawsuits against file sharers are not
going to save the music business.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1537393,00.asp


SECURITY SECTION

Outlook flaw riskier than thought
http://ct.com.com/click?q=d4-E0SqQ0EmfPj8KVC4Gwr32iY_y0ZR

Hacked in a Flash: By Leon Erlanger :March 16, 2004
How can data thieves sneak behind your firewall, steal hundreds of
megabytes of information, and leave without a trace? One way is via
the same type of tiny USB drives many of you carry around in your
pockets.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1538110,00.asp


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Announcement:   The Advanced Distributed Learning  Initiative has
released SCORM 2004 (formerly known as SCORM Version 1.3). The most
significant change from SCORM Version 1.2 to SCORM 2004 is the
addition of learning content sequencing capabilities as defined by
the IMS Global Learning Consortium's Simple Sequencing (SS)
specification to address the need for dynamic presentation of
learning content based on learner performance. SCORM 2004 is now
available for download from the SCORM Downloads section of
ADLNet.org.
The SCORM 2004 Conformance Test Suite will be released soon to allow
organizations to self-test their conformance to SCORM 2004.
www.adlnet.org

Update: Hollywood, P-to-P companies back in court: P-to-P appeal
centers on Napster, Betamax cases   By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
February 04, 2004  Questions about two copyright cases and two
technologies, separated by almost 20 years of technological
innovation, dominated an appeals court hearing Tuesday that is
pitting peer to peer (P-to-P) file sharing software companies against
leading entertainment industry groups.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/04/HNhollywoodpeer_1.html

Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward In Mydoom.B Attacks: The money will
come from the $5 million bounty program Microsoft announced last year
to reward people for information relating to worm and virus authors.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89584,00.html?nlid=AM

Gateway To Acquire EMachines In $234M Deal: The company hopes to
bolster its shrinking PC revenue while it pursues the consumer
electronics market, officials said today.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89585,00.html?nlid=AM

E-gov requires teamwork: OMB's associate administrator for
e-government and IT says managers can take cues from the New England
Patriots.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0202/web-tad-02-04-04.asp

EMERGING TECH SECTION

Will IM Eyes Be Watching You?: Instant messaging brought 'presence'
to the desktop. Now, the Internet Engineering Task Force is working
to take the technology to the next level by creating a framework for
merging users' geographic location data into their presence
information. -InstantMessagingPlanet
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,ozg,1,dy4q,jry8,kdcl,8t40

Lotus pursues collaboration vision: Posted January 30, 3:00 p.m.
Pacific Time IBM Lotus Software's once distant vision of
standards-based collaboration is coming into view as the company
rolls out products that preserve existing investments while moving
toward the future.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=530372:1F4D50E

Fossil Abacus AU4000: Fossil is making some of the hardware for
Microsoft's new MSN Direct service, which wirelessly delivers tidbits
of info right to your wrist. The $129 Abacus AU4000 is currently
Fossil's least expensive smart watch. Read the review to get the full
skinny.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=24-8DdMIczCqpAjR5Uwohuftjr78tZR


TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

(from elearningpost)
CLO: THE PROMISE OF ONLINE SIMULATIONS: "This article touches on some
fundamental questions about simulations: What topics are best taught
through simulations? What are the characteristics of successful
simulations? How can simulations best be integrated into training
environments? What are the barriers that prevent organizations from
adopting them? Only when good answers to these questions are provided
will simulations find widespread adoption in corporate training
settings." http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_feature.asp?
articleid=382&zoneid=29

Campus on a Keyboard - Christian Science Monitor
Many Americans, both students and employers, see online learning as
an acceptable--and perhaps far more convenient--alternative to
traditional schools. But in the eyes of some, it's a controversial
development that promises to shake up the practice, regulation, and
funding of college education in the U.S. Distance learning represents
"the extreme commercialization of higher education," says humanities
scholar Morris Berman, author of "The Twilight of American Culture."
It's a development that threatens "the sacred space of the
classroom," according to technology historian David Noble, author of
"Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education." The
debate will become more than merely academic for U.S. lawmakers as
early as this spring, as they revisit the Higher Education
Reauthorization Act.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0203/p12s03-legn.html


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

DAN FARBER: Why 802.11 is underhyped: J. William Gurley is convinced,
despite the overwhelming hype,  that 802.11 (Wi-Fi) is seriously
underhyped. "802.11, or one  of its backwardly compatible
descendants, will dominate the  wireless communications sector over
the next 10 years the same  way the x86 architecture dominates
computing and that Ethernet  dominates networking," Gurley says. In
his incisive commentary,  he provides the logic to support what he
calls the "inescapable power of the first true open-standard radio."

http://ct.com.com/click?q=d6-yw2KQMPnP6myaHsWsOizsVJSyScR

DIGITAL RIGHTS FOR MOBILES NOW IN FOCUS: The Open Mobile Alliance has
released the second version of its digital rights management (DRM)
system, part of its drive to establish standards to govern the sale
of mobile content. The new DRM system will allow consumers to
download digital content such as music, video clips and games across
mobile networks and will allow the operators and content providers to
charge for it. Although the release of the new standard is a major
advance for the industry, analysts say many issues still need to be
resolved before it becomes the industry standard, and the final
specification will not be available until June 2004. The lack of
agreed standards has already forced some operators to develop their
own specification for services like music downloading, including mmO2
in the UK.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9389530

IBM, Sony update lightweight laptops
http://ct.com.com/click?q=21-UPROIjdOVuFkGWxe857o88RFjyRR

Good revamps handheld messaging software
http://ct.com.com/click?q=5f-WK5BIIKQ2Z187VRNmPJ6B6QXMYnR

PalmSource to hatch new OS strategy
http://ct.com.com/click?q=13-NxSZI3XUrSiCAuwoOKpfIxOgql9R

THE 'MOST TALKED ABOUT' DOWNLOADS FOR YOUR PDA
By Jason Parker:  KILLER DOWNLOADS: One of the best ways to find
superior software is to see which programs users recommend. Today
Jason shows you the three mobile apps that are receiving the  most
buzz from readers like you.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=5a-ahD1IP0KMKs6JDQSGSDLBJQFz0eR

Handmark Releases New Education Software for Palm PDAs
New versions of Mobile Mentor and Road Scholar include expanded
applications for educators and students.
http://www.mobilescholar.com/

Sony launches two new Clié PDAs : Posted February 3, 5:10 a.m.
Pacific Time: Sony Corp. will launch two new models in its Clié PDA
(personal digital assistant) range in Japan in two weeks and plans to
follow that with launches of the devices in overseas markets, the
company said Tuesday.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=52E1E4:1F4D50E


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COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

Trademark Lawsuit Filed Against Google Keywords: American Blind and
Wallpaper Factory Inc. asserts that Google's use of keywords for
advertising violates the blind maker's trademarks.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89623,00.html?nlid=PM

DVD CCA Drops Case Against DeCSS Publishers: The organization that
licenses CSS copy protection for DVDs abandons its trade secret-based
lawsuits against publishers of CSS hacks. -DRM Watch
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,ozg,1,29n7,9znm,kdcl,8t40


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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Forum: Technologies That Refuse to Die: TR's article identifying 10
technologies that remain with us long past their supposed
obsolescence has prompted a flurry of forum postings suggesting
additions to our list, including printed books, mainframe computers,
manual transmissions, and microfilm.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/scigliano0204.asp?trk=nl

Out-of-memory Problem Caused Mars Rover's Glitch:
Amid all the excitement after the Mars landing on Jan. 3, and with
data being beamed back to Earth by the Spirit rover, mission
technicians didn't delete old files and directories to clear the
rover's memory for reuse.
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"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

Damasio's First Law
The body precedes the mind.

Damasio's Second Law
Emotions precede feelings.

Damasio's Second Law
Concepts precede words.

ANTONIO R. DAMASIO, M.D. Ph.D is M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of
Neurology, University of Iowa, where he studies the fundamental
mechanisms of cognition and cognitive and behavioral disturbances
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* Mydoom virus alert: Be cautious about opening files attached to
e-mail * At 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time on Wednesday, January 28, 2004,
Microsoft began investigating reports of a variant of a worm named
"Mydoom" or "Novarg," known as Mydoom.B. This variant reportedly
blocks access to some websites, including some Microsoft.com
websites. The worm attempts to entice users into opening an e-mail
message that has an attached program file. If the attached file is
opened, the worm installs malicious code on the user's system and
sends itself to all contacts in the user's address book.
https://information.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/mydoom.asp
MyDoom virus declared worst ever
http://ct.com.com/click?q=d2-THo_QULVlD1N3lh54r325GvgkluR
Mydoom Worm Spreads As Attack Countdown Begins: Since appearing this
week, the Mydoom.A Internet worm has infected computers around the
world and is the fastest-spreading virus to date.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89528,00.html?nlid=SEC2
Related Story: Experts: Standard Virus Protection Best Way To Fight
Mydoom: Despite the speed with which the e-mail-borne virus has
proliferated since Monday, there's nothing about Mydoom, so far, that
can't be dealt with by using antivirus, e-mail filtering and
intrusion-detection technologies.
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FDIC Warns Of E-mail Scam: The e-mail, which purports to be from the
FDIC, tries to trick consumers into releasing their personal
information, including about their bank accounts.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89425,00.html?nlid=AM

Weblog: Roy Disney Takes His Case to the Public
The surviving brother of "Uncle Walt" has taken to the Internet to
share his perspective with shareholders and the general public, says
blogger Henry Jenkins. At SaveDisney.com, Roy Disney speaks of the
glory that was once Disney, and pushes for a grassroots coup that
might bring about a regime change within the Disney empire. It's an
example, Jenkins says, of how "what used to be behind-closed-doors
disputes within companies [are being] made public via the web."
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1245&trk=nl

Microsoft: Change To IE Will Block Some Web URLs: Microsoft is fixing
a flaw in its popular Internet Explorer Web browser that makes it
easy to mask the real address of a Web page displayed by the browser.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89544,00.html?nlid=PM

Dan Gillmor: ONLINE REFERENCE TO REACH MILESTONE: Dan Gillmor writes
on Wikipedia reaching it's 200,000th article and ponders "I still
marvel at how these wide-open Wiki communities, which seem at first
glance to be so open to abuse, turn out to be so resilient. They work
because everyone can do his or her part. The model won't work in
every endeavor, but it succeeds brilliantly in this case, at least so
far."
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7793099.htm

Amazon records first profitable year in its history: Posted January
28, 6:59 a.m. Pacific Time: Amazon.com Inc.'s net revenue and net
profit both grew healthily in its fourth quarter, ended Dec. 31,
2003, compared with 2002's fourth quarter, and helped the online
retailer close 2003 with an annual profit, a first for the company,
it announced Tuesday.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=52397D:1F4D50E


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Ghostly Keys: One of the gadgets on display at January's Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas wasn't there-a keyboard, developed by
iBiz Technology Corp., for use with PDAs and notebooks. The device is
a bit like Canesta's iBiz Virtual Keyboard ($99.99), which lets you
type on any flat surface.
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-475-3-3-187403-33573-1

Google spawns social networking service
http://ct.com.com/click?q=10-YU9qI9NVn~F1xIInmW1CLB3eqxFR

Smart Robot Automates Science: Researchers in the U.K. have put
together a robot scientist that can devise a theory, fashion
experiments to test the theory, carry out the experiments, and
interpret results. But can it write a grant application?
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_012704.asp?trk=nl

Gadgets in the Superchip Age
Today, the fastest consumer microprocessors have about 180 million
transistors and can perform three billion simple operations per
second. But novel chip designs and manufacturing techniques are
keeping the 40-year computing explosion going strong. By 2007,
processors will pack more than a billion transistors and hit speeds
approaching 10 gigahertz. Predicting what sorts of gadgets will
result from this explosion in computing power is the $64,000—make
that the $64 billion—question.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/freedman0204.asp?trk=nl

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

(found on elearningpost)
Denham Grey: KM & e-Learning: "Distance learning (DL) tools that
support interactivity, feedback, annotation and communication between
people (many to many) come closest to KM in my opinion." I find it
more useful to relate both DL and KM as targeting the formal (in the
box) and informal (in the air) knowledge requirements in companies.
Sometimes companies just want to distill and encapsulate all of their
important learning points in the form of a DL course, more for the
satisfaction of knowing that their hard earned learning is not just
out there, but rather in a box, which is always at mind's reach. To
such companies, the interactivity, feedback, annotation, and
communication are "out there" and thus out of mind's reach. I have a
tough time trying to persuade companies to see their "knowledge
blanket" needs when all they want are some "learning islands".
  http://denham.typepad.com/km/2004/01/km_elearning.html

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

MICROSOFT DOMINATES IMPROVING (European) PDA MARKET: Western European
PDA shipments were up 38 percent in the fourth quarter and up 28
percent during the whole of 2003, the first full year of growth since
2000. According to the latest numbers from IDC, PDA shipments in
Western Europe hit 2.6 million last year, thanks in part to 958,000
units shipped in the last three months of the year. In 2002, just
under 2 million handheld computers/PDAs were shipped, with 693,000
leaving manufacturers' storehouses in the fourth quarter of that
year. Low prices and new bundled packages drove the healthy growth,
IDC said. Meanwhile, sales of Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system
outpaced Palm sales by a wide margin. For the full year, 1.423
million Pocket PC-based PDAs were shipped in Europe, compared to 1.039
million Palm-based devices.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9388332

  EUROPEAN SMARTPHONE SALES TOP 2 MILLION  Over 1 million handhelds
and over 2 million smartphones were shipped in EMEA in the last three
months of 2003. That is according to Canalys, and its findings are
evidence that the sector is gaining momentum. In the last six weeks,
rival research companies IDC and Gartner put out equally strong
figures for the mobile phone and PDA sectors. By Canalys' definition,
a handheld is a data-centric device such as a PDA, whereas a
smartphone is a device positioned mainly for voice communications but
that also comes with advanced data features. According to the
research, about 3.5 million of both sorts of devices were shipped in
the EMEA region during the three months to 31 December, a rise of 117
percent over Q4 2002. Nokia had the biggest market share overall, at
just over 50 percent.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9388548

WiMax on the horizon: With its 50-kilometer range and high
throughput, the WiMAX  (802.16) wireless broadband standard has the
potential to  close broadband coverage gaps and reach countless
customers  worldwide. With just a few weeks away from IEEE
ratification  (but still a year away from deployment), a look at an
Intel white paper provides a great backgrounder on WiMAX.

Slashdot: 802.16 WiMax wireless broadband on the horizon
http://ct.com.com/click?q=4a-HcgUIPprnUOp~EyHhEpkDXEuJpeR

White Paper: IEEE 802.16 and WiMAX: Broadband wireless  access for
everyone
http://ct.com.com/click?q=e8-DOJMQfk~B_BZe0e6TeTkdcBdtOFR

WiMAX Forum
http://ct.com.com/click?q=87-izDOQ8ntP1~U~hdyUrcQjJ_wZydR

Comparing Costs Of Wireless LAN Options: A new wireless LAN
technology may offer more functionality at a lower total cost of
ownership.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89105,00.html?nlid=MW

GAMING SECTION


COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION


SECURITY SECTION

Industry Groups Release 'Effective Security Practices Guide for
Higher Ed' - The EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security
Task Force has released the Effective Security Practices Guide for
the
higher education community, providing practical approaches to
preventing, detecting, and responding to IT security problems in a
wide range of higher education environments. The guide is the result
of a collaborative effort involving college and university
information security professionals.
http://www.educause.edu/security/guide/

How to: Fending off spyware: How to detect, defend and fight back
against insidious attacks from cookies gone bad.
http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0126spy.html

DHS Launches National Cyber Alert System: The Department of Homeland
Security will provide a series of e-mail-based products that provide
timely information on computer security vulnerabilities, the
potential impact of those vulnerabilities and the action required to
mitigate threats.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89488,00.html?nlid=SEC2

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Cleaning Your Windows
Microsoft has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to make
Windows XP and Office XP more usable. But according to Simson
Garfinkel, many of these purported improvements didn't improve
usability at all. In his best Mr. Fix-It manner, Garfinkel dives into
the various Windows options and gives his recipe for a more
productive, secure, and pleasant computing experience.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel012804.asp?trk=nl
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"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."


"Give me a place where I might stand, and I will move the world."
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U.S. History Moves Online, With Offshore Help: The Smithsonian
Institution is putting online a vast records collection detailing the
work of the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842. Much of the work
was completed in countries the explorers may have visited.
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New Web Site Will Help Students Assess Success with Online Education
eLearners, a Web site that connects students to online education
sources, is offering eLearners Advisor to help students determine
their readiness for completing online studies.
http://www.elearnersadvisor.com/index.asp

Netcentric warfare to use more sims: As the military becomes a more
networked force, it will have to relearn how to fight, the leader of
U.S. Joint Forces Command says.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0119/web-sims-01-21-04.asp

(from ZDNet)
Mr. Bond: Get your head out of the sand: In response to our interview
with Phillip Bond, Under Secretary for  Technology at the U.S
Department of Commerce, Mark Fenner writes that  the current economic
policies favor an elite group of Americans  who profit from the
exploitation of an international work force  educated at the expense
of middle class America. Clearly, this will be a hot button issue as
the election season gets a full head of steam in the coming weeks.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=e8-DOJMQfk~B_EEfa4RTeTkdcBdtOFR

ThirdForce explains massive stock surge: ISE listed e-learning
company ThirdForce said on Tuesday that it is in possible acquisition
talks, but the company kept all details a secret.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9387899

IBM Plans To Add 15,000 New Jobs Worldwide: The announcement comes
after a series of job cuts, during which IBM said it was trying to
cut costs and reduce job redundancies.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89202,00.html?nlid=AM

Diploma mill inquiry reaches military: Two Capitol Hill leaders
officially asked the General Accounting Office to expand its
investigation of diploma mill degree holders to include the Defense
Department.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0119/web-diploma-01-22-04.asp

EMERGING TECH SECTION

Tech Toys Draw Cheers, Tears: New technology can intimidate and
frustrate, yet Americans find that their electronics are
indispensable tools that simplify life. January 22, 2004
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,oiw,1,3gec,6d5w,kdcl,8t40

Wearable Devices Add Strength: Imagine donning a pair of "power
pants" that use sensors and artificial muscles to give you an extra
jolt of strength. Japanese researchers have built just such a robotic
contraption, to the potential benefit of the elderly and disabled as
well as soldiers and rescue workers.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation40204.asp?trk=nl

Smart Introduces Sympodium Interactive Pen Display
The Sympodium ID250 allows users to edit and annotate presentations
via a control panel attached to a podium.
http://www.smarttech.com/products/sympodium/id.asp

NEC To Launch RFID Business This Year: It's currently in the final
stages of developing its own RFID chip and plans to start offering
the chip and associated software and systems by September.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89336,00.html?nlid=AM

Spinning a New Kind of Computer: Researchers in Belgium and Denmark
have shown that the collective spin of clouds of atoms can be used to
compute.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_012004.asp?trk=nl


TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

China's Internet Use Surges: Government stats show that 79.5 million
Chinese are now online, second only to the United States. January 16,
2004
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,oiw,1,ehnv,ft6b,kdcl,8t40

Report: Users Giving up on their Desktops: Say good-bye to your
desktop. By 2006, only 45 percent of corporate users are expected to
consider their desktop to be their primary information device,
according to a new report.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,o6j,1,jlf8,7p2y,kdcl,8t40

WHAT WILL BECOME OF APPLE IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS? By Dan Farber
TRENDS: The Mac is winning the hearts and minds of digital media and
entertainment junkies. But can the platform survive on that alone?
Dan looks at how far Apple's  come--and where it's headed.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=c2-oXxLQUEg7UQpm4lokymXTuRzxquR

Robot Scientist As Effective As Humans At Lab Work: Grad students
often feel like drones, doing grunt laboratory work for a pittance. A
recent publication probably won't make them feel much better about
their jobs. Scientists report that they have developed a robot that
can formulate hypotheses, design experiments to test them and analyze
the results. What is more, it performs just as well as real grad
students and spends less money.
http://click.exacttarget.com/?
fe86107973670c7972-fe28167073670d7b771077

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Census tests PDAS, Web tech: The Census Bureau so far has two tests
scheduled to evaluate new data collection methods.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0119/web-census-01-19-04.asp

Review: Logitech Mobile Bluetooth Headset: Jørgen Sundgot takes a
closer look at the first attempt at a Bluetooth headset from PC
accessory mainstay Logitech, finding several pros - and the odd cons.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/n/4507.html

Air Force selects vendors for accessories, rugged devices
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/1215/web-bpa-12-16-03.asp

(from NW Computing)
Virtual Keyboard from iBIZ: The device weighs 2 ounces and runs on
its own rechargeable lithium ion battery (about three to four hours
of life). Future connectivity options include transmitting to the PDA
via Bluetooth or infrared. The company said a version for cell phones
will come out in the fourth quarter of this year. The keyboard is
compatible with Palm, Pocket PCs, as well as desktop PCs and laptops.
It costs $99.99, and can be ordered at the company's e-commerce Web
site
http://www.ibizpda.com/

Fossil delays the Palm OS wristwatch PDA again: Posted January 21, 1:
28 p.m. Pacific Time: Plans for Fossil Inc.'s Palm OS-based smart
wristwatch are back to square one, as the version that was expected
to be out in the middle of last year has been shelved in favor of a
less expensive and more powerful version of the watch now scheduled
for release in the middle of this year, Fossil said Wednesday.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=519FB5:1F4D50E

FIRMS WARM TO M-COMPUTING, SKIP TRAINING: A new study has found that
while 84 percent of firms back mobile computing as a productivity
tool, only 35 percent are making any investment in related training.
The survey was conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and was
sponsored by Nortel Networks. The study found that 58 percent of
senior executives are using mobile computing technology at least
several times a day. It also said that 32 percent of companies with
revenues exceeding USD8 billion intend to invest over USD5 million on
mobile computing in the next two years. Interestingly, while 46
percent of companies that have implemented wireless technology are
concerned about security, 45 percent of firms say they have no
specific mobile computing security policy in place.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9387857

Handheld market sees excellent growth
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4519.html

Vendors, carriers eye WiMax wireless broadband: Posted January 23, 4:
46 a.m. Pacific Time: Manufacturers and service providers looked at
the emerging WiMax wireless technology this week and saw a possible
rival to wired broadband services -- at the end of what some see as a
long standardization process.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=51BEB3:1F4D50E

Battery Recall Issued for Kyocera Smartphone: Kyocera Wireless Corp.
recalled approximately 140,000 batteries in its Smartphone cell
phones on Friday because the batteries can short-circuit or erupt
with force and heat, posing a burn hazard to users.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W0RH05D8A37312C97E3623EAFCD70


GAMING SECTION

Group to Port Linux to GameCube: The GameCube Linux Project aims to
broaden the use of the console.
http://consolewire.com/news/item.asp?nid=2847

Nintendo Unveils New Portable Game System: After many months of
speculation, Nintendo takes the wraps off a new handheld console.
http://consolewire.com/news/item.asp?nid=2848

COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

RIAA Files Next Round of Suits Against Anonymous File-sharers - The
Mercury News: A music industry trade group this week sued a record
532 people accused of illegally sharing songs online, signaling it
will continue its legal campaign despite a recent setback in federal
court. The lawsuits filed in New York and Washington, D.C., by the
Recording Industry Association of America identify the alleged music
downloaders by their numerical Internet addresses, not their names.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7769107.htm

House Panel Sparks Database Controversy
[January 23, 2004] Judiciary Committee approves bill that creates a
new property right in database facts.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,oha,1,bala,2w1s,kdcl,8t40
Tech firms fail to squelch database bill
http://ct.com.com/click?q=db-rmY9QJEI68bxsHzAULaTspziVw9R

GPL Awaits Test in SCO Group/IBM Dispute: [January 23, 2004] Is the
GNU General Public License unconstitutional?
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,oha,1,l4vo,81su,kdcl,8t40

** Editor's Note: That does it. SCO officially just received my
"Demon Spawn" Award. Really these people are ridiculous!
SCO To Congress: Linux Hurts The U.S.: The Jan. 8 letter says that
the commoditizing influence of open-source software is bad for the U.
S. economy and argues that open-source skirts export controls that
govern commercial products.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89335,00.html?nlid=AM

FBI Makes Arrest in Net Movie Piracy Case: A man who allegedly used
the Internet to distribute Oscar "screener" movies sent to him by a
member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been
arrested in Illinois, authorities said.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W0RH05D8A31342C97E3623EAFCD70


SECURITY SECTION

NAI's McAfee the latest to add anti-spyware: Posted January 23, 9:13
a.m. Pacific Time: Network Associates Inc. (NAI) will become the
latest security software maker to address the growing problem of
stealth surveillance software known as spyware when it announces a
new consumer product for locating and removing the applications on
Monday.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=51BEAE:1F4D50E


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Wired: DOCUMENTARIES DRAW ON ANIMATION: "10 years ago, mixing
animation and documentary would have been both impractical and taboo
-- animation emerges from the brain of an artist, while documentary
is supposed to be grounded in objective truth. But the plummeting
costs of animation and dissolving rules of nonfiction have brought
this cinematic odd couple together."
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,61991,00.html
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e-Clippings 1.26.2004 *Not Latin for Fair and Balanced
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

Aizu's First Law: Using is believing.
As was the case for the Internet, or the PCs, unless you use it, you
cannot understand its real significance. To put it the other way
around, if and when you use it, it will prevail.
Instead of "seeing" from afar, you must use it to understand. So many
people denied the potential and the impact of the Net simply because
they never tried to use it.
http://www.edge.org/q2004/page3.html#aizu

Aizu's Second Law: What changes the world is communication, not
information.
We are living in a world where we can exchange ideas and emotions
freely and inexpensively, the first time in the history. Information
piled up, or disseminated one way down, never makes people happy or
feel compelled to act that much, while communication, just a single
line or word from your friends or beloved, or even from a total
stranger, that catches your heart, often results in collective
actions.
http://www.edge.org/q2004/page3.html#aizu
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So here is my thinking. I was going to try to stick to publishing
e-Clippings on a certain day but have recently fallen behind in my
editorial duties and am playing catch-up. The problem is that I am
finding a ton of good stuff that I think you'll find interesting.
So instead of waiting for say next Monday or Wednesday and sending
out a 25 page email, I figured I would just plow through the backlog
and send out an issue every time I hit about 7 pages – until the
backlog is cleared up.

I will also be including some of the items I find not in this
newsletter but in my blog. Not in any effort just to drive people to
the blog but there are some stories that belong in a forum where they
can discussed etc. and that are not amenable to easy editing.

So, read on, enjoy and I will try not to overwhelm.

Mark Oehlert, Editor
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(From Internet.com) Products of the Year: The Winners Are ...What
products and services had the greatest impact on small businesses in
2003? The readers of Small Business Computing.com, E-Commerce Guide,
and Webopedia pick the best hardware, software and services.
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,oaz,1,82rk,23cm,kdcl,8t40

Learning Circuits: E-LEARNING TRENDS 2003
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/nov2003/2003trends.htm
Kuma Reality Games has released a first look at its upcoming Kuma War
videogame service, issuing a video re-enactment of Operation Red
Dawn, a mission that culminated in the capture of a cowering Saddam
Hussein in a hole located on the outskirts of Tikrit.
http://www.kumawar.com/
Video file location:
http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=31m,4vn7,dat,2rlf,m6y8,7oo6,5pc5

PeopleSoft Inks Integration Deal With Ascential: PeopleSoft said it
wanted Ascential because of the breadth of its software offerings and
its metadata management tools, which can help customers do rollouts
more quickly.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89233,00.html?nlid=PM

Bush to Unveil Workforce Training Program - CNN.com
In his State of the Union address, President Bush tonight is expected
to propose new job-training grants for community colleges to help
prepare American workers for today's economy--a key issue in
November's presidential election. In his address to Congress and the
nation, Bush plans to announce at least $120 million in grants,
administered by the Labor Department.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/19/sotu.training.program.
ap/index.html

ZDNet: 'DODGY-DOSSIER SYNDROME' RIFE IN THE WORKPLACE: "Two-thirds of
knowledge workers are unaware of the dangers that metadata contained
within their documents can pose to themselves and their businesses,
according to new research."
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/management/0,39020654,39117905,00.htm

(from ZDNet) Tech economy rebound, nano revolution coming: Phillip
Bond, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology  at the U.S. Dept.
of Commerce, is the Bush administration"s point person on tech policy.
In our Face to Face interview,  Bond discusses the Bush
administration"s science and technology  policies, including space
exploration, offshore jobs and   nanotechnology.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=66-kDH_IyWKTdfga5kxE24yNKpYEprR

TechNewsWorld: ONLINE LEARNING AND THE ROI OF TRAINING HIGH-TECH
WIZARDS "The vast majority measure what they can easily--usage and
completion, for instance. However, a small but growing portion are
putting systems and processes in place to help assess if the material
employees are training on is useful to their day-to-day job
activities and to determine what the monetary payback of different
training sources actually is. Some use control groups to do this.
Some use surveys."
http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32325.html

CLO: DRIVING PERFORMANCE THROUGH TRAINING
"In order to be a valued asset to your company, the training function
must support the company's success. The best way to do this is to
make the achievement of business objectives your primary goal. This
will mean letting go of some traditional notions of what makes for
effective learning, including the notion that training is always the
answer. Use non-traditional approaches to learning." http://www.
clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_feature.asp?art
icleid=320&zoneid=30

Learning Circuits: THE FUTURE OF THE PROFESSION FORMERLY KNOWN AS
TRAINING "We need to align the human side of the business so that it
fits these new paradigms. Calling it `training and
development' puts too much emphasis on what we do, not on what
we're
trying to create: knowledge organizations that release and focus
people's energies for work performance. Our field is changing in
an
emergent way, with no strong identity. Learning, performance, and
change activities are happening under many banners. The innovation
that occurs as these different identities pursue their work is good.
Identity fragmentation expands options, but it also creates silos and
artificial boundaries."
http://www.astd.org/learningcircuits/2003/dec2003/galagan.htm

EMERGING TECH SECTION

Brief: IVT Launches New Platform For Online Audio, Video
Presentations: Interactive Video Technologies Inc., an e-commerce
communications software company, has announced a new version of its
Web-based software for managing audio and video presentations.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89266,00.html?nlid=PM

(From elearningpost)
Open Source LCMS: ATutor
"Tutor is a Standards Compliant Open Source Web-based Learning
Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and
adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in
minutes. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute
Web-based instructional content, and conduct their courses online.
Students learn in an adaptive learning environment."
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=328649

Toshiba squeezes more chips into standard package: Posted January 21,
5:07 a.m. Pacific Time: Toshiba Corp. has developed a new chip
production technology that increases by 50 percent the number of
layers of components that can be crammed inside a standard Multi Chip
Package (MCP) for use in products such as cellular telephones and
personal digital assistants (PDAs), the company said Wednesday.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=517ECC:1F4D50E

(From NW Technology)
SIMPLE - meaning Session Initiation Protocol for IM and Presence
Leveraging Extensions technology. In a nutshell SIMPLE is an effort
to bring interoperability to instant-messaging networks. It's based
on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) - the signaling and presence
protocol used to establish Internet phone calls, multimedia
conferences, chat sessions and interactive communications. SIMPLE
lets users of different instant-messaging software include each other
on their buddy lists, detect when they are available to exchange
instant messages and initiate real-time chat sessions. So many big
vendors, from IBM/Lotus, Microsoft to Sprint, already support SIMPLE,
it seems to be a successful technology already.
http://www.nwfusion.com/go2/0119tech1a.html

TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

**I may have included this article already but I just feel like doing
it again.
Learning Circuits: WE ARE THE PROBLEM: WE ARE SELLING SNAKE OIL
This is a widely linked article listing the things wrong with the
training industry. "The problem is not "out there". We are the
problem. We are selling snake oil. We now have ample data to show
that:
Training does not work.
eLearning does not work.
Blending Learning does not work.
Knowledge Management does not work.
http://www.internettime.com/lcmt/archives/001014.html

(from elearningpost)
Grant McEvan College: CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF ONLINE
COURSES
"The criteria presented in this guide are based on the national and
international experiences of staff in the Instructional Media and
Design department at Grant MacEwan College. Although they were
developed to assist educators in evaluating the effectiveness of
online courses, they may also be used as guidelines for course
developers." http://www.imd.macewan.ca/imd/content.php?contentid=36

(from elearningpost)
Optimize: THE LESSONS OF E-LEARNING
"Top business leaders who abandoned E-learning to training
departments must now get personally involved. By far, the best
E-learning efforts include the involvement of CEOs, CIOs, and COOs
who relentlessly link interactive education to bottom-line, real-life
business drivers. This is a hands-on undertaking in every sense. When
executive-level support is present, E-learning can show a quick ROI
and help business audiences accomplish their goals—whether it's
compliance with new regulations, management training, or getting up
to speed on a product introduction."
http://www.optimizemag.com/issue/026/roi.htm;
jsessionid=K2GOGTTQU45C2QSNDBGCKHY

THE MOUNTAIN AND THE CLOCK By Stewart Brand
As we spent more time climbing to the cliffs and hanging out on and
around them, they rewarded us more and more. They taught us this:
most of the amazingness of the Clock we can borrow from the
amazingness of the mountain. The more we highlight and blend in with
the most spectacular features of the mountain, the more memorable a
Clock visit will be for the time pilgrims. It's a Mountain Clock.
This edition of EDGE is a photo-essay designed to be read on the EDGE
Website.
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge132.html

(from elearningpost)
CIO (Asia): TAINTED KNOWLEDGE VS TEMPTING KNOWLEDGE
"The study examines how these comparisons affect the way in which
people react to ideas that come from internal or external rivals.
Using four different surveys, the authors show that employees engaged
in internal competition often respond defensively and tend to ignore
the ideas of their rivals (i.e., they see these ideas as tainted),
while employees engaged in external competition pay vigilant
attention to ideas from outside the organisation (i.e., they find the
ideas tempting)."
http://www.cio-asia.com/pcio.
nsf/unidlookup/453D221E09D0BE8048256E21001FCD1A?OpenDocument

(from elearningpost)
LTSN: E-LEARNING GUIDES
"The Generic Centre e-learning guides are the first fully
comprehensive guides on e-learning aimed at specific audiences within
UK higher education.  They address issues that are key to senior
managers, teachers, support staff, learning technologists, heads of
department and students, but the same message emerges from all:
e-learning is learning, providing us with useful tools not only to
deliver an enhanced learning and teaching experience, but also to
push the boundaries of learning and teaching through creative use of
technology."
http://www.ltsn.ac.uk/genericcentre/index.asp?id=19519

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

PalmOne Lays Off 12% Of Workforce: The company is shifting operations
toward the smart phone market after acquiring Handspring Inc.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89268,00.html?nlid=PM

RIM BlackBerry 7510: Research In Motion adds a speakerphone and a
color display to an already impressive feature set with the
forthcoming BlackBerry 7510 for Nextel service. How well will it be
received? Read our First Take to find out.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=a2-6~M7QXZmFvB1bADAqV6GDQO9g2uR

Wireless LAN Security Worries On Horizon: Moving to the more secure
802.11i wireless network standard could force companies to buy all
new hardware and is leading to uncertainty among wireless users.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89026,00.html?nlid=MW

(from ZDNet)
IT RADAR: WIRED & WIRELESS: What's on the radar for wireless in 2004
Without doubt, last year, the prevailing theme for wireless LANs was
security. Although advanced switches have all but trivialized
security concerns, at least we know that nowadays most problems will
plague organizations that have not yet incorporated the latest
security standards and measures. In any case, it is now 2004 and it's
time to move on and take a look at some new and promising wireless
technologies and trends.
Unstrung: 2004 WLAN Almanac
http://ct.com.com/click?q=50-M_CBIR0Qwc_QFl64aIdOjtToIvlR
Wireless.itworld.com: The most important wireless technology of 2003
http://ct.com.com/click?q=03-13t3I3rJIA3WeCnkn_raErvzb59R
ZDNetUK: Finding MIMO
http://ct.com.com/click?q=a2-6~M7QXZmFvB9ipO_qV6GDQO9g2uR

Wi-Fi Alliance: Noncertified Wireless Products Have High Failure
Rates: Wi-Fi products that haven't been certified by the Wi-Fi
Alliance have a "catastrophic" failure rate, the organization said.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89039,00.html?nlid=MW

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

(from ZDNet)
Why "synch" is still king: In due time, Web services may ultimately
prove to be a true enabler of the real-time enterprise.   But I'm not
holding my breath. Until wireless networks  are more pervasive and
reliable, synchronization will  be the king of mobile database
applications. Furthermore, the spoils will go to the vendors like
Microsoft and Sybase that make child's play out of  replicating
relational databases across a variety of systems and devices. Here's
why.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=80-KTKvQQ0I6rzv3VKDSKgjydtEpLFR

Connexion By Boeing Moves To The High Seas: Vessel operators and
passengers will be able to use the Connexion service to access the
Internet and firewall-protected corporate intranets, send and receive
e-mail, and view satellite television programming.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89095,00.html?nlid=MW

POWER UP YOUR PDA'S SCHEDULING APP By Jason Parker
KILLER DOWNLOADS: If your handheld's built-in calendaring  software
doesn't meet your needs, try downloading a program with more
features. Jason picks three that are perfect for business travelers.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=b0-NZmfQQJcNYubfQfzh_0K93CjLWFR

GAMING SECTION

(From Game daily)
U.S. VG Software Sales up 5.0 Percent in `03
While official word has yet to emerge from market-tracker the NPD
Group, Reuters, relying on analyst sales data, is stating that U.S.
videogame software sales rose 5.0 percent in 2003.  In 2002, U.S.
videogame software sales rose 21.0 percent, after posting a 10.0
percent gain in 2001. December 2003 software sales rose 13.0 percent
in year-over-year results, and gained 21.0 percent when factoring in
only software for next-generati0on machines.  Electronic Arts'
December 2003 business reportedly grew 32.0 percent from December
2002, while Activision, Inc. seemingly realized growth of 38.0
percent in the same year-over-year period.  On the hardware side,
PlayStation 2 sales were off 26.0 percent in the 2003 calendar year,
while Xbox slipped 2.0 percent. GameCube, riding a late surge after a
price cut implemented stateside on September 25, saw sales grow 39.0
percent over 2002 results, a higher figure than even Nintendo itself

NINTENDO UNVEILS DUAL SCREEN HANDHELD
Nintendo's mystery game hardware has been unveiled after months of
speculation, with the Kyoto-based giant planning to bring out a
radically different type of portable game system at the same time as
the PSP next Christmas.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/dev/2847

EDINBURGH GAMES FESTIVAL SET FOR 2004 RETURN
Following on from the success of last year's event, the Edinburgh
International Games Festival is set to make a return to the Scottish
capital this August, with a significantly expanded program of events.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/dev/2818

GameDaily and Gigex have teamed up with E-Poll in order to publish a
free comprehensive 28-page study that delves into the buying habits
and interests of today's gamer.
http://www.gamedaily.com/epollsignup.asp


COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION


SECURITY SECTION

Bagle E-mail Virus Slows, Fuels Naming Debate: Although Bagle, the
latest e-mail virus to hit computer users, is no longer considered a
big threat, its emergence is again raising questions about how
viruses and worms are named.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89264,00.html?nlid=PM

Slammer: One Year Later: A year after it surfaced on Jan. 25, 2003,
the Slammer worm is being remembered this week as a watershed moment
in the life of the Internet; the sudden appearance of a new type of
malicious code that could spread worldwide in minutes.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89263,00.html?nlid=VVR

Phishing: Phishing is a technique used to gain personal information
for purposes of identity theft, using fraudulent e-mail messages that
appear to come from legitimate businesses. These authentic-looking
messages are designed to fool recipients into divulging personal data
such as account numbers and passwords, credit card numbers and Social
Security numbers.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89096,00.html?nlid=VVR

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

HOW I ESCAPED FROM HARD-DRIVE HELL (AGAIN) By David Coursey
NOTEBOOKS: Personal computers are still way too complex. My
latest bit of evidence: the disaster that ensued when I tried to
replace the hard drive in my laptop. Here's the whole sorry story.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=26-KqPVIiMoeernwkcKZHgqZ1P6jzcR
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"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

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

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

Cool Tool #2: Grokker 2 (www.groxis.com) offers a visual
interpretation of search engine results.  While visually appealing,
like so many of these products, I am arrogant enough to leave it
wanting more. Take a look though.
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WellPoint Unveils $40M Plan To Furnish Doctors With Free Computers:
WellPoint, the nation's second largest health insurer, has launched a
$40 million project to provide doctors with handheld or desktop
computers to support e-prescriptions and cut paperwork.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,89117,00.html?nlid=PM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


EMERGING TECH SECTION

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

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


TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

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

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

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

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

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

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

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

GAMING SECTION

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

SECURITY SECTION

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

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

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

What's Geocaching? What happens when techies gain access to a
multibillion-dollar defense satellite system? They play. Days after
the May 2000 order making precision GPS data available to civilians,
GPS enthusiast Dave Ulmer hid some goodies in the hills of Oregon and
posted the GPS coordinates online. Mike Teague found the booty,
logged the event—which he called the GPS Stash Hunt—and a
sport was
born. Jeremy Irish and two friends from a failing dot-com started an
official site to promote what is now commonly called geocaching. The
items stashed are often whimsical: Irish's first find was a bottle of
Sunny Delight and a log book
http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-458-3-3-187403-31830-1
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The Lycos 50 2003 Review of Most Searched Terms
http://50.lycos.com/2003review.asp

Predicting 2004 by Dan Gillmor
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001625.
shtml#001625

Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: Bob's Predictions for 2004
By Robert X. Cringely
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040101.html

2003 Year-End Google Zeitgeist: Search patterns, trends, and surprises
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

The 2003 Economy According to eBay
http://www.usatoday.
com/money/industries/retail/2003-12-29-ebay-cover_x.htm

(Free registration required)
NYTimes.com's Most Emailed Stories of 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/29/technology/29MOST.html?
ex=1073624400&en=58dc239ecba9e8cd&ei=5070

(Free registration required)
Media and Technology in 2004 By THE NEW YORK TIMES
THE convergence of media and technology, long predicted but not yet
fulfilled, is at last showing signs of happening - with high-speed
Internet access making much of it possible. The battles brought on by
these changes are likely to occupy the media and technology
industries in 2004.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/29/business/media/29look.html?
ex=1073365200&en=5ab676043abb5276&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

(From Terra Nova)
2004: Predictions and Resolutions: Though Terra Nova managed to
missed the traditional "Year in Review" discussion, perhaps we can
redeem ourselves by asking the collective what they think will or
should happen in 2004 (in MMOGs, VWs, etc). I don't have any clue, so
won't venture any thoughts.
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2004/01/2004_prediction.html

2003 in Review: DRM Technology: December 31, 2003
By Bill Rosenblatt
http://www.drmwatch.com/drmtech/article.php/3294391

Top Spam Topics of 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3362489.stm

Ed Blogging 2003 by Will Richardson at Weblogg-ed
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/2003/12/30#a1260

The Fantasy and Reality of 2004 (from WIRED)
"So we asked a dozen experts in fields that are apt to touch all
our lives this year -- privacy, defense, spam, security, open source,
technology development, life online and human rights -- to answer
this question: "What do you wish would happen in 2004, and what do
you think will actually happen?""
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,61726,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3

'Most influential' websites named: Google, eBay and Friends Reunited
are among key influential websites which have had the biggest impact
on UK web users, say analysts Nielsen Netratings.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3356903.stm

Top ten stories of 2003 : 10:00 01 January 04
NewScientist.com news service
"The most popular stories published by New Scientist.com during
2003 cover a diverse range of scientific subjects, from fundamental
physics to falling satellites, and brain prosthesis to
masturbation."
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994513

2003: the year in technology: Computer viruses ran riot and the music
industry took file-sharers to court, but robots and futuristic
aircraft also made headlines 10:00  29  December 2003
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994512

2003: The year in biology and medicine: SARS rampaged across the
world, super-lethal viruses were created, fertility doctors sparked
outrage, while stem cell research offered hope 10:00  27  December
2003
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994517

2003: The year in space and astronomy: Disaster struck with the
explosion of space shuttle Columbia, but the year got better with the
sharpest map of the infant universe, evidence for dark energy and
missions to Mars underway 10:00  24  December 2003
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994511

2003 In Review (A List of Lists from music to guilty pleasures from
BlogCritics.org)
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/30/134028.php

What Will 2004 Bring?  by Kevin Kruse of e-Learning Guru.com
http://www.e-learningguru.com/articles/art_misc_4.htm

Top business products introduced in 2003
http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/4002-6033-5113765.html?tag=bpoy
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This is easily one of the most powerful moments and demonstrations of
a company that gets it, that I have seen in a dog's life. The bar
has now been set. Go look at the http://ncsp.forum.nokia.com/  which
is the Nokia Content Syndication Program (NCSP). I am stunned. Just
look at the first entry in the FAQ: "Why is Nokia allowing other web
sites to publish Nokia content? Forum Nokia will never be the only
resource developers use when creating mobile applications and mobile
content, and there's no reason it should be. Instead, Nokia wants to
help other developer communities by providing simple, free access to
quality Nokia content like toolkits, documents, images, and videos."
They get it. Nokia is not only making all of this content available
and for free, but they are doing it with RDF, RSS and JavaScript.
Just imagine for a moment that all the data in your company's
collective brain is available via a series of RSS feeds.
My head is spinning.

Blog, Blog, Blog: The Navy Tests Web Logging For Team Communications
Blogging, or keeping a weblog, is often seen as a solitary effort. An
individual can type frequent updates onto their log, sharing opinions
or ideas with anyone with Internet access. The future of blogging
could look a lot different. The Office of Naval Research and the
Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) are testing out the idea that
weblogs can be powerful communication tools to bring together teams
of people
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/12/031231083143.htm

101 Ways to Save the Internet By Paul Boutin
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/internet.html?
pg=1&topic=&topic_set=

Take Back the Net By Cade Metz December 30, 2003
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1404045,00.asp


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Live TV on Your Phone: December 18, 2003
By  Bruce Brown: Product: MobiTV
Direct price: $9.99 monthly (in addition to normal Sprint PCS service
fees)
Requires: Sprint PCS Vision service
Company info: Sprint Spectrum, www.sprintpcs.com
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=114842,00.asp


TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy – Clay Shirky
A speech at ETech, April, 2003
Published July 1, 2003 on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture"
mailing list.
http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

*You have to promise to read the WHOLE thing.
The Blogging Iceberg - Of 4.12 Million Hosted Weblogs, Most Little
Seen, Quickly Abandoned: Perseus Development Corp. randomly surveyed
3,634 blogs on eight leading blog-hosting services to develop a model
of blog populations. Based on this research, Perseus estimates that 4.
12 million blogs have been created on these services: Blog-City,
BlogSpot, Diaryland, LiveJournal, Pitas, TypePad, Weblogger and Xanga.
http://www.perseus.com/blogsurvey/thebloggingiceberg.html

12 Variables for Understanding Online Communities
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/12ocvar.html

Integrating communication and information through ContactMap
By Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Ellen Isaacs, Mike Creech, Jeff
Johnson, John Hainsworth : Published in April, 2002 by ACM in
Communications of the ACM (1), Volume 45, Number 4, pp. 89-95. A PDF
version of this paper is available.
http://www.izix.com/pro/lightweight/contactmap.php

We-Learning: Social Software and E-Learning
By Eva Kaplan-Leiserson: Early e-learning traded technology for human
interaction. Now, the personal element is being added back in. New
social software tools borrowed from business and the younger
generations combine tech and touch for the best of all possible
worlds (including virtual ones)
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/dec2003/kaplan.htm

The revolution should not be eulogised : Weblogs may not be as
innovative as some claim but they do have real potential as a form of
personal publishing, argues Rebecca Blood : Thursday December 18, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/story/0,14024,1108306,00.html

**The following from Lawrence Lessign really sends a chill into my
soul.
WalMart's way to the future: WalMart's launched a music
downloading service. For just 88 cents, you can download a song in a
Windows Media Player format. I tried the service. For 88 cents I
bought a Beatles song (they've got a total of 12 available.
Wuhoo!). When I went to play it, however, it wouldn't.
LiquidAudio's
server was not found. But the real devil here is not that the service
doesn't (yet) work. It is the details of the TOS. These are among
the
most restrictive in the business, authorizing 10 burns from 3
machines,but requiring you promise: "You may not reproduce
(except as
noted above), publish, transmit, distribute, display, broadcast,
re-broadcast, modify, create derivative works from, sell or
participate in any sale of or exploit in any way, in whole or in
part,
directly or indirectly, any of the Products, the Service or any
related software. You may not reverse engineer, decompile,
disassemble, modify or disable any copy protection or use limitation
systems associated with the Products. You may not play and then
re-digitize any Products, or upload those Products to the Internet.
You may not use the Products in conjunction with any other
third-party
content (e.g, to provide sound for a film). You may not sell or offer
to sell the Products, including but not limited to, posting any
Product for auction, on any Internet auction site. All Products are
sublicensed to you and not sold, notwithstanding the use of the terms
"sell," "purchase," "order," or "buy"
on the Service or in this
Agreement."
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001647.shtml
*Get it? You just paid for something and didn't actually get to
buy anything. You just got a license to do exactly what Wal-Mart tells
you to do with it – and nothing more. Think that something like
that just impacts people downloading music? Just wait till our books
and newspapers are all downloaded. What about the photographs you
uploaded to Yahoo Groups?

What the net did next  By Mark Ward  BBC News Online technology
correspondent  The internet is set to become the basis for just about
every form of communication, according to net pioneer Vint Cerf, and
he should know what he is talking about.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3292043.stm


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION


GAMING SECTION

Video Gaming, Education and Digital Learning Technologies Relevance
and Opportunities
D-Lib Magazine: February 2002: Volume 8 Number 2
ISSN 1082-9873: John Kirriemuir
Ceangal: http://www.ceangal.com/
gaming@...
Abstract: This article presents an overview of video gaming and
discusses how gaming is related and relevant to digital libraries and
digital learning technologies. It suggests that these relationships
are worthy of more detailed investigation. The article begins with
information about video games and gaming consoles, a comparison of
consoles and the PC, and some observations on the network
capabilities of consoles. Next, the relevance of gaming to academia is
highlighted, and the relevance of games and consoles to learning
technologies is considered. Emerging gaming platforms are explored,
and the article concludes with some observations on future directions
in video gaming and how the best and most relevant aspects of gaming
can help create engaging and beneficial digital learning and research
technologies.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february02/kirriemuir/02kirriemuir.html

(From Technology Review)
Playing Politics: Continuing to explore innovative uses of digital
tools for campaigning, Howard Dean, this year's cybercandidate, has
commissioned his very own computer game. The game simulates the
process of getting out the vote in Iowa, including pamphleting,
canvasing, placing signs, and moving people to the local precinct to
caucus. The game was developed by game designer and theorist Gonzalo
Frasca, working with Ian Bogost, as another illustration of news
gaming. Information about the game was sent first to selected
bloggers, including yours truly, before being released to the
mainstream media.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1211

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Ansen,
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e-Clippings 12.19.2003
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero." (Not Latin for Fair and Balanced)
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and
breeds reptiles of the mind." William Blake

"I know of no other manner of dealing with great tasks than as
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Game Developers Conference 2004 (GDC 2004)
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NEWS

Apple store tops 25 million tunes: Apple's online music store has hit
a new high, selling more than 25 million songs since its launch in
April. The 25 millionth song purchased on Friday was Let It Snow! Let
It Snow! Let It Snow! by Frank Sinatra.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3323583.stm

Website 'exposes' tobacco firms: Campaigners hope smokers who visit
the website will quit the habit. A website which claims to expose the
marketing practices of the tobacco industry has gone online. The
database - www.tobaccopapers.com - includes 14,000 pages of evidence
which have been described as damning by health campaigners. The
website has been constructed by the Centre for Tobacco Control
Research at Strathclyde University.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3326209.stm

Reload releases SCORM e-learning content player: Wilbert Kraan, CETIS
staff December 14, 2003: Now that the open source Reload content
package editor is maturing and in pretty widespread use and
development, the team have added a content player to the toolkit. It
plays SCORM 1.2 in a pretty straightforward fashion, but is mainly
meant to help content developers understand and control what is going
on behind the scenes.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20031214181715

SimCandidate: Video games simulate sports, business, and war. Why not
politics? By Steven Johnson: Posted Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003, at 10:58
AM PT
http://slate.msn.com/id/2092688/

Introducing Our New Shareware Library!: December 17, 2003
By  Robyn Peterson : Just in time for the holidays, we've
exponentially increased our selection of downloads to include a deep,
robust collection of hot, new shareware. And the best part? You can
download as much as you want, any time you want, for free! So, push
frugality to its outermost limits—download some
try-before-you-buy
software today. Head on over to shareware.pcmag.com
and check out our four favorite shareware applications. It's a great
place to start. We'll be updating this list frequently.
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=114744,00.asp

Internet Sales Tax Effort On Hold for Now: The dogged efforts of
nearly three-dozen states to win Congress's approval for a national
Internet sales tax plan failed to pay off in 2003. Observers say 2005
may be the next chance for action.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/WBRH05DA1C8482C97E3623EB43619

IE Overhaul Part of Windows XP SP2: [December 16, 2003] Microsoft's
service pack for XP has a host of goodies for improving the Internet
Explorer experience.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/3289571

from eLearningpost)
Intranet Journal: CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND COLLABORATION CONVERGE ON
E-LEARNING "there are three broad categories of learning content
based on the urgency of the information that needs to be learned: a)
develop skills and competencies; b) critical knowledge transfer; and
c) information broadcast. Critical knowledge transfer and information
broadcasts involve rapid e-learning, which needs they are high-volume
applications and need some type of content management to facilitate
their use..."
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200312/ij_12_10_03a.html

Teamware: And the winner is ...: The teamware market is poised for
growth as organizations increasingly realize the benefit of creating
virtual workspaces for project teams, communities, and processes.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=e8-DOJMQfk~pfozf0eCTeTkdcBdtOFR

SPECIAL HOLIDAY SECTION

Tech Toys Survive Trial by Tots  By Leander Kahney
02:00 AM Dec. 18, 2003 PT: SAN FRANCISCO -- Once again, the four
Kahney kids got to test a selection of tech toys sure to be under
many a tree this year.  The children, ages 3 to 7, put several toys
-- including interactive books, handheld game consoles and robotic
dogs -- through their paces. The results were mixed: Some were great,
and some not so. Read on to see what is hot, and what's not,
according
to Nadine, 7; Milo, 6; Olin, 4; and Lyle, 3.
http://www.wired.com/news/holidays/0,1882,61630,00.html

2003 Holiday Gift Guide from PCMag.com
http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,4148,11182,00.asp

A holiday wish list of time-saving tech tools: Could the best gift of
all time be the gift of time itself? You can't add hours to anyone's
day, but you can help them save time--or use it more fruitfully.
ZDNet's 9-5 Holiday Gift Guide is geared toward busy professionals
like you--or anyone whose life is ruled by the calendar.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=ba-m~45QXpITQSrXJVsxIxIlZBZWSuR

How to Gadget Shop: Gift shopping for just the right tech gadget this
holiday season? Washington Post personal technology columnist Rob
Pegoraro offers advice for buying DVD players, digital cameras, game
systems, computers, MP3 players, handheld organizers and WiFi setups.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/WBRH05DA0C7852C97E3623EB7B393


EMERGING TECH SECTION

From (kuro5hin.org): Disposable Ipods (Technology)
By cestmoi : Wed Nov 26th, 2003 at 11:55:37 AM EST
Jason bought an Apple Ipod 18 months ago. His battery died and this
is what he did.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/11/25/114627/74

Samsung planning highest capacity flash memory yet: Posted December
16, 6:43 a.m. Pacific Time: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to
shortly begin mass production of a flash memory chip that could
enable memory cards and portable electronic devices to offer greater
data storage area, the company said Tuesday.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/16/HNsamsungflash_1.html


TRENDS AND RESEARCH SECTION

Foresight and Governance Project Explores "Serious Games"
"On February 5-6 the Wilson Center's Foresight and Governance
Project hosted a two-day workshop Game-based Learning Models &
Simulations: Expert Blueprints for Project Success, to explore how
the management and performance of three sectors – hospitals, high
schools, and parks – can be improved using game-based simulation,
learning, and training technologies. Several presentations from the
workshop were taped and are now available in RealPlayer (see
below)."
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.item&news_id=20313

A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and
interaction design version 1.1b (6 March 2002)  Jesse James Garrett
jjg@...
http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Toshiba launches VoIP software for PCs: Posted December 17, 9:20 a.m.
Pacific Time Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.'s Digital
Solutions Division released a software program Tuesday that can turn
a desktop or notebook PC into a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
telephone, the company said in a release.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/17/HNtoshvoip_1.html


GAMING SECTION

"Second Life Radically Changes Pricing, Offers $US Incentives For
User Content In an announcement that will long be remembered, the
makers of Second Life have revealed a new pricing policy that allows
users to turn some of their in-world earnings into cash." (from
terra Nova)
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2003/12/second_life_cha.html


COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS SECTION

(NY Times requires free registration)
Special Section in NYTimes.com Technology on "Digital Copy
Fight"
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/techspecial/

Valve, Steam and DRM (Technology)
By Talez
Sat Sep 13th, 2003 at 07:22:22 PM EST
"On September the 12th, a game developer known as Valve launched
a new product designed to enable and promote digital distribution of
software. This product, Steam, was supposed to be a gaming panacea.
At last, companies could skip the arduous task of finding a publisher
willing to take their games and sell directly to the gaming public.
A big part of Steam is its DRM. DRM--Digital Rights Management--is
the digital lock on an application, stopping a user from running the
applications without a proper license. What most people didn't
realise until this day is how bad exactly DRM enabled software can
be. This article is the experience that a humble gamer has had with
Valve's own brand of DRM."
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/9/13/03945/7308


SECURITY SECTION

Check Point Software Buying Firewall Vendor Zone Labs: The deal will
add end-user firewall products to the company's network security
offerings.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,88289,00.html?nlid=SEC2


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Ninjai, The Little Ninja
http://www.ninjai.com/index.html

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**File under `great stuff' and "geez, now I have to
change my business model'
Sam Adkins' presentation on Workflow Learning from TechLearn 2003.
http://macromedia.marketing.pr.breezecentral.com/p29338483/

Workflow Learning home
http://www.workflowlearning.com/

**Wanna get a chill down your spine? Take a look at this chart and be
afraid of how long things are being locked up.
"When Works Pass into the Public Domain"
http://www.nps.gov/helpdesk/cpychart.htm

**More Chilling still….
More SCO fud, this time insulting the constitution: I apologize for
the silence, but we've been in Japan this week announcing
iCommons in Japan. (More on that soon). But after reading this
extraordinary document by Darl McBride of SCO infamy, I couldn't
resist canceling this morning's meetings to respond.
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001611.shtml
Here is the offending letter:
http://www.newsforge.com/trends/03/12/04/2024240.shtml?tid=85

Arghhhh!! (via Stephen Downes)
More E-Learning Patent Suits Expected in 2004
More on patent vultures, this time looking more closely at e-learning
and in particular a company called IpLearn, a two-person operation
that "offers no products or services but licenses technology for its
U.S. patents covering 'foundational technologies' for the e-learning
industry." You know, there was once a time when you actually had to
invent something in order to obtain a patent. Now, all you need to do
is hire a lawyer and surf the web looking for ideas. Vultures. By
Paul Harris, Learning Circuits, December, 2003
http://www.astd.org/learningcircuits/2003/dec2003/harris.htm

NETg cuts 173 Limerick jobs: E-learning company NETg said on
Wednesday that it would close its facility in Limerick, with the loss
of 173 jobs.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9382140

SkillSoft suffers from legal settlements  Thursday, December 04 2003
by Ciaran Buckley: SkillSoft has reported a sharp rise in quarterly
revenues to USD50 million, but the e-learning company's bottom line
is suffering as a result of two lawsuits.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9383759

Co-opting the Future: November 19, 2003
By  John C. Dvorak : Blogs, or Web logs, are all the rage in some
quarters. We're told that blogs will evolve into a unique source of
information and are sure to become the future of journalism. Well,
hardly. Two things are happening to prevent such a future: The first
is wholesale abandonment of blog sites, and the second is the casual
co-opting of the blog universe by Big Media.
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=112367,00.asp

A Patented Way to Preempt the Spammers
Odd or surprising new solutions to the e-mail spam problem are always
floating around the cyber-realm. But nothing quite prepared us for a
jaw-dropper from AT&T Corp.: a patent that the company received this
month on a system for defeating spam filters.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/WARH05DB943262C97E3623EBD58B6

Kazaa Launches Legitimacy Campaign
The world's largest Internet music-trading service launched a $1
million advertising campaign to convince the entertainment industry
that file sharing is here to stay, but movie and music business
representatives aren't buying it yet.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/WARH05DB9405F2C97E3623EBD58B6

TRENDS  / RESEARCH SECTION

from the papers of John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid (found via
eLearningPost)"Instruction vs Learning
The distance between the initial question ("How do you operationalize
this theory?") and our transformation ("How do you legitimize
theft?") can be illustrated most quickly by pointing to the inversion
implicit in the question. Where "situated learning" talks of
learning,
questions about educational technology tend to be framed around
teaching and instruction. A situated approach contests the assumption
that learning is a response to teaching. "
http://www2.parc.com/ops/members/brown/papers/stolenknow.html

(found via eLearningPost)
Optimize: THE INNOVATOR'S SOLUTION
"The cycle of disruption starts when a company offers a new product
that gains only limited acceptance. To understand what's wrong, the
company gets good at listening to customers. It makes improvements
and wins business, gradually penetrating ever larger and more
profitable customer segments. Eventually, though, the improvements
its
up-market customers demand exceed what many customers want. These
overserved down-market customers become an opportunity for new
entrants, whose less costly products are still good enough."
http://www.optimizemag.com/issue/025/leadership.htm;
jsessionid=IQRRDA13ADHJOQSNDBGCKHQ

The State of Play:  Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds
November 13-15, 2003
A Conference Sponsored By Institute for Information Law and Policy
at New York Law School and Information Society Project at Yale Law
School"From November 13-15, 2003, 250 designers, computer
scientists,
entrepreneurs and legal scholars joined together to explore the
phenomenon of virtual worlds and videogames.  Please visit this page
for photos and reports of the conference and updates on State of Play
2.0, November 2004.
Post-Conference Buzz
http://www.nyls.edu/pages/1905.asp
Conference Papers
http://www.nyls.edu/pages/1684.asp

The State of Play: Free As In Gaming? Posted by James Grimmelmann on
Thursday, December 04 @ 00:25:25 EST
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?
name=News&file=article&sid=1290

10 technologies that have changed the way we live
By PAUL BOUTIN Special to MSN
http://americandreams.msn.com/article.aspx?article=Technologies


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Best of What's New for 2003 from Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/

Linux tablet PC breaks $1,000 barrier
By David Becker  CNET News.com
December 1, 2003, 12:17 PM PT
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5112309.html


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Census will test iPaq handhelds for 2010 count (11/10/03)
The Census Bureau is laying plans for the 2010 Census that include
the use of as many as 500,000 handheld computers by census takers.
http://www.gcn.com/22_32/news/24099-1.html

'Your PDA's data will self destruct...': PDA Defense can be
programmed to make PDA data self-destruct after a certain number of
failed password attempts or if the device goes a certain period of
time without being synched. And Asynchrony Solutions offers an
enterprise version for organizations looking to centralize PDA
security policy management. If it's good enough for the U.S.
Department of Defense,is it good enough for you?
http://ct.com.com/click?q=2e-eMTGIiK~5tDjLpXmv_2D_eVWrBcR



GAMING SECTION

**This is stunning! You mean people are actually changing games!
(free registration required)
Games Made for Remaking: By MICHEL MARRIOTT: December 4, 2003
RALEIGH, N.C.: IMAGINE buying the latest "Lord of the Rings" DVD and
discovering that the cameras, lights, special effects and editing
tools used in its making had been included at no extra charge. Or
finding your favorite CD's crammed with virtual recording studios,
along with implicit encouragement from the producer to remix the
music, record your own material and post it all on the Internet. It
might seem far-fetched - except to computer game developers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/04/technology/circuits/04modd.html?
adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1070737985-TpBIKToGSMnCg4ArVSI5gQ

Gadamer, Art, and Play © 1987 G.T. Karnezis
http://www.svcc.cc.il.us/academics/classes/gadamer/gadartpl.htm

Playing and Gaming: Reflections and Classifications [1]
by Bo Kampmann Walther
http://www.gamestudies.org/0301/walther/

Virtual Worlds Review
http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/index.shtml

Games go to work
Sunday, September 14, 2003
By EDWARD D. MURPHY, Portland Press Herald Writer
Copyright © 2003 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.
http://business.mainetoday.com/news/030914seriousgames.shtml

A panel discussion with Marc Prensky, Marc Prensky authored Digital
Game-Based Learning, Dr. Christopher Dede, Wirth Professor of
Learning Technologies and chair of the Learning & Teaching Area at
the
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dr. James Paul Gee, a professor
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, recently published What
Video
Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy and "Cory,"* a
high
school student and game player, bravely kept the academics grounded
in reality.
http://www.iaete.org/soapbox/summary.cfm


SECURITY SECTION

Attack Code Surfaces For Latest Windows Vulnerability: Computer code
that exploits a critical new software vulnerability in
the Windows XP and 2000 operating systems is circulating on the
Internet, according to security experts.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,87222,00.html?nlid=VVR


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"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

"The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you
music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you
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Re the frequency of recent e-Clippings…let's just say
I've been busy…
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NEWS

YOU CAN TAKE YOUR CELL-PHONE NUMBER WITH YOU By David Coursey
TELECOM: Starting Nov. 24, you'll be able to take your cell-phone
number with you when you switch carriers. It's the single biggest
story in wireless today. Here's why--and what I think it'll mean to
you.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=9a-b6_GQTMESYQkga13bzR7VlFT0vuR

Cisco To Acquire Conferencing Vendor: Latitude's MeetingPlace
product, which includes conferencing software that runs on Latitude
appliances and on client systems, will become part of Cisco's IP
Communications portfolio.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,87065,00.html?nlid=AM

Senators object to Internet tax bill: Posted November 7, 12:21 p.m.
Pacific Time: The U.S. Senate failed to vote on a bill that would
permanently ban Internet-only taxes after several senators raised
questions about whether the bill would take current tax revenues away
from states and local governments.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=4A253B:1F4D50E

Irish boys to chat with NASA scientists: About 30 boys in Birr, Co.
Offaly will engage in a live videoconference with US space agency
NASA to discuss the students' investigation into the solar system.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9381414

(found at elearningpost)
eLearn Magazine: EXPECTATIONS OF PRIVACY
"[I]n the virtual classroom, keyed-in responses, virtual
hand-raising, and feedback indicators provide this essential
information to the instructor--information that has traditionally
remained private. And all this idiosyncratic, subjective, and
contextual data is captured and recorded. Such information is always
available to the instructor; the issue is whether others should have
access to it as well, and if so, how should it be used?"
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?
article_pk=9344&page_number_nb=1&title=COLUMN

(found at elearningpost)
Cnet: Public schools: WHY JOHNNY CAN'T BLOG: "At issue is a
fundamental question heretical to many who have preached the power of
computers in education over the last two decades: Does technology do
more to improve learning than traditional teaching methods?"
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-5103805.html

(found at elearningpost)
Tech News World:  The Future of Handheld Learning
"US schools will spend nearly US$6 billion on technology  before the
2003-2004 school year is over, much of it on wireless PDAs . Why do
small screens have such a big impact on K-12 students and their
teachers?"
http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31911.html


TRENDS  / RESEARCH SECTION

Survey: Students Misuse Information Technology - USA Today
Colleges and universities that invest a lot of money in technology
may want to focus more on teaching students to use it responsibly.
More than eight of 10 undergraduates (83 percent) regularly use
information technology in their academic work, but an even larger
share (87 percent) say their peers at least "sometimes" copy and
paste
information from the Web without citing the source, according to the
2003 report from the National Survey of Student Engagement.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2003-11-09-students-it_x.htm

Links to learning object research (found at elearningpost)
http://www.reusability.org/blogs/david/
http://ocw.mit.edu/
http://educommons.org/

Videogames Help Visual Acuity [11.07.03]
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=2341

Tech peddles its influence on campus: More and more tech companies
are donating huge chunks of money into cash-strapped schools. In
return, they're receiving invaluable research and a potential
customer
base. But is there too much pressure, too soon?
http://ct.com.com/click?q=4b-k_l7IBUZW_V8TRW05013vF3anC4R

Journal of Interactive Online Learning
http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/index.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

*from UB Daily
An End to PowerPoint Bloat
Impact Lab\'s POINTLess is a software add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint
that optimizes and compresses presentation files by up to 94 percent
so they e-mail and download faster, and take up significantly less
disk space.
http://portal.impactlabs.com/ImpactLabs/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=54

AI Loves Lucy: Future Watch: Through Lucy, Steve Grand wants to
develop a machine that can supplement or even supersede the digital
computer -- a machine that can think, feel and learn.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,86961,00.html?nlid=PM

Toshiba has bigger plans for small drives
http://ct.com.com/click?q=15-mYP_IGcglEgiKMatkAfDLFG_7KsR


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

DAVID BERLIND: Road warriors: throw away your power supplies
Mobility Electronics has come up with a single power supply that can
charge virtually any notebook, PDA, or cell phone. Better yet, it can
charge any two of the three simultaneously. And it works with any
power source--the plug in your wall, the lighter in your car, and the
outlets offered by some airlines. I tested the iGo Juice on a recent
8-hour road trip, and let me tell you: This is one package no road
warrior should be without.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=2e-eMTGIiK~5t3YLxXev_2D_eVWrBcR

Best Practices For Wireless Network Security: How to mitigate eight
major WLAN security risks.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,86951,00.html?nlid=MW

Top Considerations For Wi-Fi Application Development: How to plan
your development to take advantage of the many benefits of Wi-Fi.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,86862,00.html?nlid=MW

O2 RELEASES NEW GADGETS FOR CHRISTMAS: Mobile operator O2 Ireland has
begun the pre-Christmas hype for its two newest handsets, the XDA II
and the new O2 X1. The X1, a mobile phone, sells in Ireland for
EUR199 on a pre-pay plan and for EUR109 with a new contract. Among
the
goodies in the GPRS phone are its 65k colour display and a 180-degree
rotating VGA camera, which O2 says offers the best resolution for any
cameraphone on the market. Where the phone falls down, however, is in
its lack of infrared ports or Bluetooth. Also launched was the
company's widely anticipated XDA II, which follows on from last
year's launch of the XDA handheld computer and mobile phone, based on
Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system. The new EUR499 PDA comes with
a digital camera, Bluetooth and an MP3 player -- all features not
included in the original model.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9381307

PDA SALES FALL AGAIN BUT HP SHINES: Analyst firm Gartner has issued
more bad news for the PDA sector, with shipments of the devices still
dropping and the threat from mobile phones growing. Gartner is
reporting that worldwide PDA shipments declined 0.2 percent in the
third quarter of 2003. Although a relatively small decrease, it's the
eighth consecutive quarter the handheld computer market experienced a
year-over-year decline in shipments. The biggest drop has been in
PDAs that are based on non-mainstream operating systems. Despite the
doom and gloom, the report did contain good news for one firm,
Hewlett- Packard. HP saw its shipments grow 98.5 percent during the
period. PalmOne remains the market leader in the sector, however,
with
its shipments up 6.5 percent, giving the company a market share of 34.
2 percent.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9381225

IT RADAR: Improving Wireless LAN Integration
RSA Security's white paper on WLAN Authentication outlines security
issues in WLANs in brief terms, and describes the role of the
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) for mutual authentication
and session key generation in a roaming environment.
Improving Wireless LAN Integration
http://ct.com.com/click?q=cf-ebM~QLw3uCSIITwBSnFIgviAoAdR
Toolkit: Wireless Networks
http://ct.com.com/click?q=94-rOVNQaIYkF0_6HEn9PFU8WivnWZR

TRAVELERS INSURANCE: SECURE LAPTOPS AND PDAS By Daniel Miller
HARDWARE: What would you do if, in the middle of a crucial
business trip, your laptop or PDA was lost or stolen? Dan tells you
how to make sure that never happens and, if it did, how to minimize
the damage.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=4d-~URsIKZOrAer0UCpSHMS1jjY0xyR

PDA market suffers at hand of feature-packed phones
Posted November 11, 8:23 a.m. Pacific Time: Worldwide shipments of
personal digital assistants (PDAs) continued to decline in the third
quarter of this year as mobile phones with similar functions claimed
a portion of their market, Gartner Inc. said this week.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=4A04F9:1F4D50E


GAMING SECTION

MICROSOFT TURNS TO TECHNOLOGY LICENSING FOR XBOX NEXT: Recent
agreements signed by Microsoft with a variety of companies to
supply technology for the successor to Xbox reveal that the company
is switching to the manufacturing model preferred by its rivals.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/dev/2534

PS2 SALES CONTINUE TO RISE IN EUROPE: Although sales of the
PlayStation 2 appear to have peaked on a worldwide basis, European
sales continue to grow - with shipments of the PS2 in PAL territories
growing by some 25 per cent in the first half of the year.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/ret/2520

NOKIA "PLEASED" WITH N-GAGE, BUT ADMITS THERE'S "A LOT TO DO": Almost
exactly a month after Nokia's N-Gage launched worldwide, a
spokesperson for the company has stated that it is "pretty pleased"
with customer reaction to the device, but that there's much to be
done if it's to meet expectations.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/new/2518

REPORT PREDICTS TENFOLD JUMP IN M-GAMES: The European market for
mobile games will grow more than tenfold by 2008, according to a new
report. The mobile games market, valued at EUR0.2 billion in 2002,
will grow massively to nearly EUR3 billion in 2008, predicts the
"Mobile Content and Entertainment Forecasts and Analysis" report,
which was authored by consulting company Analysys. Mobile gaming will
be key in driving growth in the mobile content and entertainment
services, with nearly 80 percent of gaming revenue (EUR2.4 billion)
derived from downloadable games, according to the report. The
report's author, Rachael Beale, told ENN that Java games are
especially hot and that both on-line and downloadable games will be
further encouraged by the increasing availability of SIP (session
initiation protocol) and 3G services.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9380762

SECURITY SECTION

Zombie Machines Fueling New Cybercrime Wave: As more homes connect to
broadband systems, computers are becoming mor vulnerable to hackers
and virus writers who can turn them into "zombie" machines, ready to
carry out malevolent commands.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,87075,00.html?nlid=PM

Microsoft Patches Three Critical Security Problems: Microsoft
announced patches for three "critical" security problems and a fourth
labeled "important" in its second monthly summary of security
bulletins aimed at making it easier for its customers to stay on top
of patch releases.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,87058,00.html?nlid=PM

Hackers Crack N-Gage [11.12.03]
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=2362


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The field is now open! I have uploaded my starter set of questions on
my future e-learning models research to my research blog
(http://www.teleworks.com/blog/markoehlert/).

I invite all who are interested to download and reply - please
include (if nothing else) some kind of identifier as to country,
level of experience, industry, etc. Thanks andplease don't miss this
chance to weigh in with your vision of where e-learning needs to
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e-Clippings    Post-Online Learning Catch-Up Edition
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero." NOT Latin for Fair and Balanced

"The only certain means of success is to render more and better
service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning
of time. Therefore I say the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity
is to perform only the work for which you are paid."
Og Mandino

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed
us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their
use."
Galileo Galilei

"He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy
from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a
precedent that will reach to himself."
Thomas Paine
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The Ninth Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning.
November 14-16, 2003 - Orlando, Florida.
The Ninth Sloan-C International Conference's theme will be "The
Power of Online Learning: Implications for Teaching and Learning." It
will be held on November 14 - 16, 2003, in Orlando, FL at the Rosen
Centre Hotel. It will feature over 100 presentations in five
different tracks! This year's Keynote Speaker will be Dr. John
Hitt,
President, University of Central Florida, and the Plenary Speaker
will
be Ms. Susan Metros, Deputy CIO and Executive Director for
e-Learning,
Ohio State University. The conference is sponsored by the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation in conjunction with The University of Central
Florida, The Pennsylvania State University, SCOLE, and ADEC.
For more information and to register please visit the ALN website at
www.aln.ucf.edu
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The venerable Marc Presnky of Digital Game-based Learning fame has
created a new site. The focus of the site, in its own words:

Social Impact Games:
Entertaining Games with Non-Entertainment Goals
"Many game designers today are looking to maximize the social impact
of their work."
- Will Wright, Designer, Sim City and The Sims
The goal of this site is to catalog the growing number of video and
computer games whose primary purpose is something other than to
entertain. Click on the categories in the menu above to explore the
catalog. "Game" (i.e. video and computer) has become a language
--i.e. a medium of expression -- in which almost any idea can be, and
is being, expressed. It is our intention to help document this
growing
phenomenon and list, so that:
(1) People who want to locate Social Impact Games can find them, and
(2) People who want to create Social Impact Games can see what others
have done.
http://www.socialimpactgames.com/
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Online Learning 2003 Wrap-up: Please to visit
http://colab.typepad.com/mlearning/

Plugfest 8 (Don't miss the mosh pit!)
http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Plug8
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The Future of e-Learning Models and the Language We Use to Describe
Them:
The objectives of this study are to establish a baseline of current
e-learning models from all sides of the equation – producer,
purchaser and consumer. The research will explore:
How valid are our current models of e-learning and how do they
limit/enable us in thinking about the future?
Based on those models that are valid – what are some models we
can expect to be prevalent in 3-5 years?
Where are the connections and gaps in our current set of language
that we use to describe the overall environment of e-learning?
Research Blog at:http://www.teleworks.com/blog/markoehlert/
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NEWS

Connexion in-flight Internet adds Atlantic coverage: Posted September
25, 5:44 a.m. Pacific Time The Boeing Co. is to lease space on a
satellite above the Atlantic Ocean, filling a further coverage gap in
its Connexion by Boeing in-flight Internet service. The new leasing
agreement is for two transponders on the Intelsat 907 satellite,
which is stationed above the Atlantic Ocean at 27.5 degrees west, the
company said in a statement. The Ku-band spot-beam coverage provided
by the transponders encompasses northern and Central Europe, Iceland
and the eastern part of Greenland and will be used by Connexion to
service aircraft flying between Europe and North America.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=45824F:1F4D50E

(via elearningpost): 5 QUESTIONS WITH GERRY McGOVERN: I had the
opportunity to query Gerry McGovern, widely acknowledged web content
guru, on some knowledge management and e-learning issues that were
bothering me. Here is the short Q&A session I had with him.
http://www.elearningpost.com/features/archives/002125.asp
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TRENDS / RESEARCH SECTION

(via elearningpost) **This is SOOO true. I have this growing
suspicion that PPT is rotting minds like sugar rots teeth.
HBS Working Knowledge: POWERPOINT, ROBOMANAGERS AND YOU: THE GROWING
INTIMACY OF TECHNOLOGY Sherry Turkle: "But as a thinking technology
for elementary school children, it [PowerPoint] has limitations. It
doesn't encourage students to begin a conversation--rather, it
encourages them to make points... The PowerPoint aesthetic of bullet
points does not easily encourage the give-and-take of ideas, some of
them messy and unformed. The opportunity here is to acknowledge that
PowerPoint, like so many other computational technologies, is not
just a tool but an evocative object that affects our habits of mind.
We need to meet the challenge of using computers to develop the kinds
of mind tools that will support the most appropriate and stimulating
conversations possible in elementary and middle schools. But the
simple importation of a technology perfectly designed for the
sociology of the boardroom does not meet that challenge."
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3683&t=technology

(via elearningpost)
Thinking Shift: VIRAL KNOWLEDGE: CAN YOU "TIP" A COMMUNITY OF
PRACTICE? "This paper will examine communities of practice (CoPs)
from a complexity perspective using the internationally best-selling
book TheTipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell as a framework for
discussion."
http://thinkingshift.com/page.php?key=19

TELR: LEARNING OBJECTS: CONTEXTS AND CONNECTIONS
Nice collection of articles on learning objects.
http://morty.uts.ohio-state.edu/learning_objects/index.html

INTEL AND ZAGAT PUBLISH WI-FI LISTING: Although service, value, style
and quality are among the most important criteria in a restaurant
review, Wi-Fi access is soon to be added to the list. In a
forthcoming edition of New Yorker magazine, Zagat Survey will publish
its first list of Wi-Fi hotspots in the US restaurants and hotels it
reviews. It is part of a scheme by Intel to boost interest in the
technology it has thrown its mighty weight behind. Although the new
Zagat mini-guide, called "2003 Wi-Fi Hotspots," seems to be little
more than an advertisement for Wi-Fi generally and Intel's Centrino
technology specifically, the chipmaking giant insists that legitimate
research shows that businesspeople who want to connect to the Net
often can't find a nearby hotspot.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9375847

TOWARD A WEBLOGGING EMPIRE: "The former editor of the Silicon Alley
Reporter, the once high-flying chronicle of Manhattan's high-tech
mania, plans this week to launch a new venture, Weblogsinc, that
intends to make a go of publishing business-to-business blogs...He
expects the topics to fall under four main categories: media,
finance, technology and life sciences."
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60552,00.html
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EMERGING TECH SECTION

Electronic Paper Speeds Up For Videos: Some day soon, videos may be
playing on paper instead of screens. Scientists in the Netherlands
have developed a new version of electronic paper that can switch
quickly from one color to another, giving it the ability to display
moving images.
http://hits.exacttarget.com/?178207-moehlert@adelphia.
net-3789843-84409_HTML

**If you have missed me saying it before, Opera (www.opera.com) is
the offcial browser of e-Clippings*
Opera strikes licensing deal with Adobe: Posted September 30, 6:43 a.
m. Pacific Time Adobe Systems Inc. will include the cross-platform
rendering engine from niche browser maker Opera Software ASA of
Norway in its future products using the Macintosh and Windows
operating systems, Opera announced Tuesday. "Our SSR (small-screen
rendering) technology was particularly important to Adobe," said Live
Leer, a spokeswoman for Opera. "Users would like to create pages that
work in many different devices and platforms; SSR allows for that."
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=45F264:1F4D50E

**This is just silly. This is so high school.
Yahoo puts a block on Trillian: Just days after Cerulean Studios
patched its Trillian instant messaging client to work with Yahoo and
MSN, officials from both companies are confirming that Yahoo's IM
protocol has been updated to foil ongoing access. But, given how a
protocol analyzer can slice and dice the major Internet messaging
protocols, it should only be a matter of time before Trillian-based
Yahoo users are back on-line, Yahoo rewires it's IM protocol, and the
vicious circle goes on. It's time to interoperate.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=64-UBOhIuLhcZhPMfi74fl8sa8QLTPR

Via to ship smallest PC processor: Posted September 24, 9:34 a.m.
Pacific Time TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwanese chip vendor Via Technologies
Inc. will begin shipping its smallest PC processor and motherboard
before the end of the year, according to the company's chief
executive
officer. Small enough to fit on the end of a finger, the Nano-BGA
(Ball Grid Array) version of Via's 1GHz C3 processor measures 15 mm
by
15 mm and was announced on Wednesday by the company's CEO, Wen-chi
Chen, during a keynote speech at the Via Technology Forum, which is
being held here with the Computex exhibition.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=456882:1F4D50E

Forums: The Internet Reborn: Leading computer scientists are working
on replacing today's Internet with a faster, more secure, and
vastly smarter network.
http://www.technologyreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forumid=369
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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Danger Brings Java to Hiptop: Wireless software maker Danger, which
has made a splash with its hiptop all-in-one wireless device designs,
has moved to further expand the capabilities of its devices by
licensing Sun Microsystems' Java 2 Standard, Micro Edition (J2ME).
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=7068

Bringing Palm Skills to Instructors: A Chat with Rayshaun L. Brown -
The News & Observer Want to enhance higher education? Rayshaun L.
Brown has a solution in the palm of his hand. As the only certified
Palm Education Training Coordinator at North Carolina State
University, the 26-year-old helps professors find ways to use Palm
hand-held devices in the classroom. His official title is multimedia
consultant-technical trainer and he works as part of the Distance
Education and Learning Technology Applications, or DELTA, division at
the school.
http://newsobserver.com/business/story/2892470p-2664556c.html

New Multi-Network Mobile IM Client Coming: Get ready for another
entrant in the hot multi-network IM space -- this time, with a mobile
solution.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=7061

IEEE Drafts Mobile Computer Battery Standard: Aiming to create a new
standard for next-generation batteries for notebook and handheld
computers that can handle the demands placed on today's hardware, the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Wednesday
issued the first full draft of a new specification. (internetnews.com)
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=7058

HP to take gloves off cheaper iPaq
http://ct.com.com/click?q=ab-ZcQKQYpnbnhnfwnRDsRtnw7nwg9R

ZDNet's Patrick Houston looks at new technology for full-text entry
on mobile devices that uses a 9-key interface.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=2b-2FVYINzypbvsIJkhMJMxpWZNrQ9R

ABI Report Says Connected PDAs Will Dominate Market: Although low
replacement rates and slow shipments have been paralyzing the PDA
industry for some time, the emergence of converged devices may prove
to be the industry's salvation, according to a new report from Allied
Business Intelligence (ABI).
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=7082
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GAMING SECTION

The Ivory Tower: The Arrival of Computer Game Studies
http://www.igda.org/columns/ivorytower/

T-Mobile Sets $300 Price Tag For N-Gage [09.24.03]
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=2078
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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

MP3 APPS THAT DON'T GET IN THE WAY: By Jason Parker
KILLER DOWNLOADS: Jason's told you about his favorite MP3
players, with all their bells and whistles. But sometimes,
you just want an app that plays MP3s without taking over
your desktop. Here are his picks.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=91-EZnpQAzscQHBaarpMG8BVElunRRR

Today's Refdesk Link of the Day is: Free-Ed.Net: Free-Ed is all about
free education on the Internet. It's a simple as that--no tuition
payments and no hidden charges. Complete courses and tutorials for
more than 120 different vocational and academic disciplines.
http://www.free-ed.net/
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Special Section on Journals
As a lifelong student, learner yes, but also student; I love
journals.
I love their time frame – the research is lengthy enough to be
meaningful yet short enough to be relevant. Here is selection of some
ones that look interesting. Ah for time to explore them all. Some are
wholly available online some have a fee for access.

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL)
http://www.iusb.edu/~josotl

Common Knowledge
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/common_knowledge/

Visual Anthropology
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08949468.html

Instructional Science
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0020-4277/

Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
http://muse.jhu.
edu/journals/comparative_technology_transfer_and_society

World Archaeology
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/00438243.html

Brookings Papers on Education Policy
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/brookings_papers_on_education_policy/

Visual Resources
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01973762.html

International Journal of Training and Development
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/journals/IJTD/descript.htm

Educational Assessment
https://www.erlbaum.com/shop/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=1062-7197

NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nine/

Visual Studies
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/1472586X.html

Ethnohistory
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ethnohistory/

Westminster Studies in Education
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/01406728.html

International Journal of Technology and Design Education
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0957-7572/

Innovative Higher Education
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0742-5627/

International Journal of Historical Archaeology
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1092-7697/

British Journal for the History of Science
http://uk.cambridge.org/journals/bjh/

Creativity Research Journal
http://www.catchword.com/erlbaum/10400419/contp1-1.htm

Tangent Online
http://www.tangentonline.com/

Theory Into Practice
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_into_practice/

Pedagogy
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pedagogy/

Locus Online
http://www.locusmag.com/index.html
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"Legero. Cogito. Scribero." NOT Latin for Fair and Balanced

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any
higher than you think."
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Technology without electricity = worthless
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Online Learning 2003 Wrap-up: Please to visit
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Plugfest 8 (Don't miss the mosh pit!)
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The Future of e-Learning Models and the Language We Use to Describe
Them:
The objectives of this study are to establish a baseline of current
e-learning models from all sides of the equation – producer,
purchaser and consumer. The research will explore:
How valid are our current models of e-learning and how do they
limit/enable us in thinking about the future?
Based on those models that are valid – what are some models we
can expect to be prevalent in 3-5 years?
Where are the connections and gaps in our current set of language
that we use to describe the overall environment of e-learning?
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NEWS

Textbook Bundles that Include CD-ROMs are Thwarting the Used-book
Strategy - St. Petersburg Times: While rising tuition is getting most
of the attention from critics worried about the spiraling cost of
higher education, textbook prices may be climbing even faster. Some
professors ask their students to buy textbook "bundles," which
typically include CD-ROMs, access codes to Web sites, even a class
syllabus. Their price tag can reach $300. Not surprisingly, students
are searching desperately for alternatives
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/09/29/Tampabay/Their_first_test_is_a.shtml

Trojan Program Uses Internet Explorer Hole To Hijack Browsers: By
exploiting an unpatched hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web
browser, hackers used an attack Web site to install a Trojan horse
program on vulnerable machines.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,85630,00.html?nlid=PM

Five Universities Team with 'PBS Campus': Dallas TeleCollege, St.
Petersburg College, Strayer University, Thomas Edison State College,
and the Educational Technology Consortium will now be using the
distance learning technology offered by the Public Broadcasting
Service.
http://www.pbs.org/campus/


Biz Leaders Prefer Web: A pair of studies reveal that high-ranking
global execs turn to the Web before any other medium. October 3, 2003
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/professional/article/0,,
5971_3087341,00.html
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TRENDS / RESEARCH SECTION

IRISH OPERATOR LAUNCHES PHONE BLOGS: O2 Ireland is the first company
to deploy software from NewBay that allows users to update Web logs
from their mobile phones. With the new FoneBlog software, O2 is said
to be the first mobile operator to tie wireless multimedia messaging
(MMS) to the much-hyped trend of "blogging." Dublin-based NewBay
Software first announced the availability of its technology in early
2003. Following the O2 deal, NewBay says it hopes to sign up more
operators soon. The most notable aspect of FoneBlog is its ability to
allow users to upload images to their blog from a camera phone, as
well as text. To use the service, subscribers must pay a monthly EUR2.
50 fee, and each uploaded image or text message is charged at a
standard rate.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9376903

Napster Marks Comeback with Debut Next Week: Napster, the pioneering
song-swap service that was shut down for copyright infringement, is
coming back next week to face the music as a paid site in a vastly
changed online music arena.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W9RH0526747362C97E3623E89886A

Garfinkel: Pushing Peer-to-Peer: The notorious copyright infringement
systems like Napster are really just the beginning. Ultimately,
peer-to-peer could overcome many of the fundamental problems that are
facing the Internet today: problems of centralized control,
vulnerable servers, and the difficulty that most organizations have
scaling. It could also make the Internet's security problems
worse,
says TechnologyReview.com columnist Simson Garfinkel.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel100303.asp

Florida Dorms Lock Out P2P Users:The University of Florida has
developed a tool to help extricate the school from the morass of
peer-to-peer file trading, and early results show that it's
succeeding. Integrated Computer Application for Recognizing User
Services, commonly called Icarus, debuted over the summer on the
network that links all the residence halls on the UF campus. The
open-source program was developed by campus programmers to cut off
the file sharing going on among students.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60613,00.html

from George Siemens:
Distributing Learning Objects: Quote: "Though much discussion has
centered around the nature and use of learning objects, less
attention has been paid to the problem of their di
stribution...Closely
tied to the question of distribution, and the subject of most
discussion on the subject, is the question of finding learning
objects." Comment: This article provides short overview of the models
being utilized to share learning objects: federated, harvested, and
peer-to-peer.
http://www.learnscope.anta.gov.au/learnscope/golearn.asp?
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EMERGING TECH SECTION

Intel Sees New Laptops Running For A Whole Day: It sees Centrino
expanding laptop use beyond current 30% mark among company workers.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,85260,00.html?nlid=MW

Yahoo Launches Instant Messaging For Business: Internet portal Yahoo
Inc. is offering an instant messaging product for companies that
integrates the popular WebEx virtual meeting software.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,85676,00.html?nlid=AM

OpenOffice update finalized
http://ct.com.com/click?q=30-u8NEIRrULMxWzgvYdPDdGDp8NmFR
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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Tool: Hotspot Zone: Looking for a wireless hotspot? Type in your zip
code in this handy CNET tool and we'll show you a list of spots
nearby where you can surf en plein air.
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6659_7-726628-1.html

Tablet PCs begin to take off
http://ct.com.com/click?q=be-B7ixQCp_Ulvs~fSQKS4yvj2eO3cR

HP draws on Intel for next tablet
http://ct.com.com/click?q=e5-9Z7OQgyVltDFOtE7KGruoTQX9KsR

Palm to introduce trio of devices
http://ct.com.com/click?q=4e-0Y95InZ1acho60vpnryT01qlnErR

Review: Palm Tungsten E: Larry Garfield looks at Palm's new business
entry-level model, packing many features not yet seen at this price
point.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/hardware/handhelds/n/227.html

New Product: Mobile-Lingo: Mobile-Mind and Transparent Language Inc.
have partnered to produce language learning applications that can be
downloaded to mobile phones. Users can access commonly used phrases
on their cellular handsets along with quizzes and exercises.
www.mobile-mind.com

Intel, SAS go mobile with business data
http://ct.com.com/click?q=7c-7NCZIZWrN3NmBhAOWBOx2RYaU5PR

CNET's Brian Cooley takes a look at the new Treo 600--the first
PDA-cell phone combo device built on the Palm 5 operating system.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=4c-jxi2IZpKikCpkseFHvfg5EG30lPR

Wireless Is 'In': How To Use It Wisely: Columnist Marcia Wilson of
WilsonSecure understands the lure of Wi-Fi, but she also fears for
those business travelers who don't consider the security risks of
this in vogue technology.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,85373,00.html?nlid=MW

Wi-Fi terms explained.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,85383,00.html?nlid=MW

Large Campus Wi-Fi Deployment in Southeast Asia: Kasetsart
University, one of the top universities in Thailand, has deployed a
wireless network covering 43 buildings and 800,000 square meters,
making it one of the largest wireless campus networks in Southeast
Asia. KUWiN (Kasetsart University Wireless Network) connects the
Bangkhen campus with three other campuses and will expand to all 30,
000 students and staff in its various campuses.
http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=3021

Microsoft Creates Unit For Mobile Content Delivery: The
Communications and Mobile Solutions unit will sell to fixed and
mobile
phone operators, Web hosting providers and entertainment and media
companies.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,85372,00.html?nlid=MW

Cisco Warns Its WLAN Security Can Be Cracked: The security system
used to protect Cisco wireless LANs is vulnerable to "dictionary
attacks" against passwords, and the company said users should
institute strong password policies.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,85637,00.html?nlid=PM

Taking Business Mobile, Securely And Cost-effectively: To have the
benefits of a truly mobile workforce, companies need to plan how to
secure, support and integrate their mobile devices, says Bob Brace of
Nokia Enterprise Solutions.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,85591,00.html?nlid=SEC2

A feast of handhelds, but who's biting?: Dell and Sony are updating
their PDA lines, Palm has introduced three new handhelds, and
Handspring has debuted the Treo 600--the first PDA-cell phone combo
device built on the Palm 5 OS. Will the slew of new models satisfy
business buyers and revive the sluggish PDA market? Our special
report includes the latest news, videos and reviews on the state of
the handheld.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=41-qqJ1IEKKoDDjLLQK9thCDpOpKuiR

David Coursey: Can a single device to handle all your communications
needs? http://ct.com.com/click?q=e0-cISRQfDonm7tGw7hEUE7opMFvxFR

David Berlind: Is any converged PDA/phone worth lugging around?
http://ct.com.com/click?q=b5-50FcQ7UY53rZU_P5EBb1vuqLWcsR
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GAMING SECTION

CSC gets $1.1 billion simulator deal: The 20-year contract covers
computer simulators for the Army helicopter forces.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0929/web-csc-09-29-03.asp

Market intelligence firm IDC has a new study available for purchase,
which outlines the future of the online PC gaming arena. IDC
estimates that revenue derived from the purchase of downloadable
games
will grow to over $760.0 million in 2007, compared to expected
revenues of $52.7 million in 2003. Schelley Olhava, the Interactive
Consumer Services and Consumer Devices program manager at IDC,
commented, "After years of experimentation and evolution, the
online
PC gaming industry is closer than ever to reaching substantial and
ongoing profits." Other "key findings" from the study
include that the
downloadable gaming model can be "very profitable," but that
downloadable game markets "may reach saturation, hitting the
limit of
gamers that will pay to download." The full 19-page study, U.S.
Online
PC Gaming Forecast and Analysis, 2003-2007: Not Just Playing Around
Anymore is available to purchase at:
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jhtml?containerId=30098

GameBoy to Offer Wireless Game Play in Japan: An add-on adapter will
enable up to five gamers to play via a short-range wireless network.
http://consolewire.com/news/item.asp?nid=2780

from George Siemens:
Welcome to Digital Games for Online Learning Community
Quote: "Here's a community where you can meet other educators and
trainers who are interested in using games to enhance learning. It's
a place to share ideas, experiences, resources and best practices."
Comment: Nice idea. Too bad RSS feeds weren't added.
http://www.webct.com/games

Immersion Enables Haptics For All Games [10.01.03]
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=2142

Motorola, Nintendo team on wireless gaming: A new Motorola-based
wireless accessory for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and Advance SP
consoles enables near-proximity wireless gaming for up to five
players.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4114.html
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SECURITY SECTION

Unpatched Microsoft Browser Hole A Gold Mine For Hackers: A security
hole on Microsoft's Internet Explorer could provide hackers with a
simple way to install exploit malicious programs on vulnerable
machines through hacker Web sites and instant messaging applications.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,85512,00.html?nlid=PM
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e-Clippings   15 September 2003
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero." NOT Latin for Fair and Balanced

Well, the 11th was one of those good/bad days. Good to see some
solidarity and remember our heroes and bad because, well that should
be obvious. Turns out though that the 12th was  pretty bad too
(different level I know but still bad):
Music Icon Johnny Cash, Actor John Ritter Die
http://abcnews.go.
com/sections/entertainment/GoodMorningAmerica/cash_ritter030912.html
Country legend Johnny Cash dies
http://www.msnbc.com/news/965586.asp
Actor John Ritter dead at 54
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/12/ritter.obit/
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Wahoo! E-Clippings just hit 400 – don't know if we'll
stay there but we hit it! This seems silly in the age of millions and
millions being online but you 400 are a select community. So thanks
very much for the milestone. I've always said I'd do this if
no one read it but it sure is more fun when people are. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Mark Oehlert, Editor
p.s. If any of you are going to be out in LA for Online Learning 2003
in a couple of weeks – look me up. I'll be doing several
presentations with Judy Brown, the Director of the Academic ADL
Co-Lab and Tim Tate, the Director of the DOD Job Performance
Technology Center.
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Taking advantage of the big 400 milestone, I'd like to announce
the launch of e-Clippings' new home on the Web! The site is
located at http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/ and I encourage
you to stop by. The newsletter will continue to be published on a
weekly basis although updates to the new site will occur more
frequently. I just feel - and you can correct me if I'm wrong - that
most of the readers of e-Clippings are awfully busy folks and can
probably stand a once-a-week email but probably not more frequently
than that. The newsletter will also continue to run out of the Yahoo!
Groups site. I just haven't found a way to do this like I'd want to
(for the right price) any other way just yet. However, if you'd like,
you can use an RSS aggregator to grab the RSS from the new site.

The new site is what is known as a "blog" (short for Weblog).
For those of you new to blogs, one of the most powerful features is
the ability to post comments to the various stories or items that
I'll publish. This is a great way to start/continue discussions
related directly to items which catch your interest. Please don't be
shy about putting comments up on the blog, its one of the reasons
that
I choose this format.

Thanks again for the numbers and I hope to see you all and your
comments on the new site.

Mark Oehlert, Editor
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NEWS

Now you folks are a select bunch alright and you are also usually
very quiet – that's OK – I've been accused of liking
the
sound of my own voice. You actually got vocal though a couple of
times about the story on the Unreal mod contest (http://groups.yahoo.
com/group/eClippings/message/231). Well there is more to tell…I
signed up for some of the instructional content that is being GIVEN
AWAY for FREE and I found more cool twists. Under the heading
"How does the online class work?" the contest/learning
organizers make
it clear that while the content may be cheap – it might not be
easy.
Sure, its self-paced but to move on to the completion of the
coursework, you must complete all other assignments and quizzes then
pass a final test to get the chance to complete the final project.
And the last great twist? Each student begins class with 1000 points.
If they have a question they really need answered, they can `spend
` some of those points by offering them to the first classmate to
answer their question! The goal of this setup is "to promote a
sense
of friendly competition, as well as student help and interaction
within the virtual classroom."
Talk about thinking differently about learning. This is going to take
a few minutes to digest.

SkillSoft losses balloon: Thursday, September 11 2003
by Frances Gleeson: In its second fiscal quarter, e-learning company
SkillSoft posted a net loss of USD53.2 million, about 400 percent
greater than its first quarter net loss.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9374720

**Hey! I hear this "Internet" thing is really catching on!*
Blogging the Recall: By Cynthia L. Webb: washingtonpost.com Staff
Writer Friday, September 12, 2003; 10:02 AM: The California
gubernatorial recall election -- the messiest and most entertaining
political news story of the year -- is providing yet another boost
for the online journal phenomenon commonly known as "blogging."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64877-2003Sep12?
language=printer

Lionbridge buys Indian e-learning firm: Wednesday, September 10 2003
by Matthew Clark:In a move that is expected to boost profits and
revenue, localisation company Lionbridge said it will buy Indian firm
Mentorix for approximately USD21.3 million. The cash purchase will
dramatically boost Lionbridge's headcount from its current level of
nearly 1,200 globally, to almost 1,900. The buy will provide the
Delaware-based company with about 150 new clients and an arm that is
experienced in developing and deploying e-learning content.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9374583

Video Game Seeks Life Online  By Suneel Ratan: 02:00 AM Sep. 12, 2003
PT The developer of the smash hit Half-Life video-game series said
Thursday it will let customers buy and download the latest version of
the game online, a move that will cut out brick-and-mortar game
retailers.
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,60409,00.html

P2P Group To Pay 12-year-old Girl's RIAA Fine: The group, P2P United,
said it will reimburse the single mother of the 12 year old fined $2,
000 by the record industry for illegally downloading music from the
Internet.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84820,00.html?nlid=PM

The patent fight that could disrupt the Internet: At first blush, the
awarding of $521 million of Microsoft"s money to plug-in patent
holder Eolas Technologies looks like one of those "score one for the
little guys" victories. But Microsoft isn"t the real loser if the
judge"s finding hold up -- it"s any company or person that uses the
Internet.  My best case scenario: Microsoft buys out Eola and turns
the ownership of the plug-in patent over to the W3C.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=e4-ABYFQVkU42ECv85pQ8e0WXar9mZR
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TRENDS / RESEARCH SECTION

Manhattan Mob Meets Its Maker  By Michelle Delio: 02:00 AM Sep. 12,
2003 PT NEW YORK -- The mother of all flash mobs officially came to
an end on Wednesday night, in an inexplicable grand finale that
amazed
and confused both participants and mob organizers.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60399,00.html

PS2 Shipments Reach 60 Million Mark: Sony announced today that the
worldwide cumulative shipments of PS2 consoles exceeded the 60
million unit mark in September.
http://www.gamemarketwatch.com/news/item.asp?nid=2765

*Watch this one people – really.
Documentum sets sights on publishers: By David Becker
CNET News.com: September 9, 2003, 10:41 AM PT: Software maker
Documentum, a specialist in content management products, announced
Tuesday a new package designed to help publishing companies
automatically reuse content in a variety of formats.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5073322.html

Consumers Strike Back, Sue RIAA: A California lawyer has brought a
consumer lawsuit against the Recording Industry Association of
America, saying the music industry group is misleading members of the
public into incriminating themselves by giving the RIAA "admissions
of wrongdoing."
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84845,00.html?nlid=AM

Semantic Web: Out of the Theory Realm: [September 12, 2003] FEATURE:
The W3C says it's going to change how you interact with data and how
you do business on the Web. Funny thing is, it's already here. Just
look at what bloggers are doing.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/3076961

(found at elearningpost) HBS Working Knowledge: CRAFTING A POWERFUL
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Responding to a request for proposals (RFP) is
pretty straightforward. You describe your company's history, your
product or service, its implementation schedule, and the support
you'll provide. The one stumbling block is the one section that
everyone will read: the executive summary. What is its purpose? If
you answered, to summarize the proposal , think again.
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?
id=3660&t=career_effectiveness

(found at elearningpost) Learning Lab Denmark: OPEN-ENDED MANIFESTO
ON RESEARCH AND LEARNING Nice compilation of observations that covers
Learning, Knowledge Society, Consortia, Organization and Research.
For example, here's one from Learning: We must think, act, and
learn informally.
http://www.lld.dk/manifest

Making Blogs More Than Just What's for Dinner: Few of the 50-odd
people who gathered in Tysons Corner this week to talk about blogging
seemed willing to discuss the state of their love lives with the
general public. No one wanted to rant about the United States'
foreign policies or dissect the significance of reality television as
a postmodern art form. They didn't even want to chat about what they
had for dinner the previous night, a staple of many detail-rich blogs.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W8RH05274F552C97E3623E8DD873

(found at elearningpost) EDUCAUSE: REVOLUTION IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING:
It is remarkable how unreflective many academics and educators are
about the nature of knowledge, outside of their immediate domains of
interest. To be sure, they hold some types of knowledge in high
regard, and they respect the highly personalized knowledge that
academics and practicing professionals have accumulated. But academic
knowledge substantially remains a "cottage industry," with
both tacit and explicit knowledge the purview of isolated
craftspeople and professional guilds… In most academic settings,
knowledge resides in archipelagos of individual knowledge clusters,
unavailable for systematic sharing. Yet such defiance of the
networked
world will soon be unsustainable.
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm03/erm035.asp
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EMERGING TECH SECTION

*I'd like an aisle seat with broadband please.
Making the In-Flight Broadband Connexion: Boeing has chosen satellite
operator Intelsat to power its Connexion in-flight broadband service
for trans-Atlantic flight beginning next year. (internetnews.com)
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=7087

Sharp Unveils Notebook With 3-D Display: The PC-RD3D, expected to be
priced about $2,990, is the first computing product from Sharp to
feature the 3-D LCD technology.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84809,00.html?nlid=AM

New Ideas In the Fight Against Spam: With Congress preoccupied, it's
a good time to look at some newer ideas and products in the war
against spam. -Jonathan Krim
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W8RH05274F2A2C97E3623E8DD873
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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Great site focused exclusively on iPAQ news an such.
http://www.ipaq.net/

eLearning while you are on the move: Pune-based Brainvisa
Technologies develops eLearning solutions on handheld devices such as
PDAs and smart phones; helps clients to develop custom templates to
suit specific requirements. Cyber News Service Thursday, September
11, 2003
http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2003/103091102.asp

MOBILE SHIPMENTS SET TO GROW: IDC
Worldwide mobile phone shipments will surpass 500 million units for
the first time ever in 2004, according to IDC's latest report. This
year's growth in mobile phone shipments is expected to exceed 460
million units, and 8 percent year-on-year growth in handset sales is
expected for 2004, driven by sales of 3G handsets and cameraphones,
according to the research company. The report estimates that there
will be close to 1.4 billion individual mobile phone users worldwide
in 2004. With this volume of usage, the company expects 42 percent
year-on-year growth in the 2.5G market, translating into shipments of
241 million units. Smartphones are also driving the market, according
to IDC, with sales of the devices expected to grow by 111 percent, to
30 million units, in 2004.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9374073

Microsoft's Mobile Phone Software Gets Boost From Deal With Motorola:
Motorola and Microsoft said they're working together to develop cell
phones based on the Windows Mobile 2003 operating system, a deal that
comes just two weeks after Motorola sold off its stake in a vendor
consortium that owns Microsoft rival Symbian Ltd.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84923,00.html?nlid=PM
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e-Clippings will be published tomorrow. Today we should take time to
remember victims of terrorism the world over – in South America,
in Indonesia, in Palestine and Israel, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, but
today especially – at the Pentagon, in New York and in a field in
Pennsylvania.

Mark Oehlert,  Editor

e-Clippings  3 September 2003
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."
"People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they
live by." Novelist, Allen Drury

"The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored
people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing."
- William Ralph Inge
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The Future of e-Learning Models and the Language We Use to Describe
Them:
The objectives of this study are to establish a baseline of current
e-learning models from all sides of the equation – producer,
purchaser and consumer. The research will explore:
How valid are our current models of e-learning and how do they
limit/enable us in thinking about the future?
Based on those models that are valid – what are some models we
can expect to be prevalent in 3-5 years?
Where are the connections and gaps in our current set of language
that we use to describe the overall environment of e-learning?
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NEWS

"In what could be the largest public wireless service in the
world, Case Western Reserve University is opening more than 1,230
Cisco Aironet 1200 wireless access points Sept. 1, providing free
Internet access to faculty, students, staff and visitors.  "This is
the first phase of blanketing Cleveland with free wireless Internet
access -- a project we call OneCleveland," said Lev Gonick, vice
president of information technology services and chief information
officer at Case. "We are working with our industry partners, Cisco
Systems and Sprint, to complete the wireless network across
University
Circle, providing wireless access to everyone who comes to the
Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, or
any of the other cultural and educational resources in the
neighborhood."
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.
story&STORY=/www/story/08-27-2003/0002007427&EDATE=WED+Aug+27+2003,
+12:17+PM

Distance Education Brings Naval War College To Students Around The
World NEWPORT, R.I. (NNS) -- The Naval War College in Newport, R.I.,
is offering active and Reserve officers the opportunity to earn a
Joint Professional Military Education and/or a Fleet Seminar Program
Certification starting in August and May 2004.
http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=9238

Instant messaging, loud and clear
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0818/tec-msg2-08-18-03.asp

High-Speed Hotel: Internet users may find a new place to dwell —
connected hotel rooms and Wi-Fi lobbies. August 28, 2003
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/travel/article/0,,6071_3069901,
00.html

from TechTV: Even if the RIAA hasn't targeted you with a subpoena for
illegal file sharing, you're sure to have an opinion on the
hot-button topic of online music. On one side are people who claim
it's stealing, plain and simple, on the other the folks who insist
it's their right as consumers to share. Get the whole story at Music
Wars, a TechLive.com special report.
http://cgi.techtv.com/memberservices/newsletters?
click=28185&release=3680
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Future Watch: Using Computers To Outthink Terrorists: Future Watch:
Future IT will not only enable new levels of collaboration between
teams of intelligence analysts, policy-makers and covert operators,
but will also make it possible for humans and computers to "think
together" in real time to anticipate and preempt terrorist threats.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84467,00.html?nlid=PM

from elearningpost: INTERACTIVE VISUAL EXPLAINERS — A SIMPLE
CLASSIFICATION: While Peter J. Bogaards highlights the need for UX
designers to learn from the field of Instructional Design, in this
article I highlight the need for Instructional Designers to learn
from the field of Visual Journalism. After years of linking to
'Interactives' and categorizing them under 'Realm of Cool', I decided
to gather all of them and do a meta-level analysis to find patterns
and I did. The Classification is a simple categorization of
Interactives.  It's also important to highlight that this awareness
that there could be patterns in my seemingly random linking -- seems
to be a byproduct of keeping a blog for a long time!
http://www.elearningpost.com/features/archives/002069.asp

With E-mail Dying, RSS Offers Alternative: Publishers Must Find New
Delivery Methods AUGUST 27, 2003: Who'd have thought that things
could get this bad? E-mail -- long touted as the "killer app" of the
Internet and the best online channel for publishers -- is rapidly
being decimated by spammers and virus writers. Yes, "decimated" is an
accurate word. The evidence is quickly mounting that e-mail is no
longer an efficient means for ethical publishers to reach subscribers.
http://www.mediainfo.
com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/article_display.jsp?
vnu_content_id=1963664

Peter J. Bogaards: THE UNDERLYING THINKING OF HOW PEOPLE LEARN,
ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE, AND UNDERSTAND: "The field of instructional design
and technology is also valuable to the UX community, providing
theories and knowledge on important aspects of human behaviour and
the role technology plays influencing that behaviour. Two theories on
how people learn with (information) artifacts we design,
'instructionalism' versus 'constructionism', are directly germane and
very valuable for the UX community."
http://www.bogieland.com/postings/post_construct.htm

Satisfaction of college students with the digital learning
environment: Do learners' temperaments make a difference? Suzanne
P. Stokes* College of Health and Human Services, Troy State
University, 4  Collegeview, Troy, AL 36082, USA: Received 19 June
2001; received in  revised form 24 July 2001; accepted 31 July 2001
Internet and Higher Education 4 (2001) 31–44
http://www.ericit.org/fulltext/IR544999.pdf

Public Policy, Research and Online Learning: E-learning is more than
a new way of doing the old thing. Its outcomes can't be measured by
the traditional process. By Stephen Downes
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i25_downes.html
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EMERGING TECH SECTION

A DRIVE FOR ALL YOUR DVDS: THIS JUST IN: LG Electronics's
competitively priced GSA-4040B is the first drive on the market to
support  all five DVD formats.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=0f-RM2lIqjg98uzDgFOpG4HS9L26_dR

MIT Tech Review: WHEREWARE: "Soon, hardware and software that track
your location will be providing directions, offering shopping
discounts, and aiding rescue workers—services that promise a
windfall for ailing telecom carriers."
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/pfeiffer0903.asp

BBC: HI-TECH TOME TAKES ON PAPERBACKS: "Researchers at Hewlett
Packard have developed a prototype electronic book which can hold a
whole library on a device no bigger than a paperback."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3173835.stm
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Sun Disputes Claim That Java Handhelds: On the Mark: Mark Hall writes
that Sun claims Java handhelds are secure. Still, the development
environment remains a complex one, which is why a third party is
coming to the rescue.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84532,00.html?nlid=SEC
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GAMING SECTION

Gamers Growing Up: The average player is 29 years old, and an
increasing number are over 50. August 29, 2003
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/demographics/article/0,,
5901_3070391,00.html

Game Players are an Increasingly Diverse Group, Says Poll: An ESA
poll finds an increased number of female and older gamers.
http://consolewire.com/news/item.asp?nid=2756

BBC: COMPUTER GAME 'BOOSTS HEARING' : "A simple computer game can
dramatically improve children's listening skills by teaching them to
distinguish between sounds, new research suggests. The game is said
to boost children's hearing by the equivalent of two years in just a
few weeks."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/3186243.stm
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e-Clippings  28 August 2003
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero." – NOT Latin for `Fair and
Balanced'

In Honor of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom - 28 August
1963
"So I say to you, my friends, that even though we must face the
difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a
dream deeply rooted in the American dream that one day this nation
will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of
former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit
down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state
sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of
oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the
content of their character. I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill
and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall be made plain,
and the crooked places shall be made straight and the glory of the
Lord will be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith we will be able to hear out of the mountain of
despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform
the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of
brotherhood.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together,
to go to jail together, knowing that we will be free one day. This
will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with
new meaning-"my country 'tis of thee; sweet land of liberty; of thee
I
sing; land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride; from
every mountain side, let freedom ring"-and if America is to be a
great nation, this must become true.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that.

Let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from
every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every
village and hamlet, from every state and city, we will be able to
speed up that day when all of God's children - black men and white
men, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants - will be able to
join hands and to sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free
at last, free at last; thank God Almighty, we are free at last."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.stanford.
edu/group/King/publications/speeches/address_at_march_on_washington.
pdf
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Remember the scene in the Matrix when Neo says `we'll need
guns. Lots of guns' and the guns rush up out of nowhere? I got
the same (very scaled down feeling) looking at this site.
http://iokio.biz/
Yes – sit through the annoying Flash intro (just a few seconds
really but where is the `skip intro' button?) and go all the
way down on the left nav strip to the "Camera Finder Demo."
Click
and watch a new way of shopping (or visualizing untold masses of
data)
unfold.
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Here is another one that is way too cool not to mention. I've
always said that the most powerful things about the games that are
out today are not there engines but their communities –
specifically
their `mod' (modification) communities. Well, Epic Games is
taking
this to a whole new level. They are sponsoring a contest (along with
the usual suspects like nvidia) for people to create the best mod for
their current Unreal game engine. Two catches – at
www.masteringunreal.com –
you'll find a site they created to train people how to create the
mods! According to the site, there are over 120 hours of training
available for free! The first headline you read on the site screams
"WELCOME TO THE FUTURE OF LEARNING." Amazing. They aren't
kidding – here is the description for a 101 class:
"The Unreal Technology Level Editing 101 class is designed to
teach the student the necessary skills to create their own game
levels for use with Unreal. The first module will introduce the
student to the latest version of UnrealEd, the powerful editor that
is
included with the Unreal Tournament 2003. The module will cover an
introduction to the UnrealEd user interface, and an explanation of
many of the necessary tools for level creation. The module lecture
will actually walk the student through creation of their first level,
including lights, textures, and population of the level with static
meshes."

Powerful stuff – but wait – there's more – the Grand
Prize winner will receive a full license of the current Unreal engine
and the next-gen version…hey people! That is a $350,000 (US)
prize!!!
It could turn that one person into to their own game publisher
overnight! The winner will be announced at the Game Developers
Conference on March 22, 2004. What does this mean for people clinging
to their educational content like that is what is going to drive an
economic engine?
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The Future of e-Learning Models and the Language We Use to Describe
Them:
The objectives of this study are to establish a baseline of current
e-learning models from all sides of the equation – producer,
purchaser and consumer. The research will explore:
How valid are our current models of e-learning and how do they
limit/enable us in thinking about the future?
Based on those models that are valid – what are some models we
can expect to be prevalent in 3-5 years?
Where are the connections and gaps in our current set of language
that we use to describe the overall environment of e-learning?
Research Blog at:http://www.teleworks.com/blog/markoehlert/
http://www.masie.com/researchgrants/#future
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NEWS

*The Completed Future of e-Learning Interview with:
Murry C. Christensen - Vice President
Global e-Learning Research Director - Goldman, Sachs & Co.
http://www.teleworks.com/blog/markoehlert/archives/000081.html

Microsoft to seek Air Force input: The service will have a say in how
the company develops future products, CEO Steve Ballmer said.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0825/web-ball-08-26-03.asp

Consolidation Continues In Content Management Sector: Content
management vendors Open Text Corp. and Stellent Inc. are broadening
their offerings through new corporate acquisitions.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84426,00.html?nlid=AM

CONVERGED HANDHELDS ARE THE FUTURE: IDC: The standalone PDA's days
are numbered, says a report from a US research house, which is
predicting a bright future for converged handheld computers. The
report from IDC said that over the coming years, consumers and
businesses will begin to demand advanced handheld devices, such as
PDAs and Pocket PCs,that come with voice communication functions. As
such, standalone data-centric handheld devices will no longer be
highly sought. IDC said that the global non-converged handheld device
industry will decline by 8.4 percent to 11.35 million units in 2003
and that next year growth will be muted. But the converged device
market will see its strongest year of growth in 2003, pushing
shipment
totals beyond 13 million units, with compound annual growth in the
sector at about 86 percent until 2007.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9372925
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Darwin: ARE YOU LOOKING IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES?  "It does a large
corporation little good to work in different industries if it cannot
move and recombine the ideas, objects and people it finds in one that
might be valuable in another. Sure, top-level executives can back
different divisions like so many racehorses, but the  synergies
available from such a diverse set of experiences are often lost in
the process. By the same token, a company's employees can share
everything they know with one another, but if all they know are the
same customers, the same products and the same manufacturing
practices, then those interactions lose much of their value. In these

cases, a strong organizational memory can be a detriment because it
traps firms in the past."
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/080103/breakthrough.html

Fast-Moving Fad Comes Slowly to the Area: "Flash mobs" happen in a
flash by design. Stay any longer and the cops could show up. It is
the latest fad among the digitally connected, people eager for whimsy
in this summer of suicide bombers and war.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W7RH052150252C97E3623E90DB48

*Well, isn't that special?
Microsoft Seeks Cash From Makers Of IM Clients: Microsoft isn't
targeting rival IM network operators such as America Online Inc. or
Yahoo Inc., but makers of software that competes with Microsoft's MSN
Messenger.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84456,00.html?nlid=PM

Optimize: SHOULD YOU BE A CHIEF CREATIVITY OFFICER?
"Creativity is the ability to get ideas and to be flexible and open
to your environment. Innovation, on the other hand, is the application
of creativity. It's trying to change the world, whether it's a little
world or a big world, or simply a change in your office. Change and
action come from the act of innovating. So innovation is one of those
things that gets into the world and the world accepts. Creativity
doesn't necessarily mean you have to innovate, but it's from
creativity that ideas are born before you can begin to think of
innovation."
http://www.optimizemagazine.com/issue/022/briefing.htm;jsessionid
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Blackboard Will Launch Learning Content Management and e-Portfolio
System: The course management and technology company offers a sneak
peak at the new applications, which will be available in Q4 '03.
http://www.blackboard.com/products/cms/index.htm

US forces to target enemy mobiles with P2P WLANs: By Tony Smith
Posted: 15/08/2003 at 11:22 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32361.html
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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

JP Mobile Updates SureWave Enterprise Server: JP Mobile has released
SureWave Enterprise Server 4.0, software that extends enterprise
applications to Palm, Pocket PC, RIM and Symbian handheld devices.
(PDAStreet)
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=7036

T-Mobile shows MDA successor: T-Mobile offers a sneak peek of its
next-generation MDA, powered by Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC
Phone Edition and sporting tri-band GSM as well as a built-in camera.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/3952.html

Palm OS drives handheld market: Gartner says Palm OS licensees
accounted for 51 percent of PDA shipments and 41 percent of worldwide
revenue in the second quarter of 2003.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/3958.html

THE BEST OF BUSINESS-CLASS SMARTPHONES: By Patrick Houston: HARDWARE:
All I want is a gadget that'll handle my e-mail, calendar, contacts,
and phone calls when I'm on the road. But the search is turning into
one of the most complex buying decisions I've ever faced.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=62-4oBiIePkUI2E4iPF5XxIJkSvUdeR

AntiVirus for handhelds from Symantec: Aiming to guard both consumers
and the enterprise, Symantec has now launched three antivirus
products for both Palm OS and Pocket PC platforms.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/3986.html

Boingo Wi-Fi expands hotel hot spots.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=86-8fH1QCJH0ipVZ9z3r6uT_sVyZ_cR

The Impact of Mobile Computing: Chris Shipley
DEMOmobile 2003: Thursday, August 28, 2003; 3:00 p.m ET
http://discuss.washingtonpost.
com/wp-srv/zforum/03/sp_technews_walker082803.htm

Handhelds Try To Do It All: All-in-one units offer a combination of
PDA, e-mail, camera and cell phone features. The best choices aren't
the most expensive -- nor are they the most full-featured.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84228,00.html?nlid=MW
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GAMING SECTION

Warfare in the palm of your hand: A new real-time strategy game
currently under development for both Palm OS and Pocket PC devices
looks as if though it could turn up the heat on the scene.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/3961.html

DUBLIN TAKES UP THE N-GAGE CHALLENGE: The Irish tranche of the 'Nokia
N-Gage Challenge' got underway on 27 August, pitting the skills of
wannabe mobile gamers against one another. The one-day event took
place at the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre on a portable stage,
where players of all ages showed off their virtual skateboarding
skills, playing "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater" on demo N-Gage handsets. As
much a promotional stunt as a contest, the N-Gage Challenge is a
Europe-wide competition that will eventually see Nokia visit 50
European cities where the top scoring player in each city will be
sent
to Paris in early October for the final showdown. N-Gage is Nokia's
upcoming mobile phone and gaming platform and it's pegged to be in
high demand this Christmas -- making it a threat to the dominance of
Nintendo's GameBoy.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9373121
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SECURITY SECTION

A legal fix for software flaws?: Software vendors are largely
protected from product defect claims, thanks to exemptions enshrined
in typical End User License Agreements. But the severity of last
week's Sobig.F and MSBlast.D attacks has critics calling for new
liability laws that will motivate Microsoft and other companies to
fix buggy and insecure code. Declan McCullagh reports on this testy
issue
http://ct.com.com/click?q=e7-2y.GQmVQe3pKRb_eRY.CdHW799dR
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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Found at elearningpost: NY Times Interactive: A HEAVY TOLL
Another fantastic effort from NY Times. This interactive explores how
overfishing has changed the world's oceans. Notice how they've used a
single image to create the illusion of a movie, and how the narration
holds the entire piece together. http://www.nytimes.
com/pages/multimedia/index.html

Party Gene: A version of a gene is more common in binge drinkers
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2003/822/3?etoc
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