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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You folks are making me nervous…When last I checked, e-Clippings
was hovering right around the 400 mark for subscriptions. Now I've
been doing this for around 5 years and have never had 400 subscribers
and it means a lot. I don't advertise e-Clippings so it really
does spread by word-of-mouth and I really do value you folks who sign
up. I know it's free but you get plenty of email already and
I'm proud that you feel my little missives (even if you don't
read
them as soon as they come in) are worthy of space in your crowded
Inbox.

So thanks and I'll keep checking for that 400 mark and I promise
I'll take a screenshot when I see it!

Mark Oehlert, Editor
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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

"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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TRENDS / RESEARCH SECTION

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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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

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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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION


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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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TRENDS / RESEARCH SECTION

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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EMERGING TECH SECTION

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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e-Clippings  20 August 2003
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."
Not Latin for "Fair and Balanced"

"The function of the imagination is not to make strange things
settled, so much as to make settled things strange."
- G.K. Chesterton
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I have been using Groove (www.groove.net) on and off since it
appeared in beta in October of 2000. The reasons for not seriously
adopting Groove have been multiple but fall generally into 2 main
camps: the app didn't seem mature enough in terms of feature sets
and
I couldn't seem to get enough of the people around me to adopt to
reach a useful critical mass.  As Bobby D said `the times they
are a
changin'

Groove, now at 2.5, not only has a rich feature set all its own, but
more importantly, has allowed and seemingly fostered the development
of a rich 3rd party development community. This mod community for an
office product is an powerful vector and allows for multiple
customizations and expansions on the basic Groove toolset. Groove 2.5
has also obtained the first Department of Defense (DoD) certification
for collaboration interoperability.

Regarding its expanding toolset, Groove is lining up some impressive
features. There are rich, project management tools, including
`dashboards' which let admin types view projects across
multiple
Groove spaces, there CRM applications, mindmapping applications,
collaborative document editing apps, even form generating
capabilities. These are all in addition to Groove's native suite
of functionality which is certainly not minimal. All this and still,
the most expensive version you can buy (minus the 3rd party add-on
tools which will run you extra) for a base price on the most
expensive
version of $199. This includes, for you security types out there,
automatic 192-bit encryption and peer-based authentication (Groove
software meets FIPS 140-2 level 1-approved security requirements for
cryptographic modules).

So let's get Groovin'

p.s. Did I mention the chat, threaded discussion and VOIP that's
built-in?
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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

**This is KEY**
MCLI: SYNDICATING LEARNING OBJECTS WITH RSS AND TRACKBACK "Learning
objects repositories are growing in number with no end to arguments
about definitions, meta-data, granularity, etc. The discovery process
is ultimately limited to what one can search within a single
collection. We propose that, with very little technical effort, the
content of these repositories could be easily "syndicated" in
numerous formats with existing RSS standard formats."
  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/merlot03/

**The recent blog entries from Greg Costikyan's Blog are
chilling. Think quietly for a moment about what would start to happen
to society if the power went out for a week or more.
http://www.costik.com/weblog/


**Get this article quick – before it goes in the $$ archive**
(THX Judy!)
Can Grand Theft Auto Inspire Professors?
Educators say the virtual worlds of video games help students think
more broadly By SCOTT CARLSON, Madison, Wis-  From the issue dated
August 15, 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i49/49a03101.htm

E-LEARNING NEEDS ANALYSIS: "Creating e-learning content should not
simply be about throwing your course books onto a website. Instead
look at how the Web can enhance and improve the content of a course
book.
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/080103/needs.html

Palm reveals new company name: In preparation for its split into two
separate companies, the handheld maker has come up with a name for
its new, hardware-only self: PalmOne.
August 17, 2003, 9:00 PM PDT
http://news.com.com/2100-1047_3-5064858.html?tag=fd_top

(NY Times requires free registration)
The Bits Are Willing, but the Batteries Are Weak: By AMY HARMON
For many Internet addicts, the blackout was a rude reminder of how
decisively the vaunted digital lifestyle can be laid low by a
disruption in 19th-century electrons.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/technology/18DIGI.html

(NY Times requires free registration)
Back to School Issue : A look at new technology and online resources
and at the way students and teachers are using them.
http://www.nytimes.com/circuits/

Microsoft preps PlaceWare conferencing strategy: Providing for public
access 18 August 2003 10:40am
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32377.html

Global Accrediting Body Transferred to USDLA: Jones International,
Ltd. announced today that it is donating the Global Alliance for
Transnational Education (GATE) to the United States Distance Learning
Association. GATE, founded in 1995, is an alliance of businesses,
educators, quality-assurance agencies, governments, and
intergovernmental organizations that address issues relating to
quality assurance in transnational education. GATE has granted
accreditation to educational institutions worldwide, including Monash
University in Australia and Universidad Regiomontana in Mexico.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/cb_headline.cgi?&story_file=bw.
081203/232245176&directory=/google&header_file=header.htm&footer_file=

*Yeah sure. It's all about M$ improving `security' for
its users. We all saw well they did that last week!
Microsoft to lock down MSN Messenger network: Posted August 19, 3:19
p.m. Pacific Time: Microsoft Corp. is making changes to its MSN
instant messaging (IM) service that will lock out users of
third-party software that uses the service as well as users of older
versions of Microsoft's own Messenger client, the company said
Tuesday. Users have to upgrade to the latest versions of MSN or
Windows Messenger by Oct. 15 or they will no longer be able to log
on,
Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall said. The upgrade is required
because of "security issues" with the older versions of the Messenger
clients, he said, declining to specify those issues.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=428941:1F4D50E
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Semiotics: A Primer for Designers: by Challis Hodge: Semiotics
teaches us as designers that our work has no meaning outside the
complex set of factors that define it. The deeper our understanding
and awareness of these factors, the better our control over the
success of the work products we create.
http://www.boxesandarrows.
com/archives/semiotics_a_primer_for_designers.php

Common Craft: HOW I WOULD IMPLEMENT WEBLOGS IN BUSINESS
"In retrospect- a Weblog could have been extremely valuable to me and
the company. Using a Weblog, I could chronicle the daily activities,
learnings, experiences and developments of the community. As the
community grew and interest spread, the Weblog could have become the
best single resource for understanding the internal workings of the
community, why it works, what we'd learned, what the manager does,
what the members think, etc. I could have reserved 30 minutes a day
to post what I'm thinking, doing, learning."
http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000272.html

Kids Get Parents Wired: A large majority of Americans have helped an
older parent or relative with computer and online issues, often
acting
as personal tech support agents. August 8, 2003
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/demographics/article/0,,
5901_2246621,00.html

Found at Stephen Downes:
METS: An Overview & Tutorial: This is a very interesting
specification. The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
is intended to describe the structural properties of digital
resources. Why is this necessary? "While a library may record
descriptive metadata regarding a book in its collection, the book
will not dissolve into a series of unconnected pages if the library
fails to record structural metadata regarding the book's
organization,
nor will scholars be unable to evaluate the book's worth if the
library fails to note that the book was produced using a Ryobi offset
press. The same cannot be said for a digital version of the same book.
" The initiative has evolved into a wider set of standards, and the
body just recently announced a streamlined digital rights metadata
specification. According to the METS News "The METS Editorial Board
sees the need for a simple Rights schema that the METS community
could use while the more comprehensive Rights Expression Language
(REL) schemas such as XrML, ODRL, the IEEE LTSC-DRELWorking Group,
and
others are being developed, and debated." The schema has been
published but I don't see any documentation yet, though there are
some sample instances available. By Unknown, METS,
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSOverview.v2.html

OWL flies as Web ontology language: Posted August 19, 3:00 p.m.
Pacific Time The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday issued
its
Web Ontology Language, its acronym spelled and pronounced "OWL," as a
W3C Candidate for Recommendation, meaning the organization is seeking
more implementations of the language. According to the W3C, OWL is a
language for defining structured Web-based ontologies that enable
richer integration and interoperability of data across application
boundaries. Some implementations already exist.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=428D1D:1F4D50E

Study Dispels Myths About Online Learning: An Australian study has
overturned some common perceptions about the type of students online
courses attract. The research involved 18,000 full-time students in
2002 and dismisses popular beliefs that online schools are dominated
by males, are only for the young, and that students living in rural
areas are disadvantaged. The study, conducted by Les Burr of Charles
Sturt University (CSU) in New South Wales, Australia, found—in
rural and city regions—that 61 percent of female students
participated
in online discussions, and students older than 51 had the highest
participation rate.
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/personaltech/0,39001147,39145181,00.htm

Harvard Working Knowledge: PROJECT PLANNING: FUZZINESS = FAILURE
"Studies of exceptional project managers in fast time-to-market
industries show that the initial phase of a complex project, often
referred to as the fuzzy front end, has a disproportionately large
impact on the end results. All the recommendations that follow flow
from one counterintuitive insight: The traditional operational focus
of project management will doom a complex project."
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3631&t=operations

Students Win Contest with E-Learning System: Students from the
National Taiwan University recently won $15K in IEEE's International
Design Competition with a system for enhancing online learning. Their
design, Novel Educative Wireless Style (NEWS), is intended to improve
interaction in synchronous e-learning environments. Features include
"whiteboard sharing" among class members, and "automatic file
transfer," which delivers lecture slides to students.
http://computer.org/csidc/CSIDC03ProjectReports/NationalTaiwan.pdf?
SMSESSION=NO

The Empire Strikes Back: Hollywood Appeals Grokster Decision: [August
19, 2003] Music and motion picture industry groups seek to overturn
April decision clearing file-swapping services of copyright
infringement.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/3066031
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Bit Torrent – Amazing way to move large files
http://www.teleworks.com/blog/markoehlert/archives/000085.html

Project searches for open-source niche: An emerging Web search effort
called Nutch is out to keep Google, Yahoo and MSN honest--and improve
the process of finding useful, noncommercial information on the Net.
August 18, 2003, 6:58 AM PDT
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5064913.html?tag=fd_top

Aggregators Attack Info Overload:  Internet news addicts are turning
in droves to so-called aggregator services, which relieve information
overload by condensing multiple sites into a single feed. By Ryan
Singel.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60053,00.html

RELOAD editor adds Content Packaging and SCORM authoring: Wilbert
Kraan, CETIS staff
August 14, 2003: Following a comprehensive rewrite, the 1.1 version
of the RELOAD e-learning content authoring tool can now be used to
edit both plain IMS as well as SCORM content packages.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030814153401

Videoconferencing made simple: Make video-enabled Internet calls over
a broadband connection with this simple device from D-Link.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=eb-HlpoQkDlzhNVleyWea0zYZqJtA9R
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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

IDC: Converged Devices to Overtake PDAs in 2003: Traditional PDAs
will take a backseat to mobile devices that merge voice and data this
year, according to IDC. (Company)
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=7034

Motion pushes tablet PCs to feds: Motion Computing Inc. hopes new
distribution deals and a new office will boost sales of its tablet
computers to the government.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0811/web-tabl-08-12-03.asp

IEEE Issues New Spec For High-speed Wireless Streaming: The new 802.
15.3 standard for fast wireless personal-area networks allows up to
245 devices to be linked at data rates of up to 55Mbit/sec. and at
distances of up to 300 feet.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,83837,00.html?nlid=AM

(NY Times requires free registration)
Start-Up Plans to Introduce Alternate Wi-Fi Technology: By JOHN
MARKOFF Airgo Networks, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up,
is
introducing a wireless Internet connection that doubles Wi-Fi's
already high speed and extends its range.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/technology/18WIFI.html

M-Systems, Palm tie-in redefines PDA: Analysis Pervasive Data Access?
14 August 2003 11:57am
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32339.html

from ENN eGovernment: Scottish local authorities roll out mobile
technology: Local authorities in Fife, Scotland, are using mobile
phone technology in innovative ways. The Fife Fire & Rescue Service
is rolling out a photo messaging service in association with mobile
operator Orange. The service is aimed at improving the crucial
initial treatment of people who have been involved in accidents.
Under
the initiative, rescue officers who are called to the scene of an
accident can use a camera phone to take photographs of casualties,
and
the images can be transmitted immediately via MMS to the Accident and
Emergency Unit at Dunfermline's Queen Margaret Hospital. Using this
information, doctors at the hospital are able to make a preliminary
assessment of the extent of people's injuries and to prepare the
appropriate medical treatment and staff in advance. Meanwhile, Fife
Council has completed successful trials of the use of text messaging
as a means of communicating with tenants.

LONDON-SCOTLAND TRAINS GET WI-FI: Great North East Railway (GNER) in
the UK has partnered with mobile solutions firm Icomera to provide
Wi-Fi on trains running between Scotland and London. The rail company
is investing STG1 million in the rollout of wireless broadband
Internet access on its fleet of high-speed trains, a move it hopes
will increase its appeal to travellers, particularly business
travellers with laptops and PDAs. GNER already has a 40:60 ratio of
business to leisure passengers and carries in the region of 15
million passengers each year. Icomera, the company providing the
wireless connections, is based in Gottenburg, Sweden, where it
recently introduced Wi-Fi on Linx trains running between Gottenburg
and Copenhagen.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9371680

Wristphone packs camera, keypad
http://ct.com.com/click?q=15-mYP_IGcgl2k6Jt64kAfDLFG_7KsR

Northeastern University Business Students To Utilize Toshiba Portege
3500 Tablet PCs Toshiba Computer Systems Group (CSG), in
collaboration
with Northeastern University's College of Business Administration
(CBA), will make available to students the Toshiba's Portege 3500
convertible Tablet PC operated by Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC
Edition.
http://www.planetpdamag.com/enews/2003/081303b.htm

eLearning Dynamics Launches PocketClassroom Application: eLearning
Dynamics has launched PocketClassroom, a comprehensive, two-way
classroom communication and management application utilizing handheld
Pocket PCs and wireless networks. eLearning Dynamics recently signed
an exclusive license for the PocketClassroom trademark with Wake
Forest University.
http://www.planetpdamag.com/enews/2003/081303e.htm

from Syllabus:
Chongqing University of China and Xybernaut Corp. last week announced
a research and development agreement whereby both will jointly
perform R&D in network integrated head mount display (HMD)
technologies and ubiquitous applications using wearable computers.
Under the agreement, the companies will develop wearable computer
circuitry; heat dissipation techniques and technologies; integrated
HMD technologies; voice, video capture and transmission technologies;
and ubiquitous computing applications. The research will concentrate
on strategies, methodologies and intellectual property related to
using wearable computing in the workplace in order to achieve
benefits such as increased productivity/efficiency, quality
improvements for data gathering and dissemination, knowledge
management and human safety.
http://www.cqu.edu.cn/english/index.com

Innoventions Expands Handheld Displays with RotoView: Innoventions
has developed a technology that expands the small screens found on
PDAs and mobile phones. (PDAStreet)
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=7002

Airgo Promises Breakthrough In Mobile-call Quality: Airgo Networks'
short-range radio antenna chips could offer a revolution in wireless
transmission quality, improving speed, range and reliability of
wireless devices indoors and between nearby buildings
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84111,00.html?nlid=MW
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GAMING SECTION

*Wow. No one told me.
"Guard Force is a real-time strategy game utilizing today's
modern military units including M1A1 tanks and M2 Bradley's. Guard
Force contains six unique missions that take place in graphically
rich
surroundings including snow covered mountains and lush jungles. Guard
Force puts you in command. Take control of your forces and engage in
covert assaults, counter-insurgency, and rescue missions. * Guard
Force™ is distributed solely by the Army National Guard (ARNG).
Copies of Guard Force™ are available only thru local ARNG
recruiting
offices. Guard Force is available to US residents (including US
Territories) 13 & Older (Based on the ESRB "T" rating)"
http://www.1800goguard.com/guardforce/info.asp

Nokia Hardly Hanging Up On Online Gaming: Nokia Tuesday sought to
broaden its horizons for online gaming when it purchased the rights
to Sega.com for an undisclosed amount and unveiled its first service
using features from its new acquisition.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=7033

Iraq war game comes under fire: Dominic Timms
Friday August 15, 2003 : An American company looks set to attract a
storm of controversy next year when it launches a computer game
featuring graphic video footage captured by US troops during the Iraq
war.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/computergames/story/0,11500,1019416,00.html

BRITISH GENERAL CONDEMNS WAR GAME: A senior British soldier has
attacked an American developer's plans to use real-life footage of
the recent Iraq conflict in a forthcoming first person shooter.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?
section_name=dev&aid=2096

Video Gamer EA Becomes Entertainment Power
  By May Wong: AP Technology Writer: Sunday, August 17, 2003; 2:15 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6147-2003Aug17.html

The Biggest Threat to Online Games: " The biggest threat to online
games today is the industry's neglect of the customer…" As
online gaming continues to experience a growth boom both on consoles
and on the PC, the biggest obstacle to its growth may well come down
to poor customer service infrastructure, argues Dale Munk
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?
section_name=new&aid=1915

PlayStation: Evolve, Multiply, Conquer: "With a PSX under your
television, the PlayStation isn't just something you turn on to play
a game any more..."  This week's announcement of Sony's sleek new PSX
home entertainment device caused ripples in both financial circles
and in the electronic entertainment media, along with much
speculation
about what this means for PS3 and the future of the PlayStation
brand. Rob Fahey looks at PSX, PSP and PS3, and the evolution of
Sony's gaming ambitions.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?
section_name=pub&aid=1724

*Editor's Review*
I love my iPAQ. Take it everywhere and do everything on it –
except really any gaming. Of course, I play Solitaire and there are
some great Mahjongg games and Chopper Alley is graphically cool as is
Sim City 2000. Thing is, I never play these games from long – they
always disappoint in some way, graphics, interface, etc. Well not
EverQuest® for the Pocket PC. This is my killer gaming app. I can
actually play this game until my battery runs out! Marc Prensky is
right when he says its not always about graphics (although the
graphics are pretty good) but about the game play. This rides right
along in that lane of not too hard and not too easy. The puzzles are
interesting but not brain-bending, in short it is a wonderful
diversion on the PPC and I highly recommend it. I just can't wait
for
the MMOG-handheld version!
http://eqpocket.station.sony.com/
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Microsoft.com Falls To DOS Attack: Yesterday's attack, the second
successful denial-of-service attack against Microsoft.com this month,
wasn't linked to the Blaster worm.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84074,00.html?nlid=PM

Networks Felled by New Worm: A computer worm designed to protect
against another infection brought down some computer networks
yesterday and infiltrated others, including that of Air Canada and
the $6.9 billion U.S. Navy-Marine Corps intranet.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W7RH052144832C97E3623E901319
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An email reprint From Politechbot.com:
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:48:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: destiny <destiny@...>
To: declan@...
Subject: "Fair and balanced"
To mock Fox News -- and their lawsuit against Al Franken -- a number
of web-logs have changed their taglines to "Fair and Balanced."  It's
in the title bar of cartoonist Tom Tomorrow's ThisModernWorld.com,
the well-read http://atrios.blogspot.com and several others. I'm
following suit.  Fox New's self-description is transparently laughable
-- and should apply equally well to the even-more opinionated
universe
of web-logs.
   Destiny-land.
   Fair and balanced.
   http://destinyland.blogspot.com/
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"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more
uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is
right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been
the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men
who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly
civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in
all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure.' "
- H.L. Mencken

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Windows worm starts its spread, tips off defenders

A worm that takes advantage of what some security experts
have called the most widespread Windows flaw ever has started
spreading, fulfilling the predictions of many researchers.
Dubbed "MBlast," and also known as W32.Blaster and W32/LuvSan,
the worm is spreading quickly. The worm contains two messages:
the first says "billy gates why do you make this possible?"
"Stop making money and fix your software!!" The other message
is "greet"--an underground programmer greeting.
A patch is available for the flaw, which involves the remote
procedure call (RPC) process, but as usual many have not
applied the patch.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=c8-2lPnQWOJMbAAinLLno8nTlFthoFR

> Alert Level 7: Worm exploits known Windows RPC flaw
http://ct.com.com/click?q=52-LUXoIrJaIRbzUM9PLg.A9O6sQEuR
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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

Jury Rules for U of California Research in Microsoft Patent Case -
The New York Times:A federal jury awarded a former U of California
researcher $521 million today in a lawsuit against Microsoft that
asserted its Explorer Web browser infringed a patent for sending
software applications over the Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/12/technology/12SOFT.html?
ex=1061265600&en=e3f49b8bc460c3aa&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

SCT Teams with Blackboard
Blackboard Inc., known for its course management system, and SCT, an
education technology company, have agreed to link the Blackboard
Learning System with SCT's student information and portal system
products.
http://www.sct.
com/Corporate/News_Media/PressReleases/content/2003-08-04_2.html

Two Universities Win Battle Against RIAA Subpoenas: A federal judge
ruled that MIT and Boston College don't have to hand over the
identities of students who could be illegally sharing music online.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,83903,00.html?nlid=PM

from UBDaily (and incredibly scary):
The Perils of Cutbacks in Higher Education - The New York Times
(requires free registration)
Forced to cut spending to balance state budgets, legislatures are
coming down hardest on higher education, an odd move for a nation
that believes its special advantage in global competition is its
"knowledge workers," who are billed as so well educated that they are
capable of turning out products and services other nations cannot
match. This year, the downward pressure is unmistakable. So far, 43
states have approved budgets for the 2004 fiscal year, the National
Conference reports, and higher-education outlays have dropped by 2.8
percent, to a total of $37.7 billion, from $38.8 billion last year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/business/yourmoney/10VIEW.html
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Microsoft sets corporate IM pricing
http://ct.com.com/click?q=5d-JN.bIK0y8smtOMoVi7Pmvn2JMVyR

Working Knowledge: CHEAP, FAST, AND IN CONTROL: HOW TECH AIDS
INNOVATION "We need to appreciate that new knowledge comes as much
from failure as it does from success. Innovators learn from failure:
Understanding what doesn't work may be at least as important as
understanding what does, provided these failures are revealed early
in a project and are swiftly reexamined. Learning from failure is a
boon at this point: Few resources have been committed and decision
making  is flexible, meaning that other approaches can themselves be
tested. Thus, experiments that result in failure should not be viewed
as failed experiments."
  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3627&t=technology

Flash Mobs: Viral Distribution Matters: by Mark Redetzke http://www.
clickz.com/media/agency_strat/article.php/2247061

Med Students to Make Mouse Calls - Wired
When a colleague proposed a plan two years ago for teaching medical
students online, Dr. Stephen Smith admits he was a bit taken aback.
"I thought, wow, this is a crazy idea," says the associate dean at
Brown Medical School. Outlandish as it initially appeared, Brown and
more than 30 other higher ed institutions have joined together to
back
the International Virtual Medical School, a pilot program for
delivering medical education online.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59927,00.html
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EMERGING TECH SECTION

WebEvent View is New Calendaring Solution
WebEvent, a technology company that provides calendaring solutions to
the education market, has created a new product to combine personal
and public calendars, resource reservations and project calendars.
http://www.webevent.com/

Start-ups tackle Web services management: The new world in which
dozens or thousands of Web  services are passing messages to each
other is a good candidate for catastrophic traffic jams. MetiLinx and

Digital Evolution are among the first to offer tools   for handling
the forthcoming Web services congestion   problem. The two companies'
products work together in   a way that detects congestion and, in
somewhat of a   self-healing fashion, dynamically reallocates the
load to other servers and fires up new instances of the overwhelmed
Web services components if necessary.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=83-U.BXQYJY_ZSQjz0vHE1ApwUWps9R

Is VoIP ready for prime time?: For several years VoIP has been
evolving to meet the demands of business usage. Telecom operators are
starting   to offer VoIP services, but the uptake has been slow in
this  economic climate. However, VoIP can offer cost savings
and more  functionality than traditional telephony solutions.   In
this  Webcast the VOIP landscape, what's driving   demand, key
features to  look for, and the benefits and risks
of implementing VoIP today.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=45-fNkJIKBCj6qxZ0pCPKSz0UbmJeyR
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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

T-Mobile Launches RIM's Color BlackBerry in U.S.: T-Mobile and
Research In Motion (RIM) have brought the BlackBerry 7230 wireless
handheld to the United States.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=7009

Wi-Fi To Ride California Passenger Rails: The California Department
of Transportation has approved a three month test of on-board Wi-Fi
service on a train route that connects Silicon Valley with Oakland
and Sacramento.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,83930,00.html?nlid=AM

Real, Sprint Push Mobile On-Demand Audio: Looking to jumpstart the U.
S. market for mobile audio-on-demand content, Seattle-based
RealNetworks has inked a deal with Sprint to shuttle audio streams to
Sprint's PCS Vision subscribers. (internetnews.com)
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=7006
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SECURITY SECTION

Blaster Shows IT Departments The Need For Speed On Patches: The
constant patching needed to stay on top of vulnerabilities is
becoming an increasing burden on companies, users said.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,83968,00.html?nlid=SEC2

Microsoft Patch Process Called Into Question: Microsoft's patch
management program has a critical shortcoming that could let users
think their systems have been properly patched when they haven't,
according to a security analyst.
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e-Clippings   7 August 2003
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

Whew. OK – starting to my OPTEMPO back under control. Many
apologies for the absence. I will say that we have a fascinating
interview going on over at my research blog with Murry C.
Christensen, who is Vice President - Global e-Learning Research
Director for Goldman, Sachs & Co.
The blog is here: http://www.teleworks.com/blog/markoehlert/
The interview is here:
http://www.teleworks.com/blog/markoehlert/archives/000081.html

I am now `back' and will try to regain my weekly publishing
schedule – thanks to all who hung around.
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Associate – Booz Allen Hamilton / http://www.bah.com
Student – Boise State University
Instructional Performance Technology
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Blogs of Note:
Website of Edward Castronova, PhD
http://business.fullerton.edu/ecastronova/

This is the far-seeing economist who continues to prove that even
exclusively virtual items have verifiable real-world economic value.
Fascinating research.
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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?
http://www.masie.com/researchgrants/#future
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E-Learning Gains Momentum: According to eMarketer's new report,
corporate e-learning revenues are coming in around $6 to $7 billion
USD.  Interesting comparison table showing estimates by Cortona,
Gartner, and IDC. Read full article at:
http://www.emarketer.com/news/article.php?1002352

Yahoo! and Carat Unveil Research Results Showing Teens are Truly
''Born to Be Wired''
Thursday July 24, 7:55 am ET : Teens and Young Adults Now Spend More
Time Online Than Watching Television
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030724/245198_1.html

Educators Turn to Games for Help  By Brad King
02:00 AM Aug. 02, 2003 PT: AUSTIN, Texas -- Video games have come
under tremendous political pressure in recent years because of an
increase in violent and sexual content. But schools soon may be using
the technology that powers those games to help teach America's
children.
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59855,00.html

E-Gov Chief to Leave OMB
[August 6, 2003] With Congress slashing funding for Bush's e-gov
initiatives, Foreman to leave for private sector.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2245181

elearnspace: IF I WANTED TO MAKE MONEY IN ELEARNING... HERE'S WHAT
I'D DO : "A great product alone did not result in success. Neither
did public awareness. Or superior instruction. Yet, people and
organizations are making money in elearning. The revenue models are
emerging - many innovative approaches have resulted in profits and
promising careers. A strong commitment to listening to the
"customer", experimenting with new ideas, going with the stream of
how
things work in the online culture, and a willingness to fail and
learn
are all needed. These are areas that I would explore if I were to
focus on making money in elearning."
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/making_money.htm

NCCUSL Pulls Support For Controversial UCITA Law: Although the
software licensing measure isn't dead, proponents say it's now in a
period of "repose" given vocal opposition to it in recent years.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,83676,00.html?nlid=PM

What's In a Name?: July 2003: Kevin Kruse: E-learning is dead.
That's the recent conclusion of respected industry consultant Jay
Cross. Could it be true? Have the three daggers of learner malaise,
buyer disenchantment and vendor finances finally brought down the
industry? Are we contemplating just a name change,or
is it time to change the profession itself? What's going on here?
http://www.clomedia.com/content/anmviewer.asp?a=206&z=44
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TRENDS / RESEARCH SECTION

FCC Goes WiFi
[August 5, 2003] Federal Communications Commission becomes one of
first federal agencies to offer wireless service to visitors.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2244451

Technology to Enhance the Learning Experience: July 2003
Bonni Frazee: It is rare to pick up a training industry magazine
without seeing multiple references to e-learning or other types of
technology. It can be challenging to decipher exactly what each tool
has to offer and how you can match the right technology with a given
learning objective. Without a good match, technology can cause
confusion for a learner and can impede learning, essentially causing
more problems than solutions. However, when technology is aligned
well with specific learning outcomes in mind, it can be a great
enabler of learning. And that is ideally what occurs when technology
is incorporated into an organization's learning initiatives.
Information can assist with prioritizing various choices and weighing
options to find the best learning technologies for a particular
organization. This is often easier said than done.
http://www.clomedia.com/content/anmviewer.asp?a=218&z=32

The July issue (Vol. 6, Number 3) of Educational Technology &
Society,
(ISSN 1436-4522) peer-reviewed online journal, is now available in
HTML and PDF format.
It is freely accessible at:
http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/july2003/ (HTML version)
http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/july2003/learn_tech_july2003.
pdf (PDF version)

Portugal encourages use of Wi-Fi laptops in universities
The government of Portugal is helping to provide university students
and professors with Wi-Fi-enabled laptops. Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, is a
wireless standard that allows laptop users to connect to the Internet
over a broadband connection, without the need for wires. Under the
scheme, each of the country's 150,000 university students and
professors will be offered laptops at a discounted rate, and special
bank loans at reduced rates will be made available to those who
cannot afford to buy a laptop outright. Wi-Fi "hotspots" will be
established in all universities, and, although it will not be
compulsory for students to purchase a laptop, universities will
increasingly bring their administrative services on-line. An official
from UMIC, the government's Innovation and Knowledge Society Unit,
said the intention was to make Portugal a leader in Europe in terms
of
high-speed Internet usage.

MSNBC: PUTTING YOUR SOCIAL CONTACTS TO WORK: "Say you're in sales
at XYZ Corp., and you'd like to pitch XYZ's latest money
counter
to Bill Gates. In seconds, the software can inform you that sadly, no
one in the company knows the Microsoft chairman. But -- and here is
the real power of this software -- let's say XYZ's law firm
agreed to have its contacts linked with XYZ's database. Suddenly,
you
might find that someone in XYZ's advertising department is close
with
an XYZ lawyer who knows the Microsoft founder. You wouldn't be
given
those people's names. But the software would e-mail the ad guy,
telling him you're seeking an introduction to Gates."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/947036.asp?0cv=TA01

Smart Rooms: Future Watch: "Thinking surfaces" and rooms that record
what happens in meetings could help designers of the future get their
jobs done faster and better.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,83642,00.html?nlid=MW

A Fight for Free Access to Medical Research: The Public Library of
Science is plotting the overthrow the $9 billion publishing
juggernaut that currently controls how scientific results are made
known to the world.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19104-2003Aug4.html?
referrer=email

from Syllabus: Double-Digit Growth Predicted for For-Profit Education
Sector Revenues from the for-profit postsecondary education delivery
market grew more than 13 percent to $13.8 billion, according to an
annual review by Eduventures, a research firm focused on learning
markets.
Among their key findings:
* Revenues grew more than 13 percent in 2002 to $13.8 billion;
* Online distance learning accounted for approximately $900 million,
or 7.7 percent, of total market revenues;
* For-profit education institutions attracted 84 percent of private
investment dollars and represented 48 percent of all mergers and
acquisition activity across the entire postsecondary sector in 2002;
* The market will continue to grow by 13-15 percent through 2005.
* Revenues generated by for-profit tutoring businesses reached $3.5
billion in 2002, a 14 percent increase over 2001 figures. Eduventures
estimates that market growth will exceed 14 percent in 2003.
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EMERGING TECH SECTION

Open-source Spam-blocker Gets High Marks At Cornell: Cornell
University's management school is getting ready to deploy an
open-source antispam tool that its CIO claims is 99% effective in
blocking unwanted e-mail.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,83689,00.html?nlid=AM

*Let's just ignore all the tech issues and focus on the fact that
there is now a 4 GB CF Card!!!!!
Incompatibility issues surface with first 4GB CF card: Posted August
5, 5:55 a.m. Pacific Time: Lexar Media Inc. has begun shipping a
4G-byte capacity Compact Flash card, the largest-capacity flash
memory card of any format currently available, but consumers should
be aware that with the arrival of higher-capacity cards come some
potential compatibility problems.
One of the problems lies in the physical size of the Lexar card. It
is a type 2 Compact Flash card and as such is about two millimeters
thicker than the standard type 1 card. That means that it is too
large to fit into a type 1 card slot and potential buyers should
check the specifications of their device to ensure compatibility.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/05/HNlexar_1.html
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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

AirSpeak Begins Shipment of Flair(TM) Tablet with CE.net: MORGAN
HILL, CA - August 6, 2003 (INB) -- AirSpeak Incorporated is now
shipping the FLAIR tablet thin client with the Windows CE.net
operating system. New features available with the CE.net FLAIR tablet
include Internet Explorer 5.5, Windows media player, file viewers for
MS Office and PDF documents, the RDP 5.1 advanced terminal services
client as well as improved networking and security capabilities.
http://www.internetnewsbureau.com/archives/2003/aug03/flair.html

Robot 'guard dog' protects Wi-Fi setups
http://ct.com.com/click?q=ae-jOE6QMBAES4G16D6XLfe198LDFcR

AMD demos Alchemy-based PDA running Linux: Posted August 6, 5:10 a.m.
Pacific Time
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is showing off a reference
design for a PDA (personal digital assistant) based on its Alchemy
Au1100 processor running Linux at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in
San Francisco, according to the company. The Au1100-based PDA
reference design runs Metrowerks' Linux-based OpenPDA suite of
software. OpenPDA includes an embedded Linux kernel and a range of
software designed for use in PDAs, including games and software for
playing music and video files, as well as Trolltech AS's Qtopia
multilingual user interface, Opera Software ASA's Opera Web browser,
and support for both Personal Java and J2ME (Java 2 Platform Micro
Edition).
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/06/HNalchemy_1.html

THIS JUST IN: With an updated OS, better software, a great-looking
screen, and twice the RAM, the Tungsten T2 is a great refresh of the
first Tungsten Palm.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=9e-tWQoQtMXKKrFEvquatj0ZvPrBGcR

ONE MORE WAY TO STAY ORGANIZED--WITH YOUR PDA: By Jason Parker
KILLER DOWNLOADS: Have trouble  keeping track of complex  projects
and your busy schedule? Jason's got two apps that'll help by letting
you visually map each task you must complete--and more.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=19-BLe0I2rQgeA0zm9pzu3FI1BCRURR

Street smarts: Garmin's iQue 3600: Getting lost is easier said than
done if you have Garmin"s new iQue 3600 PDA. This Palm-based handheld
has an integrated GPS receiver and comes with detailed maps of all of
North America. From Saskatchewan to Sarasota, you"re covered by the
iQue, which also includes a fast 200MHz processor, 32MB of RAM, and a
large 320x480-pixel screen.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=7b-prT_IBZKgRggoXJ.yl9q2I.yZY4R

Java Handhelds 'A Bigger Security Problem . . .On the Mark: Security
for Java cell phones and PDAs may soon become a sticky issue. And,
finally, a PC without a power cord.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,83681,00.html?nlid=MW

Researchers See Trouble Ahead For WLAN Performance: French
researchers said that when a slow device is connected to a wireless
LAN access point, data speeds across the entire network can drop.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,83610,00.html?nlid=MW

Nvidia Goes Mobile with MediaQ Acquisition: Graphics chipmaker Nvidia
on Monday announced a major expansion into the wireless sector with a
$70 million deal to acquire handheld graphics chip specialist MediaQ.
(internetnews.com)
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6994
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GAMING SECTION

Initial Issue of PLAY (an e-zine from GameGirlAdvance)
http://www.gamegirladvance.com/zine/

Focus Enhancements, Inc.  said today that its FS454 video processor
is now included in Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox videogame console. The
"low-cost, broadcast quality" TV-Out will allow the console
to connect to "virtually all" Standard Definition television
(SDTV) and High Definition television (HDTV) formats worldwide. The
FS454 also contains Macrovision 7.1 DVD anti-copy protection
technology in the encoder for all TV outputs, "including
protection
for 480p, progressive component output."

Multiplayer.com  has launched a new service entitled MGold that gives
subscribers one price access to a slew of online multiplayer PC
games.  The company says it keeps track of usage preferences and game
performance in order to "rewarding more popular games with
increased revenue while at the same time  delivering early
incremental revenue to independent developers who are smaller or are
not as far along in their release cycle." A seven-day trial
membership
to the service is available for $3. 75. A Full subscription to Mgold,
which currently features a lineup of over a dozen games,  is priced
at
$14.95 per month.
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SECURITY SECTION

CERT Warns Of Attacks, New Holes In Windows: In the past two days,
CERT has received reports of thousands of systems compromised using
variations of the malicious code, which is known as DCOM RPC.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,83670,00.html?nlid=PM

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e-Clippings 6.25.2003  *The Blog Launch Issue!
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

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Well folks – ta da! – I have now taken the plunge into the
mighty rushing torrent of online personal publishing that is the
blogosphere. Just recently launched at
http://www.teleworks.com/blog/markoehlert/
is my research blog. I use "my" with more than just a hint of
the ironic since it is only through the visits and comments of
`others' that `my' blog will acquire any relevance to
anyone but me. So please feel free to visit and be sure to comment!
And yes – please stop the panic – this newsletter will
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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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Wonderful recap of the day's events at the EdMedia Learning
Object Symposium by David Wiley
http://www.reusability.org/blogs/david/archives/000157.html
related: Learning Objects 2003 Symposium: Lessons Learned, Questions
Asked
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~erikd/PRES/2003/LO2003/index.html
**This link references not only the stage-setting preamble but also
links you to the papers collected for this symposium – some great
stuff here!

<<insert huge guffaws of laughter here>> <<really>> <<huge>>
Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate?  By Leander Kahney:  11:56 AM Jun. 19,
2003 PT Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who
download copyright materials from the Internet should have their
computers automatically destroyed.  But Hatch himself is using
unlicensed software on his official website, which presumably would
qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he proposes.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html

HATCH COMMENTS ON COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT
http://www.senate.gov/~hatch/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.
Detail&PressRelease_id=205147

From CETIS: A feature or a bug; SCORM and cross domain scripting:
People trying to deploy SCORM across several sites have been
agonising over the problems associated with playing SCORM content
from one domain in a VLE in another domain. We asked SCORM luminaries
Dan Rehak, Claude Ostyn, Wayne Hodgins and Schawn Tropp about their
views on the nature of the problem, what sorts of solutions might
work
and what SCORM's makers -ADL- intend to do about it.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030622203659

Army CIO absorbs Reserve office: BY Dan Caterinicchia
June 25, 2003: The office of the Army Reserve's chief information
officer has officially been integrated into the Army CIO's office in
the latest effort to transform the service into a true multicomponent
organization.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0623/web-reserve-06-25-03.asp

Iraq: The Computer Game: What "virtual world" games can teach the
real world about reconstructing Iraq. By David Plotz: Posted Thursday,
June 19, 2003, at 2:05 PM PT
http://slate.msn.com/id/2084604/

UW plans to offer new degree online: master's with security focus
By Nguyen Huy Vu, Seattle Times staff writer: In response to rising
concerns over homeland security in recent years, the University of
Washington plans to offer a new online master's degree this fall
designed to prepare students to manage natural and human-made crises
and disasters.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/135029072_online19m.
html

E-learning broadens employee knowledge at large U.S. companies
By Harry Wessel: Orlando Sentinel: Chris Potter, a 10-year employee
at Home Depot, can tell you a lot about caulk. She does not usually
work in the paint department where caulk is sold, but Home Depot
employees are encouraged to learn as much as they can about every
aspect of the store.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5796849.htm

QTI meets LOM: June 18, 2003: The COLA project, run by the Scottish
Colleges Open Learning Exchange Group (COLEG), has developed one of
the first applications of the IEEE Learing Object Metadata (LOM)
standard to online assessment.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030618204535


TRENDS  / RESEARCH SECTION

The Next Big Thing...The Cell Phone: Forget Wi-Fi. The real wireless
revolution is being driven by the cell phone -- and is already
creating rich opportunities for huge players and small startups
alike. By Rafe Needleman, Michael V. Copeland, Om Malik
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,50167,00.html

The power of peering: While peer-to-peer computing seems
intrinsically linked to piracy, it is actually a legitimate
technology that can help disseminate data efficiently. By Louis Chua
http://www.computerworld.com.sg/pcwsg.
nsf/unidlookup/F021D30ABB7609DE48256D41000AE8DA?OpenDocument

E-Learning 1.0: Using Multiple Intelligence Theory in the Virtual
Classroom By Margie Meacham: Combining what we know about multiple
intelligences with virtual classroom features can help us enrich
e-learners' experiences.
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/jun2003/elearn.html

from elearningpost:
Guardian Unlimited: DEVELOPING A CHILD-CENTRED DESIGN PROCESS
"We are now at the stage where simply making products "interactive"
is no longer enough. Children who have grown up with interactive
technologies often have the highest expectations of what kind of
experiences it should enable them to have, regardless of whether they
are using it at home or in school. To ensure the success of a product
it is becoming increasingly important to include children in the
design process at the earliest stage possible, whether the aim is to
entertain or to educate."
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,976205,00.html

from elearningpost:
MSNBC: Info With a Ball and Chain: Stopping piracy and increasing
privacy makes sense. But what will we lose by locking up our songs,
movies, books, files and e-mails? Will we suffer the worst-case
Digital Rights Management (DRM) scenario: a world so constricted that
we can't cut or paste a line from a poem, or forward the latest
sick Internet joke to our buddies? I doubt it. But I do think that
the files that arrive in our in boxes and jukeboxes will be on
tighter
leashes. And while I understand the reasoning for this, the prospect
doesn't gladden my heart.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/926304.asp

from UBDaily: Minnesota System Develops Online Portfolio Technology
The eFolio Minnesota technology helps students create multimedia
electronic portfolios to showcase educational achievements.
http://www.efoliominnesota.com/

**All together now, in our best Homer Simpson voice – Doh!
SPECIAL REPORT: COPYRIGHT IN THE DIGITAL AGE:  Businesses Battle for
Song Sharers - If the recording industry gets its wish, millions of
downloaders will form the core of a lucrative new market for legal,
user-friendly music services. -washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29635-2003Jun25.html?
referrer=email

THE WIRED 40: Meet the masters of innovation, technology, and
strategic vision - 40 companies that are reshaping the global
economy. By Kevin Kelleher
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/40main_pr.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

From: Pocket PC Thoughts: My official reaction was Holy Dog S%#!
Toshiba 15GB PC Card Hard Drive: Posted by Janak Parekh @ 09:30 AM
"Wow. Imagine 15GB of storage on your Pocket PC. Now stop
imagining."
http://www.mobileplanet.com/private/pocketpcthoughts/product.asp?dept%
5Fid=1420&pf%5Fid=MP530507&listing=1

'Toy' super computer has serious speed: By Nathan Cochrane: A
supercomputer made of toys may make its way into the stratosphere of
the world's fastest 500 computers within a year. One American lab has
already built a supercomputer from 70 Sony PlayStation 2 consoles.
It's at the US National Centre for Supercomputing Applications at the
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
http://arrakis.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ps2/cluster.php


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Review of the new Pocket PC 2003 operating system from PDAJunkie:
http://pdajunkie.net/index.html?pdajunkie_net_ppc2003.htm&2

POCKET PC 2003: WHO NEEDS IT (AND WHO DOESN'T): By David Coursey
HANDHELDS: If you want to connect your PDA to the Net or your PC via
Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, or if your company has waited to settle on a
handheld standard, Microsoft's new Pocket PC 2003 could be the
ticket. Otherwise...
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=ad-_4IAQzEEaIlz-NRYx6KHwYpDk6sR

Review of the new iPAQ 2215 (seriously in depth!)
http://pocketpcthoughts.com/phpads/adclick.php?
bannerid=200&zoneid=10&source=&dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pocketpcthoughts.
com%2Farticles.php%3Faction%3Dexpand%2C13980

**Learning by the slice anyone?
Mobile operators unveil Simpay: M-payments platform
23 June 2003 9:17am
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/31362.html

Tips On Setting Up A Wireless LAN: Mobile and wireless analyst Craig
Mathias gives realistic advice for building a wireless LAN.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,82489,00.html?nlid=PM

GAMING SECTION

*Been wondering how to include this bit of stuff. It seems that
someone out there is working on a 9-11 Survivor Simulator. You take
on the role of someone trying to survive the planes crashing into the
World Trade Towers. I think that's all I'll say and just
provide the link to a discussion on this topic, taking place at
ludology.org (ludology = game study BTW)
(http://ludology.org/article.php?story=20030610182010869#comments)

2.5m gamers Enter The Matrix: Atari's licensed multi-platform Matrix
title has sold more than 2.5 million units in North America, Europe
and Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), making it the biggest and
fastest-selling title since the publisher's rebranding...
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?
section_name=pub&aid=1817

Microsoft VP broadsides Nintendo and handheld gaming: Peter Moore,
the one-time head of Sega of America who is now a Microsoft corporate
VP for retail sales and marketing, has launched a scathing attack on
Nintendo's strategy in the console market and on handheld gaming as a
whole...
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?
section_name=pub&aid=1815
and a different take - Microsoft's Peter Moore shows alarming
naivety:
Keynote speech misses point of social gaming.
http://spong.com/x?art=5116


SECURITY SECTION

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION  (anybody got a suggestion for a new heading
for this section? Just doesn't seem to be working for me anymore.)

User Not Found: dealing with the death of online friends:
"A weblog devoted to the discussion of dealing with the death of
online friends. As more and more friendships/relationships are
established and maintained in a virtual realm, more "real life"
scenarios become relevant in the online environment. Death,
unfortunately, is one of these scenarios."
http://www.usernotfound.com/
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e-Clippings  6.18.2003 "Legero. Cogito. Scribero."
*The Crusades Edition

"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without
fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do
good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom."
- Sun Tzu
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BUZZ

Bit torrent
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html
http://wiki.theory.org/index.php/BitTorrentFAQ
http://smiler.no-ip.org/BT/BTlinks.php

Trackback
http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/

Wiki: "The simplest online database that could possibly work."
"Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely
create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports
hyperlinks and has simple text syntax for creating new pages and
crosslinks between internal pages on the fly. Wiki is unusual among
group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of
contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself."
http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
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1st Crusade – Compelling (Free) Content and Our Support Of It

**Way back at the end of May, I dropped in a little note at the very
end of the issue – the note was to a site at
http://www.redvsblue.com/ and I'll say thanks again to Richard
Boyd at
3D Solve (http://www.3dsolve.com/) for pointing it out to me. The
shortest explanation is that these guys use the videogame Halo to act
out scripts that they write. The longer version is that you'll
split
your side watching the episodes. Then I wander over to http://www.
machinima.com/ thanks to Murry  C. in NY. Then I find, evidently late
in the curve, www.brokensaints.com. The last of these is the most
amazing. Broken Saints is a 24 part story told with great emotional
depth and power using just Flash. It won a 2003 Sundance Film
Festival
award for best animation. Here is one thing these all have in common
beyond staggering imagination, wit and technical expertise –
they're
all free. Well, free to us, the viewers. I wanted to let all my
readers in one these sites for two reasons: #1 Go watch this stuff
– if TV were this compelling –well I shudder and #2 DONATE
– I
mean some of these folks are bringing us movie-quality content and
asking for nothing– skip a Blockbuster rental and send it in
– better
yet, add in what your late fee would be too and send that. This kind
of content is amazing and deserves our support. In fact, next time
someone tells you that there is just no compelling content on the Web
– just `come here, I have something to show you…'  Mark
Oehlert,
Editor.
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2nd Crusade – Copyright and Ways to Battle for Our Rights (Again)

So you probably know my opinion that the current copyright wars are
one of the most significant challenges to the future of our society
as one of learners and not merely consumers. Should be no surprise
then that I present you with not only the following information but a
painless way to also take action.

Fighting for a new Net copyright deal: By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com: June 6, 2003, 4:00 AM PT: Five months
after losing a high-profile argument in front of the U.S. Supreme
Court, foes of federal copyright law are launching a public campaign
to create a policy that they see as better in step with the Internet
age. Lawrence Lessig is leading the charge.
http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-1013830.html?tag=lh

June 3, 2003: Petition Launched to Reclaim the Public Domain
Called "First Step" Towards Passage of Public Domain Enhancement Act
Stanford, California - Citizens eager to restore balance to copyright
law today launched a petition to urge Members of the US Congress to
support legislation to reclaim the public domain. "This is the first
step in Act II-- passage of the Public Domain Enhancement Act," said
Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School, and a chief
supporter of the Act.
http://eldred.cc/petition.html

Text of the Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/eldred/petition.html

Signatory Page
http://www.petitiononline.com/eldred/petition-sign.html
*As of my signature, 12895 Signatures Total.
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Some of you know of my affection for the Opera browser (best one
going!) Here is a new little trick from the latest version – you
can highlight text, right-click and search with Google on the
selected text – and the results display in a new window! I can
hear
the cries of `geek!' now but think how handy this is if
you're
reading a story that keeps mentioning all these other topics
you'd like to research – now just right-click – search
and view the
results when you're done with the article. Innovation; a good
thing.
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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

PeopleSoft To Oracle: No Deal: In a statement today (12 June),
PeopleSoft's board said it believes the buyout likely wouldn't
withstand antitrust scrutiny and undervalues the company.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,82046,00.html?nlid=AM

Click2learn Unveils SCORM 1.2 Resource Kit: Productivity software
developer Click2learn is making available a SCORM 1.2 Resource Kit
for those interested in learning about interoperable learning content.
The company described the kit as an evolving collection of documents
and demonstrations designed to help technical and non-technical users
understand and apply the Shareable Content Object Reference Model
(SCORM), the leading learning content standard. Much of the content
in the kit is derived from R&D documents and prototypes created as
part of Click2learn's involvement in learning technology standards
initiatives. Documents include a basic introduction to SCORM; a
technical "cookbook" for content developers, with working examples;
and a brief on how to test SCORM content for successful integration
with Aspen, the company's learning management suite. To access the
resource kit, visit:
http://home.click2learn.com/en/products/standards.asp

Profexcel aims to hone teachers' skills: Monday, June 16 2003
by Matthew Clark: Profexcel, an Irish firm that provides educational
courses over the Net, has expanded its offerings and says it expects
more participants this summer. The two-year-old company, founded by
clinical psychologists Dr Deirdre MacIntyre and Dr Moya O'Brien, as
well as UCD computer scientist Henry McLoughlin, offers summer
courses over the Web that help parents, teachers and other
professionals to hone their skills in relation to children with
special educational needs.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9363987

Spotted at elearningpost: Workforce: 25 Trends That Will Change the
Way You Do Business "In essence, some companies may have decided that
the HR strategic-partner role is too important to leave to someone
with an HR background." The study's conclusion: Human resources
must reinvent itself. "The old approaches and models simply are not
good enough."
http://www.workforce.com/section/09/feature/23/45/53/index.html


TRENDS / RESEARCH SECTION

Boston Globe: Companies get into weblog act "Consider: Every business
needs to know what its employees know. Companies are crammed with
experts on various topics whose knowledge goes to waste -- because
nobody knows what they know. Now give these workers an internal
corporate blog, and encourage them to use it. Let them natter away on
every topic that intrigues them. Harvest and index the results.
You've mapped your workers' brains. With a few keystrokes, a manager
can find out who's been blogging about skiing or bowling or restoring
classic cars -- just the thing when you're trying to sell something
to an avid collector of '64 Mustangs. The company's hidden experts
will cheerfully reveal themselves, and the firm's institutional memory
gets an upgrade."
http://www.boston.
com/dailyglobe2/167/business/Companies_get_into_weblog_actP.shtml

Hatch Suggests Destroying Illegal File Swappers' Computers
[June 18, 2003] Senate Judiciary Committee chairman says it may be
the 'only way' teach people about copyrights.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2223811

Study Shows Impact of Web Technology on Higher Ed: The latest results
of a four-year study by McGraw-Hill on the impact of  Web technology
on higher ed institutions confirmed that Web-based  technology is
helping instructors achieve teaching objectives and has a  positive
impact on student attitudes and achievement. In 1999, only 22
percent of faculty participants viewed technology as very or
extremely important for achieving success; in 2002, figures rose to
57
percent. The survey indicates that technology has increased
dramatically in terms of importance, with 68 percent of respondents
rating training and professional development as very or extremely
important and 60 percent assigning a high level of importance to
course Web site use in achieving teaching objectives.
Purchase the 30-page report by visiting:
http://www.mcgrawhill.ca/highereducation

IM's bursting--say goodbye to e-mail: By Graeme Wearden: ZDNet (UK)
June 12, 2003, 7:10 AM PT: The number of people using instant
messaging (IM) software at work is set soar over the next few years,
as part of a wider boom that will see more than a trillion IMs sent
worldwide each day by 2006, according to the latest research.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-1016231.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Wal-Mart To Deploy Radio ID Tags For Supply Tracking: By asking its
top 100 suppliers to support the radio frequency ID technology,
Wal-Mart hopes to improve inventory management and gain better
visibility into the supply chain.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,82052,00.html?nlid=AM

Delta Air Plans RFID Bag-tag Test:Delta Air Lines plans a one-month
test of RFID bag tags, a move seen as yet another boost for the
technology following Wal-Mart's recent decision to use RFID tags
throughout its supply chain.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,82266,00.html?nlid=PM

MicroOptical on Monday unveiled a tiny display that clips onto a pair
of eyeglasses for hands-free viewing of information from mobile
devices such as Tablet PCs and laptops.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6829

Sony invents tactile panel for PDAs: Virtual buttons at your
fingertips By INQUIRER staff: Friday 13 June 2003, 08:35: AN LCD
SCREEN THAT will let you feel and push virtual buttons is under
development by the Sony Corporation, it has emerged.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9991

From Pocket PC Thoughts: Distribute HanDBase Databases As Runtimes
Posted by Ed Hansberry @ 02:00 AM:"HanDBase's runtime solution
overview: DDH Software, developers of the award winning Palm OS and
Pocket PC relational database application HanDBase, now offers an
affordable way to have custom handheld applications created. Our
runtime solution enables HanDBase databases to be developed into a
freestanding Palm or Pocket PC applications (Pocket PC version
expected soon!)." The license costs $599, which is high until you
consider what you get for it. You can create any number of databases
in HanDBase and convert to a runtime version to distribute to an
unlimited number of clients. Previously, you needed to pay $29.99 for
a client license. Now you just distribute your compiled database. The
user does not need to have HanDBase on the client at all. They have a
demo page that will convert your existing HanDBase database into a
24hr version so you can test it out before you buy the full package.
http://www.ddhsoftware.com/runtimebuilder.html

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

WLAN sales go gangbusters: Leader of the Pack: 16 June 2003 9:53am
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/31214.html

Palm Tungsten C Wi-Fi PDA: A Reg in-depth review: 13 June 2003 1:57pm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/31199.html

Making the Sale Via Mobile IM: A player in the competitive sales
force automation (SFA) sector is looking to simplify, expedite and
automate the tasks of salespeople by capitalizing on two hot trends
in instant messaging: wireless and interactive agents.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6831

from Pocket PC Thoughts: TI Claims Bluetooth-Wi-Fi Breakthrough:
Posted by Jason Dunn @ 12:03 PM
"Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) has announced a breakthrough that
allows the coexistence of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless technologies,
enabling next-generation mobile hardware to provide simultaneous
access to both local area networks. TI's package comprises existing
chips with new software that manages voice and data traffic on the
two different systems, both of which operate on the 2.4 GHz radio
frequency that also is used by cordless phones and other consumer
devices. The result is that both Wi-Fi data transmissions -- 802.11b
or the newer, faster 802.11g -- and Bluetooth voice communications
can be transmitted without interference..."While there are other
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi coexistence products available, most deal with data
traffic only, according to TI spokesperson Marisa Speziale. "Our
technology prioritizes voice traffic over data, addressing the poor
quality of voice transmission on Bluetooth."
http://wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/21731.html

Bluetooth to outship Wi-Fi five to one – report Exclusive So much
for the hotspot hype, says Forrester Research 18 June 2003 8:50am
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/31262.html

TI Converters Extend Battery Life in PDAs, Phones: Texas Instruments
Thursday introduced a new family of power converters that it  says
can extend battery life and save board space in wireless PDAs,
smartphones and laptops.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6835



GAMING SECTION

N-Gage boss slams GBA: By gamesindustry.biz
Posted: 12/06/2003 at 10:50 GMT: Nokia's head of entertainment and
media, Ilkka Raiskinen, has attacked Nintendo's GBA in today's Dow
Jones, accusing the system of failing to appeal to adult
demographics, and has revealed some details of the development
business model for N-Gage.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/31165.html

Microsoft books ATI for Xbox 2 chipset gig - report
Bye-bye, Nvidia 13 June 2003 9:07am
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/31189.html

Trends in MMOG development: by Mirjam Eladhari, researcher at
Zero-Game Studio, Interactive Institute, Sweden: Currently, in April
2003, there are 51 MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games)
available and about 120 MMOGs are in development. This article is
based on a survey of these games and addresses the questions of what
trends there are in type of gameplay and fictional world themes. We
will also have a look at how the MMORPG genre (Massively Multiplayer
Online Role Playing Games) is evolving by identifying what new
features are being developed.
http://www.game-research.com/art_trends_in_mmog.asp

Thinking Outside The MUD: interview: may 05, 2003: Ludicorp CEO
Stewart Butterfield on the Game Neverending: Mike Sugarbaker talks to
Stewart Butterfield about his company's take on massively-multiplayer
gaming.
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/gne.html


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All: I'll be sending the regular e-clippings out tonight but this is
too amazing not to send out. Anyone for destroying someone's car
after
two speeding tickets?

Mark Oehlert, A Stunned Editor

Found at Declan McCullagh's Politechbot (info following article)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6241-2003Jun17.html

Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

By TED BRIDIS
The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 17, 2003; 5:22 PM

[...] "No one is interested in destroying anyone's computer," replied
Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company
that builds technology to disrupt music downloads. One technique
deliberately downloads pirated material very slowly so other users
can't. "I'm interested," [Orrin] Hatch interrupted. He said damaging
someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about
copyrights." The senator acknowledged Congress would have to enact an
exemption for copyright owners from liability for damaging computers.
He endorsed technology that would twice warn a computer user about
illegal online behavior, "then destroy their computer."

"If we can find some way to do this without destroying their
machines, we'd be interested in hearing about that," Hatch said. "If
that's the only way, then I'm all for destroying their machines. If
you have a few hundred thousand of those, I think people would
realize" the seriousness of their actions, he said. "There's no
excuse
for anyone violating copyright laws," Hatch said. [...]

---

Sen. Hatch's statement today:
http://www.senate.gov/~hatch/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.
Detail&PressRelease_id=205147

HATCH COMMENTS ON COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT

Washington - Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement:

"I am very concerned about Internet piracy of personal and
copyrighted materials, and I want to find effective solutions to
these
problems.

"I made my comments at yesterday's hearing because I think that
industry is not doing enough to help us find effective ways to stop
people from using computers to steal copyrighted, personal or
sensitive materials. I do not favor extreme remedies - unless no
moderate remedies can be found. I asked the interested industries to
help us find those moderate remedies."

---

It's conceivable that Hatch is talking about the same kind of
proposal that Rep. Berman introduced last year:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04035.html

It's a complicated bill and worth reading for yourself, but one
section says "a copyright owner shall not be liable in any criminal
or civil action for disabling, interfering with, blocking, diverting,
or otherwise impairing the unauthorized distribution, display,
performance, or reproduction of his or her copyrighted work on a
publicly accessible peer-to-peer file trading network":
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.05211:

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e-Clippings  6.11.2003 "Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature
and its beauty" Albert Einstein

"When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the universe" - John Muir

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh
unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of
civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
- John of the Mountains , (1938) page 317.

**Editor's Note – Just need to send a shout out <holler back>
to my new office mate Richard Vann who, as it turns out, is a
long-time e-clippings' subscriber! ALSO – you need to check
out the very bottom of this issue from some great potential publishing
outlets for all you academic/writing/researching types! P.S. I
won't say I told you so about movement in the ERP arena but –
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/31106.html
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**OK – So I normally don't cover eco-issues here but this one
is close to my heart. I went to grad school in Oregon and can
honestly say that it is probably the most beautiful state I have ever
visited. That being said, it is also not a state to live in if you
don't enjoy political battles. The whole point is – there are
some things that you MUST fight (politically) for and saving
Oregon's rivers is right up there. It is absolutely shameful that
logging, fishing, and agriculture have been allowed to combine to
bring ruin to the state's riverine resources. You know what? I
understand that maybe some people's families have been doing this
or
that for multiple generations but guess what? That doesn't give
you a
right to continue doing it if we find out that your activity is
harming a natural resource that belongs to the whole state.
Especially
in Oregon, you don't want to open with that "always been done
that way" argument with 11 federally recognized Indian tribes in
the state who  might just have the best prior claim to how things
were done. The dams on the Columbia serve up cheap electricity to
utility and aluminum companies and have almost killed off the salmon
runs. I'll stop for now but remember actions have consequences.

What's a River For? By Bruce Barcott
Thousands of dead salmon, acres of dying crops, pesticide-poisoned
birds: How the Klamath River became the first casualty in the West's
new water wars. May/June 2003 Issue
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/19/ma_366_01.html
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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?
http://www.masie.com/researchgrants/#future
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Buzz

Presence: "Presence is a means for finding, retrieving, and
subscribing to changes in the presence information (e.g. 'online' or
'offline') of other users."
http://www.nwfusion.com/links/Encyclopedia/P/802.html
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2779.txt
http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2003/0602presence.html

With so much being written on blogging, I figured I might as well
drop in a couple of sites where you can find some interesting stuff
out about the phenomenon. Don't know what a blog is? Your kids do.

Technorati
http://www.technorati.com/
According to this site's own stat count that are watching 362,537
weblogs, representing 10,846,276 active links and with 37,795,847
links tracked. That is a lot of tracking! Actually this is a great
site which can tell you who is linking to your blog, which blogs are
the most popular, who are the newcomers and more.

What makes a weblog a weblog? Fri, May 23, 2003; by Dave Winer.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/whatMakesAWeblogAWeblog

Blogdex
http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/
A dynamic listing of the popular kids in the blogging class from the
MIT Media Lab.

DAYPOP
http://www.daypop.com/
"Currently, Daypop indexes over 35000 of the best news sites and
weblogs on the net every day." And you can search it!

Blogging Headline News
http://blogging-news.info/
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NEWS

Tough Talking for Marines in Iraq  By Noah Shachtman: 02:00 AM Jun.
07, 2003 PT: Don't tell the members of the 1st Marine Expeditionary
Force about information overload. They already know all about it.
During Gulf War II, members of the force often had to use a helmet
headset, four radios and two laptops at once to communicate with
their comrades and commanders -- all while crammed into light armored
vehicles crawling across the Mesopotamian desert.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59106,00.html


TRENDS SECTION

Endgame - encouraging completion in e-learning by Clive Shepherd
E-learning – at least to the extent that it is delivered in
self-study format – suffers in the same way as all of its
distance learning predecessors: from high drop-out rates. Although
most learners start with good intentions of completing, far too high
a
proportion never achieve the benefits they were seeking when they
were enrolled. In this article, Clive Shepherd explores whether
drop-out rates are any real indicator of the success of e-learning
and, to the extent that they are, what can be done to reduce them to
manageable levels.
http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/tactix/Features/endgame.htm

Taste Tribes by Joshua Ellis (from Mindjack): Josh examines the
online, interconnected groups of people that you turn to for advice
on music, art, fashion, books, etc., and the broader implications of
these taste tribes.
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/tastetribes.html

*boxesandarrows account of the:
2nd Annual O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference by Bob Baxley
http://www.boxesandarrows.
com/archives/2nd_annual_oreilly_emerging_technology_conference.php

*from slashdotorg
Do Online Schools Provide A Quality Education? Posted by Cliff on
Wednesday June 04, @05:31PM from the what-have-your-experiences-been
dept.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/0051202

*again, from boxesandarrows:
The Sociobiology of Information Architecture by Alex Wright
http://www.boxesandarrows.
com/archives/the_sociobiology_of_information_architecture.php

Adopting E-Learning: Lessons From the Government by Dorman Woodall:
Many people assume that federal and state government agencies are
laggards when it comes to the use of technology. And why not? The
media constantly exposes instances in which key government functions
hinge on outdated technology and computer systems. Yet while these
stories make for good copy—and in some cases highlight real
problems that demand our attention—they don't necessarily
paint the
whole picture.
http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_feature.asp?
articleid=166&zoneid=30

A little less conversation: Is our relationship with the internet
changing? Technology analyst Bill Thompson likes reading online
discussions but wants more than just chat.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2949588.stm

The Value of Performance Simulations: James J. L'Allier, Ph.D.   Your
business might be at risk due to training that may not deliver all of
the skills that your employees need and assessments that may not
always test whether they have acquired these skills. Simulations can
play an important role in reducing this risk.
http://www.clomedia.com/content/anmviewer.asp?a=163&print=yes


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Macromedia updates e-learning tools: The software maker plans to
announce on Monday a new version of Authorware, its application for
creating computer-based learning programs.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/1011757.htm


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Mobile gadgets offer new lessons: Using mobile phones and handheld
computers to teach basic skills could help a generation of youngsters
turned off by traditional education.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2940936.stm
Link to the m-learning project of the EU:
http://www.m-learning.org/

*Scrounged from PocketPC Thoughts:
Microsoft Preps New Handheld OS: Posted by Jason Dunn @ 05:00 PM
"The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will debut Pocket PC
2003--code-named Ozone--on June 23, according to sources close to the
company. The operating system is not expected to be a major revision
of Pocket PC 2002, but it will include new features such as built-in
support for wireless technologies Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The OS
overhaul will occur in the next version of the operating system,
code-named Magneto, due out next year. Microsoft representatives
declined to comment.
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-1015726.html?tag=fd_top

*from PocketPC Thoughts
Vanu, Inc. Debuts the First Hand-held Software Radio Posted by Jason
Dunn @ 04:53 PM: "The standard off-the-shelf Hewlett-Packard iPAQ,
runs on a Xscale processor from Intel and a Linux operating system.
The radio transceiver operates from 100 MHz to 475 MHz and is housed
in a standard iPAQ expansion pack. The iPAQ utilizes Vanu Software
RadioTM to implement all of the signal processing. The current
configuration of the device supports commercial analog FM radio
service, including Family Band Radio, as well as the public safety
APCO 25 digital standard. Future prototypes under development include
operational capabilities of up to 900 MHz and support for cellular
and PCS standards such as TDMA and GSM." This is the start of a
technology that may radically change the way we think of wireless
communications.
http://www.vanu.com/fccpressrelease051203.html


GAMING SECTION

Colleges offer degree in video gaming: DALLAS, Texas (AP) --David
Najjab is an educator with an unusual problem: He's trying to lure
students who are serious about making a career out of fun and games.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/06/02/game.university.ap/


SECURITY SECTION


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

**Ever wonder what everybody else is looking for online?
Here are the top 50 searches on Lycos
http://50.lycos.com/

Google Zeitgeist - Search patterns, trends, and surprises according
to Google
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

The Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment (JTLA) is a
peer-reviewed, scholarly on-line journal. The JTLA was established in
response to a growing interest in the intersection of computer-based
technology, learning, and assessment. The JTLA provides an
interdisciplinary forum where initiatives that combine technology,
learning theory, and assessment are shared. The JTLA is housed
jointly in the Technology and Assessment Study Collaborative (inTASC)
and the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational
Policy (CSTEEP) at Boston College.
http://www.bc.edu/research/intasc/jtla.html

The Journal of Electronic Publishing
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/

Journal of Digital Information
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/

Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced
Learning
http://imej.wfu.edu/index.asp

First Monday
http://www.firstmonday.dk

The Journal of Literacy and Technology
http://www.literacyandtechnology.org/main/toc.html
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"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate
between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the
vital connection between them." - Leo Buscaglia
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Buzzwords:
Hyperactive Academia
http://www.kairosnews.org/modules.php?
op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1925&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Social Software
http://www.headshift.com/moments/archive/sss2.html
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=11-l8riI2-9PLuhBANNF0snu3IhqIRR
http://www.ozzie.net/blog/

RSS
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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?
http://www.masie.com/researchgrants/#future
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Special issue of 'Educational Technology & Society' (ISSN 1436-4522)
Call for papers: Theme "Ontologies and the Semantic Web for
E-learning"
* Important dates:
Deadlines for full papers:  December 15, 2003
Review results: March 15, 2004
Final version of papers:April 15, 2004
Publication:October 2004
Submission procedure: All submissions should be forwarded as attached
files (MS-Word or RTF) to Prof Demetrios G Sampson at Sampson@...
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Internet is dying - Prof. Lessig By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 15/05/2003 at 21:33 GMT: The Internet is dying, says Lawrence
Lessig, a law professor with a cult following amongst technophiles.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30733.html
and
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_05.shtml#001180

(NY Times requires free registration)
Sony Previews Many Talents of PlayStation: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:
May 29, 2003: TOKYO, May 28 (AP) — Sony introduced a PlayStation
2 video game console today that has a built-in DVD recorder and hard
drive for storing data, part of a strategy to combine technologies in
hopes of raising the company's brand and restoring its profitability.
The new PlayStation 2, called the PSX, will go on sale in Japan this
year and is planned for the United States and Europe early next year,
said Ken Kutaragi, Sony's executive deputy president. He declined to
say how much the console would cost.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/technology/29SONY.html?
pagewanted=print&position=

Telcos Agree to Lay Fat Pipes By Associated Press: 02:20 PM May. 29,
2003 PT: NEW YORK -- The nation's three biggest regional phone
companies announced an agreement Thursday to standardize the
construction of residential fiber-optic networks, in hopes of getting
ultra-fast Internet connections to homes more quickly and less
expensively.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59035,00.html

**Hmmm, huge HR software company…enterprise-wide integration,
hmm…
Update: PeopleSoft Swallows J.D. Edwards: The new company will have
about $2.8 billion in annual revenue, 13,000 employees and more than
11,000 customers in 150 countries.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,81732,00.html?nlid=PM
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2215341


TRENDS SECTION

Smarter, Simpler Social: An introduction to online social software
methodology Lee Bryant : Version 1.0, 18 April 2003
http://www.headshift.com/moments/archive/sss2.html

(NY Times requires free registration)
With Wireless, an English City Reaches Across Digital Divide
By MARK LANDLER: May 31, 2003: MANCHESTER, England, May 29 —
Three years ago, Shirley Hughes lived a life of dreary routine,
collecting welfare checks, bringing up two children as a single
mother, passing her evenings in front of the television. Today, she
teaches her neighbors how to use computers at a local college while
studying for a teaching certificate. At home, she skips in favor of
the Internet, which she surfs avidly, downloading patterns for
patchwork quilts, her favorite hobby.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/technology/31WIFI.html?
pagewanted=print&position=

LET'S TALK ABOUT HIGH-TECH TEAMWORK TOOLS: By Patrick Houston
GROUPWARE: What's the best tool for collaborating with coworkers? Pat
looks at one company that says the phone makes the most sense--and
explains Microsoft's upcoming, PC-centric alternatives.
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=32-Gx5IIrQC8BgStdEu3fwhUYxCNNuR

Media More Diverse? Not Really  By Joanna Glasner: 02:00 AM May. 30,
2003 PT It's easy to argue that media options are more diverse than
ever -- Americans can sit in their living room, turn on the digital
cable set-top box and flip through 500 channels, or surf through a
dozen news sites on the computer.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59015,00.html

D-Lib: Developing a Content Management System-based Web Site
This article describes the development of a content management
system(CMS)-based web site for the Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC), a UK strategic advisory body. It gives a nice
overview of the development process.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may03/kirriemuir/05kirriemuir.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

(NY Times requires free registration)
If You Behave Yourself, I'll Print You a Toy
By PETER WAYNER: May 29, 2003: VIEWED through the fantastic lens of
science fiction, three-dimensional printers seem as amazing as the
transporters in "Star Trek." In goes a digital idea of a thing and
out comes the thing itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/technology/circuits/29howw.html?
pagewanted=print&position=

Business Week: Macromedia updates e-learning tools: "The new
Authorware version, 7, includes a number of enhancements intended to
streamline the process of putting together such presentations, most
notably the ability to import files created in Microsoft's PowerPoint
software."
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/1011757.htm

Real-time apps: Collaboration only a click away: We take an in-depth
look at presence-based applications, which are starting to come
online in the enterprise. DocFinder: 6146
http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2003/0602presence.html

Web-services technology transforms staid CRM apps: And we analyze the
way Web Services are helping to create "composite" applications that
could also transform collaborative computing in the enterprise.
DocFinder: 6147
http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2003/0602composite.html

Allied Data Technologies Introduces Wristwatch with Memory Capacity:
Tornado UMW: SPIJKENISSE, NETHERLANDS - June 2, 2003 (INB) - Allied
Data's retail division TORNADO continues expanding its product
portfolio. Tornado will soon introduce its latest ultra portable
solution: the Tornado USB Memory Watch (UMW). The Tornado UMW is a
stylish designed wristwatch with built-in memory capacity.
http://www.internetnewsbureau.com/archives/2003/june03/wristwatch.html

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Research In Motion (RIM) Monday unveiled two new BlackBerry wireless
handhelds, including its first model with a color display. http://www.
thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6762

Challenges And Opportunities For Wi-Fi: UCLA Professor Rajit Gadh
outlines the opportunities and challenges currently facing the Wi-Fi
community. Gadh oversees UCLA's wireless and mobile consortium.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,81574,00.html?nlid=MW

IDC Pictures Strong Growth For MMS: Multimedia messaging services
(MMS) that allow mobile phone subscribers to send pictures, voice
recordings and video clips to each other will enjoy strong growth
over the next few years, according to a new report from IDC.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6764

HP's Summer of the iPaq: Hewlett-Packard plans to keep busy this
summer with the release of a slew of new iPAQ Pocket PCs, including
up to five new models in the low-end h1900 series, a new mid-range
h2200 series, and an addition to its high-end h5000 series.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6758

Palm to Add Net Phoning to Wi-Fi Device - CNETNews.com
Palm is joining forces with several partners to make more services
available on its Tungsten C handheld, which comes with built-in Wi-Fi
support. Palm is looking to add Net-phoning capabilities to the
Tungsten C as well as additional security and the ability to more
easily identify and use hot spots--areas where wireless Internet
access is available through Wi-Fi.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1011216.html
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6754

Fujitsu's versatile mobile workstation: The Celsius Mobile H is the
big daddy of Fujitsu's diverse notebook line. It has features that
you just won't find in most laptops, including a workstation-class
graphics chip and a removable wireless keyboard.
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=4e-0Y95InZ1aFMui6mBnryT01qlnErR

From AvantGo:
Nokia 3650 smart phone: Jennifer Weaver: Taking snapshots with your
cell is, like, so last month. But Nokia's 3650 smart phone may
inspire a whole new fad. Its camera captures and displays movie clips
and still images, and lets you email them to friends and family. Four
MB of internal memory plus an in-box 16 MB multimedia card hold up to
1000 lower-res pictures. Best of all, My AvantGo works great on the
Symbian OS (sync wirelessly or via Bluetooth!), as do other games and
productivity apps. There's even a Midi synthesizer to compose your
own ring tones. Get all this mobile madness for $149.99-$299.99,
depending upon service plan.
http://nokiausa.com/phones/3650?searchkey=av

Witnet Adds Video to VoIP Software: Korean software developer Witnet
International Friday announced that it has added video capability to
its new mobile voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) software.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6755

Broadband A Go-Go: In city after city, high-speed wireless access may
be the next Internet revolution.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jun03/bb.html

Cingular Chats Up Yahoo! Messenger: Cingular Wireless Thursday
launched a partnership that will let its subscribers with SMS-enabled
mobile phones communicate with Yahoo!
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6757


GAMING SECTION

GOT GAME?: the future of play By Andrew Phelps
Friday, May 30, 2003: A New Kind of Game: I keep reading about the
positive/negative aspect of 'online games' as if, somehow, they are
completely devoid of any relationship between any other kind of
game…
http://www.corante.com/gotgame/


SECURITY SECTION

E-mail Virus Getting 'SoBig': Anti-virus firms are reporting 30,000
interceptions in 84 countries.
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/2215451

Protecting Organizations From Prying Wi-Fi Crackers: Some tips on
what you can do to make your Wi-Fi network more secure from a man who
insures such things for a living.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,81739,00.html?nlid=MW

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Artful Displays Track Data
Technology Research News  May 27, 2003
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_052703.asp
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"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate
between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the
vital connection between them." - Leo Buscaglia
*********************************************************************
Buzzwords:
Hyperactive Academia
http://www.kairosnews.org/modules.php?
op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1925&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Social Software
http://www.headshift.com/moments/archive/sss2.html
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=11-l8riI2-9PLuhBANNF0snu3IhqIRR
http://www.ozzie.net/blog/

RSS
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http://www.downes.ca/files/RSS_Educ.htm
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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?
http://www.masie.com/researchgrants/#future
*********************************************************************
Special issue of 'Educational Technology & Society' (ISSN 1436-4522)
Call for papers: Theme "Ontologies and the Semantic Web for
E-learning"
* Important dates:
Deadlines for full papers:  December 15, 2003
Review results: March 15, 2004
Final version of papers:April 15, 2004
Publication:October 2004
Submission procedure: All submissions should be forwarded as attached
files (MS-Word or RTF) to Prof Demetrios G Sampson at Sampson@...
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Internet is dying - Prof. Lessig By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 15/05/2003 at 21:33 GMT: The Internet is dying, says Lawrence
Lessig, a law professor with a cult following amongst technophiles.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30733.html
and
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_05.shtml#001180

(NY Times requires free registration)
Sony Previews Many Talents of PlayStation: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:
May 29, 2003: TOKYO, May 28 (AP) — Sony introduced a PlayStation
2 video game console today that has a built-in DVD recorder and hard
drive for storing data, part of a strategy to combine technologies in
hopes of raising the company's brand and restoring its profitability.
The new PlayStation 2, called the PSX, will go on sale in Japan this
year and is planned for the United States and Europe early next year,
said Ken Kutaragi, Sony's executive deputy president. He declined to
say how much the console would cost.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/technology/29SONY.html?
pagewanted=print&position=

Telcos Agree to Lay Fat Pipes By Associated Press: 02:20 PM May. 29,
2003 PT: NEW YORK -- The nation's three biggest regional phone
companies announced an agreement Thursday to standardize the
construction of residential fiber-optic networks, in hopes of getting
ultra-fast Internet connections to homes more quickly and less
expensively.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59035,00.html

**Hmmm, huge HR software company…enterprise-wide integration,
hmm…
Update: PeopleSoft Swallows J.D. Edwards: The new company will have
about $2.8 billion in annual revenue, 13,000 employees and more than
11,000 customers in 150 countries.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,81732,00.html?nlid=PM
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2215341


TRENDS SECTION

Smarter, Simpler Social: An introduction to online social software
methodology Lee Bryant : Version 1.0, 18 April 2003
http://www.headshift.com/moments/archive/sss2.html

(NY Times requires free registration)
With Wireless, an English City Reaches Across Digital Divide
By MARK LANDLER: May 31, 2003: MANCHESTER, England, May 29 —
Three years ago, Shirley Hughes lived a life of dreary routine,
collecting welfare checks, bringing up two children as a single
mother, passing her evenings in front of the television. Today, she
teaches her neighbors how to use computers at a local college while
studying for a teaching certificate. At home, she skips in favor of
the Internet, which she surfs avidly, downloading patterns for
patchwork quilts, her favorite hobby.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/technology/31WIFI.html?
pagewanted=print&position=

LET'S TALK ABOUT HIGH-TECH TEAMWORK TOOLS: By Patrick Houston
GROUPWARE: What's the best tool for collaborating with coworkers? Pat
looks at one company that says the phone makes the most sense--and
explains Microsoft's upcoming, PC-centric alternatives.
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=32-Gx5IIrQC8BgStdEu3fwhUYxCNNuR

Media More Diverse? Not Really  By Joanna Glasner: 02:00 AM May. 30,
2003 PT It's easy to argue that media options are more diverse than
ever -- Americans can sit in their living room, turn on the digital
cable set-top box and flip through 500 channels, or surf through a
dozen news sites on the computer.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59015,00.html

D-Lib: Developing a Content Management System-based Web Site
This article describes the development of a content management
system(CMS)-based web site for the Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC), a UK strategic advisory body. It gives a nice
overview of the development process.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may03/kirriemuir/05kirriemuir.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

(NY Times requires free registration)
If You Behave Yourself, I'll Print You a Toy
By PETER WAYNER: May 29, 2003: VIEWED through the fantastic lens of
science fiction, three-dimensional printers seem as amazing as the
transporters in "Star Trek." In goes a digital idea of a thing and
out comes the thing itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/technology/circuits/29howw.html?
pagewanted=print&position=

Business Week: Macromedia updates e-learning tools: "The new
Authorware version, 7, includes a number of enhancements intended to
streamline the process of putting together such presentations, most
notably the ability to import files created in Microsoft's PowerPoint
software."
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/1011757.htm

Real-time apps: Collaboration only a click away: We take an in-depth
look at presence-based applications, which are starting to come
online in the enterprise. DocFinder: 6146
http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2003/0602presence.html

Web-services technology transforms staid CRM apps: And we analyze the
way Web Services are helping to create "composite" applications that
could also transform collaborative computing in the enterprise.
DocFinder: 6147
http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2003/0602composite.html

Allied Data Technologies Introduces Wristwatch with Memory Capacity:
Tornado UMW: SPIJKENISSE, NETHERLANDS - June 2, 2003 (INB) - Allied
Data's retail division TORNADO continues expanding its product
portfolio. Tornado will soon introduce its latest ultra portable
solution: the Tornado USB Memory Watch (UMW). The Tornado UMW is a
stylish designed wristwatch with built-in memory capacity.
http://www.internetnewsbureau.com/archives/2003/june03/wristwatch.html

MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Research In Motion (RIM) Monday unveiled two new BlackBerry wireless
handhelds, including its first model with a color display. http://www.
thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6762

Challenges And Opportunities For Wi-Fi: UCLA Professor Rajit Gadh
outlines the opportunities and challenges currently facing the Wi-Fi
community. Gadh oversees UCLA's wireless and mobile consortium.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,81574,00.html?nlid=MW

IDC Pictures Strong Growth For MMS: Multimedia messaging services
(MMS) that allow mobile phone subscribers to send pictures, voice
recordings and video clips to each other will enjoy strong growth
over the next few years, according to a new report from IDC.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6764

HP's Summer of the iPaq: Hewlett-Packard plans to keep busy this
summer with the release of a slew of new iPAQ Pocket PCs, including
up to five new models in the low-end h1900 series, a new mid-range
h2200 series, and an addition to its high-end h5000 series.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6758

Palm to Add Net Phoning to Wi-Fi Device - CNETNews.com
Palm is joining forces with several partners to make more services
available on its Tungsten C handheld, which comes with built-in Wi-Fi
support. Palm is looking to add Net-phoning capabilities to the
Tungsten C as well as additional security and the ability to more
easily identify and use hot spots--areas where wireless Internet
access is available through Wi-Fi.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1011216.html
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6754

Fujitsu's versatile mobile workstation: The Celsius Mobile H is the
big daddy of Fujitsu's diverse notebook line. It has features that
you just won't find in most laptops, including a workstation-class
graphics chip and a removable wireless keyboard.
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=4e-0Y95InZ1aFMui6mBnryT01qlnErR

From AvantGo:
Nokia 3650 smart phone: Jennifer Weaver: Taking snapshots with your
cell is, like, so last month. But Nokia's 3650 smart phone may
inspire a whole new fad. Its camera captures and displays movie clips
and still images, and lets you email them to friends and family. Four
MB of internal memory plus an in-box 16 MB multimedia card hold up to
1000 lower-res pictures. Best of all, My AvantGo works great on the
Symbian OS (sync wirelessly or via Bluetooth!), as do other games and
productivity apps. There's even a Midi synthesizer to compose your
own ring tones. Get all this mobile madness for $149.99-$299.99,
depending upon service plan.
http://nokiausa.com/phones/3650?searchkey=av

Witnet Adds Video to VoIP Software: Korean software developer Witnet
International Friday announced that it has added video capability to
its new mobile voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) software.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6755

Broadband A Go-Go: In city after city, high-speed wireless access may
be the next Internet revolution.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jun03/bb.html

Cingular Chats Up Yahoo! Messenger: Cingular Wireless Thursday
launched a partnership that will let its subscribers with SMS-enabled
mobile phones communicate with Yahoo!
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6757


GAMING SECTION

GOT GAME?: the future of play By Andrew Phelps
Friday, May 30, 2003: A New Kind of Game: I keep reading about the
positive/negative aspect of 'online games' as if, somehow, they are
completely devoid of any relationship between any other kind of
game…
http://www.corante.com/gotgame/


SECURITY SECTION

E-mail Virus Getting 'SoBig': Anti-virus firms are reporting 30,000
interceptions in 84 countries.
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/2215451

Protecting Organizations From Prying Wi-Fi Crackers: Some tips on
what you can do to make your Wi-Fi network more secure from a man who
insures such things for a living.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,81739,00.html?nlid=MW

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Artful Displays Track Data
Technology Research News  May 27, 2003
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_052703.asp
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6.04.2003

Musings from the Editor's Desk: First, I thought I'd drop off
a little weekend reading for you. I knew I would have to dig through
a lot since I hadn't looked in a while but I actually found a ton
of good stuff too. Second, in doing this digging, I've engaged in
the simplest form of trend tracking – which section of the
newsletter is biggest? Actually its not the overall size that matters
<no snickering> but the number, so we are looking for activity. I
have just never seen such a disparity between sections such as
Emerging Tech and Trends as exists in this issue. Jumping to
conclusions I would proffer that maybe hardware development is in one
of those underground phases while lots of new thinking about currently
deployed technology is surfacing. Hmmmm…..

Have a great weekend!
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Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the
Cyberian Frontier by EDWARD CASTRONOVA, California State University,
Fullerton - Department of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic
Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
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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?
http://www.masie.com/researchgrants/#future
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Event: Online Educa Berlin 2003
"Among this year's themes are Learning in Enterprises, E-Learning
Policies in Practice, New Roles for Teachers and Trainers and Future
Technologies for Learning. The conference will be accompanied by an
exhibition featuring many of the companies active in e-learning."
http://www.online-educa.com/en/
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NEWS

CIT's New President: Peter Jobse discusses his goals for Virginia's
Center for Innovative Technology.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49566-2003May28.html

Adopting E-Learning: Lessons From the Government: May 2003: Dorman
Woodall: The use of e-learning within government agencies is one area
where the government leads much of Corporate America in widespread
adoption, the development of innovative applications and its
incorporation as an essential component in agency-wide learning
initiatives. In fact, discussions with eight different agencies
revealed significant successes that serve as powerful examples of
e-learning's potential. In many cases, these successes
demonstrate how organizations can maximize dollar investments and
learner value by working cooperatively with other units within their
own walls, as well as with partner agencies and affiliates.
http://www.clomedia.com/content/anmviewer.asp?a=166&z=30

Video games boost visual skills: Helen R. Pilcher : The brain changes
as a result of visual training. Playing video games could be good for
your vision. A new study suggests that action games might help to
rehabilitate visually impaired patients or train military personnel.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030527/030527-5.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/science/29VIDE.html
http://wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59016,00.html

Lieberman Rolls Out Tech-Centric Economic Plan: Democratic
presidential candidate calls for additional tax cuts for tech
investments, increased IT R&D funding and accelerated broadband
deployment.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2213291

Congress Splits on Defense IT Spending: House wants $1.7 billion in
cuts to force spending below 2003 levels. Senate, Bush push for full
funding.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2212251

Powerful House Leaders Join Anti-Spam Crowd: Tauzin, Sensenbrenner
file legislation to allow consumers to opt-out of any commercial
e-mail they choose not to receive.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2211871

Unlimited cuts all staff, shuts down: Unlimited, one of the veterans
of Ireland's e-learning sector and a tenant in the Digital Hub, has
ceased trading, resulting in the loss of nearly 30 jobs.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9362121

**Does this news give anyone else a thoughtful pause?
Microsoft, AOL Plan To Forge Alliance: Microsoft Corp. Thursday
agreed to pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner Inc. to drop an
antitrust suit against the software giant, in a deal that turns
one-time rivals into partners.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55960-2003May29.html


TRENDS SECTION

Darwin: The Measure of Success: "Many corporations substantiate their
e-learning initiatives after the fact by eliminating related jobs or
reducing travel expenditures for training. Although these are viable
cost savings, they should not be the sole motivation for an
e-learning initiative. E-learning must demonstrate that employees are
learning more efficiently and retaining more of the curriculum
compared to in-class training. The bottom line is: Is e-learning
improving employee productivity?"
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/050103/learn.html

**Maybe Kevin Kelly was right…
(http://www.wired.com/wired/5.09/newrules.html?pg=6&topic=)
Rhapsody Slashes Download/Burn Price: RealOne's Rhapsody digital
raises the stakes in the online music wars by lowering its download
prices.
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/2213011

Free vs. fee: Underground still thrives: CNET News.com: Mark Ishikawa
was eating dinner at the Los Angeles Hilton a few weeks ago when he
overheard a couple discussing the virtues of downloading music using
free services like Kazaa.
http://news.com.com/2009-1027_3-1009541.html

Court divided on posting DVD codes on Internet: San Jose Mercury News
The California Supreme Court appeared divided Thursday on whether
courts can block computer users from posting on the Internet the
computer codes to copy DVD movies.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5975757.htm

So Much for the Freelance Economy:  Guru.com will join the growing
ranks of sites for freelancers that have shut down. Seems predictions
that a big portion of U.S. workers will become free agents won't pan
out. By Amit Asaravala.
http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59003,00.html

Stanford Business: Innovators Navigate Around Cliques: Looking at
entrepreneurs' social networks and their career histories to see what
the connection is to innovation, Martin Ruef, assistant professor of
strategic management, concludes that the most creative entrepreneurs
spend less time than average networking with business colleagues who
are friends and more time networking with a diverse group that
includes acquaintances and strangers. "Contrary to common assumptions,
" says Ruef, "the evidence suggests that in many cases strong social
ties do not provide significant new information, so it helps not to
be as embedded in them."
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0305/ideas_ruef_networking.
shtml

Microsoft brings Office to business IM
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=d0-vjDhQWWlQ2L40LN-Nv7u-KghkMFR

Google could be five times faster
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=e5-9Z7OQgyVlCbTOwGCKGruoTQX9KsR

WHY THE FCC IS WRONG ON MEDIA OWNERSHIP: By David Coursey
NEW MEDIA: On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission is
expected to make it easier for a handful of companies to control what
we read, watch, and listen to. I don't think that's a good thing.
Here's why.
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=08-IFoQIRjlZPe_08GeFc8eQtzSisFR

Is this the end of Netscape?
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=5d-JN-bIK0y8sp9OC3fi7Pmvn2JMVyR

This article from George Siemens:
"I've posted a new article: Why We Should Share Learning Resources.
Basic point I make is:
Foundational principle of progress: Ideas build on other ideas
To preserve this foundation, we need to promote the following
freedoms
for learning material:
Freedom to use for any purpose
Freedom to improve and extend
Freedom to build on and make new
Comments on the article are appreciated. It's not intended to be a
final draft... " is a nice critique (in part) of the current
direction of copyright creep and the danger it poses to educational
content. I agree and contend that copyright restrictions are the
greatest danger to the future educational environment we all envision.
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/why_we_should_share.htm

(NY Times requires free registration)
Home Schooling in Cyberspace By BONNIE ROTHMAN MORRIS
Some parents seeking home schooling are enrolling their children in
schools that exist only in cyberspace.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/technology/circuits/29clas.html

IBM: Tackling "messy knowledge": Combining the best of
Knowledge Management with Learning and Development
"Having knowledge on demand – precisely what's needed, when
it's needed – is critical for firms to function optimally in a
demanding business environment. The overall economic objec tive is to
get work done faster and more accurately, with individuals and groups
making decisions more quickly and with better insight. Messy
knowledge is perishable, inaccessible and not usable by the person
performing work. Organizations seeking to overcome these problems
have
often met with mixed results: out-of-date, out-of-reach, and
out-of-touch."
http://www-1.ibm.com/services/insights/ibv_messy.html

Darwin: Are You Ready for Social Software?
"Traditional software approaches the relationship of people to groups
from a top-down fashion. In the corporate setting, its hard to
imagine a person existing without being specifically assigned
membership to top-down groups: your team, your division, the budget
committee and so on. Over time, more sophisticated social software
will exploit second and third order information from such
affiliations — friends of friends; digital reputation based on
level
of interaction, rating schemes and the like."
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/050103/social.html

NY Times: Business Is Toying With a Web Tool: "The creative anarchy
of the wiki is the philosophical inverse of conventional corporate
groupware software. Groupware's highly structured rules and processes
do not always reflect the way people really work. Employees often
ignore costly corporate-sanctioned software and revert to informal
social networks — whether simply e-mail or impromptu water-cooler
discussions."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/technology/19NECO.html

From CETIS:
Three Objections to Learning Objects: A thoughtful and thorough
critique of the learning object concept. Particularly notable about
it is Norm Friesen's tracing of the learning object's provenance in
the training and military world. i.e. context is demonstrated to be
the problem at two levels: that of a learning object itself, as well
as the concept of them. Also notable is his contrast between the
specifity of the technical domain from which the 'object' concept
came, and the inherent ambiguity and vagueness of 'learning' or
'pedagogy'. The paper does not outline an alternative to replace
learning objects, however.
http://phenom.educ.ualberta.ca/~nfriesen/


EMERGING TECH SECTION

DoCoMo To Trial 4G System: Japanese cell phone operator NTT DoCoMo
has announced plans for a field trial of a fourth-generation (4G)
mobile communications system in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, where a
DoCoMo R&D center is located.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6747

Telecoms in Accord on Data Network
Three local telephone companies have settled on a common set of
standards for a new super-high-speed data network that could deliver
Internet access, telephone service and dozens of television channels.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55680-2003May29.html


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Electronic Order in the Court: By SHERRI DAY
Courtrooms have been among the last workplaces to embrace technology,
but courts are now taking their place in the wired and wireless
worlds.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/technology/circuits/29cour.html

Snap, Store, View, Hum: A Portable Memory Bank
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/technology/circuits/29flas.html

BBC: Mobile gadgets offer new lessons: "The aim of the project is to
see how mobile devices can be used to teach basic numeracy and
literacy skills to young adults that have dropped out of the
education system."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2940936.stm

CNET: Will Wi-Fi lower nurses' blood pressure?
"The devices could be a perfect fit for hospital nursing, a truly
on-the-go profession. Besides using the phones to make or receive
calls, nurses can use the high-speed connection to transfer records
when within a 300-foot radius of a Wi-Fi access point. Wi-Fi
technology lets people access a network wirelessly and share
resources on that network."
http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-1009555.html?tag=fd_top

Wired: Why Voice Over Wi-Fi Has Telcos Dialing 911
"When patients at Anne Arundel Medical Center need a dose of morphine
or an extra helping of Jell-O, they don't just buzz a nurse - they
call one directly over the hospital's Wi-Fi network. Old-style page
buttons have been retooled to ring the wireless handsets of staff
anywhere in the building..."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/start.html?pg=8

From PocketPCThoughts:
"Outlook Reminders Via SMS or Email: Posted by Ed Hansberry
There are two add-ins, priced at $7.50 each, that will either send
your Outlook reminders to you via SMS or email. The SMS application
actually just captures the reminder event in Outlook and hands it off
to another third party application that will send the message. I am
not sure how it works in Europe, but with my T-Mobile account, I can
send an SMS message via email by setting up an email account at My
T-Mobile. I already do this to get SMS/MMS messages autoforwarded by
rules when I am out. However, my solution doesn't capture reminders.
Desktop requirements are Outlook 2000, 2002 (XP) and 2003 Beta 2.
This site is run by Ricardo Silva, an MVP for Microsoft Outlook, and
contains lots of advice and add-ins for Outlook."
http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/software.htm


GAMING SECTION

Game Theory: From Hot Rods to Racehorses, It's All in the Bonding
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/technology/circuits/29game.html

Sorenstam's Got Game, in Reality and Virtually
Sid Meier, the creator of SimGolf, designed a virtual course that
pits Vijay Singh against Annika Sorenstam.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/25/weekinreview/25MIER.html


SECURITY SECTION

Kazaa to patch 'serious' vulnerability
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=a6-9zw4QCUELIh8RCWut-Ic07bYstcR


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

There's Something About Rummy: Donald Rumsfeld may have his share of
critics, but Bruce Sterling isn't one of them. The president's gnomic
futurist, the outspoken defense secretary, knows what's right for
America, Sterling writes in a commentary from Wired magazine.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/view.html?pg=4

Funny game stuff --
http://www.redvsblue.com/
**Site tip from Cub reporter Richard Boyd at 3D Solve
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Well. It seems that the rumors of my demise are exaggerated. I am
actually still here and am now getting settled in my new job. To clue
in those who don't know, I am now employed by Booz, Allen
Hamilton on the Learning Systems Services Team. What does that mean
you ask? It means I no longer provide direct support to the ADL
Initiative or the ADL Co-Lab or the Readiness and Training Office.

I do want to make it clear that I am still a huge believer in the ADL
Movement and will continue to speak good about the Initiative and
those working on it. The other thing this move means is that my
interest is now more tightly focused than ever on gaming, game-based
learning and mobile computing. I am also continuing to do my research
for Elliott Masie and will present that research at this year's
Tech Learn.

I also wanted to make you all aware of a new site/community that is
being stood up by a friend of mine some of you may know – Marc
Prensky (www.marcprensky.com - go to the site – buy the book).
The new site is www.DODGamecommunity.com .

The site intended to be a community of military game developers,
providing the resources of news, contacts, lists of *all* games in
use by the military (custom, COTS and Mods), all relevant articles,
papers, books and references, a game design advisor (with help on
theory and approaches to getting stated and problem solving), and
threaded discussion groups. It is funded as a Phase I SBIR, sponsored
by the Joint ADL Co-Lab in Orlando. It is now available for use and
feedback, although still under construction. I encourage you to check
it out, sign up, and provide any feedback that would make it more
useful to you.

Now we'll get back to our regularly scheduled coverage of the
news but two last things:

	 1. Thanks to all the folks who have stuck around during this
hiatus

	 and

	 2. My contact information: oehlert_markatbah.com or
moehlertatadelphia.net (I changed the @ to "at" so as to not
be read by email harvesting software J)

v/r
Mark Oehlert, Editor

p.s. You may get several issues in rapid succession here as I dig
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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?
http://www.masie.com/researchgrants/#future
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1st Global Conference
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Thursday 16th October - Saturday 18th October 2003
Vienna, Austria
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NEWS

Justice embraces e-learning: Program uses online storytelling and
role-playing to teach such skills as leadership and change management.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0512/mgt-learn-05-12-03.asp

Stephen Downes just posted this RSS 1.0 Modules: Learning Object
Metadata on Open Education. : (From George Siemens) Quote:"The
RSS-LOM Module provides translation from IEEE-LOM to RSS 1.0 to allow
learning object repositories to syndicate listings and descriptions of
learning objects. An RSS feed provided by a learning object
repository is harvested by a metadata repository and aggregated with
feeds from other learning object repositories. These aggregated feeds
are then made available as a searchable resource, the links provided
ultimately pointing to the learning objects provided by the original
learning object repositories."
http://www.downes.ca/xml/RSS_LOM.htm
http://www.open-education.org/

IBM buys Think tank for 'on demand'
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=4c-jxi2IZp06k6pV9eSHvfg5EG30lPR

More Students Discovering Online Learning-Dallas Morning News
About 80 percent of all U.S. colleges and universities provide some
distance learning. So far, though, only a few grant degrees based
solely on online coursework. Dallas TeleCollege, housed within the
county's community college, is one of the schools at the vanguard.
http://www.dallasnews.
com/localnews/education/stories/wfaa030513_gp_dotcomdegreepromo.
1493b95d.html

Xbox moves beyond gaming
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=80-KTKvQQ0Mie75FVBkSKgjydtEpLFR

Study Finds Wireless Content Enhances Higher Ed Learning: A study by
the Mobile Learning Consortium, a group of college-level
institutions, educational publishing and technology companies, has
found that digital content helped first-year college accounting
students to learn accounting. The study objective was to gain
insights on the effectiveness of integrating wireless technology into
the classroom.
http://www.mcgrawhill.ca/mlearning

Fujitsu PC To Provide 2,400 Tablet PCs To Visiting Nurse Service Of
New York Fujitsu PC Corporation has signed its largest Tablet PC deal
to date with Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY). The home
health care organization will equip 2,400 of its mobile caregivers
with Fujitsu Stylistic ST4000 Tablet PCs, allowing them to accurately
and efficiently take clinical notes and improve patient care.
http://www.planetpdamag.com/enews/050103f.htm


TRENDS SECTION

DHS creating cyber R & D center: Center will coordinate cybersecurity
efforts across agencies, universities and industry.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0512/web-cyber-05-14-03.asp

Army improves delivery of training materials: Army Forces Command is
deploying a new system to deliver video and training materials
securely.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0512/web-forscom-05-14-03.asp

Now It's 'E.T., IM Home' - In what may be a permanent shift, kids are
communicating online rather  than by phone. And as they get older,
when they do use the phone, it's  more likely to be a cell, and even
that may be for text messaging rather than talking. - By Ellen Edwards
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51807-2003May13.html?
referrer=email

Journal of Interactive Media in Education: An Interactive Journal for
Interactive Media: Special Issue on Reusing Online Resources (April
2003)This special issue develops a range of critical issues
highlighted in a recent book on Reusing Online Resources: www.reusing.
info (Littlejohn, Kogan Page, 2003). Invited commentaries from a
collection of international, renowned experts have been sourced, each
one critiquing a chapter and seeding the debate with key issues for
authors and others to engage with. We invite all who are working on
reusable resources, learning objects and the educational semantic web
to browse the site, and post insights
from their own work to the forum to move the debate forward: http:
//www-jime.open.ac.uk

Collaborative tool aids terror exercise: Web-based software designed
for crisis management is helping to track events during a mock
terrorist attack this week.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0512/web-attack-05-13-03.asp

Internet Users Got Game By Robyn Greenspan: Nearly as many gamers
play on their computers as they play with the PlayStation2 console,
according to research from Lucid Marketing
http://www.lucidmarketing.com

INC.: BLOGGING FOR DOLLARS: "blogging is perfect for small businesses
-- a cheap and easy way to communicate directly with customers,
partners, and clients, craft a strong, outspoken online personality,
and escape the doldrums of static homepages."
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20030501/25411-print.html

Segway inventor outlines keys to innovation: Inventor Dean Kamen
tells engineers at WinHEC in New Orleans what it takes to be
innovative, explaining why risk and failure are necessary parts of
the process.
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=7d-FFEqIDLpdoIkNORnDMb2-9LGUhyR

EMERGING TECH SECTION

Sony Developing Handheld Game System - Sony Computer Entertainment
plans to unveil a handheld portable game device next year designed to
compete head to head against Nintendo's GameBoy Advance.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52990-2003May14.html?
referrer=email

Videoconferencing for emergencies : New briefcase-size
videoconferencing units are geared for use by military personnel and
first responders.
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2003/0512/web-video-05-12-03.asp

Sony's Little Gamble - Sony Corp. is looking to expand its grasp on
the gaming market by launching a new handheld game device that's
aimed directly at the heart of Nintendo. Will the risky move pay off?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53984-2003May14.html?
referrer=email

NOT LAPTOP, NOT PDA: SHOULD YOU BUY A TWEENER?
By David Coursey
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=16-T_cjI4c1VO4uifpHiriu4HoH7XcR

Intel designs the notebook's future: A new double-jointed prototype
portable computer, to be unveiled by Intel later this year, shows how
a notebook can metamorphose from a tablet for capturing handwritten
text to a mobile entertainment or messaging console, all while
retaining a built-in keyboard. Designers in Intel's research labs
created the prototype, dubbed Florence, to illustrate the potential
for designing notebook PCs using existing components.
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=53-n86dINnqp4IKcxZCuxm8_IwfIi4R

Communications technology giant Motorola is angling to cash in on the
younger set's fascination for instant messaging with its new wireless
IMfree device.
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6666

E-paper begins a new chapter
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=76-vJf7InBp3fcnCUl_eJ7P1l-nB0rR

Read your e-mail on your PDA: If you've got lots of e-mail to keep up
with (who doesn't?), you  should manage your messages on your
handheld. Jason Parker has three apps that let you read and respond
to e-mail while you're on the go.
http://cl.com.com/Click?q=9e-tWQoQtMNJDiFE7bOatj0ZvPrBGcR

Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest mobile phone carrier, Tuesday
launched a new messaging service in connection with a newcomer to the
North American market. (InstantMessagingPlanet)
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6693

Hitachi Speeds Up Portable Hard Drives: Hardware manufacturer Hitachi
has released a new hard drive for laptops and mobile devices that it
claims will make them as fast and strong as drives found in desktop
computers. (internetnews.com)
http://www.thinkmobile.com/Content/Detail.asp?CTID=1&ID=6697

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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Opera Scores Kyocera Deal: Smartphone Edition Web browser makes it
easier for mobile phone users to surf the Internet.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,81166,00.html?nlid=MW

New Bill Would Expose Spammers to RICO Act: Florida senator proposes
tough legislation for unsolicited bulk e-mailers who are seeking
money or engaged in other illegal acts.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2206651

Proposed Spam Bill Would Favor Mass E-Mailers: Tauzin preparing
legislation to allow businesses to continue to exploit the
advertising potential of mass e-mails.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2205491

'Buffalo Spammer' Arrested: UPDATE: The notorious spammer accused of
sending more than 825 million unsolicited e-mails from illegal
EarthLink accounts is arrested and arraigned in New York.
http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/2206311
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e-Clippings 4.9.2003
Yes, I know. So I got behind. I'll give you all double refunds on
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school stuff, blog stuff...Working on the next issue now plus some
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Alright, in advance let me say this little rant has nothing to do
with e-learning or technology – but I have got to say it. I just
saw one episode each of MTV's Sorority Life (season 2) and
Fraternity
Life (season 1). I also watched part of MTV's first season of
Sorority Life. These shows are different from other reality shows
however, because they happen to be damaging something I care deeply
about – REAL fraternities and sororities. I joined my fraternity
in
1984 and it has afforded me some of the greatest opportunities of my
life and some of greatest sorrows. The groups depicted on MTV are not
REAL national fraternities or sororities they are locals and as such
have no adult supervision, not guiding national organization and this
is exactly why MTV picked them. No member of the National
Interfraternity Council or the National Panhellenic Council or the
National Pan-Hellenic Council would EVER allow their groups to be
taped for this. So now we have two groups of blatant hazing groups
who do everything wrong and foster all the attitudes I have personally
fought against for 20 years. What a load of hooey. Please don't
take these groups as representative of college Greeks.

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NEWS

JUSTICE, OPM PROJECTS WIN SHOWCASE OF EXCELLENCE AWARDS
The Department of Justice's Joint Automated Booking System and
the Office of Personnel Management's E-Training initiative today
received the Showcase of Excellence award at the FOSE 2003 conference
in Washington.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21679-1.html

RELOAD releases beta of open source Metadata editor: Wilbert Kraan,
CETIS staff April 07, 2003: One issue that keeps popping up in
debates
about learning objects is the metadata question; how are educators
supposed to make an interoperable description of a learning object
that will allow it to be found by others? The Reload elarning tool
development project decided to attack that problem before any others,
with the first results already appearing.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030407133208

SOLDIERS CAN SMS LOVED ONES FROM OVERSEAS
From an Internet-equipped computer in Iraq, a new service lets
soldiers broadcast text messages that could, at once, print out on
thousands of cell phone screens across the world.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21686-1.html

European electronic collaborative learning resource launched: Wilbert
Kraan, CETIS staff April 01, 2003: To support the growing interest in
the Communication bit of ICT in education, the EU funded ITCOLE
(Innovative Technologies for Collaborative Learning and Knowledge
Building) project opened a site that agregates practice, resources,
ideas and discussion about on-line collaborative learning. Not
surprisingly, they want you to chip in.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030401145017

BLACKBERRY GETS FIPS 140-2 NOD
Research In Motion Ltd. has announced that its Java-based BlackBerry
wireless e-mail devices have received Federal Information Processing
Standard 140-2 cryptographic validation.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21669-1.html

IEEE LTSC and ISO SC36 seek to prevent LOM split: Wilbert Kraan,
CETIS staff March 21, 2003: Standards are as much process as they are
product,and that means they need to move from one organisation to
another. Occassionally that goes wrong, with a split standard as the
imminent danger. IEEE LTSC and ISO SC36 are now working hard to
prevent that from happening to the LOM metadata standard.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030321145415

eWEEK Excellence Awards: The Winners Are In!
The judges have made their final decisions--selecting from
760 entries the products that raise the information
technology bar. Check out this year's winners and
finalists!
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eUaO0DShie0DSm0vpK0As

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McLuhan's Messages, Echoing in Iraq Coverage
By SARAH BOXER It was a cold night in the global village. The war in
Iraq was about to begin. Across the street from the Empire State
Building, in an auditorium at the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York, a celebration of Marshall McLuhan, the media
prophet of the 1960's, was also beginning. The auditorium was nearly
full.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/arts/television/03MCLU.html

Online education is key for developing nations:  Dubai |By Jay B.
Hilotin | 19-03-2003 "Just-in-time learning" through online education
is a key enabler for the Middle East and other developing nations to
raise their competitiveness in knowledge-driven global relations.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=81196

Is There a Future for Online Ed?: by: Jack M. Wilson Just a few years
ago, almost every college and university announced that it was going
online. But from Fathom and Harcourt Higher Education to Pensare,
many noble experiments are finished, and some have asked, "Is anyone
making money on online learning?" The implied answer is, "No," and
yet, several organizations have demonstrated viability, including the
University of Maryland University College's UMUC-Online, Penn
State's World Campus, and the University of Massachusetts'
UMassOnline.
http://www.universitybusiness.com/page.cfm?id=188

Academic Digital Rights: A Walk on the Creative Commons: Glenn Otis
Brown Copyright laws exist to protect the creators of artistic work,
but too often they prohibit an author's ability to share their work
on
more generous terms. With the release of its suite of licenses, the
non-profit corportation Creative Commons hopes to expand access to
high-quality content online.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7475

What Warfighters Can Teach Business Leaders
Related Story Literally from it's earliest issue, Fast Company has
looked to the best minds and most effective units in the military for
lessons about strategy, tactics, and execution that can be applied to
business. At a moment in which the attention of the world is focused
on military conflict and its aftermath, we've assembled a collection
of articles that may change how you run your company -- and shape how
you behave as a leader.
http://www.fastcompany.com/guides/bizwar.html

Infinite Messaging
Two-way text messaging, that ubiquitous medium of Web-surfing and
cell-phone-toting teens, isn't just for socializing anymore.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation50403.asp

Learning Circuits: WRITING FOR GLOBAL E-LEARNERS
"Whether you're developing distance learning for a multinational
company or communicating with global learners via email, you must
ensure that your writing is inclusive. Here are tips for making your
e-learning universal..."
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/mar2003/elearn.html

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Canvas Learning release QTI, SCORM Player and Author tools: Wilbert
Kraan, CETIS staff March 25, 2003: What's more, there's demos for
everyone and the Canvas Learner Player is free for educational usage
while the Author has a 50% introductory price. So what does the goody
bag contain? Essentially, a simple, slick-looking, accessible and low
cost question-and-test module.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030325182451

Sprint and Microsoft Combine Power of PCS VisionSM Capable Phones
with Next-Generation Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC Software:
Sprint introduces two VisionSM-Capable PCS Phones with Windows Powered
Pocket PC software featuring high-speed Web browsing, wireless email,
built-in cameras and Windows Media Player http://www.microsoft.
com/presspass/press/2003/mar03/03-17PCSPocketPhonesPR.asp

TECHSMITH REVAMPS SNAGIT AS A MICROSOFT PLUG-IN
TechSmith Corp. has introduced the latest version of SnagIt, a
screen-capture utility for Windows computers. With SnagIt 6.2, you can
place a SnagIt icon on the toolbars of Microsoft's Internet Explorer,
Windows Explorer and Office applications, which allows you to capture
a screen without leaving that program. SnagIt 6.2 costs $40; a free
30-day trial is available at TechSmith's Web site.
http://www.techsmith.com

MICROSOFT REVEALS NEW 'GREENWICH' NAME, DETAILS
(Source: IDG.net)
Microsoft further hoisted the curtain surrounding its real time
collaboration and enterprise instant messaging platform.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=796650

INTEL TO UNVEIL 'NEXT BIG THING' IN WIRELESS
(Source: Computerworld) Intel is expected to unveil plans today
for a big push into what it views as the 'next big thing' in
wireless: metropolitan-area networks with a 30-mile range.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=796630

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Remarks by Bill Gates: Mobility Developers Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana: March 19, 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2003/03-19mdc.asp

PALM'S TUNGSTEN C TO BE FIRST PALM WITH XSCALE
(Source: IDG.net) Palm's new Tungsten C handheld will be released
around the end of April as the first Palm-branded handheld to use one
of Intel's XScale processors.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=796651

Xybernaut Calls Off $50 Million IBM Deal -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59525-2003Apr8.html?
referrer=email
Fairfax-based Xybernaut Corp., unable to sell as many wearable
computers as anticipated, backed out of a deal to pay International
Business Machines Corp. $50 million to build 24,000 of its devices.
-The Washington Post

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GOT GAME?: the future of play: By Andrew Phelps
Thursday, April 3, 2003: Shall we Play a Game?
http://www.corante.com/gotgame/

More Than Just a Game, but How Close to Reality?
By AMY HARMON: April 3, 2003: CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- THE noise
level was rising, the body count was mounting and the 13 marines
sitting in front of computer screens in a dark room here seemed
briefly to have forgotten that the urban combat mission was just a
video game.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/technology/circuits/03camp.html?8cir

Think tanks for gamers: By Mark Ward Monday, 10 February, 2003, 09:49
GMT BBC News Online technology correspondent: Online communities that
band together to solve puzzles could provide clues to the next big
step in social development. It is not just many hands that make light
work. Many minds do too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/2735905.
stm

Pac-Man and the Ivory Tower: March 2003
http://www.igda.org/columns/ivorytower/

GAMEPRO ANNOUNCES ITS READERS' CHOICE AWARDS WINNERS
(Source: GamePro.com)
Thousands of GamePro's readers participated in the 2002 Readers'
Choice Awards. Winning games are announced in GamePro's May 2003
issue.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=796649

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Text message essay baffles British teacher
Monday, March 3, 2003 Posted: 10:17 AM EST (1517 GMT)
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- An English essay written by a British
teenager in text messaging short-hand has reignited concern among
teachers that literacy standards are under threat
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/03/03/offbeat.text.essay.reut/index.
html

Posted 3/31/2003 8:12 PM Updated 3/31/2003 8:06 PM 'Yo, can u plz
help
me write English?'By Steve Friess, special for USA TODAY
Carl Sharp knew there was a problem when he spotted his 15-year-old
son's summer job application: "i want 2 b a counselor because i love
2 work with kids."
http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-03-31-chat_x.htm
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e-Clippings 4.4.2003

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with
potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with
consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

Surviving is important, but thriving is elegant.
Maya Angelou
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Some quick updates from the Newsroom here at e-Clippings:

1. If you go here: http://www.masie.com/researchgrants/#future
You can take a look at the research I'll be doing on the
e-learning side of the house for the next few months (in addition to
work, school, family, sleep). If you have any thoughts on this topic
–
PLEASE- don't hesitate to email with them. I truly want to make
this report as engaging and valuable as possible – input from this
group would be a big help.

2. I will be attending the ISPI (www.ispi.org) Conference up in
Boston, Mass. –12-15 April. If any of you are headed that way,
let me know – I'd love to meet up with you!

3. This one, to me, is just stunning to see come out of GAO. This is
much overdue.
Federal Programs:  Ethnographic Studies Can Inform Agencies'
Actions.  GAO-03-455, March 2003.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-455
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Digital Games Research Association Conference 2003
4-6 November 2003
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://www.digiplay.org.uk/digracfp.php
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DUTCH P2P PLATFORM PROVIDER IS A PRANK: (Source: IDG.net) Internet
users hoping for a rush of new file-swapping services have been
tricked. A February announcement from a Dutch company promising a
platform for such services turns out to have been an April Fools' Day
joke.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=795194

CHALLENGING MODEL LAW: Academic-library groups are denouncing
copyright-protection bills that legislatures in several states are
considering. The groups say that the bills, if they became law, could
erode fair-use rights by making it illegal to use copyrighted
material in ways not expressly permitted by the copyright owners.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003040101t.htm

STUDY IN THE WAR ZONE: The Louisiana Board of Regents has created an
electronic campus for the state's military personnel who have been
called to duty so they don't fall behind on their college work during
the war in Iraq. (3/31/2003)
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/03/2003033101t.htm

(found at Stephen Downes' OLDaily)
LIKE It is in PDF format, which makes it impossible to link to
specific articles. Too bad. LIKE (Learning In a Knowledge Europe) is
one of the better e-learning newsletters I've seen, well written,
factual, and sensitive to industry trends. Check out this blunt
assessment, from page 9: "Is there a future for e-learning? Is e-
learning profitable? Such questions reveal an idea of e-learning as a
solution, a product in itself. And they contain their own response:
No - e-learning thus defined does not really have a future." By
Various Authors, March, 2003
http://www.eife-l.org/LiKE/default.htm

(found at Stephen Downes' OLDaily)
Providers Have To Start Putting Excitement Into E-learning Why did
the state of Victoria withdraw an ambitious online training program
intended to teach 55,000 teachers about harassment and related
issues? Administrators say it was due to be withdrawn at the end of
2002, but the author suggests that its withdrawal after reaching only
68 percent of its intended audience tells a different story. But what
story? Mary Bluett, the Australian Education Union's branch
president, argues that the program was unpopular because it was
generic training. "None of the examples related to education." By
Eric Wilson, The Age, March 25, 2003
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/24/1048354523149.html

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(From: the Internet Time Blog)
Transforming e-Knowledge : Last week I finished reading Transforming
e-Knowledge by Donald Norris, Jon Mason, and Paul Lefrere. This book
is a fantastic collection of stories, memes, theories, predictions,
scenarios, reference lists, and diagrams about the future of knowing.
I read the hardcopy on my travels the last couple of weeks, but the
entire book is online. For free.
Story: http://meta-time.com/blog/archives/000512.html#000512
Book: http://www.transformingeknowledge.com/

Adding Excitement To E-learning: Simulation programs ease the cost,
stress of training.  By Jennie L. Phipps
http://www.industryweek.com/CurrentArticles/Asp/articles.asp?
ArticleId=1415

(From: the Internet Time Blog)
eLearning is dead. Two weeks ago at the eLearning 2003 Conference in
Manchester, UK, I announced that eLearning was dead.
http://meta-time.com/blog/archives/000510.html#000510

The State of Digital Rights Management:Bryan Alexander reports from
the Berkeley DRM Conference
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/drm.html

WHAT'S NEXT: UTILITY COMPUTING: (Source: Darwin) Looking for a
dramatic change in the way the data center is run? You may have just
found your answer.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=795336

International Forum of Educational Technology & Society: Formal
Discussion Initiation: A theory for eLearning
http://ifets.ieee.org/discussions/discuss_march2003.html

"Somewhere a Place to Learn"   by Clive Shepherd: IT Training
Magazine:March 2003: Okay, so it's not really possible for e-
learning to take place anywhere.  Maybe the coiner of "anytime,
anywhere, anyplace" should have included "as long as you have a
computer with internet access and the anyplace is reasonably
conducive to concentration."  Given, that's not so catchy.  Clive
Shepherd dissects e-learning's trademark to find where it holds true
for effective learning.  He begins with a reminiscence of the infancy
of computer-mediated learning (the good old days of the 1990s),
discusses learner options brought on by the growth of e-learning, and
explores the pros and cons of learning at home, at the office, and in
an e-learning center.
http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/tactix/Features/aplacetolearn.htm

Dakota State U. Sells Access to Its PeopleSoft Installation for Other
Colleges' Classes: Wednesday, April 2, 2003: By FLORENCE OLSEN
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003040202t.htm

BLOGS BEGIN GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS: (Source: PC World.com) Online
journals are joining the ranks of traditional office applications.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=794692

"Designing Emotionally Sound Web-Based Instruction"   by The
Community Administration Team at Learn Scope LearnScope:February 24,
2003: It's no secret people learn in environments that nurture
learning.  When learners are afraid or uncomfortable, they become
withdrawn and the possibility for effective learning is lost.
Classroom curriculum frameworks and teachers alike have evolved to an
age of inclusive education, where every student has equal
opportunities and feels welcome to participate.  But how does this
ideology translate to e-learning?  This helpful article articulates
specific tools that should be available in any e-learning program to
ensure maximum comfort and enjoyment and minimal fear and envy.
http://www.learnscope.anta.gov.au/learnscope/golearn.asp?
Category=11&DocumentId=2815

"Designing for Learners, Designing for Users"   by David Smulders :
eLearn Magazine:February 2003: A shy person opts for an online course
so he can anonymously participate.  Someone else signs up because
she's heard about great discussions in chat rooms with people half a
world away.  But what if his "raise your hand" button malfunctions or
her class chat room is empty because no one can figure out how to
enter it?  The resulting loss of learning negates the purpose of the
course and results in frustration and distrust of online learning.
Smulders contrasts users with learners and form with content,
advocating the creation of effective user-interface design that is
sensitive to their requirements.
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?
section=3&list_item=11&page=1

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SPRINT BUILDS PRIVATE NET FOR FEDS: Closed IP network is designed for
secure communications.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110095,tk,dn040203X,00.asp

SMALLER, FASTER HARD DRIVES COMING SOON: Several advances expected
later this year, industry group says.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110107,tk,dn040203X,00.asp

ARMY BEGINS WORK ON NEW COMBAT TRAINING SIMULATION SYSTEM
The Army has awarded contracts to AT&T Government Solutions and
Science Applications International Corp. for the first phase of a
program to develop a new combat simulation training system.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21586-1.html

Paint-On Plastic Makes Cheap Displays: A research team from Germany
has developed a process for producing plastic, full-color flat screen
displays that is simpler and potentially cheaper than today's
manufacturing methods for organic light-emitting diode screens.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_040103_2.asp

MICROSOFT BOLSTERS WI-FI SECURITY IN XP; HP UNVEILS 802.11G LAPTOPS:
(Source: Computerworld) Microsoft is offering Windows XP users free
software that enhances WLAN security in the OS, and HP released
laptop computers that use the evolving 802.11g wireless
standard.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=794933

MOTOROLA CLAIMS MEMORY CHIP BREAKTHROUGH:(Source: IDG.net)
Nanotechnology may open the door to smaller,more reliable and less
power-hungry memory chips in cell phones,
network gear and other devices.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=794871

WEB CONFERENCING COMES OF AGE: (Source: PC World.com) New and
upgraded apps making keeping in touch easier than ever.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=794689

BYE-BYE, BATTERIES?: Long-lasting fuel cells favored to (eventually)
power portable devices.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110120,tk,dn040303X,00.asp

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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Army Uses Mobile Technology, Satellite Link To Track Supplies: To
keep its central asset-tracking system up to date during the war with
Iraq, the U.S. Army relies on mobile units to scan the contents of
supply convoys and transmit the information via a satellite network.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79844%2C0.html?nlid=MW

Centrino-based Tablet PCs On The Horizon: Although they have been
slow to emerge, Centrino-based Tablet PCs are heading for the market,
with early devices to be based on the 900-MHz, ultra-low-voltage
Pentium M processor.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79824%2C0.html?nlid=MW

Analyst: Mobile Computing Should Not Be Ignored: If enterprises don't
see mobile computing as being business critical, they'd better hope
they're correct in that assumption, according to one analyst.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79833%2C0.html?nlid=MW

MICROSOFT GIVES VOICE TO HANDHELDS: Windows CE--the company's
embedded OS--gets voice-over-IP support.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110122,tk,dn040303X,00.asp

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GAMING SECTION

Online Gaming Anything but Fun and Games: SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March
19, 2003 - With hundreds of millions – and eventually billions
– of dollars up for grabs, online gaming represents a budding new
industry, which is just beginning to spread its wings, reports In-
Stat/MDR. The high-tech market research finds that while online
gaming won't take over the world, even a moderate number of
gamers (such as 10% of the game consoles), playing for relatively
short periods of time (5 hours a week), would consume more than 5% of
all of the American Backbone Traffic by the end of 2003.
http://www.instat.com/press.asp?ID=576&sku=IN030683IA

JUPITER RESEARCH  REPORT – Prophet:   A report released by
research firm, Jupiter Research reveals that teenagers in households
with an annual income less than $35,000 a year spend about fifty
percent more time a week playing video games than those in with
incomes above  $74,000. The study also revealed that teenagers spend
more time watching television, listening to music and going online
than playing games - but spend more time with games than reading
books or magazines. Some other interesting factors in the report
revealed that teenagers are very budget conscience when it comes to
video games purchases and that only 8 percent think a game having
online functionality is important. The report went on to examine the
likes and dislikes of girls and came to the conclusion that girls
like games but are not being served effectively by the interactive
entertainment market.
http://www.gamespydaily.com/news/pressrelease.asp?id=1981

Bohemia Interactive Studio for some time now has been developing a
Military Grade Program based upon Operation Flashpoint Technology
called VBS1 (Virtual Battlefield System 1). Currently a special
version of VBS1 is being modified by Bohemia Interactive Studio and
US based company Coalescent Technologies Corp. for the US Marines.
This Modification of VBS1 will be used initially in the Deployable
Virtual Training Environment (DVTE) program. Marines will be using
VBS1 in December 2001 with possible expansion through 2002, 2003 and
beyond. Many other Major Military organizations around the world are
also looking closely at VBS1 for Military training purpose.
http://www.flashpoint1985.com/press/vbs1.html
VBS: http://www.virtualbattlefieldsystems.com/

Video Games – The Necessity of Incorporating Video Games as part
of Constructivist Learning BY Obe Hostetter, James Madison
University, Dept. of Educational Technology, Dr. Richard Clemens,
December 2002
http://www.game-research.com/art_games_contructivist.asp

Games Without Frontiers: 10/03/2003: By Jussi Holopainen, Nokia
Research Center Ludology (from "ludus", the Latin word for "game") is
a new emerging discipline that studies game and play activities [1].
Even though there has been quite a lot of historical, psychological,
and anthropological studies on games, they have focused on small
characteristics of games without looking for bigger patterns of
understanding (note that the mathematical 'game theory' does not have
much to say about how we, as human beings, really play games).
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,5132,00.html

Art games and Breakout: New media meets the American arcade: Tiffany
Holmes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: (presented at the
Computer Games and Digital Cultures conference in Tampere, Finland as
well as the Art Gallery, Siggraph 2002, and Crudeoils.us)
http://www.artic.edu/~tholme/artgames/

Palm faces WLAN gaming patent infringement suit: By Tony Smith
Posted: 28/03/2003 at 13:13 GMT: Palm has been hit with a law suit
claiming that the ability of its PDAs to network wirelessly with
other such devices on an ad hoc basis, in turn allowing users to
compete in multi-player games, infringes the intellectual property of
one Peer-to-Peer Systems.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/29999.html

Computer Gaming Timeline: 1889-2002
http://www.digiplay.org.uk/timeline.php

Computer Gaming Bibliography
http://www.digiplay.org.uk/books.php

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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

DVD Jon gets retrial date:  Hollywood persuades Norway to stage
hearing sequel
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30062.html

Mapping A Virtual City : What would a virtual city in cyberspace look
like? Well, a sequence of 'satellite' maps of AlphaWorld provide us
with a pretty good idea These fascinating maps show the growth of
buildings, streets, parks and gardens designed and constructed by the
citizens of the virtual world of AlphaWorld over the past five years.
The virtual cartographer responsible is Roland Vilett, the lead
programmer on the virtual world system at Activeworlds.com, which
encompasses AlphaWorld and several hundred other worlds on the
Internet (see sidebar for further details).
http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/maps_013/

the USGS Earthshots web site.
http://edc.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents

A small correction by Congressman Issa...By Guy Kewney,
Newswireless.net Posted: 02/04/2003 at 08:47 GMT: He's not going to
give up gracefully, is he? Having been exposed in a factual
inaccuracy - the GSM network isn't French, as he claimed -
Congressman Darrell Issa has removed the allegation that it is. And
then he's resorted to innuendo...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/30058.html

Today's Refdesk Link of the Day is: April Fool's Day Gallery: The
Museum of Hoaxes: Every April Fool's Day the ritual is the same.
Outrageously false stories — issued by a variety of sources such
as
corporations, non-
profit organizations, journalists, and politicians — appear in
the
media. The challenge for all of us is to sort out the April Foolery
from the weird stuff that's actually true. This site provides
information on the origin and history of April Fool's Day along with
a chronololgy and timeline of memorable hoaxes.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilframe.html

PCWORLD'S MOST POPULAR UTILITIES: (Source: PC World.com)
Ad-aware tops the list, followed by some Internet and system
utilities.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=795040

Celluloid Heroes Evolve: New filmmaking technology leads Henry
Jenkins to ask: What should be recognized as special effects, and
what's plain old good acting?
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins040403.asp

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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine, 1790 – 1869

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with
nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun, 1912 – 1977
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"The N-Gage gaming phone": Tuesday, 25 March:  I saw this
phrase in print for the first time and I just blinked. I mean, I know
about n-gage and its capabilities, etc. but something this time just
punched through that jaded techno veil – and I was looking at an
article for a GAMING PHONE! For me, it's just one of those
signposts that actually gives a feeling of the speed at which we are
traveling. Raise your hands if you were excited to get PONG. Raise
your hands if you can remember seeing your first URL and having to
launch Telnet and WinSock and Mosaic and thinking you were cool cause
you had a 14.4 modem that just SCREAMED! And then it seems like two
days later and I am reading about a gaming phone. Whoosh.

So here's to perspective:
Powers of Ten: View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the
Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders
of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the
buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in
Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size
of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the
cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe
of electrons and protons.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
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Portable computer pioneer Adam Osborne dies: A star before Gates or
Compaq
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29927.html

Obituary Adam Osborne 1939-2003: Portable Computing Pioneer
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/29921.html

Cha-Ching!!
Northern Ireland signs up HP for €107m e-learning gig: Big Deal
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29965.html

DIRTY BOMB? GRAB YOUR PDA
Terrorism survival app coming to Palm, Pocket PC handhelds.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109979,tk,dn032503X,00.asp

HHS Tests Palm PDAs For Bioterror Alerts To Doctors: The Department
of Health and Human Services plans to send bioterror alerts to 10,000
doctors nationwide using a "hot sync" network
originally set up by ePocrates to distribute drug information.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79660%2C0.html?nlid=PM

OSU inks agreement to develop, market education courses: By Mark Floyd
OSU News Service: The Oregon State University School of Education and
OSU's Extended Campus program have signed an agreement with the
Foundation for California Community Colleges to create a series of
online education courses aimed at teachers — and business
professionals who may want to occasionally teach.
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2003/03/14/news/community/friloc1
1.txt

ARMY CIO PUSHES FOR 'NETWORK-CENTRIC FORCE': (Source: IDG.net) The
U.S. Army, in the midst of a process to change to a 'network-centric,
knowledge-based force,' is fighting a war in which most of its
technologies are working correctly.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=793998

World - CNN shuts down correspondent's blog: War correspondent
Kevin Sites has shut down his independent weblog at the request of
CNN executives.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15556

COURT UPHOLDS JUNK FAX BAN, SPAM NEXT?: (Source: IDG.net) Antispam
crusaders plan to use an appeals court ruling against unsolicited
faxes last week to push harder for a U.S. federal law against
unsolicited e-mail.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=793246

Standardization Progress: A Report from IEEE LTSC Meetings
normf@... (March 22, 2003)
http://phenom.educ.ualberta.ca/n/report_22.03.03.html

Regional Info-sharing Network Takes Hold In Oregon: The state's IT
companies have teamed up with state and local agencies to deploy the
nation's first grassroots homeland security
information-sharing network.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79777%2C0.html?nlid=PM

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New Technology Breeds the 'Backpack Journalist': Armed with $15,000
in satellite phones and computers, Preston Mendenhall calls himself
a "one-man band" who writes stories, snaps photographs and shoots
video in combat zones.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22765-2003Mar25.html?
referrer=email

Journal of Digital Information: USE AND ABUSE OF REUSABLE LEARNING
OBJECTS: "Content developers have traditionally conceived content
from the point of its use. Since use is context and instruction
specific, content intended for one particular use is generally
invalid for other purposes. The reusable LO - organized content for
pedagogical purposes - is a new way of thinking about content
creation and its instructional use... Genuine reusability and optimum
functionality of a LO can be achieved only when the LO attains a high
level of abstraction. Abstraction provides the LO independence from
use and strong performative ability, enabling it to join other LOs
for instructional intentions."
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Polsani/

"A group representing college media centers is warning the U.S.
Copyright Office about a possible conflict between two federal laws,
one meant to limit electronic access to copyrighted material and the
other designed to broaden access to the same material for online
education. At issue are the Technology Education and Copyright
Harmonization Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The first
measure is known as the Teach Act and was signed into law in
November. It amended copyright law to allow college instructors to
use nondramatic works, such as news articles and novels, and portions
of dramatic works, such as movies, in online courses without paying
fees and without seeking the copyright holder's permission. ..."
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/03/2003031801t.htm

Pedantic Web or Semantic Web?: What will the semantic Web be when it
grows up? Aren't the promoters of the semantic Web really just
getting stuck on the minutia of their new toy? A recent piece in the
San Francisco Chronicle cites the lackluster reception that semantic
web concepts have had in the real world (i.e., from commercial
interests) and continues with the observation that "America
hasn't bought into Tim Berners-Lee's vision." Well, these
critics have
it half right.
http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=A240_0_1_0_C

NAVSEA'S ROI SHIP COMES IN: (Source: Computerworld) The Naval Sea
Systems Command went electronic with procurement of professional
services in 2001 and has so far seen great ROI and user approval.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=793631

**(said in a monotone, somewhat sarcastic, voice) "Look at this
incredible reasearch"
Nature: E-MAIL REVEALS REAL LEADERS: "The researchers have developed
a way to use e-mail exchanges to build a map of the structure of an
organization. The map shows the teams in which people actually work,
as opposed to those they are assigned to."
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030317/030317-5.html

Adding Excitement To E-learning: IndustryWeek Magazine: By Jennie L.
Phipps Wednesday, March 19, 2003
http://www.crmassist.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=90310&t=99

Making Sense of Self-Service E-learning Simulations: Fun or
Functional?: January 16, 2003
By: Mark W. Brodsky: e-learning Magazine
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/articleDetail.jsp?
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GAGGLE OF CONSUMER GADGETS UNVEILED: Futuristic displays, surprising
storage tools, and a truly tiny PC debut.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109940,tk,dn032503X,00.asp

Search Engine Aims for Web Logs: Feedster monitors and indexes
content posted on blogging sites. Cathleen Moore, InfoWorld.com,
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109876,tk,dn031903X,00.asp

Sony and Philips have both developed separate recording systems that
will let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a CD,
according to a report in New Scientist.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15497

NOKIA CATALYZES HANDSET EVOLUTION:Posted March 21, 2003
Nokia executives have revealed plans to deliver high-end cellular
handsets that seamlessly switch between 802.11b and public carrier
networks in an effort to transform handsets
into terminals capable of consuming composite applications. The
switching technology, expected to be deployed in handsets for beta
trials toward the end of the year, is designed to extend the reach of
enterprise applications and to create new collaboration environments.
Although the company has not yet unveiled names for the forthcoming
devices, Nokia in April will announce a set of rich
applications for vertical markets, including real estate and
transportation, executives said.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/21/12handsets_1.html

IBM DELIVERS RETAIL TOOLKIT:DEVELOPMENT: (Source: InfoWorld.com)
WebSphere Studio aimed at distributed environments.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=794080

SMART DUST: (Source: Computerworld) Mighty motes for medicine,
manufacturing, the military and more.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=793244

*Think about those e-learners in rural wherever who may now have the
chance to experiece a richer Web.
EARTHLINK OFFERS ACCELERATED DIAL-UP ACCESS: (Source: IDG.net)
EarthLink will officially launch a 'Plus' version of its Internet
access software which it says will enable
dial-up users to surf the Net at up to five-times the standard rate.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=793628

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INTEL UPDATES XSCALE PROCESSORS: (Source: PC World.com) Intel updated
its XScale line of processors with three new chips that make use of
stacked flash memory and a smaller design.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=793248

Smartphones sales climb in EMEA: Overtake PDAs
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/29922.html

The 5 forces that will shape mobile tech: David Coursey, Executive
Editor, AnchorDesk Wednesday, March 19, 2003
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2912948,00.html

Handhelds gain space: February 26/March 5, 2003: By Kimberly Patch,
Technology Research Although a keyhole is quite small, putting your
eye close to it lets you see a significant portion of a room. Being
able to move the keyhole around would widen the view.
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/022603/Handhelds_gain_space_022603.
html

OK- Anybody else want to ignore the mobile market?
North America is WLANtastic:  31m users by 2007
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/29979.html

CELL PHONES OFFER SERIOUS FUN: New handsets offer multiplayer gaming
and music apps.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109931,tk,dn032703X,00.asp

Samsung readies Nexio 'super PDA' for Europe: Palmtop-tablet cross
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29900.html

MCDONALD'S: A WI-FI KIND OF PLACE?:Wireless Supersite Editor Ross
Rubin hasn't got much appetite for McDonald's recent announcement
that it will offer Wi-Fi with its fast food: It's too noisy, too
uncomfortable (and too greasy?) for pleasant wireless surfing, he
argues. Supersite readers beg to differ; they want their McHotSpots --
  supersized.
McDonald's Wi-Fi Will Make Users Grimace:
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eUS40CdiPZ0HX60vNn0A8
McDonald's Adds WLAN Access to Its Menu:
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eUS40CdiPZ0HX60vcW0A6
Readers Want Wi-Fi in Their Combo Meals:
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eUS40CdiPZ0HX60vcX0A7

A Chip in the Hand is Worth Two in the PC: New PDA/handset processors
from Intel and National Semi are another sign that chipmakers
are exploring the mobile universe in favor of a dying PC planet.
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/2169341

Microsoft Pocket PC Toolset Gains HP Software Development Support
http://www.internetweek.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?
articleID=7900138

How you'll use the coming wireless ecosystem: Patrick Houston,
Editorial Director, AnchorDesk: Wednesday, March 19, 2003
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2912937,00.html

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SIDEBARS: Published by the Learning Resources Unit of the British
Columbia Institute of Technology to support and recognize innovative
practice in distributed learning at BCIT, and in the greater
educational community.

inSIDE out: Playing to Learn, Learning to Play, Using Games for
Learning, Games People Play at BCIT, Moves That Make You Say,
Daaaaaaym! Electronic Arts Meets BCIT

outSIDE in: Games Studies: The Journal, Game Concepts from MIT, Games
and Learning: Recent Developments, Book Review: Digital Game-Based
Learning, Zero Cost E-Learning

on the SIDE: Online Game Freebies, New Publishing Schedule

off SIDE: World War 2.5: The Game
http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/03March/index.htm

Ultimate Gamers Expo, LLC (UGE) is proud to announce the Ultimate
Gamers Expo, a high-profile consumer event launching at the Los
Angeles Convention Center, August 15-17, 2003. UGE promises three
days of Next Generation gaming demonstrations and competitions,
allowing gamers of all ages to test-drive the latest games and
platforms, participate in tournaments, purchase the latest in gaming
merchandise, attend game design workshops and enjoy live
entertainment.
http://www.ugexpo.com/home.html

OpenTV, an interactive television company, will roll out a suite of
interactive multiplayer games to viewers in the UK in May, with plans
to introduce the service at a later date in the United States, France
and South Africa.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15482

Media giant Twentieth Century Fox and video game developer THQ have
signed a multi-year agreement allowing THQ's mobile gaming
division to develop and distribute entertainment content for mobile
phones based on the enormously popular cartoon, The Simpsons.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15484

MONKEYSTONE N-GAGES RED FACTION – Prophet:  THQ Wireless
announced that it has signed a deal with John Romero and Tom Hall's
company, Monkeystone Games, to develop Red Faction for the Nokia N-
Gage hand-held gaming system. The game will follow the storyline of
the original - players take on the role of Parker, a worker in a Mars
mining colony run by the Ultor Corporation. Having had enough of the
appalling working conditions and abuse of their bosses Parker and
comrades stage an armed revolt against the corporation. Players will
battle corporate forces through subterranean mines, in the high tech
laboratories of the Ultor Corporation and in satellites orbiting
above the planet Mars - all the while seeking to find the source of a
mysterious virus that plagues the mines of Mars. No details on when
the game will be released.
THQ Wireless: http://www.thqwireless.com/

Video-Game Firm Mythic Gets Venture Capital:Fairfax-based video-game
developer Mythic Entertainment Inc. announced Monday that it has
received a $32 million investment from Boston-based venture firm TA
Associates. -The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21367-2003Mar24.html?
referrer=email

Building the Ultimate Rig -- on a Budget!: Hardware: Last year, we
told you how to build the ultimate gaming rig - the best money could
buy. But some people don't have that much pocket change. We take
another look at how to build your rig, but this time we take your
funds into account!
http://www.gamespy.com/hardware/march03/bgm/

Just Chilling With Curt Schilling: Interview: We chat with the cover
boy of High Heat 2004. And yes, he does play EQ!
http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/march03/schilling/

My Street: Games in a Game: Review: Try mini-games and an online
experience to build a community experience.
http://www.gamespy.com/reviews/march03/mystreetps2/

DELTA FORCE - BLACK HAWK DOWN SHIPS – Prophet: NovaLogic's first-
person shooter for the PC, Delta Force - Black Hawk Down, has shipped
and will be in stores shortly, according to this press release issued
today. Set in Somalia in 1993 during the Operation Restore Hope and
Task Force Ranger military campaigns, Delta Force - Black Hawk Down
lets players follow members of the elite Delta Force, US Army Rangers
and 10th Mountain Division as they participate in a number of
dangerous missions against the oppressive Somali warlords in and
around Mogadishu. NovaLogic says that it spent months researching the
history of the conflict, and worked closely with former Special
Forces Operatives, including two who served in Somalia in 1993. Look
for the game to appear in stores beginning today, with widespread
availability later this week.
Delta Force - Black Hawk Down: http://www.novalogic.com/
press release: http://www.gamespydaily.com/news/pressrelease.asp?
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PRODUCT FLAWS LEAKED ONLINE: Internal CERT e-mail message detailing
security problems is posted online.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109958,tk,dn032503X,00.asp

NEW IIS EXPLOIT COULD BE ONE OF MANY: (Source: IDG.net):Just one week
after Microsoft alerted the public to a serious security
vulnerability in a component of Windows 2000, a researcher has posted
code to exploit that vulnerability.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=793365

WINDOWS FLAW COULD ALLOW DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS: (Source:
ITworld.com) A security bug in Windows NT 4, 2000 and XP
can expose computers to a denial of service attack.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=794006

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Best War Blogs from Forbes.com --
http://www.forbes.com/2003/03/20/cx_ah_0320warblogs.html

elasticspace:Reading: Essential Design Reading: The following books
cover many disciplines, from Interaction and Visual Design to
Filmmaking to Architecture, but all relate loosely to the various
processes, ideologies, visions and practicalities of Experience
Design.
http://www.elasticspace.com/reading/

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We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle, 384 - 322 BC

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad
principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780 - 1832

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
Robert Edward Lee, 1807 - 1870

A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create
conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the
dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies
leaves us no choice.
Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826

There is many a boy here who looks on war as all glory, but, boys,
it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations to
come.
William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820 - 1891
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Microsoft Warns Of 'Critical' Flaw In Most Versions Of Windows: The
vulnerability affects all supported versions of the Windows
operating system, including Windows 98, 98 Second Edition, ME, NT
4.0, 2000 and XP, the company said.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79521%2C0.html?
nlid=SEC

CYNTHIA L. WEBB'S FILTER:  The Total Info War : High-tech weaponry,
sophisticated satellite communications, advanced  psychological
operations, rapid-delivery news and opinion via the Web
-- the Iraq conflict is the world's first total information war.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61108-2003Mar20.html?
referrer=email

Bill Gates and Microsoft's Mobile Computing Manifesto
Updated Thursday, March 20, 2003, 8:15 AM EST
By Christina Torode and Maria Lingblom, CRN
http://www.internetweek.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?
articleID=7900087

"The RoboDemo eLearning Edition provides all of the powerful
features that make RoboDemo the best-selling tutorial software,
combined with SCORM / AICC compliance, quizzing with scoring,
interactivity, and branching features. This enables you to provide
your students with incredibly effective online lessons."
http://www.ehelp.com/products/robodemo/elearning.asp

**My alma mater! Go Beavers!
OSU inks agreement to develop, market education courses: By Mark
Floyd OSU News Service: The Oregon State University School of
Education  and OSU's Extended Campus program have signed an
agreement with the  Foundation for California Community Colleges to
create a series of online education courses aimed at teachers —
and business professionals who may want to occasionally teach.
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2003/03/14/news/community/friloc
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Workforce: MAKING E-LEARNING MORE THAN "PIXIE DUST"
"E-learning can be a flexible and cost-effective alternative to
classroom training, but it can also be a colossal waste of time and
money if not implemented correctly. The reasons why some e-learning
projects go down in flames while others flourish are varied. There
are those who attribute the problems to lack of employee motivation.
Others point to poor course marketing, or training time
restrictions, or the human fear of unfamiliar learning
environments... Three organizations show how to do it right."
http://www.workforce.com/section/11/feature/23/41/49/index.html

Microsoft Pushes Collaboration In Business Apps: The company this
week announced a new portal interface for its products and touted
upcoming technologies for its Microsoft Business Network Web
services-based collaboration framework.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79542%2C0.html?nlid=PM

Tactix: SOMEWHERE A PLACE TO LEARN: "For many learners, neither the
desktop nor the home is a suitable base for e-learning. Perhaps you
don't work with a desktop PC or find the office environment too
intrusive. Perhaps you don't have a PC at home or struggle to
compete for access with other family members. The answer is a tailor-
made self-study environment – the learning centre."
http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/tactix/Features/aplacetolearn.htm

WEB NEWS KEEPS PACE WITH FAST-MOVING IRAQ SITUATION: (Source:
IDG.net)
The Net has again proved to be a mainstream medium for instant
coverage of major news events, with online papers in many countries
posting minute-by-minute updates of the Iraq war.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=792537

'Digital Divide' Shrinks Among Children – Study: The "digital
divide" between rich and poor children in the United  States is
rapidly shrinking as youngsters of all income levels and
ethnic groups increasingly use the Internet, a report released on
Wednesday said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53259-2003Mar19.html?
referrer=email

WHEN TIME IS MONEY: Real-time performance measurement can be a big
advantage for many business processes. April 5, 2003 Cover Story The
two most compelling trends in business intelligence (BI) are
business performance management (BPM) and real-time data warehousing:
BPM is gaining momentum as businesses become more focused on the
bottom line and the cost and benefit of every function. At the same
time, the pace of business is speeding up as customer demands become
more intense and competitors move quicker than ever to meet their
needs.
http://news.intelligententerprise.com/cgi-
bin4/flo/y/eLHT0EWnFk0CsT0BuYB0Ak

On the Backs of Ants: New networks mimic the behavior of insects and
bacteria.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_patch031903.asp

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*Shocking! ;-)
World - ISP P2P-blocking tactics defeated Designers of P2P network
software defeat attempts by ISPs to block them as fast as the
service providers devise new methods to do so.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15479

SEARCH ENGINE AIMS FOR WEB LOGS: Feedster monitors and indexes
content posted on blogging sites.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109876,tk,dn031903X,00.asp

World - 100 hour music CDs incur wrath of music industry Sony and
Philips have both developed separate recording systems that will let
people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a CD.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15497

CeBIT 2003 – where technology meets eurotrash The latest gadgets,
cinematic sales pitches, grown men dressed up as robots and women
dressed in – well, not very much actually… It can only
mean the world's largest technology show has rolled into Hannover
again.
http://www.europemedia.net/showfeature.asp?ArticleID=15411

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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Ireland - Irish Parliament Wi-Fi hot-spot?: The Office of Public
Works and the Houses of the Oireachtas are currently discussing
plans that would provide TDs and Senators with
mobile internet access to their laptops.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15493

NOKIA SOFTWARE TO TACKLE CORPORATE APPS ACCESS: Posted March 18, 2003
NEW ORLEANS -- Mobile users will be able to access corporate e-mail,
calendars, phone directories and other applications from mobile
phones and other devices using software introduced Tuesday by Nokia.
at the CTIA Wireless trade show here. Nokia announced that it will
sell the software, called Nokia One, to carriers in the Americas who
will use it to provide a service to business customers. The
offering, available to carriers now, is part of Nokia's strategy to
provide technology for advanced services in an open, interoperable
technology environment.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/18/HNmobileapps_1.html

How you'll use the coming wireless ecosystem: Patrick Houston,
Editorial Director, AnchorDesk Wednesday, March 19, 2003
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2912937,00.html

The 5 forces that will shape mobile tech: David Coursey, Executive
Editor, AnchorDesk Wednesday, March 19, 2003
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2912948,00.html

QUALCOMM EXTENDS BREW TO DOWNLOAD PALMOS APPS: Posted March 18, 2003
NEW ORLEANS -- Qualcomm's Brew software download system will be
extended to support wireless downloads to converged phone-organizer
devices based on PalmSource'sPalmOS platform, Qualcomm said Tuesday.
Using client software from Qualcomm, mobile operators can extend the
Brew system from downloads to conventional mobile phones to support
downloads of PalmOS applications to a PalmOS-based PDA-phone, said
Paul Jacobs, president of San Diego-based Qualcomm Wireless &
Internet Group, at a press conference here at the CTIA Wireless
trade show.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/18/HNpalmdownload_1.html

WIRELESS PDAS OFFER SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE: New devices debut from
Samsung, Hitachi, Sharp, and RIM.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109851,tk,dn031803X,00.asp

WHO WILL DELIVER THE WIRELESS FUTURE?: CTIA keynote speeches collide
on future of wireless connectivity.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109870,tk,dn031803X,00.asp

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GAMING SECTION

World - Mobile Simpsons: Bart, Ned Flanders and Dr. Nick are coming
to a mobile near you.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15484

United Kingdom - OpenTV rolls out interactive multiplayer games
Initially three multiplayer games will be rolled out on OpenTV's
interactive games channel, PlayJam.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15482

CRM Assist: ADDING EXCITEMENT TO E-LEARNING: "Fun and employee
training aren't usually words that companies use in the same
sentence. In fact, much of e-learning is e-boring, but several
computer training companies are aiming to lighten up the learning
process with games and simulations that are anything but dull..."
http://www.crmassist.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=90310&t=99

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SECURITY SECTION

Latest Windows 2000 Patch Can Lock System: The latest patch
conflicts with earlier security fixes released by Microsoft and can
leave some Windows 2000 systems unable to boot.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79504%2C0.html?
nlid=SEC

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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

STUDY ANSWERS: 'WHY AM I GETTING ALL THIS SPAM?' (Source: IDG.net)
It's easy to fool e-mail harvesting software, even though the
primary source for spammers' e-mail lists are e-mail addresses
listed on public Web sites.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=792492

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Sylvan Learning to Focus on Private and Online Universities : Sylvan
Learning Systems Inc, an educational service firm, said on Monday it
will divest its K-12 education operating units in a deal
valued at up to $300 million as it moves to focus on post-secondary
education.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9433-2003Mar11.html?
referrer=email

LEARNING IN RIVER CITY: A current NSF project aims to find an
engaging ways to teach science,drawing on curiosity and play. The
twist is that this learning goes on in "multi-user virtual
environment experiential simulator" (MUVEES), created using the same
technology used to design popular online fantasy games. Source:
Harvard University's Graduate School of Education
http://www.virtual.gmu.edu/muvees/index.htm

NEW HIGH SCHOOL COMES WITH STUDENT LAPTOPS: Students and teachers at
San Jose's new Evergreen Valley High School each have their own
laptop computer with wireless Internet access. With such ready one-to-
one access, Evergreen Valley is itself a lab where educators can
learn about the potential of this enriched learning environment.
Source: The Mercury News
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/4662002.htm

Educause, MERLOT Form Alliance on E-Learning: The National Learning
Infrastructure Initiative (NLII), a program of  Educause, and the
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
(MERLOT) formed an alliance to share information and to develop joint
programs that advance online learning. The alliance will support
national and campus-based initiatives in faculty development,
technology use in teaching and learning, shared learning
tools, and online community facilitation. Educause Vice President
Carole Barone,  who leads the NLII, said, "This alliance will result
in an extension of  expertise and focused action plans between two
programs singularly  dedicated to the transformative role that
technology plays in education."
http://www.educause.edu/

"Scotland's E-Learning Comes of Age":The Guardian, March 4, 2003
Primary students in Edinburgh will have much more pleasant
experiences on their first days of high school thanks to an e-
learning program entitled Flexible Learning in the Community, or
FLiC, which facilitates taking virtual tours of city high schools and
asking questions about them.  Enthusiastic teachers plan on using
video conferencing for modern language lessons and the web space for
distributing and receiving assignments, both included in the
program's platform.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,907223,00.html

"Country Watch:  Japan Stirs up its Skills Base":by Tristan Donovan
IT Training Magazine, March 2003
http://www.train-net.co.uk/news/full_news.cfm?ID=4011

"Toward a Smarter Organization": by Tom Kelly and Nader Najiani
Chief Learning Officer Magazine, March 2003: Kelly and Najiani
present their productivity pyramid which consists of e-communication,
e-training, and e-assessment.
http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_col_pyramid.asp?
articleid=123&zoneid=96

TECHNOLOGY LITERACY FOR THE UNDER-8 SET: For more than four years,
the Montgomery County Maryland schools have used a carefully planned
program to promote technology literacy in the earliest grades. The
Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project helps school teams
integrate technology into instruction.
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/

Tech Wars: P-to-P Friends, Foes Struggle: Arms battle escalates
between P-to-P piracy and copyright-protection efforts.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109816,00.asp

Norway - Opera Internet browser meets with success on campus: The
Norwegian alternative Internet browser is releasing its 7.03 version
for Windows this week, with German and Japanese language support.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15374

Spam's Cost Escalates: The flood of unsolicited messages sent over
the Internet is growing so fast that spam may soon account for half
of all U.S. e-mail traffic, making it an increasing drain on
corporate budgets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17754-2003Mar12.html?
referrer=email

Military Transformation:  Progress and Challenges for DOD's Advanced
Distributed Learning Programs.  GAO-03-393, February 28.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-393
http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d03393high.pdf  Highlights

TOSHIBA PROTOTYPES METHANOL FUEL CELL FOR LAPTOPS: Posted March 05,
2003 05:12 Pacific Time: Toshiba has developed a prototype direct
methanol fuel cell (DMFC) that it says will end the need for
rechargeable batteries on portable PCs. The new fuel cell has an
average output of 12 watts and a maximum output of 20 watts, and
gives about five hours of operation with 50 milliliters of fuel,
Toshiba said in a statement Wednesday. It runs on replaceable methanol
cartridges, Toshiba said.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/05/HNfuelcell_1.html
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TRENDS SECTION

**Didn't know if you knew BUT, WIRED magazine makes all of it
print content available online – just not all at the same time.
The link below is to the page where they will be posting all the
content from this – their 10th anniversary issue. Check back
often – much good stuff. I don't kow if you read WIRED but I
remember
when I saw my first issue of WIRED that this would be the Life
Magazine for my generation and so far it has been.
The Way We Were
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/

U.S. Navy Formalizes XML Management: The U.S. Navy is setting the
standard for managing the use of XML across an enterprise with more
than 500,000 IT users. And the Air Force may soon follow suit.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79348%2C0.html?nlid=PM

Last week Microsoft rolled out details on its digital rights
management system. According to our Microsoft Watch editor Mary Jo
Foley, you should be afraid, very afraid. It's not
the panacea you might have thought -- instead it's yet another way
for Microsoft to bind you and your company to its products.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eT740CdiPZ0HX60uoP0Ag

Creating a Culture of Ideas: Nicholas Negroponte says expertise is
overrated. To build a nation of innovators, we should focus on youth,
diversity, and collaboration.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/negroponte0203.asp

Science Fiction and Smart Mobs: Dystopian visions of the future
explore the power of virtual communities.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins013103.asp

10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World: Technology
Review identifies the developments that will dramatically affect the
way we live and work—and profiles the leading innovators behind
them.
http://www.technologyreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forumid=169

Net Has Few Degrees of Separation
Researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel have found that the
average number of connections needed to get from one point to another
in real-world networks like the Internet and social networks is
smaller than the number needed for randomly-connected networks.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_030603_2.asp

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Review: Hands On With Valence's N-Charge Battery: Got a laptop?
Looking for extra juice? If 10 hours on one charge sounds good, the N-
Charge might be worth the cost.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79373%2C0.html?nlid=MW

Tablet PC Sales Robust, Growth Seen in 2003 –Report: Reuters
Friday, March 14, 2003; 4:19 PM, SEATTLE (Reuters) - Shipment of
Tablet PCs, personal computers that can be operated with a pen,
reached 72,000 units in the last three months of 2002 and is expected
to keep growing this year, technology industry research IDC said on
Friday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26275-2003Mar14.html

First Tests: Intel's Centrino: Notebooks gain speed, battery life
with new mobile technology.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109606,00.asp

WI-FI GADGETS: WILL THEY CHANGE YOUR LIFE?: New consumer electronics
embrace wireless nets, versatile tasks.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109590,tk,dn031403X,00.asp

Nokia, Wi-Fi And Chips In Your Clothes: It seems like everyone is
launching Wi-Fi clouds. Can m-commerce be far behind? We take a look
at the news of these launches, a plan by clothing makers to weave
chips into their offerings and Nokia's plan to offer even more phones
that take photos.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79335%2C0.html?nlid=MW

FILTERING THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL: (Source: IDG.net) An e-mail
scanning technique that sifts through e-mail messages for the
characteristics and behaviors that are unique to spam messages may
help reduce inbox weeds.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=791430

MEMORY CARDS GET SMALLER, FASTER, CHEAPER: New cards offer more
storage (up to 4GB), at the lowest prices yet.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109798,tk,dn031303X,00.asp

TABLET PC TO LEARN MORE LANGUAGES: Posted March 12, 2003 6:25 AM
Pacific Time Microsoft is working on software that will add basic
support for eight more languages to its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
operating system, it said Wednesday. The Multilingual User Interface
& Recognizer Pack, due out in July, will allow users to switch the
language of the user interface to Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian,
Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish or Swedish, Microsoft said in a
statement released at the CeBIT technology trade show here. The user
interface includes help files and dialog boxes in the operating
system.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/12/HNlanguages_1.html

Building Virtual Reality: Imagine a world where you could float to
distant lands, find friends with the click of a button and build
complex objects like houses instantaneously. Several several
companies are building suchworlds—where else?—in cyberspace.
http://www.technologyreview.com/offthewire/3001_912003_3.asp

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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

Save PDAs by Making Them More Fun
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,47952,00.html?ref=hpsmall

Reg Kit Watch: For starters, Samsung's Palm OS smartphone, Time's
Tablet PC
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29735.html

Handhelds gain space: Handheld computers are convenient and are
quickly getting more powerful, but you can't get around that small
screen. You can, however get the screen around large documents. The
trick is being able to scroll by moving the device around in the
space surrounding you.
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/022603/Handhelds_gain_space_022603.
html

West Point learns wireless lessons: The U.S. Military Academy at West
Point is deploying an 802.11a, 54M bit/sec wireless LAN as part of a
new strategy to create a much more interactive classroom.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0224westpoint.html

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GAMING SECTION

New Games: Action Aplenty, Less Gore: Up-close animals, runaway
lawnmowers, bridge-building, and more await.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109785,00.asp

ARMY NATIONAL GUARD GETS GAME – Prophet: While perusing the
official site for Rival Interactive we came across a pop-up ad for a
game they apparently made for the U.S. Army National Guard called
Guard Force. Unlike the US Army's game, Guard Force isn't readily
available for download - in order to get it you have to call your
local recruiter. The game has been available since December
2002.Here's a description of the game from the official site: Guard
Force is a real-time strategy game utilizing today's modern
military
units including M1A1 tanks and M2 Bradley's. Guard Force contains six
unique missions that take place in graphically rich surroundings
including snow covered mountains and lush jungles. Guard Force puts
you in command. Take control of your forces and engage in covert
assaults, counter-insurgency, and rescue missions.
Rival Interactive: http://www.rivalinteractive.com
Guard Force: http://www.1-800-go-guard.com/guardforce/index.asp

Tools of the Trade: What You Need:   Hardware: We help gamers put
together the ultimate kit upkeep on their machines.
http://www.gamespy.com/hardware/march03/toolkit/

Nintendo Star Speaks Out On Future: Can I just say I love Nintendo?
Even though my Xbox looks better, I find myself bringing out the N64
to treat my three year old when he's bored. I'm just itching to get
my hands on the GameCube and the latest Zelda game, and the new
GameBoy looks great, too. So I was excited to see that we managed to
get some face time with Shigeru Miyamoto --probably the greatest game
designer ever. Even if you've only ever played Donkey Kong or Super
Mario, you'll want to see what this truly innovative pioneer has to
say.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eUDs0CdiPZ0HX60uxe0AT
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SECURITY SECTION

New Worm Targets Weak Windows Passwords: Deloder installs a backdoor
program on PCs with easy-to-guess  passwords.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109750,00.asp

E-mail Scams Continue To Target PayPal Users: Scam artists are again
trying to steal users' personal data, including their names,
addresses and credit card information
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C79222%2C0.html?nlid=SEC
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Today's Refdesk Link of the Day is: Book Finder
at: http://www.bookfinder.com/

200 Web Sites Are Guaranteed to Please. With Cheese!
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eUIf0CdiPZ0HX60u620AO

The New Military-Industrial Complex
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,47023,00.html?nl=whn

  Salary Survey 2003: Who's Making What
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,47224,00.html?nl=whn

  Employment Outlook 2003: What Are You Worth?
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,47135,00.html?nl=whn

Information Technology Training:  Practices of Leading
Private-Sector Companies.  GAO-03-390, January 31.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-390
http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d03390high.pdf   Highlights

Total Poindexter Awareness tech spooks - a Who's Who :  Weren't we
not supposed to know this?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29530.html

The US M1A2 Abrams, and war as a video game: First test of the
digitized battlespace looms...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29553.html

The Military's Silicon Revolution: As the U.S. military is poised to
go to war against Iraq, journalists getting sneak previews at how
military technology has improved since the last time Americans
prepared to fight in the Middle East.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50562-2003Mar6.html?
referrer=email

PocketMusic is a freeware MP3 player for Pocket PC that plays MP3
files from any folder on your Pocket PC. It features Winamp skins
support, various presets, mappable hardware buttons, an option to
edit ID3 tags, and a playlist organizer, along with a 10-band
equalizer.
www.pocketmind.com/pocketmusic.htm

Instant Messaging: Instant messaging has evolved into an essential
workplace tool. We look at how one company uses it to boost
productivity.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eTuy0CdiPZ0Eva0uMy0AA

Product Guide: Instant Messaging Software: Check out our reviews of
other instant messaging software.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eTuy0CdiPZ0Eva0uMz0AB

SXSW: 2003 SXSW WEB AWARDS WINNERS
http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners/

Harvard Medical School: EVOLVING A MOB: WIRELESS COMMUNITIES OF
PRACTICE: "Based on experiences with Hiptop Nation, it appears that
by having ubiquitous mobile data communication devices and a
successful communal blog, it is possible to create an ideal
environment within which a smart mob can grow into a goal-oriented
mobile community of practice. Communal blogs play a critical role in
the creation of three essential elements of community: the
establishment of social capital, the creation of weak ties that
foster creativity, and the formation of a sense of "place" within
which everything can happen. The final crucial ingredient is a
complex goal."
[Note: PDF, 170Kb]
http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/lester_hci_2003.pdf

Business 2.0: SHARING THE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE
"There are dozens of companies designing tools that extract knowledge
from individual employees and make it available to the rest of the
corporation. A few weeks ago, at Demo 2003, I saw three of these
companies, each of which takes a fundamentally different approach to
the problem."
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,47805,00.html
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Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that's the stuff
life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must
regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
John Milton, 1608 - 1674
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I checked the other day and I actually have almost 6 GBs of music on
my laptop. Geez. Anyway, some days I want to burn a new mix cd but
just can't seem to figure out where to start. Well now there is
help for and for tohers similarly afflicted:
Art of the Mix
http://www.artofthemix.org/
is a site dedicated to exactly to what you think- great mixes. Search
by song or artist find your target mood and chances are someone else
has already been the prgram director for the perfect CD. Nice.

more coolness of content:
Henry Jenkins
http://web.mit.edu/21fms/www/faculty/henry3/

Jesper Juul
http://www.jesperjuul.dk/text/

…and Mark wishes he were going to: http://www.gdconf.com/ and
http://www.gdcmobile.com/  - since I'm out anyway, I'll just
swing
by http://www.e3expo.com/.

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Western Governors U. Finally Wins Regional Accreditation: Wednesday,
February 26, 2003: By DAN CARNEVALE: Western Governors University, a
virtual institution, was granted regional accreditation on Tuesday by
a group of four accrediting agencies. Officials at the university
believe the news will legitimize distance education and
competency-based education in the eyes of other institutions.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003022601t.htm

Saba donates free SCORM testing tool to community.: Wilbert Kraan,
CETIS staff March 06, 2003 : Now this is the sort of thing that
benefits everyone. Saba's decision to release the SCORM Detective
tool basically means three things: it demonstrates industry support
for standards in general -and those of specific players in
particular!- it directly helps achieve interoperability and promotes
understanding of the specs in the community too.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030306181724

CTF Launches Publication to Examine E-Learning: The Canadian
Teachers' Federation recently launched a new publication called
"Virtual Education, Real Educators: Issues in Online Learning," which
probes issues related to e-learning and offers guidelines to inform
policy development and technology implementation in Canadian schools.
"This publication is intended to assist teachers to critically
examine the claims for online education in the context of their own
classrooms and profession," says CTF President Doug Willard.
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/March2003/04/c6844.html

Education Group Wants Distance-Education Restrictions to Be Relaxed
Permanently Thursday, February 27, 2003: By DAN CARNEVALE:
Washington: The American Council on Education is lobbying Congress to
let the Department of Education decide which institutions can ignore
distance-learning rules, even as lawmakers consider weakening one of
the regulations instead. But officials at the council argue that
their proposal is the better option for expanding access to online
education while maintaining protections against possible fraud and
abuse.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003022702t.htm

The New Military-Industrial Complex: To arm for digital-age war, the
Pentagon has turned to a new generation of defense contractors. The
hardware is impressive. It's also deadly.
By Ian Mount, David H. Freedman, Matthew Maier, March 2003 Issue
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,47023,00.html?ref=bonus

Thinking Outside the Tank: Calif.'s Institute for Creative
Technologies Puts Tinseltown Talent to Work on Military Defense: By
Sharon Waxman: Washington Post Staff Writer: Friday, March 7, 2003;
Page C01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54294-2003Mar6.html

Providing the Technology Vision: Federal Government's Chief
Information Officers at Center of E-Gov Revolution: By Cynthia L.
Webb: washingtonpost.com Staff Writer: Thursday, March 6, 2003; 12:00
AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47136-2003Mar5.html
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TRENDS SECTION

"Guided Discovery Teaching Methods and Reusable Learning Objects"  by
Kim Ruyle and Peder Jacobsen: Kim Ruyle, a Masie CONSORTIUM
colleague, teams up with Peder Jacobsen to write part 1 of an
interesting, intensive, and highly useful case study. It details the
e-learning strategy Deere & Company implemented when senior
management shifted its strategic focus to increased Shareholder Value
Added (SVA).  The crucial need for employees to understand SVA
fundamentals called for an innovative, learner-centered plan.  Ruyle
and Jacobsen articulate two of the plan's goals and their processes
in achieving them while making headway in the world of developing
truly reusable learning objects. http://www.elearn
ingguild.com/pdf/2/020303DEV-H.pdf

(NY Times requires free registration)
The Internet as Jukebox, at a Price: March 6, 2003: By DAVID POGUE
Befuddlement (n.): 1. Confusion resulting from failure to understand.
2. Loss of sense of direction, position, or relationship with one's
surroundings. 3. The state of the recording industry as it tries to
sell music on the Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/technology/circuits/06stat.html

U. of California International-Studies Program Offers Free
Peer-Reviewed Articles Online By SCOTT CARLSON: An
international-studies division at the University of California at
Berkeley has created a new online- publication program that will
offer peer-reviewed academic articles to the public free through a
Web site.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/03/2003030401t.htm

Q&A With Diana Laurillard: By Lisa Neal, Editor-In-Chief, eLearn
Magazine, & Managing Consultant, EDS Learning Solutions
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?arti
cle_pk=6442&page_number_nb=2&title=FEATURE%20STORY

Toward a Smarter Organization: "A comprehensive approach to learning
with an emphasis on productivity should include specific elements to
address all professional development aspects for a workforce. We
refer to the model as a productivity pyramid, which includes
e-communication, e-training and e-assessment. Collectively, these
three components nurture a system that allows organizational
competence and workforce output to be measured and enhanced."
http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_col_
pyramid.asp?articleid=123&zoneid=96

British Girl Baffles Teacher with SMS Essay: Sun Mar 2, 9:14 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - An English essay written by a British teenager in
text messaging short-hand has reignited concern among teachers that
literacy standards are under threat.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=5
82&e=1&cid=582&u=/nm/20030303/wr_nm/odd_britain_texting_dc

A New Set of Social Rules for a Newly Wireless Society: Mobile media
are bringing sweeping changes to how we coordinate, communicate, and
share information. Mizuko Ito Posted: 2003-02-14
http://www.ojr.org/japan/wireless/1043770650.php

Toward a Smarter Organization: March 2003  - Tom Kelly and Nader
Najiani Internet learning, or e-learning, will remain a key means for
achieving productivity gains in organizations. A simplistic view,
however, is not only misleading but also costly. A comprehensive
approach to learning with an emphasis on productivity should include
specific elements to address all professional development aspects for
a workforce. We refer to the model as a productivity pyramid, which
includes e-communication, e-training and e- assessment.
http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_col_
pyramid.asp?articleid=123&zoneid=96

Learning in the Large Enterprise: Centralized vs. Decentralized:
March 2003 - Joe Ellis and Todd Mauldin: The debate over the
centralization versus decentralization of operations within a large
enterprise is a never-ending one. It is an age-old battle of
standardization versus autonomy, corporate efficiency versus local
effectiveness and pressure on costs and resources versus
accommodation of specific local needs. A popular theory states that
organizations vacillate between a strong centralization philosophy
and a strong decentralization philosophy in roughly three-year cycles.
http://www.clomedia.com/content/templates/clo_feat
ure.asp?articleid=128&zoneid=30

"E-Learning ROI:  How to Build Your Business Case"  by Gili Gordon
Feeling pressure for results but confused about how to prove them?
Gili Gordon understands. The problem, he thinks, is in the roots.  He
provides innovative guidelines for creating a "pilot" e-learning
project as a model for measuring the ever-elusive e-learning ROI.  He
thinks ROI needs a new definition for e-learning, one which
encompasses all of its measurable components, and details a plan for
applying the six steps of the 80/20 ROI Rule to a control group which
can serve as a microcosm of the company. http://ww
w.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=46418

**This is one of the more ridiculous stories I've read in a long
time! Who are these idiot students PAYING to find out what their
prof.s are like? That kind of info was always the worst kind of
secret on campus – traded like baseball cards in the student
lounge.**
Picking Apart Pick-A-Prof: Does the popular online service help
students find good professors, or just easy A's? By ANDREA L. FOSTER
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i26/26a03301.htm

"What Works"  by  Ioulia Khitrykh and Eric Nelson
The benefits of e-learning are myriad.  But don't be fooled, warn
Khitrykh and Nelson.  Not all content is appropriate for online
delivery.  Their study will help keep you focused on the facts amidst
the permeating hype surrounding e-learning.  They cite reasons
preventing organizational support of e-learning initiatives and
dichotomize content into that more effectively handled in online and
traditional classroom arenas.  They based the article on the results
of a 2002 best-practices survey of six e-learning implementers at
major companies and also provide insight into respondents' blending
techniques.  http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/jan2003/nelson.htm

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For PC Buying, a New Picture: By MICHEL MARRIOTT
GERRIT VOOREN braved an icy Manhattan morning last week to press his
search for just the right new computer. It had to be powerful,
crammed with hundreds of megabytes of memory, and have enough hard-
drive space to hold a vast music library and hours upon hours of
digital video.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/technology/circuits/06upgr.html

Cyborg logs and collective stream of (de)consciousness capture for
producing attribution-free informatic content such as cyborglogs by
Steve Mann
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_2/mann/index.html

Oregon considers Open Source software legislation: By Robin Miller,
NewsForge.com Posted: 07/03/2003 at 10:36 GMT: A bill introduced in
the Oregon State Legislature on March 5 by Rep. Phil Barnhart
"requires state government to consider using open source software
when acquiring new software." Sounds good -- if it passes.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29635.html
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Digitized Battlefield Puts Friend and Foe in Sight -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A305
10-2003Mar2.html?referrer=email

Lawmakers' Web Sites Improving, Report Finds - It is not the Internet
Revolution on Capitol Hill that we have been promised. But over the
past year, scores of lawmakers have vastly improved their Web sites,
transforming them from little more than fancy advertisements into
"virtual offices" that provide an array of services to their
constituents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A305
78-2003Mar2.html?referrer=email

What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a
thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model?: Wednesday, January 15 2003
@ 09:12 PM PST: Contributed by: jernst This excellent overview was
contributed by Woody Pidcock of the Boeing company. Many
organizations and companies are struggling with these terms and the
ideas behind them; this set of definitions will help to clarify.
http://www.metamodel.com/article.php?story=20030115211223271

As Promised, a Good Internet Phone - Vonage DigitalVoice uses a fast
Internet connection to channel voice phone service all but
indistinguishable from a land line.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A190
83-2003Feb28.html?referrer=email

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Making Robots More Like Us: By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE
CALL it crazy, but Monica Nicolescu has taken a robot under her wing.
At a robotics laboratory at the University of Southern California,
she puts the two-wheeled machine through its paces, leading it
through a maze of short plastic pillars to an orange box on the
floor. It follows her around the lab, observing and reproducing her
every step.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/technology/circuits/06robo.html

One Wireless App, Many Devices: A startup solves a problem that's
vexed mobile- application developers for years.: By Rafe Needleman,
March 06, 2003
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,47730,00.html

Future PDAs: Savvier Tour Guides? By Elisa Batista: 02:00 AM Mar. 08,
2003 PT PALO ALTO, California -- You're standing on a street corner
in San Francisco, and you're craving a gyro. Wouldn't it be nice if
you could whip out your PDA or cell phone and have it point you to
the nearest Greek joint?
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,57968,00.html
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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

U.S. Set for Mobile Game Invasion By Elisa Batista: 02:00 AM Mar. 06,
2003 PT SAN JOSE, California -- New York. San Francisco. Chicago.
Boston. Pick any major city in the United States and most likely
you'll spot dozens of yammering passersby with cell phones glued to
their ears.
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,57889,00.html

Don't mess with 802.11g, researcher warns: By Tony Smith: Posted:
07/03/2003 at 17:17 GMT Businesses have this week been warned to
steer clear of 802.11g wireless LAN technology by market research
organisation Gartner.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/29651.html

NEC, Hitachi prep notebook fuel cells: By Tony Smith: Posted:
07/03/2003 at 15:42 GMT NEC and Hitachi have joined the mad dash to
devise fuel cells for notebook computers and other mobile devices.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29648.html

Law Enforcement Puts Handhelds to Work on the Road: By Frank Yacano,
SYWARE on Saturday, March 1, 2003: SYWARE's Visual CE and Crossroads
Software's handheld application give police officers a new tool for
writing citations, collecting information.
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/articles.php?action=expand,9388
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GAMING SECTION

The Games-to-Teach Project is a partnership between MIT and Microsoft
to develop conceptual prototypes for the next  generation of
interactive educational entertainment. In our first year, we
developed conceptual frameworks of games for math, science, and
engineering education. This year, we are developing prototypes of two
of these titles for testing and developing five more conceptual
frameworks of games in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
http://cms.mit.edu/games/education/

Video games without frontiers: Friday, 31 January, 2003, 10:21 GMT
By Mark Ward: BBC News Online technology correspondent: Keen gamers
can rejoice as US scientists are working on ways to make computer
games that never end. The researchers are adapting AI techniques used
for robot navigation to manage game worlds that constantly
present fresh challenges to players.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2708995.stm

The PLAY research studio investigates and invents the future of
human-computer interaction. As computers become more and more a part
of everyday life, the previous view of computers as strictly a
work-oriented tool will change.  We believe that in the future,
computation will become just another material for design, and take a
natural place in human existence alongside other basic technologies
such as writing and electricity. The research in PLAY will prepare us
for that future.
http://www.playresearch.com/

International Journal of Intelligent Games & Simulation: a web-based
publication of the University of Wolverhampton UK and The Society for
Modeling and Simulation International (SCS Europe BVBA)
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1822/ijigs11.htm

Games anti piracy bot fingers ZX Spectrum archive site: By John
Lettice: Posted: 07/03/2003 at 13:58 GMT: Hot on the heels (actually,
earlier, but we only just heard about it) of yesterday's BSA robot
busts OpenOffice story we have a doppelganger - a games antipiracy
trawling operation with mesh so small we feel sure it must be in
breach of European fisheries legislation.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29646.html

Microsoft preps Xbox for arcades: By gamesindustry.biz
Posted: 07/03/2003 at 10:20 GMT: A project within Microsoft's Xbox
division aimed at creating arcade systems based on the console's
hardware is coming close to bearing its first fruit, according to
reports from sources familiar with the plan.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29634.html

Games' copy protection cracked in days, says newsletter: By John
Lettice Posted: 06/03/2003 at 14:42 GMT: Russian copy protection
specialist StarForce Technology has stepped into the gap left by the
DoJ's repurposing of ISONews. Not, we presume, deliberately, but it's
a funny coincidence all the same.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29619.html
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SECURITY SECTION

Windows Root kits a stealthy threat: By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
Online Posted: 07/03/2003 at 10:53 GMT: Hackers are using vastly more
sophisticated techniques to secretly control the machines they've
cracked, and experts say it's just the beginning, say SecurityFocus'
Kevin Poulsen.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29638.html

Google closes Blogger security holes: By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
Online Posted: 07/03/2003 at 10:46 GMT: Internet search giant Google
confirmed this week that it closed several security holes that could
have allowed hackers to substitute their own musings for any of the
over one-million electronic diaries maintained through the popular
"Blogger" online publishing tool.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29637.html

Scan your browser's security for free: By John Leyden
Posted: 06/03/2003 at 15:39 GMT: Surfers are being offered a check on
the security of their browser with a free security tool.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29621.html
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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Google WebQuotes annotates the results of your Google search with
comments from other websites. This offers a convenient way to get a
third party's opinion about each of the returns for your search,
providing you with more information about that site's credibility and
reputation.
http://labs.google.com/cgi-bin/webquotes

Senate Leader scraps website war poll, blaming hackers: By Andrew
Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 07/03/2003 at 22:55 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29654.html

RIAA's 'Hide The Website' game moves to Virginia: By Andrew Orlowski
in San Francisco Posted: 07/03/2003 at 20:41 GMT: The RIAA's
travelling "Hide The Website" gameshow rolled into Virginia this
week, with a new hosting company given the privilege (or curse) of
looking after one of the world's most reviled web destinations.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29653.html
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"The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is
misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant
change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to
current facts."
William O. Douglas, 1898 - 1980

"All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to
me."
Fred McFeely Rogers, 1928 – 2003
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I forgot to mention last time that I have added two new sections:
Mobile Computing and Gaming. I have been including items on these
topics before but feel that they are at the point when they can
logically hold their own sections. I am very interested in how these
two areas converge on learning and hope you'll find something
here of interest.
Mark Oehlert, Editor

**Later that day…
You know sometimes, it's just like…cool, you know. I consider
myself a bit of a veteran at this whole Web stuff. I remember when I
thought a 14.4 was a screamer and when only a research lab would ever
need a one GB hard drive. I remember my first URL and not knowing
what it was (Jane's Defence btw). I remember having to launch
telnet and WinSock and I could kick myself for ever getting rid of
the original Mosaic browser I had. I also remember the heady mid to
late 90's and the dot com bubble when the Web seemed to be giving
birth in exponential numbers to amazingly cool sites, tools and ideas
– and all for free!

And yes – I remember coming back down to earth – lower case e
– not the planet so much as the dirt – the bubble burst and
content looked like it was headed to the peep show – insert .25$
model – it still does in some ways. There are still ugly, choking
copyright battles looming; there are cyber-civil right battles on the
horizon that make Vernor Vinge in True Names look like an unbridled
optimist – and so it has become somewhat easy to become jaded-
but then –

Then I do something seemingly minor, like install Opera 7.02
(www.opera.com). Absolutely brilliant browser. So I start digging
through all the old sites and bookmarks I have stored up and lo and
behold – I find sites and ideas which punch X-15 "Glamorous
Glenna" - like through my jaded veil and remind me that the Web is
still a nascent glimmer of its potential and that good ideas and
good content still have homes and readers and viewers. I include some
of these faith-restoring finds below. Enjoy.
M, editor

http://www.icdlbooks.org/index.html: "The International
Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a 5-year research project to
develop innovative software and a collection of books that
specifically address the needs of children as readers.
Interdisciplinary researchers from computer science, library studies,
education, art, and psychology are working together with children to
design this new library. With participants from around the world, the
ICDL is building an international collection that reflects both the
diversity and quality of children's literature. Currently, the
collection includes materials donated from 27 cultures in 15
languages."

http://www.centenary.edu/~balexand/bookmarq.html: Mr. Bryan Alexander
maintains a bookmark page like none other. You could spend a lifetime
wandering through all the links on this page. From a link to Vuk
Cosic's ASCII art to articles like; Chandler, "Technological or Media
Determinism?" – the site is awash in the eclectic, the offbeat
and the tres interesting.

http://oddpost.com/: This is one of a growing company of products
that makes me think that Outlook better be watching its Web-based
back. A rich yet browser-based email program done with sass and style.

http://manila.userland.com/ and http://radio.userland.com/: The
former is a Web site development tool and the latter is a blog
creation tool. Both look amazing intuitive and easy to use and are
reasonably priced (after a free trial of course). More user-friendly
on-ramps equals more diverse views available on the Web equals a
richer experience for us all. Remember Jeff Goldblum's character
in Jurassic Park when he makes some statement about how life finds a
way? [to break free of constraints] It's tools like these that
make me somewhat hopeful that the Web will be able to break free from
the Draconian perversions of copyright that some would impose.

http://www.mindjack.com/: I don't know if these guys were cool in
high school but they are now! With a Board of Advisors that reads
like "media hound/geek designs killer dinner party [Gareth
Branwyn, Mark Frauenfelder, Mikki Halpin, Jon Lebkowsky, Howard
Rheingold, Douglas Rushkoff] and a great crew of writers/reporters
– this site really does provide "the beat of digital
culture."

http://www.threedegrees.com/: Direct from Microsoft –something
very cool. Kinda like IM but with shared music and more – Gotta
download this one and try. Who still doubts that IM in some way must
be adopted by the corporate world?
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NEWS

**Congrats to Avilar!
Learning System Claims First SCORM 1.2 Certification: Avilar
Technologies Inc. said its WebMentor Learning Management System (LMS)
has been issued the first certificate of compliance with the SCORM
specification, version 1.2, under the new certification program
administered by the Academic ADL Co-Lab in Madison, Wisc. To be
certified, an authorized Certification Testing Center must
independently verify and validate the successful processing by the
LMS of the SCORM Test Suite, Version 1.2.3. WebMentor passed the test
at Run Time Environment level 3, which is the highest level of
compliance, the company said. The Center auditors certifying
WebMentor are from the Madison Area Technical College & UW-Learning
Innovations of Madison, Wisc.

MusicNet on AOL Tunes Up Again: Revamped service supports CD burning,
multiple PCs
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109544,00.asp

**I know "toner cartrdige cases? Mark has lost it"! Sure, but
readcarefully, Lexmark sued in this case based on copyright
violations of the DMCA!
LEXMARK WINS FIRST ROUND IN PRINTER SUIT: Case could determine the
future of low-cost replacement toner cartridges.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109596,tk,dn022803X,00.asp

Thomson Job Impact Study Confirms Blended Learning Yields Up to 163
Percent Increase in On-the-Job Performance: NAPERVILLE, Ill., Feb.
24, 2003--NETg , a company specializing in corporate education and
training and part of The Thomson Corp., announced that phase two of
the Thomson Job Impact Study, "The Next Generation of Corporate
Learning," further reinforces that a blended learning program
incorporating a combination of e-learning, online instruction,
simulations, texts, mentor/instructor support, and live
classroom-based training has the power to significantly increase
employee productivity. http://www.elearningmag.com
/elearning/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=48123

GAO: Improve acquisition training: A new General Accounting Office
report urges agencies to improve their training for acquisition
officials in light of rapidly changing rules.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0210/web-gao-02-14-03.asp
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TRENDS SECTION

It's Open Season on Spammers : Techies, attorneys, government
officials team to tackle spam.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109595,00.asp

INDUSTRY GROUP TAKES AIM AT SPAM: Engineers team on technical
solution to hamper spam.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109614,tk,dn022803X,00.asp

More Than Half-Billion Online Globally: According to research, 580
million people now have Internet access  --  with nearly 170 million
attributed to the U.S.
http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/geographics/arti
cle/0,,5911_1593591,00.html

Word Bursts Reveal Hot Topics: Cornell University researcher Jon
Kleinberg has shown that you can learn a lot about what topics are
becoming important at any given time by analyzing large collections
of documents for sudden changes in content.
http://www.technologyreview.com/offthewire/rnb_022503_2.asp

INTEL, MARRIOTT TEAM TO PROMOTE WIRELESS LANS: Chip giant will
provide wireless Internet access at hotels across the country.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109573,tk,dn022703X,00.asp

World - Microsoft moves to support P2P: Microsoft has revealed a
testing version of software tools for its desktop Windows XP platform.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15149
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EMERGING TECH SECTION

Tiny Battery May Power Next-Gen Gadgets:By Mike Martin: Part of the
NewsFactor Network February 21, 2003: As cell phones, video cameras,
computers, and scores of other electronic products continue to
shrink, so must their batteries, which today contribute up to 35
percent of a laptop computer's weight.
http://wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/20819.html

SAMSUNG SHRINKS OPTICAL DRIVES: New drive could boost storage in
thinner, lighter notebooks.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109598,tk,dn022803X,00.asp

Content Management Tools Fail: Web content management tools often
fail to live up to their promise, according to new research.
http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/applications/art
icle/0,,1301_1718951,00.html

REVIEW: SONY PORTABLE FILE SERVER: (Source: IDG.net) Sony's FSV-PGX1
is certainly a hot little number. The device didn't draw much
attention in the office until someone realized it includes a hard
disk drive and wireless LAN access point.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=788864

Norway - Alternative internet browser battles Microsoft IE Goliath in
mobile arena Having released a version of its browser that turns
Microsoft sites into gobbledegook, alternative internet browser
company Opera has said that the popular version of its software for
mobile devices will never be made available for Microsoft-powered
handsets.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15172

from Syllabus
"U. Minnesota-Duluth Builds Open Source Portfolio: The
ePortfolio, which the university says is the first portfolio system
created with open source software, will store educational records,
work samples, resumes, and writing samples, as well as legal
documents and other personal records in a secure, network-accessible
system. Individuals will be encouraged to share program code changes
with the university's Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) group.
The ePortfolio system is currently used by 23,000 students, faculty,
and staff. Under the university's "Technology for Life" plan,
students may continue to use and enhance their personal ePortfolios
throughout their lifetime."
http://eportfolio.d.umn.edu or http://www.theospi.org

ELITEGROUP OFFERS A $300 BAREBONE PC FOR HOBBYISTS: (Source: IDG.net)
The barebone system offers greater customizability and easier
upgradability than earlier Desknote models.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=788785
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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

DOD COULD SET WIRELESS POLICY NEXT MONTH: The Defense Department CIO
is expected to sign a wireless policy next month that will set
guidelines for using wireless devices across the department.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21260-1.html

Who is the US Mobile Device User?: According to AvantGo, the mobile
device user is generally male, between the ages of 35 and 50. The
study determined that 23% of these users work in the tech industry
and 43% use both a laptop and a PC.
http://www.emarketer.com/news/article.php?1002085&
c=newsltr&n=lead&t=ad

Lindows Laptop Poised as PDA Killer?  Posted by Jason Dunn @ 04:30 PM
"High-speed wireless service is cropping up everywhere - "Starbucks,"
college campuses and anywhere people gather. Staying connected to
your data whenever and wherever you need it is smart and Lindows.com
answers the call with its brand new Lindows Mobile PC, an affordable,
ultra-lightweight, go-anywhere notebook!...At just 2.9 lbs, the $799
Lindows Mobile PC is a featherweight, but it weighs in with such
features as LindowsOS, a 933mhz VIA processor, 256MB RAM, USB 2.0,
Firewire, Ethernet, and a crisp 12.1" TFT display, plus a PCMCIA slot
to add even more functionality such as wireless networking.
http://info.lindows.com/mobilepc/mobilepc.htm

Overclocking Poses Risks to PDAs: New apps will speed your handheld
devices, but may cause serious damage.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109556,00.asp

Palm Cuts More Jobs: The company laid off about 50 people in its
hardware unit, bringing its workforce cuts for the current quarter to
just over 100 jobs.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C78930%2C0.html?nlid=PM

United Kingdom - Digital Bridges supplies mobile games to Vodafone
and Telefonica Vodafone Global Content Services is to use a number of
both Java and WAP games from Digital Bridges as part of
Vodafone's Live service.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15183
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GAMING SECTION

Getting into the Gaming Business: GameSpy's five-part series will
school you on all you need to know about getting a job in the gaming
business. By Steven L. Kent | Jan. 27-31, 2003
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/january03/education/

Horizons Family Portrait: A look at the characters of Artifact's
upcoming Horizons. By The Horizons Team | Feb. 19, 2003
Horizons is a next-generation, fantasy- themed, massively multiplayer
online game. Based in the world of Istaria, Horizons allows thousands
of players to take the roles of humans, fiends, and dragons to
adventure together in the civilized and untamed regions of the world.
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/february03/horizonsportrait/

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (PC)
We touch down at NovaLogic for an exclusive all-access preview of
their upcoming tactical shooter set in 1993 Somalia.  By Sal "Sluggo"
Accardo | February 23, 2003
http://www.gamespy.com/previews/february03/blackhawkdownpc/

Andrew Tepper on A Tale In The Desert: GameSpy talks with the lead
designer of A Tale in The Desert, the upcoming Egyptian-themed MMORPG
that will focus on cooperation rather than combat.
By Bruce "Gwog" Ladewig | Feb. 6, 2003
http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/january03/atitd/

REPORT: MICROSOFT, EA CONSIDER BUYING SEGA: (Source: IDG.net)
Microsoft and Electronic Arts are considering bidding for Sega,
according to a report in The Wall Street Journal's online edition.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=788863

NEW DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM FOR PS2 ONLINE GAMES: (Source: IDG.net) IBM
and Butterfly.net have reached an agreement with Sony to provide a
hosted grid environment for developers.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=788780
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SECURITY SECTION

Lovgate.C Worm Crawls Across Web: Leading antivirus vendors post
inoculations for newest pest.
http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109491,00.asp

MICROSOFT PATCHES CRITICAL WINDOWS FLAW: Security hole could allow an
attacker to delete files on affected PCs.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109570,tk,dn022703X,00.asp
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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

20 Things You Didn't Know Your PC Could Do: Teach that old machine
new tricks--from the amazingly practical to the practically amazing.
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,108720,pg,1,00.asp

From: NNT@...
FILE EXTENSIONS DEFINED.  We recently mentioned a site that explains
what all those file extensions mean.  A reader kindly pointed out
another good resource at http://www.filext.com,
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So e-Clippings has been sporadic to say the least of late. I really
am going to keep doing it and thanks again for all the kind words
from those of you who wrote in to tell me that. I do find it
interesting to note however; that two of my favorite bloggers, Anne
Galloway and Peter Merholz, have also been going through similar
soul-searches:
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http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/2003_02_01_blogge
r_archives.php#90349485

Don't know what to make of this trend (if it is a trend) but I
want to keep my eye on it. If the act of blogging can wear out these
hardy souls then what does that say about this medium anyway.
Ramblings for now but something to watch.
v/r
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NEWS

Why Did Google Want Blogger?
02:00 AM Feb. 22, 2003 PT: SAN FRANCISCO -- Forget war and strife,
the only news that mattered on the Web this week was Google's
acquisition of Pyra Labs, the scrappy San Francisco startup behind
the Blogger weblogging tool.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57754,00.html

We've got the tech, lets build some communities
Wilbert Kraan, CETIS staff: February 21, 2003
At the quarterly IMS meetings, the open technical forum is often the
one to watch for the latest trends in elearning. The tech forum that
is taking place in Vancouver, Canada right now is no exception, and
the next priority is clear: building communities.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030221033122

Few Cheers for New FCC Rules
By Elisa Batista  02:00 AM Feb. 21, 2003 PT: A Federal Communications
Commission decision to let states regulate competition among the
regional Bell telephone companies drew sharp criticism on Thursday
from lawmakers, some members of the telecom industry and consumer
advocacy groups.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57755,00.html

Some Say Product May Curb Whistleblowing
By HELEN JUNG The Associated Press Saturday, February 22, 2003; 12:35
PM Microsoft Corp. is developing new technology to help companies
control their internal documents - a move some fear could also stamp
out whistleblowing on corporate wrongdoing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48184-2003Feb22.html

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Trial Near in Patent Case on Key Internet Technology
By JOHN MARKOFF: SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 — The patent claims of a
74-year-old inventor over a technology that is the foundation of
virtually all online commerce will come to trial next week in a court
test that could force huge payments from some of the Internet's most
powerful companies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/technology/20NET.html
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TRENDS SECTION

The Hard Life and Restless Mind of America's Education Billionaire by
Bill Breen: from FC issue 68, page 80
John Sperling was born dirt-poor, fell in with Communists, and became
a union organizer who led a strike that ended in disaster. Today, he
runs the world's largest for-profit university -- and a company whose
shares are defying gravity on Wall Street. So why do so many smart
people say such terrible things about him? And why does he relish
their attacks?
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/68/sperling.html

E-learning-will its day ever come?: "E-learning can work but it is
not about the technology, which is now relatively cheap and
available. What has been expensive is the tuition - those online
courses have cost me a fortune! It is also not about brand names.
What is important is providers understanding their customer base,
making tools simple to use and having self- motivated users."
http://www.silicon.com/opinion/500021-500001/1/2846.html

Plan Approved To Save U.S. Digital History
By Nicholas Johnston Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February
15, 2003; Page E01: Here's the flip side of the digital age's magic
act: It's also making information disappear. "The digital history of
this nation is imperiled by the very technology that is used to
create it," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10278-2003Feb14.html

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Twilight of the CD? Not if It Can Be Reinvented
February 23, 2003 By LAURA M. HOLSON: LOS ANGELES: TONIGHT in
Manhattan, rock stars, divas and rappers will descend en masse on
Madison Square Garden, arriving at the Grammy ceremonies in a parade
of glamour and attitude. But the excitement they create will only
mask the growing anxiety in the recording industry about the future
of its fundamental product, the CD, which is threatened with the same
obsolescence that it long ago foisted on the LP and then the tape
cassette.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/business/yourmon
ey/23MUSI.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

Teacher Tech Training Takes a Hit (Making the Grade 2:00 a.m. PDT)
A program that provided cash to train new teachers in technology
will likely get the ax in President Bush's proposed budget. It's a
disappointing end for those who say it's been an unqualified success.
By Katie Dean.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/school/0,1383,57583,00.html/wn_ascii

Fighting piracy with P2P blocking: By  John Borland : CNET News.com
February 20, 2003, 5:45 AM PT: For months, the digital equivalent of
a postal censor has been sorting through virtually all file-swapping
traffic on the University of Wyoming's network, quietly noting every
trade of an Eminem song or "Friends" episode.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-985027.html
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EMERGING TECH SECTION

Faster, Mightier Web Mail -- For a Price
By Leslie Walker: Sunday, February 23, 2003; Page H07
A California company is betting that people will pay for Web e-mail
if it's faster and more powerful than today's clunky free Web-mail
services. The new e-mail offering from Oddpost looks and works like
Microsoft Outlook and similar desktop programs, with the same simple
drag-and- drop transfer of messages to folders -- but it runs
entirely in a Web browser's window.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45447-2003Feb21.html

Practical Innovation at Demo
By Cynthia L. Webb: washingtonpost.com Staff Writer: Friday, February
21, 2003; 9:19 AM: A glimpse at gadgets and software highlighted at
the Demo 2003 conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., this week offers hope
that the creative minds of technology are still churning out ideas,
despite the lackluster economy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40801-2003Feb21.html

DEMO: MOST INTRIGUING PRODUCTS OF THE NEAR FUTURE
(Source: PC World.com) Substance (and shipment) favored over
style among spotlighted products and services.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=787824
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MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

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New Tricks From Do-It-All Palmtops
By DAVID POGUE: WHEN it comes to generating enthusiasm among the
masses, not all electronics are created equal. Almost anyone can see
the appeal of, say, a DVD player. But describe a palmtop that does
nothing but let you check your e-mail at any time of the day or
night, and people may stare at you as though you had just grown
antlers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/technology/circuits/20stat.html

Mobiles 'let you control your life'
By Jane Wakefield : BBC News Online technology staff in Cannes
Mobile phones are used by people to decide how and
when they communicate with the rest of the world, say researchers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2779619.stm

CANNES, France -- Feb. 17, 2003
Pocket MSN Delivers Always-On Services to Pocket PCs and Smartphones
New Service Offers Mobile Operators Means to Attract New Subscribers
and Increase Network Use With Always-On Mobile Access to MSN
Messenger, MSN Hotmail and Other Offerings
http://216.239.35.120/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://w
ww.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Feb03/02-17P
ocketMSNPR.asp&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpocket%2Bp

Downloading Web Sites to Your Pocket PC
One of the neat uses of your Pocket PC is downloading web sites and
taking them with you for offline reading. Let's look at a couple
resources that help you do this, including Mobile Favorites and iSilo.
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/karpencolumns/webguide.asp?id=132
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GAMING SECTION

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A Thin Line Between Film and Joystick: By MICHEL MARRIOTT: BURBANK,
Calif. AS if in a shadow play of a major Hollywood premiere,
photographers pressed up to a procession of film stars strolling into
a theater aglow with hype and klieg lights. Keanu Reeves chatted on
camera with "Access Hollywood" and MTV reporters. Will Smith and his
wife, the actress Jada Pinkett Smith, waved to onlookers. Carrie-Anne
Moss and Laurence Fishburne glittered on a black carpet ordered for
the occasion. The event at Warner Brothers Studios was a sort of
coming-out party for Enter the Matrix - not one of the
long-anticipated sequels to "The Matrix," the cyber-chic 1999
thriller, but a video game.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/technology/circuits/20matr.html

Digital Games Research Conference 2003
Monday, February 17 2003
DiGRA today announced its brand new conference, which will be held at
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, on November 5-8, 2003. The
Call for Papers is still not out, but should be available later this
year. The deadline for submission will be by the end of April but,
again, the actual dates remain to be announced.
http://frasca.nubla.net/article.php?story=20030217135656883

More Fallout Over Greek Game Ban (Joystick 2:00 a.m. PDT)
The Greek government's sweeping ban of online games -- intended to
squash illegal gambling -- has gamers, Internet café owners and
other businesses seeing red. The European Union may step in to save
the day. Amanda Castleman reports from Athens.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/games/0,2101,57305,00.html/wn_ascii

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For Sale: Nostalgia, and Its Frustrations: By CHARLES HEROLD:
NOSTALGIA is a powerful sales tool, and the people from Konami
thought I would be very excited about Contra: Shattered Soldier, a
sequel to the 1987 video game Contra. When they told me that a
sequence of button presses would activate a cheat code to make
the game easier, as in the original game for Nintendo, it was as
though they were heralding the Second Coming.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/technology/circuits/20game.html

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Who's Blocking the Xbox? Sony and Its Games
By MATT RICHTEL: SAN FRANCISCO -- XBOX, the video game console that
Microsoft introduced nearly 14 months ago, is technologically
sophisticated and, by many accounts, the best way to play games
against competitors over the Internet. But the advantages have not
translated into the returns Microsoft had hoped for. It has sold nine
million Xbox consoles, on the low end of its projections; it
continues to lose money on each one it sells; and it remains
desperately behind Sony, whose PlayStation 2 is selling at a record
pace. Wall Street analysts have mixed opinions about whether
Microsoft's early effort has been successful, but they agree that it
has a way to go.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/business/yourmoney/16XBOX.html
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SECURITY SECTION

UPDATE: SYSTEM BREAK-IN NETS INFO ON 5.6 MILLION CREDIT CARDS
(Source: IDG.net) A computer hacker, or hackers, has gained
access to the credit card numbers of as many as five million
credit card customers.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=787827

POSSIBLE PASSWORD FLAW FOUND IN WINDOWS XP
(Source: PC World.com) Security hole could allow an unauthorized
user to render passwords useless, expert says.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=787828

Nigerian Slain Over E-Mail Scam
Michelle Delio 08:27 AM Feb. 21, 2003 PT: A notorious e-mail scam has
resulted in the murder of a Nigerian diplomat in the Czech Republic.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57760,00.html

Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers (IT/IS Important 2:00 a.m. PDT)
Internet users are mystified by a tricky browser add-on that installs
itself without permission and defies attempts to remove it. Some are
calling the program the most insidious thing on the Web. By Michelle
Delio.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,5
7467,00.html/wn_ascii

Hackers Run Wild and Free on AOL
By Christopher Null  02:00 AM Feb. 21, 2003 PT: Using a combination
of trade tricks and clever programming, hackers have thoroughly
compromised security at America Online, potentially exposing the
personal information of AOL's 35 million users.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57753,00.html

What Symantec Knew But Didn't Say (IT/IS Important 2:00 a.m. PDT)
Security experts are fuming about a Symantec press release indicating
the company knew about the devastating Slammer worm hours before the
general public did. The company shared the knowledge with select
customers but kept mum with everybody else. By Michelle Delio.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,5
7676,00.html/wn_ascii

Are You Scared Stupid? Do Tell
By Michelle Delio  02:00 AM Feb. 17, 2003 PT: Privacy International,
a coalition of human rights and privacy advocacy groups, charges that
security measures are getting stupider by the moment. To prove it,
the organization has announced a Stupid Security Awards, an
international competition to discover the world's most "pointless,
intrusive, stupid and self-serving security measure."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57686,00.html

Spam Offers: Some Legit, Most Not (IT/IS Important 2:00 a.m. PDT)
Ever wonder what happens when you respond to unsolicited e-mail come-
ons to make money at home, pump up your manhood or spy on anyone
online? Turns out, spam begets spam. And that's usually about it. By
Michelle Delio.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,5
7613,00.html/wn_ascii
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MISC. SECTION

Is the EPA Gutting Clean Air? (Politics Tuesday)
The EPA is easing restrictions of the Clean Air Act, in a move that
critics say will 'bring more acid rain, more smog, more asthma and
more respiratory disease to millions of Americans.' A coalition of
New England and mid-Atlantic states are challenging the changes in
court.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57027,00.html/wn_ascii

Vaporware 2002: Tech up in Smoke? (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT)
In an unusual turn, three products out of the 10 to receive the
Wired News 2002 Vaporware Award also appeared on last year's list.
Tech-hungry readers wonder: Why can't these developers get it
together?
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57023,00.html/wn_ascii

Private Army: This Gun for Hire (Wired magazine 2:00 a.m. PDT)
The future of national security rests on private-sector workers --
from IT experts to chopper pilots. By Dan Baum from Wired magazine.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/gunhire.html
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"What is written without effort is in general read without
pleasure."
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. Quoted
in Anecdotes by William Seward, Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 2, ed.
George Birkbeck Hill (1897).

"Inscribe all human effort with one word,
Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!"
Robert Browning (1812–1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book,
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Two things:

First, I am still insecure enough to wonder what it means that when
I fail to publish this little missive for a couple of weeks, the
subscriber base goes UP!?

Second, I feel the need to explain/apologize for the
lateness/absence of e-clippings. I have been doing this newsletter
for about 4 years now – 3 on Yahoo! and then a year prior just
through email. It's not that I'm tired of doing this but
I'm looking for a new format or way to expand/grow/change what
this
newsletter can be. I am actually talking to some folks about some
potentially very cool changes and will let you know as soon as
something gets set up. For now, I continue to appreciate and be
amazed that people read this newsletter and perhaps actually find it
useful and or engaging. Thanks to all of you and I promise to try to
get back on a more regular publishing schedule.

Thanks much,
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P.s. One more thing – I know that longtime readers are accustomed
to my rants/focus on things like P2P, file-sharing and copyright law
but I want to explain, since there seems to be a number of stories in
this issue on those topics, why I  include them in a newsletter
dedicated to learning and technology. Simple – legal
infringements or failure to resolve issues in these arenas could
choke off the air supply to e-learning faster than VC funding drying
up. Click here for more details:
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NEWS

**The European Comm.'s e-learning site
"The elearningeuropa.info portal gathers information on the use
of multimedia technologies and the Internet for education, training
and lifelong learning in Europe. The portal is open to all the
relevant actors and communities for sharing experiences,
disseminating projects and discussing ideas. The learningeuropa.info
portal was initiated by the European Commission. It is an integral
part of the eLearning Action Plan, which is managed by the
Multimedia Unit of the Directorate General Education and Culture."
http://www.elearningeuropa.info/

XML STANDARDS BODY STARTS CRIMINAL RECORD COMMITTEE
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards has formed a committee to create a framework for
government agencies to share criminal records.
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/19930-1.html

The one standard, LOM and the semantic web. : January 27, 2003
In a lengthy and characteristically thought provoking presentation,
Stephen Downes challenges both the need and the demand for just one
Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard. That done, the very
existence of such beasts as learning objects is called into
question. We examine the argument.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030127164729

SiX plugfest report: encouraging, but could do better February 06,
2003: Dutch educational standards working group SiX just published
the results of its plugfest. Over the day, various managed/virtual
learning environments were required to import, export and display a
standardised set of ADL SCORM 1.2, IMS Content packaging 1.3, IMS
QTI 1.2 and IMS Enterprise 1.1 data. Result: familiar problems and
remarkable differences between products.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030206174927

Pentagon Reaches Deal on Wireless Web
By Ted Bridis, AP Technology Writer
Monday, February 3, 2003; 8:56 AM : WASHINGTON –– The Defense
Department and technology companies struck a compromise Friday to
prevent interference with military radars from a new generation of
wireless Internet devices.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17825-2003Feb3.html

IEEE to lift SCORM, IMS Content Packaging to standard status,
clarifies LOM future. February 03, 2003:
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030203181028

Digital Repositories Interoperability spec approved by IMS
January 30, 2003
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030130180223

Blackboard Acquires SA Cash
By Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 4, 2003; Page E05: Blackboard Inc., a privately
held Washington online education company, spent $4.5 million in cash
yesterday to buy a business that lets students use their
identification cards to make discounted purchases from merchants.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20911-2003Feb3.html

Embrace file-sharing, or die: A record executive and his son make a
formal case for freely downloading music. The gist: 50 million
Americans can't be wrong. Editor's note: John Snyder is president of
Artist House Records, a board member of the National Association of
Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), and a 32-time Grammy nominee.
On Thursday night, he submitted the following paper to NARAS.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/01/file_trading_manifesto/i
ndex.html?x

Fathoming the Future of eLearning: By CHRIS MITCHELL : On January 6,
2003, Columbia University announced that it would be closing
Fathom.com, its for-profit distance learning unit, as part of the
reorganization of its digital media operations. Effective March 31
this year, the largest online learning venture will end.
http://cornelldailysun.com/articles/7269/

The Race to Kill Kazaa: The servers are in Denmark. The software is
in Estonia. The domain is registered Down Under, the corporation on
a tiny island in the South Pacific. The users - 60 million of them -
are everywhere around the world. The next Napster? Think bigger. And
pity the poor copyright cops trying to pull the plug.By Todd Woody
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/kazaa.html

**You GO Rep. Boucher!!! (and Doolittle, Bachus and Kennedy)
Lawmakers Urge Protection of Fair Use: Digital Media Consumers'
Rights Act Re-Introduced January 7, 2003: Initiating what is certain
to be a contentious debate during the 108th Congress, U.S.
Representatives Rick Boucher (D-VA), John Doolittle (R-CA), Spencer
Bachus (R-AL) and Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) introduced on Tuesday the
Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act with the announced goal of
protecting the Fair Use rights of the users of copyrighted material
and, thereby enabling the consumers of digital media to make use of
it in ways that enhance their personal convenience. The legislation
(H.R. 107) is identical to that which Boucher and Doolittle
introduced during the Fall of 2002
http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/dmca108.htm

Find an Answer in E-Learning February 2003
Virtual learning is gaining popularity as a lower-cost alternative
for training. But Home Depot, Siemens and Ryder are among those
discovering more than cost savings. By Penny Lunt
http://www.imagingmagazine.com/cgi-bin/printable.cgi?
file=../db_area/a
rchs/2003/02/tfm0302f1_1.shtml

Report: E-Learning breaking down barriers in Africa
01/30/03: By Gail Repsher Emery: Staff Writer
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/19945-1.html

Online Ads for U. of Phoenix Irk Officials at Other Colleges
By ANDREA L. FOSTER: Officials at several colleges are still
smarting from online advertisements last week that they say
suggested that their institutions were affiliated with the
University of Phoenix Online.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003020302t.htm

Record Industry Has No Plan to Seek Names of Students Trading
Copyrighted Songs: By ANDREA L. FOSTER : In a case that campus-
network administrators followed closely, the recording industry won
an important legal victory last week that will help record companies
ferret out music fans who illegally trade copyrighted material. But
an industry official says the victory doesn't mean companies will
start demanding the names of college students who pass song files
around -- at least not yet.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003012901t.htm

Study: Office surfers aren't slackers: By Lisa M. Bowman
Staff Writer, CNET News.com: February 4, 2003, 11:51 AM PT
Maybe companies shouldn't be so quick to pull the plug on personal
Web surfing at work. A new study finds that employees may waste time
surfing on the job, but they tend to make up for it by working from
home in their off hours.
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-983305.html

MSN deliberately breaks Opera's browser, claims company
By John Lettice: Posted: 06/02/2003 at 14:52 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29219.html
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(NY Times' stories require free registration)
Win Friends, Influence People, or Just Aim and Fire
By CHARLES HEROLD: THE blond guy in the Hawaiian shirt says that if
I don't mention him in my review of The Sims Online he's going to
pile-drive me again. I wasn't too happy the first time he did it and
I don't take kindly to threats, so I turn the tables, telling him
he'll make my column if he dresses up like a clown and dances for
me. He grabs a funny hat from a hatrack and starts his soft-shoe.
All right, Seth Jones, I say, I'll mention you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/technology/circuits/06game.html

A Nation of Voyeurs: How the Internet search engine Google is
changing what we can find out about one another - and raising
questions about whether we should: By Neil Swidey, Globe Staff,
2/2/2003
http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0202/coverstory_entire.htm

We Have the Technology: Synthesis of a listserv discussion
..enabling faculty to create material on the web for all courses,
online, face-to-face, and blended, is a wise investment.
http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/view/v2n1/coverv2n1.htm

The Marshall Plan: For 40 years, the man Pentagon insiders call Yoda
has foreseen the future of war - from battlefield bots rolling off
radar-proof ships to GIs popping performance pills. And that was
before the war on terror. By Douglas McGray
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/marshall.html

Putting a Faculty Face on Distance Education Programs
William H. Riffee
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7233

Designing for Learners, Designing for Users
By Dave Smulders
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?
section=3&list_item=11&p
age=1

Web-Loving Students Can Be Prodded to Cite Peer-Reviewed Works in
Term Papers, Study Suggests: Thursday, February 6, 2003
By SCOTT CARLSON
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003020601t.htm

Content Management:  Our Organized Future
George Siemens : January 23, 2003
Introduction: Content management holds the promise of better
organization, increased access to resources, greater organizational
effectiveness...for those who dare slog through the process of
setting up a content management system - a task often more onerous
than dealing with unorganized content.
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/contentmanagement.htm

Genesis Of An Anthill: Wireless Technology And Self-Organizing
Systems By Espen Andersen: The future belongs to small, connected
devices that will wirelessly allow the user -- and the technology --
to self-organize, creating something smart out of many small and
simple nodes and connections.
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_andersen_8.html

Game industry now courts women with new games: Chris Gaither
Boston Globe: Published Jan. 20, 2003 When looking after her three
boys and running a fledgling Web-hosting business got to be too much
last summer, Michelle Valentine slipped away into one of her other
worlds. After choosing one of the many personas she had created for
herself, Valentine, 32, threw invitation-only parties in a rented
villa, splattered friends in paintball matches, and sought hidden
treasures in scavenger hunts.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/3594381.html

Hating Hilary: By Matt Bai: Hilary Rosen paces the creaking oak
floor of the Oxford Union debate hall, eyeing the empty pews the way
a Roman gladiator might have surveyed the Colosseum. Rosen is the
chair of the Recording Industry Association of America, and in a few
hours she'll be standing here in a black formal gown, getting ripped
to pieces. Along with several other industry executives, she's
charged with defending the proposition: "This house believes that
the free-music mentality is a threat to the future of music."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/hating.html

Students Called on SMS Cheating: Associated Press
01:52 PM Jan. 30, 2003 PT: ROCKVILLE, Maryland -- Six University of
Maryland students have admitted cheating on an accounting exam by
using their cell phones to receive text messages with the answers,
the school said Thursday. Another six students were implicated in
the case.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,57484,00.html

Making Copyright Ambidextrous:  An Expose of Copyleft
Maureen O'Sullivan: Teaching Assistant: University of Warwick
http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/02-3/osullivan.html

Group Calls for More Academic Research in Computer Security
By BROCK READ: Washington: To protect their own computer networks
and other systems, colleges should focus their cybersecurity
programs on subjects such as wireless security, advanced virus
protection, and Internet law, according to a report released
Thursday by a consortium of academic and nonprofit research
organizations.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003013101t.htm

New Kids On the Blog:By Leslie Walker: Thursday, February 6, 2003;
Page E01: Businesses may not be creating much free content online
anymore, but people sure are. Personal publishing has flourished
online throughout the dot-com downturn, thanks to tools that make it
easy to rant online and to attract readers through automated linking
systems.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31944-2003Feb5.html
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EMERGING TECH SECTION

Technology Helps Mimic Real Situations For Training
Simmersion Software Adds a Human Element
By Sabrina Jones: Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 6, 2003; Page HO05
One recent morning, Dale E. Olsen impersonated a U.S. Customs
inspector inside an airport as he interviewed Maria Rodriguez, a
young Mexico City woman visiting Los Angeles. While watching for
signs of nervousness, he asked to see her passport and quizzed her
on details about her visit to the country. The questions were
designed to determine if Rodriguez had smuggled drugs or other
contraband into the country. But Rodriguez was actually an actor in
a computer simulation used to teach interviewing skills.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32484-2003Feb5?
language=prin
ter

Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 34.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/editorial/

**Open Source LMS
Whiteboard Courseware System Project Home Page
Whiteboard is a fully-featured and -integrated courseware system,
targeted toward colleges and universities. It supports multiple
departments and courses (including cross-listed courses); simple
migration of courses to new semesters; grade storage, checking, and
calculation; assignment submission and testing, and submitted
assignment retrieval; documents; announcements; and discussion
boards. It is written in PHP with a MySQL back-end, and is fully
administrable through its web interface.
http://whiteboard.sourceforge.net/

Innovation as a Deep Capability: by Gary Hamel
Leader to Leader, No. 27 Winter 2003
http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/winter2003/hamel.html

6 Institutions Will Help Fine-Tune a Popular New Archiving Program
By DAN CARNEVALE: Six major research universities announced this
week that they are working with the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology to fine-tune an MIT program for archiving scholarly works
called DSpace, which has become wildly popular in academe in just a
few months.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003013001t.htm

DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository
D-Lib Magazine: January 2003
Volume 9 Number 1: ISSN 1082-9873
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html

(NY Times' stories require free registration)
Pocket PC's for Smaller Pocketbooks: By DAVID POGUE
PROFESSIONAL technology reviewers have one thing in common with
lawyers, therapists and dermatologists: they are frequently
approached by advice-seekers at parties.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/technology/circuits/06stat.html
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SECURITY SECTION

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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

The Future Needs Us!: By Freeman J. Dyson
The New York Review of Books:February 13, 2003: Review
Prey: by Michael Crichton: HarperCollins, 367 pp., $26.95
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16053
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"What is written without effort is in general read without
pleasure."
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. Quoted
in Anecdotes by William Seward, Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 2, ed.
George Birkbeck Hill (1897).

"Inscribe all human effort with one word,
Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!"
Robert Browning (1812–1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book,
bk. 11, l. 1560 (1868-1869).
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Two things:

First, I am still insecure enough to wonder what it means that when
I fail to publish this little missive for a couple of weeks, the
subscriber base goes UP!?

Second, I feel the need to explain/apologize for the
lateness/absence of e-clippings. I have been doing this newsletter
for about 4 years now – 3 on Yahoo! and then a year prior just
through email. It's not that I'm tired of doing this but
I'm looking for a new format or way to expand/grow/change what
this
newsletter can be. I am actually talking to some folks about some
potentially very cool changes and will let you know as soon as
something gets set up. For now, I continue to appreciate and be
amazed that people read this newsletter and perhaps actually find it
useful and or engaging. Thanks to all of you and I promise to try to
get back on a more regular publishing schedule.

Thanks much,
Mark Oehlert, Editor

P.s. One more thing – I know that longtime readers are accustomed
to my rants/focus on things like P2P, file-sharing and copyright law
but I want to explain, since there seems to be a number of stories in
this issue on those topics, why I  include them in a newsletter
dedicated to learning and technology. Simple – legal
infringements or failure to resolve issues in these arenas could
choke off the air supply to e-learning faster than VC funding drying
up. Click here for more details:
Predictions For 2003: E-learning's Leading Lights Look Ahead
http://www.elearnmag.org/
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2003 This three-week, e-mail-based conference is open to all and
there is no cost. How to join the virtual conference on Copyright
and the Web:
To join the conference, send an e-mail message to
majordomo@... and put the following in the body of the
message: subscribe copyright [your e-mail address]
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You will receive a confirmation and further information by e-mail.
If you do not receive a confirmation within 24 hours, please contact
COL at info@....
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NEWS

**The European Comm.'s e-learning site
"The elearningeuropa.info portal gathers information on the use
of multimedia technologies and the Internet for education, training
and lifelong learning in Europe. The portal is open to all the
relevant actors and communities for sharing experiences,
disseminating projects and discussing ideas. The learningeuropa.info
portal was initiated by the European Commission. It is an integral
part of the eLearning Action Plan, which is managed by the
Multimedia Unit of the Directorate General Education and Culture."
http://www.elearningeuropa.info/

XML STANDARDS BODY STARTS CRIMINAL RECORD COMMITTEE
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards has formed a committee to create a framework for
government agencies to share criminal records.
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/19930-1.html

The one standard, LOM and the semantic web. : January 27, 2003
In a lengthy and characteristically thought provoking presentation,
Stephen Downes challenges both the need and the demand for just one
Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard. That done, the very
existence of such beasts as learning objects is called into
question. We examine the argument.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030127164729

SiX plugfest report: encouraging, but could do better February 06,
2003: Dutch educational standards working group SiX just published
the results of its plugfest. Over the day, various managed/virtual
learning environments were required to import, export and display a
standardised set of ADL SCORM 1.2, IMS Content packaging 1.3, IMS
QTI 1.2 and IMS Enterprise 1.1 data. Result: familiar problems and
remarkable differences between products.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030206174927

Pentagon Reaches Deal on Wireless Web
By Ted Bridis, AP Technology Writer
Monday, February 3, 2003; 8:56 AM : WASHINGTON –– The Defense
Department and technology companies struck a compromise Friday to
prevent interference with military radars from a new generation of
wireless Internet devices.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17825-2003Feb3.html

IEEE to lift SCORM, IMS Content Packaging to standard status,
clarifies LOM future. February 03, 2003:
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030203181028

Digital Repositories Interoperability spec approved by IMS
January 30, 2003
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030130180223

Blackboard Acquires SA Cash
By Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 4, 2003; Page E05: Blackboard Inc., a privately
held Washington online education company, spent $4.5 million in cash
yesterday to buy a business that lets students use their
identification cards to make discounted purchases from merchants.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20911-2003Feb3.html

Embrace file-sharing, or die: A record executive and his son make a
formal case for freely downloading music. The gist: 50 million
Americans can't be wrong. Editor's note: John Snyder is president of
Artist House Records, a board member of the National Association of
Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), and a 32-time Grammy nominee.
On Thursday night, he submitted the following paper to NARAS.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/01/file_trading_manifesto/i
ndex.html?x

Fathoming the Future of eLearning: By CHRIS MITCHELL : On January 6,
2003, Columbia University announced that it would be closing
Fathom.com, its for-profit distance learning unit, as part of the
reorganization of its digital media operations. Effective March 31
this year, the largest online learning venture will end.
http://cornelldailysun.com/articles/7269/

The Race to Kill Kazaa: The servers are in Denmark. The software is
in Estonia. The domain is registered Down Under, the corporation on
a tiny island in the South Pacific. The users - 60 million of them -
are everywhere around the world. The next Napster? Think bigger. And
pity the poor copyright cops trying to pull the plug.By Todd Woody
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/kazaa.html

**You GO Rep. Boucher!!! (and Doolittle, Bachus and Kennedy)
Lawmakers Urge Protection of Fair Use: Digital Media Consumers'
Rights Act Re-Introduced January 7, 2003: Initiating what is certain
to be a contentious debate during the 108th Congress, U.S.
Representatives Rick Boucher (D-VA), John Doolittle (R-CA), Spencer
Bachus (R-AL) and Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) introduced on Tuesday the
Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act with the announced goal of
protecting the Fair Use rights of the users of copyrighted material
and, thereby enabling the consumers of digital media to make use of
it in ways that enhance their personal convenience. The legislation
(H.R. 107) is identical to that which Boucher and Doolittle
introduced during the Fall of 2002
http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/dmca108.htm

Find an Answer in E-Learning February 2003
Virtual learning is gaining popularity as a lower-cost alternative
for training. But Home Depot, Siemens and Ryder are among those
discovering more than cost savings. By Penny Lunt
http://www.imagingmagazine.com/cgi-bin/printable.cgi?
file=../db_area/a
rchs/2003/02/tfm0302f1_1.shtml

Report: E-Learning breaking down barriers in Africa
01/30/03: By Gail Repsher Emery: Staff Writer
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/19945-1.html

Online Ads for U. of Phoenix Irk Officials at Other Colleges
By ANDREA L. FOSTER: Officials at several colleges are still
smarting from online advertisements last week that they say
suggested that their institutions were affiliated with the
University of Phoenix Online.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003020302t.htm

Record Industry Has No Plan to Seek Names of Students Trading
Copyrighted Songs: By ANDREA L. FOSTER : In a case that campus-
network administrators followed closely, the recording industry won
an important legal victory last week that will help record companies
ferret out music fans who illegally trade copyrighted material. But
an industry official says the victory doesn't mean companies will
start demanding the names of college students who pass song files
around -- at least not yet.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003012901t.htm

Study: Office surfers aren't slackers: By Lisa M. Bowman
Staff Writer, CNET News.com: February 4, 2003, 11:51 AM PT
Maybe companies shouldn't be so quick to pull the plug on personal
Web surfing at work. A new study finds that employees may waste time
surfing on the job, but they tend to make up for it by working from
home in their off hours.
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-983305.html

MSN deliberately breaks Opera's browser, claims company
By John Lettice: Posted: 06/02/2003 at 14:52 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29219.html
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TRENDS SECTION

(NY Times' stories require free registration)
Win Friends, Influence People, or Just Aim and Fire
By CHARLES HEROLD: THE blond guy in the Hawaiian shirt says that if
I don't mention him in my review of The Sims Online he's going to
pile-drive me again. I wasn't too happy the first time he did it and
I don't take kindly to threats, so I turn the tables, telling him
he'll make my column if he dresses up like a clown and dances for
me. He grabs a funny hat from a hatrack and starts his soft-shoe.
All right, Seth Jones, I say, I'll mention you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/technology/circuits/06game.html

A Nation of Voyeurs: How the Internet search engine Google is
changing what we can find out about one another - and raising
questions about whether we should: By Neil Swidey, Globe Staff,
2/2/2003
http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0202/coverstory_entire.htm

We Have the Technology: Synthesis of a listserv discussion
..enabling faculty to create material on the web for all courses,
online, face-to-face, and blended, is a wise investment.
http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/view/v2n1/coverv2n1.htm

The Marshall Plan: For 40 years, the man Pentagon insiders call Yoda
has foreseen the future of war - from battlefield bots rolling off
radar-proof ships to GIs popping performance pills. And that was
before the war on terror. By Douglas McGray
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/marshall.html

Putting a Faculty Face on Distance Education Programs
William H. Riffee
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7233

Designing for Learners, Designing for Users
By Dave Smulders
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?
section=3&list_item=11&p
age=1

Web-Loving Students Can Be Prodded to Cite Peer-Reviewed Works in
Term Papers, Study Suggests: Thursday, February 6, 2003
By SCOTT CARLSON
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003020601t.htm

Content Management:  Our Organized Future
George Siemens : January 23, 2003
Introduction: Content management holds the promise of better
organization, increased access to resources, greater organizational
effectiveness...for those who dare slog through the process of
setting up a content management system - a task often more onerous
than dealing with unorganized content.
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/contentmanagement.htm

Genesis Of An Anthill: Wireless Technology And Self-Organizing
Systems By Espen Andersen: The future belongs to small, connected
devices that will wirelessly allow the user -- and the technology --
to self-organize, creating something smart out of many small and
simple nodes and connections.
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_andersen_8.html

Game industry now courts women with new games: Chris Gaither
Boston Globe: Published Jan. 20, 2003 When looking after her three
boys and running a fledgling Web-hosting business got to be too much
last summer, Michelle Valentine slipped away into one of her other
worlds. After choosing one of the many personas she had created for
herself, Valentine, 32, threw invitation-only parties in a rented
villa, splattered friends in paintball matches, and sought hidden
treasures in scavenger hunts.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/3594381.html

Hating Hilary: By Matt Bai: Hilary Rosen paces the creaking oak
floor of the Oxford Union debate hall, eyeing the empty pews the way
a Roman gladiator might have surveyed the Colosseum. Rosen is the
chair of the Recording Industry Association of America, and in a few
hours she'll be standing here in a black formal gown, getting ripped
to pieces. Along with several other industry executives, she's
charged with defending the proposition: "This house believes that
the free-music mentality is a threat to the future of music."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/hating.html

Students Called on SMS Cheating: Associated Press
01:52 PM Jan. 30, 2003 PT: ROCKVILLE, Maryland -- Six University of
Maryland students have admitted cheating on an accounting exam by
using their cell phones to receive text messages with the answers,
the school said Thursday. Another six students were implicated in
the case.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,57484,00.html

Making Copyright Ambidextrous:  An Expose of Copyleft
Maureen O'Sullivan: Teaching Assistant: University of Warwick
http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/02-3/osullivan.html

Group Calls for More Academic Research in Computer Security
By BROCK READ: Washington: To protect their own computer networks
and other systems, colleges should focus their cybersecurity
programs on subjects such as wireless security, advanced virus
protection, and Internet law, according to a report released
Thursday by a consortium of academic and nonprofit research
organizations.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003013101t.htm

New Kids On the Blog:By Leslie Walker: Thursday, February 6, 2003;
Page E01: Businesses may not be creating much free content online
anymore, but people sure are. Personal publishing has flourished
online throughout the dot-com downturn, thanks to tools that make it
easy to rant online and to attract readers through automated linking
systems.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31944-2003Feb5.html
*********************************************************************
EMERGING TECH SECTION

Technology Helps Mimic Real Situations For Training
Simmersion Software Adds a Human Element
By Sabrina Jones: Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 6, 2003; Page HO05
One recent morning, Dale E. Olsen impersonated a U.S. Customs
inspector inside an airport as he interviewed Maria Rodriguez, a
young Mexico City woman visiting Los Angeles. While watching for
signs of nervousness, he asked to see her passport and quizzed her
on details about her visit to the country. The questions were
designed to determine if Rodriguez had smuggled drugs or other
contraband into the country. But Rodriguez was actually an actor in
a computer simulation used to teach interviewing skills.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32484-2003Feb5?
language=prin
ter

Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 34.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/editorial/

**Open Source LMS
Whiteboard Courseware System Project Home Page
Whiteboard is a fully-featured and -integrated courseware system,
targeted toward colleges and universities. It supports multiple
departments and courses (including cross-listed courses); simple
migration of courses to new semesters; grade storage, checking, and
calculation; assignment submission and testing, and submitted
assignment retrieval; documents; announcements; and discussion
boards. It is written in PHP with a MySQL back-end, and is fully
administrable through its web interface.
http://whiteboard.sourceforge.net/

Innovation as a Deep Capability: by Gary Hamel
Leader to Leader, No. 27 Winter 2003
http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/winter2003/hamel.html

6 Institutions Will Help Fine-Tune a Popular New Archiving Program
By DAN CARNEVALE: Six major research universities announced this
week that they are working with the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology to fine-tune an MIT program for archiving scholarly works
called DSpace, which has become wildly popular in academe in just a
few months.
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003013001t.htm

DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository
D-Lib Magazine: January 2003
Volume 9 Number 1: ISSN 1082-9873
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html

(NY Times' stories require free registration)
Pocket PC's for Smaller Pocketbooks: By DAVID POGUE
PROFESSIONAL technology reviewers have one thing in common with
lawyers, therapists and dermatologists: they are frequently
approached by advice-seekers at parties.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/technology/circuits/06stat.html
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SECURITY SECTION

*********************************************************************
HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

The Future Needs Us!: By Freeman J. Dyson
The New York Review of Books:February 13, 2003: Review
Prey: by Michael Crichton: HarperCollins, 367 pp., $26.95
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16053
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e-Clippings  1.8.03 BIG but GOOD Issue!

So what…is a soda machine just this side of a nuclear reactor in
terms of keeping one up and running?!  No really, it says exact
change, so I give it exact change and it still won't sell me a
soda – the it won't give my exact change back!
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OK – Here is kind of a `Quick Hits' section for this
issue. Not a regular feature just some great stuff I wanted to make
you saw.
M. Oehlert, Editor

Welcome to Zork
http://thcnet.net/error/index.php
**The first PC-based game I was ever addicted to. Amazing what you
can do with pure text. "You are standing in a clearing."

Spamwars: Sick of Spam?: Let out your anger on SPAMWARS, a Flash game
that pits you against the evil Sid the Spammer in the ultimate spam
battle!
http://www.elated.com/spamwars/

1 GB IBM Microdrive with PC Card Adapter
$199.99
http://www.smb.compaq.com/dstore/option.asp?superc
ategoryid=33&CategoryId=1259&ComponentId=8351
**What a bargain!!

Welcome to labs.google.com, Google's technology playground. Google
labs showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren't quite ready
for prime time.
http://labs.google.com/

"What are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the
world, and what is your advice on how I can begin to deal with them?"
— GWB
So begins the latest question from "The Edge"; the idea being
that if you had the President's ear, what would you advise him
was the most urgent scientific issue the country faces? The answers
are provided by academics, scientists, actors, journalists, and Nobel
Laureates.
http://www.edge.org/q2003/question03_index.html
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"THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND USEFUL ARTS":
WHY COPYRIGHT TODAY THREATENS INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
A Public Policy Report
http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/copyright.html
"Copyright law has become a rocky, treacherous field of
free-expression battles. It is at the core of today's controversies
in the arts, culture, and scholarship. New laws passed by Congress to
aid the companies that make up the "copyright industry" have
intensified the debates. These laws have badly upset the "difficult
balance" between rewarding creativity through the copyright system
and society's competing interest in the free flow of ideas"
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NEWS

DVD Jon is free - official
By John Leyden Posted: 07/01/2003 at 11:09 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28749.html

ADL takes first step to repository profile: Wilbert Kraan, CETIS
staff January 02, 2003 : With the publication of a report on
"Emerging and Enabling Technologies for the Design of Learning Object
Repositories", ADL is taking the first tentative steps to designing a
learning object repository application profile to complement its
existing learning object reference model, SCORM.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030102155135

I/ITSEC showcases military educational technology, SCORM: Wilbert
Kraan, CETIS staff: December 20, 2002: The annual
Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
(I/ITSEC) is a large get-together that deals with the training and
education of the -mainly US- military. Though a specialised sector
-mass destruction simulations, anyone?-, it is one where learning
technologies like SCORM are most widely deployed.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20021220235047

FATHOM SINKS: Columbia University announced on Monday that it will
shut down Fathom, its for-profit online- learning venture, which had
been designed to sell Web-based courses and seminars to the public.
The university had contributed millions to the venture, although
officials said they would not divulge the exact amount. (1/7/2003)
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003010701t.htm

IEEE explores Digital Rights Expression Language Standards: Wilbert
Kraan, CETIS staff: December 19, 2002:
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20021219210417

Designing for Learning: The Pursuit of Well-Structured Content
Judith V. Boettcher
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7092

Knowledge Environment for Web-based Learning (KEWL): An Open Source
Learning Management System Suited for the Developing World
by Derek Keats
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1021

The Bazaar Online Conference System: Athabasca University's
Alternative to Proprietary Online Course Delivery Platforms
by Susan Hesemeier, Mawuli Kuivi and Mike Sosteric
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1037

Studios Using Digital Armor to Fight Piracy: By AMY HARMON
Lying dormant in virtually every digital cable box in America is
technology that can prevent viewers from recording certain programs
to watch them later. Soon, several Hollywood studios are planning to
tell cable operators to flip the switch.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/05/business/05CONT.html

The Evolving Role of Course Management System Providers in the
Transformation of Education: An Interview with Blackboard's Matthew
Pittinsky by Jonathan Finkelstein and Matthew Pittinsky
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1039

STAY IS LIFTED: A U.S. Supreme Court justice on Friday reinstated a
lower-court decision that held that a California trade association
could not sue an individual in California courts over materials he
had posted on the Web while he was a college student in Indiana.
(1/6/2003)
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003010601t.htm

DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE
The expunging of discredited journal articles by the giant publisher
Elsevier Science threatens to hobble researchers and damage the
historical record, scholars and librarians say. (1/6/2003)
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i18/18a02701.htm

Costs negate e-learning ROI: By THOMAS HOFFMAN
DECEMBER 23, 2002: NEW YORK -- E-learning systems, cited in a recent
study as yielding great returns on investment, may not be so great
after all.
http://computerworld.com/printthis/2002/0,4814,77008,00.html

NEW 'IRAQ OIL' NETWORK WORM FOUND
(Source: IDG.net)
A new network worm that spreads through shared folders on machines
running Microsoft's Windows NT, 2000 and XP operating system has been
detected. http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=776468

From: Slashdot.org: "Bruce Perens has convinced Prentice Hall to
publish a series of books under an Open Source license. The 'Bruce
Perens' Open Source Series' will be available first as hardcopy in
bookstores, and the Open Source text will be available electronically
a few months later. Prentice Hall is counting on people buying the
books even though the electronic version will be freely available
later. I like the model, since I prefer to read paper, but like the
electronic version for reference."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/0134224&mode=flat&tid=156
http://perens.com/Books/

ELCOMSOFT NOT GUILTY: (Source: IDG.net) A jury early Tuesday
delivered its verdict in the closely watched trial against a Russian
software company charged with violating the DMCA, finding it not
guilty on all counts.
http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=776447

EA SHIPS THE SIMS ONLINE (Source: IDG.net) Electronic Arts announced
the release of The Sims Online on Tuesday. http://
www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=776449

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Limits Sought on Wireless Internet Access: By JOHN MARKOFF
The Defense Department is seeking new limits on wireless Internet
access, arguing that it could interfere with military radar.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/technology/17WIRE.html

RIAA Goes After the Little Guy
  The Recording Industry Association of America says it is demanding
that gas stations, convenience stores, groceries and small music
stores stop offering illegal copies of music recordings. The group is
demanding a settlement fee and will sue businesses that don't comply.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56884,00.html


TRENDS SECTION

YEAR IN REVIEW: The key and stupid web moments of 2002. by Mark Moyes
the 15 stupid ones
http://www.shift.com/print/10.5/432/1.html

Copyright Concerns Lead the Year's Big Fusses and Flaps
By Rob Pegoraro: Sunday, December 29, 2002; Page H09
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46079-2002Dec27.html

Copyright, Ethics and Theft: Stephen Downes: January 5, 2003
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs=
Article&key=1041806822&format=full

Technology, Popular Culture, and the Art of Teaching: A Special Issue
Cheryl Reed and James A. Inman, Editors
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.2/index.html

The Future of Higher Education: An Interview with Parker Rossman
by James L. Morrison and Parker Rossman
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1041

Promoting Learning with Personalized Newsletters
by D. Verne Morland
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1023

The Impact of Computer-Based Testing on Student Attitudes and
Behavior by Darrell L. Butler
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1013

personal knowledge publishing
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?ap=1&id=96934

Elsevier's Vanishing Act: By ANDREA L. FOSTER
From the issue dated January 10, 2003
To the dismay of scholars, the publishing giant quietly purges
articles from its database. Elsevier Science, it seems, is working on
a disappearing act, and that has university librarians fuming.
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i18/18a02701.htm

Computer Game Research 101: - A Brief Introduction to the Literature
By Jonas Heide Smith (smith@...)
Published: December, 2002: A few years ago there wasn't much to
talk about. Now, however, computer game research is booming resulting
in common terminology, competing paradigms and serious discussion on
the subjects of games and gaming. This article attempts to provide an
introduction to the field of computer game research.
http://www.game-research.com/art_computer_game_research.asp

****!!!!CAUTION!!!*** ONLY read this if you are NOT on blood pressure
medicine or in danger of suffering from a heart attack from the sheer
stupidity that can exist in some people. I only link to this as a
demonstration of the freakish, knee-jerk, no-nothing, responsibility
abdicating, partisan, reactionary BS that exists.

Video Game Report Card: David Walsh, Ph.D.; Douglas Gentile, Ph.D.;
Marilyn VanOverbeke; Emily Chasco (intern) National Institute on
Media and the Family
December 19, 2002
http://www.mediafamily.org/research/report_vgrc_2002-2.shtml

People, Firms And Trends to Watch in '03
By Shannon Henry Thursday, January 2, 2003; Page D11
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63952-2003Jan1.html

Is Electronic Arts the Next Disney?
EA's roster - from The Sims to Madden NFL to Medal of Honor - makes
it a videogame powerhouse. Can it become "the greatest entertainment
company ever"?  By Geoff Keighley
http://www.business20.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45482,00.html

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Professors Vie With Web for Class's Attention: By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Universities are rushing toward a wireless future, installing
networks that let students and the faculty surf the Internet from
laptop computers in the classroom, in the library or by those ponds
that always seem to show up on the cover of the campus brochure. But
professors say the technology poses a growing challenge for them:
retaining their students' attention.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/technology/02WIRE.html

Hotmail, Yahoo! erect roadblocks for spam sign-ons: By John Leyden
Posted: 27/12/2002 at 15:04 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28694.html

Creative Types: A Lot in Common
  The Internet is teeming with creative people who aren't famous or
rich. A new set of licenses from Creative Commons will allow
copyright holders to share their work according to conditions they
specify -- and boost their profiles. By Kendra Mayfield.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56704,00.html

Counting on the Internet: Most expect to find key information online,
most find the information they seek, many now turn to the Internet
first December 29, 2002
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=80

Rice University's Connexions: Story by Ashley Craddock
December 2002
That something new is called Connexions. As described in one of the
many documents Baraniuk and the team he leads have used to raise
funding, it's "an experimental, open-source/open content project . .
. that gives a learner . . . free access to educational materials
that can be readily manipulated to suite her individual learning
style. . . . The free software tools also foster the development,
manipulation, and continuous refinement of educational material by
diverse communities of authors and teachers."
http://creativecommons.org/learn/features/connexions
The ethics of linkage (Op-Ed): By zonker
Sat Jan 4th, 2003 at 08:03:23 PM EST
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/4/125411/1900

Paying for Learning Objects in a Distributed Repository Model
Stephen Downes: December 28, 2002
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs=
Article&key=1041124246

Vaporware 2002: Tech up in Smoke? By Vaporware Team
10:27 AM Jan. 03, 2003 PT : As 2002 ends, there is a lot of
unfinished business in various corners of the tech world. We are
referring, of course, to vaporware: hot, must-have products promised
but never delivered.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57023,00.html



EMERGING TECH SECTION

TOSHIBA TO ROLL OUT CELL PHONE FOR VIDEO MAIL IN CHINA
(Source: IDG.net) The handset is expected to be the first model that
can send and receive both still and video images via CDMA networks
for the Chinese market. http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=776383

Tech Gadgets Galore Hit Vegas : Associated Press
03:29 PM Jan. 05, 2003 PT: NEW YORK - Panasonic, Palm, Philips and
other makers of cell phones, handheld computers and electronic
doodads would have you believe the good times are rolling now like
never before. They may have a point.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57077,00.html

World's smallest hard drive now bigger: 4GB on a one-inch disk
SAN JOSE, January 6, 2003 -- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
today announced plans to squeeze four gigabytes of data onto the
1-inch Microdrive, the world's smallest hard disk drive. With
considerable advances in miniaturization technology, Hitachi
engineers have overcome numerous magnetic recording challenges
associated with developing hard disk drives of this size. The 4GB
Microdrive is expected to be available in the Fall of 2003.
http://www.hgst.com/about/news/20030106-5.html

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In the World of the Very Small, Companies: Make Big Plans: By BARNABY
J. FEDER: This may be remembered as the "Alice in Wonderland" decade
for new technology. More and more businesses are moving into the
world of nanotechnology, where particles of common materials are
shrunk to such a minuscule size that they behave in unexpected —
and often useful — way
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/16/technology/16NANO.html

E-Learning 1.0: Managing the E in E-Learning: By Eli Munzer
The most sophisticated and instructionally sound e-learning course
can fail if its design isn't technically sound or if the LMS
launching it can't predict and resolve technical stumbling blocks.
Learners expecting a trouble-free learning environment can get
discouraged when faced with technical difficulties--and may not come
back. Here are descriptions of the most common problems and how to
solve them.
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2002/nov2002/elearn.html

LMS and LCMS:  What's the Difference?: By Leonard Greenberg
If you're confused about the differences between a learning
management system (LMS) and a learning content management system
(LCMS), you're not alone. Not only are the names similar, some
suppliers are positioning LCMSs as the new wave of LMSs. In fact, an
LMS and an LCMS are complementary but very different systems that
serve different masters and address unique business challenges.
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2002/dec2002/greenberg.htm

XML and the Future of E-Learning: By Patti Shank: Two educators were
discussing an e-learning infrastructure presentation they just saw at
a conference. One turned to the other and said, "Here's what I don't
get. How would I use XML?" The other thinks for a moment and replies,
"I guess I'd use it on my resume--when I want to look tech savvy!"
(Ba-Da-Boom!)
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2002/dec2002/shank.htm

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New Strategy in the War on Spammers: By IAN AUSTEN
A RESEARCHER at AT&T Labs is proposing to stop at least some spam
before it starts by using e-mail addresses that expire or come with
other restrictions attached in code.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/technology/circuits/02spam.html

REVIEW: THE POWER OF VOICE
(Source: InfoWorld.com)
Fast-Talk Communications brings full-text search to audio recordings.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=776471

From: GameSpy
SONY DEVELOPS POSSIBLE PLAYSTATION 3 CHIP WITH TOSHIBA AND IBM -
Aramo   Toshiba is cooperating with Sony and IBM on a chip that might
be used in the PlayStation 3. Production of "Cell", the name the chip
bears, will begin as early as 2004. It is capable of handling
intricate graphics and sound over the Internet and will be produced
using 300 millimeter (12 inch) silicon wafers. This larger size may
reduce production costs as much as thirty percent compared with
standard 200 millimeter wafers.  Sony expects Cell to be used in
several new consumer electronics, but declines to comment on the use
of the chip in its new gaming console. A spokeswoman at Sony Computer
Entertainment, however, did state: "Cell would obviously be the
central chip for our next generation products. We're developing Cell
in preparation for the time when every computer is linked to the
Internet."

# Pingback 1.0
(1/3/03; 1:28:24 PM - Web Logs posted by David Carter-Tod)
Quote: "Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification
when somebody links to one of their documents. Typically, web
publishing software will automatically inform the relevent parties on
behalf of the user, allowing for the possibility of automatically
creating links to referring documents."
http://instructionaltechnology.editthispage.com/
http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback

Predictions for 2003 (Culture): By jjayson
Thu Jan 2nd, 2003 at 07:59:20 AM EST: It is time again for all the
arm chair prognosticator, psychics, seers, and prophets to put their
reputations on the line. It is time for predictions of the new 2003
year. But first, a look at some predictions from last year.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/1/195535/8599


SECURITY SECTION

PC Spies at the Gate: By Lisa Gill
January 2, 2003
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20361.html

(NY Times Requires Free Registration)
An Assistant That Knows the Real You: Carrying vital information you
cannot afford to leak? Hewlett-Packard's new iPAQ Pocket PC h5450 is
not merely as powerful as its competitors (with 64 megabytes of
memory and a 400-megahertz Intel processor), enabled with the
short-range wireless technology Bluetooth and Wi-Fi-ready. It is the
first hand-held organizer with a biometric fingerprint reader
designed to prevent it from being used by anyone but its owner.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/technology/02ipaq.html

Fooled again: Virus hoaxes persist: By Graeme Wearden
Special to CNET News.com: January 3, 2003, 7:02 AM PT
Computer users continue to be duped by false virus alerts persuading
them to delete harmless--but sometimes vital--files, and then forward
the hoaxes to their friends.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-979045.html?tag=fd_top

Nigerian Net Scam, Version 3.0
  In the latest iteration of the Nigerian e-mail swindle, scammers
pose as buyers interested in big-ticket items for sale on the Net.
Thanks to a little-known U.S. banking loophole, they're bilking
Americans out of thousands. By Michelle Delio.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56829,00.html


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Happy Birthday, Dear Internet By Justin Jaffe
02:00 AM Dec. 31, 2002 PT
From its early days as a pet project in the Department of Defense to
its infamous time nestled under Al Gore's wing, the history of the
Internet is littered with dozens of so-called birthdays.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57013,00.html

You've got gym: School offers PE classes online
BY STEVE HARRISON Posted on Sun, Jan. 05, 2003
It's a self-contained punch line, much like ''jumbo shrimp'' or
``business ethics.''
Online physical education.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/4876448.htm

RIAA invites comments
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 31/12/2002 at 00:11 GMT: According to an official statement
issued by the Recording Industry Association of America today, "I
wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner … do you eat cheese?"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/28702.html

GameSpy's PS2 Game of the Year Awards
   Last year's two best games, Grand Theft Auto 3 and Metal Gear Solid
2, came from the PS2. It was another strong year for the platform,
making our choice all the more difficult. But we did pick a winner!
What won? Read on for the complete list!
http://www.gamespy.com/goty2002

Rare and Valuable: Old Console Games
Top 10: We look at some of the most rare and collectible console
games ever made. http://www.gamespy.com/top10/december02/grails/

Mitnick wins ham radio license fight: By John Leyden
Posted: 27/12/2002 at 14:22 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/28693.html

e-Clippings  Late December 2002 *Year-End Issue*

So here we are, close to the end of another year so Cry Havoc! And
let slip the dogs of year-end reviews! I really am starting to
believe that there is some sort of cosmic balance that would be
upset, if I, as a wanna-be technology pundit of small regard, failed
to deliver an archetypal end-of-the-year, prognostication effort. Who
am I to upset the cosmic apple cart?

I will tell you up front my blazing insight from this process –
three things come out at the end of the year – reviews,
predictions and buying guides. Laying aside that first product and it
dawned on me that it might be interesting to compare these holiday
buying guides with the predictive lists and see what matched up. Is
there some sort of Twelve Monkeys' correlation between
consumerism and the future? Wouldn't the devices that were
popular holiday gifts drive the infrastructure demands for the
following year – at least on a consumer level? Well, I'll
take my investigative flashlight in hand and head that dark tunnel
and let you know what I find. For now though, I have stripped
e-Clippings of its normal news stories and replaced them with links
to a slew of 2002/2003 reports and happily include my own cosmically
balanced report as well.

Happy Holidays – Happy New Year and thank you all for subscribing
to my little effort – I hope you find it worthwhile and that it
might spark some interesting ideas.

Mark Oehlert, Editor
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Mark's Bold Predictions of What Could Possibly Maybe Be Important
in 2003.

#1 Broadband: Sheesh. How long has this dog been in the hunt? There
is actually now a whole industry built around forecasting this as a
trend. I include only because now I got it at my house! Here's
the insight – its not about dazzling content or broadband
multimedia – its about speed, pure and simple; the ability to
move large files, download email quickly, work like you were at work.
Also, don't bet on any telcos to bring it to you. Wayne Hodgins
tells the story of the companies that used to sell ice failing to
make the leap to selling refrigerators; the telcos are in the same
boat. They used to think they sold phones. Then they thought they
sold long distance. Those first two are just activities – what
people VALUE is connectivity and you know who will bring it you? The
cable companies will. They already supply my cable, my broadband, why
shouldn't I just switch and buy my phone service from them as
well? Telcos are going to get buried and I think it might already be
too late for them.

#2 (from Cambridge International Dictionary of English): Luddite
noun, USUALLY DISAPPROVING, a person who is opposed to the
introduction of new working methods, esp. new machines. Big shocker
that anti-technology efforts will continue to be led  by people who
no little or nothing about the technology they are opposing and who,
even if they do understand the technology, are still much more
interested in money or votes than change. Movie and record companies
will continue to hold to old ways of getting dollars until – if
they succeed – it will be unlawful for you to discuss the book
you just read with your spouse, unless he or she has purchased that
same book.

#3 Bio-Tech: I know this will be important, I'm just not smart
enough in the field to know where and how. I do know that living in
Maryland and driving through Rockville and Gaithersburg, you
can't throw a rock without hitting a *.gen or a bio.tech.* -
Maryland looks poised to be the Silicon Valley of BioTech.

#4 Wireless: I know – been out there almost as long as broadband
– but the tipping point? It's now at Starbucks!

#5 Handheld/Mobile OSs: Note that I didn't say handhelds
themselves – this is because MS is winning this fight again. It
doesn't matter who builds the box – it matters what goes IN
the box. Palm builds a beautiful OS but they should focus on keeping
it small and fitting it into objects (like your luggage) that MS will
never be able to design an OS for.

#6 Less use of the word "schadenfreude."

#7 Spam: If there was ever an argument for public
floggings…Someone please figure out a way to stop these people.
Attaboy to the FTC for the national opt-out list, now how about one
for Spam?

#8 Online Gaming: Unfortunately, I can't tell you what its like
to play games online, I have to show you. Do you think a technology
that can break up marriages might be important to follow?
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"THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND USEFUL ARTS":
WHY COPYRIGHT TODAY THREATENS INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
A Public Policy Report
http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/copyright.html
"Copyright law has become a rocky, treacherous field of
free-expression battles. It is at the core of today's controversies
in the arts, culture, and scholarship. New laws passed by Congress to
aid the companies that make up the "copyright industry" have
intensified the debates. These laws have badly upset the "difficult
balance" between rewarding creativity through the copyright system
and society's competing interest in the free flow of ideas"
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Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002
by Lawrence Lessig: 08/15/2002. Here is the complete transcript of
Lawrence's keynote presentation made on July 24, 2002.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html
--I have also copied this into a Word doc and uploaded it to the
eClippings's site at http://groups.yahoo.com/g
roup/eClippings/files/free%20culture%20-%20lessig.doc
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PHOTO REVIEWS

NY Times: The Year in Pictures
In 2002, the camera found memorable images everywhere.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html

Best of the Washington Post in Photos for 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/flash/photo/b
estofthepost/ad_frames.htm

ABCNews 2002 in Photos
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/yearinreview/yea
rinpictures_2002.fbk.html

Time's "The Best Photos of 2002"
http://www.time.com/time/yip/2002/


2002 REVIEWS

The Best in Sports: The usual suspects—Shaq, Kobe, Tiger,
Baffert—all did their thing, but the year will be remembered for
the Cinderella likes of the Patriots, the Angels, the U.S. World Cup
team and Salt Lake.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/852220.asp?0cv=KA01&cp1=1

The Top Science Stories of 2002 (Scientific American)
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&arti
cleID=00077641-A3BF-1E03-8B3B809EC588EEDF

Year in Privacy: Citizens Lose:  Each year, governments chip away at
citizens' civil liberties. It's a tactic the United States condemned
during the Cold War but now uses in the war on terror. A commentary
by Lauren Weinstein.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,56954,00.html

Books of the year: Readers now want books of depth and perspective.
We choose the year's best titles: Dec 12th 2002
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1491531

Books of the year interview: The Economist's books editors' on the
best of 2002, and what's coming in 2003
http://www.economist.com/books/audio.cfm?issue=20021221

JIVE Magazine Best Music of 2002: 2002 saw a plethora of CD releases,
encompassing anything from more jazzy flava, downtempo and lounge, to
DJs changing their traditional styles. New genre's emerged while
collaborations abounded. Here's the JIVE tops of `02 in the
category of music.
http://jivemagazine.com/content_articles.php?ID=106

JIVE Magazine Best of 2002-Games, Movies, Art, And More: 2002 marks
the year some of the best music and DJ's of our decade, but this year
was also notable for the best in electronic entertainment. From
movies to art to the best place in town to eat and hang out, JIVE
lists it's picks for everything else in 2002.
http://jivemagazine.com/content_articles.php?ID=108

The 2002 Wacko Awards: by Wayne Barrett: December 25 - 31, 2002:
Launched almost 25 years ago, the Wacko Awards are presented
periodically to a wide array of nincompoops, boodlers, stumblebums
and other undesirables. Just about everyone who is anyone in New York
politics has a Wacko on their mantel, from A(l Sharpton) to Z(enia
Mucha). We appropriated the Wacko name from then mayor Ed Koch, who
used the elongated version ("waaaaacko") to describe his many
critics, including us. Though 2002 offered a panoply of worthy
recipients, there are a limited number of Wackos. These are the
chosen few:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0252/barrett.php

Dragonball: Web's Most Wanted 2002
http://50.lycos.com/

2002 Year-End Google Zeitgeist: Search patterns, trends, and surprises
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2002.html

Opinion: The Not-So-Magic Eight Ball: Forget my predictions. Let's
have some fun and grade everyone else's predictions for the
soon-to-be-departed 2002.
http://www.nyq.pcmag.com/article2/0,6263,801416,00.asp

Cover Story: Best Products of 2002: We laud the products and services
that can transform our PCs into everything from digital darkrooms to
audio subsystems.
http://www.nyq.pcmag.com/article2/0,6263,760294,00.asp

GameSpy's PS2 Game of the Year Awards
Last year's two best games, Grand Theft Auto 3 and Metal Gear Solid
2, came from the PS2. It was another strong year for the platform,
making our choice all the more difficult. But we did pick a winner!
What won? Read on for the complete list!
http://www.gamespy.com/goty2002

The Big Fat Year in Culture: So much for the post-9/11
warm-and-fuzzies. In 2002 the pop world got weird again: By JAMES
PONIEWOZIK
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1
101021230-401946,00.html

Verbatim: Quotes of the Year (from TIME)
http://www.time.com/time/verbatim

The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business: In a perfect world, a list like
this would not exist. In a perfect world, businesses would be run
with the utmost integrity and competence. But ours is, alas, an
imperfect world, and if we must live in one where Enron, Geraldo
Rivera, and Cottonelle Fresh Rollwipes exist, the least we can do is
catalog the absurdities. By Tim Carvell, Adam Horowitz, Thomas Mucha,
April 2002 Issue
http://www.business20.com/articles/mag/0,1640,38604,00.html

Eight Technologies That Will Change the World: What happens when
today's tech trends begin to intersect and feed off one another?
They'll spawn new fields of knowledge that will transform everything.
By Brad Wieners, June 2002 Issue
http://www.business20.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40435,00.html

WHAT WENT RIGHT 2002: It's All Good: 2002 was a better year for
business than you might have realized. We highlight a few of the
bright spots--including some you probably missed. FORTUNE: Friday,
December 20, 2002
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,400171,00.html

The Top Stories of 2002 (from: MSNBC/NBC/NEWSWEEK)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/851889.asp?0sl=-22

Tops of 2002: Music (from: MSNBC/NBC/NEWSWEEK)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/849683.asp?0cb=-a1d126161

Tops of 2002: Movies (from: MSNBC/NBC/NEWSWEEK)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/849684.asp?0cb=-b1d126161

Tops of 2002: Television (from: MSNBC/NBC/NEWSWEEK)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/849679.asp?0cb=-c1d126161

Tops of 2002: Books (from: MSNBC/NBC/NEWSWEEK)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/849682.asp?0cb=-d1d126161

Rock & Roll Yearbook: Read all 22 cover stories (from Rolling Stone)
http://click.mp3.com/ct/f_rs_hp_cover_box3_120502_
yearbook/u_www.rollingstone.com/features/coverstor
y/featuregen.asp?pid=1341

2003+ PREDICTIONS

GAZING INTO 2003: Economy Intrudes on Dreams of New Services
By THE NEW YORK TIMES: The coming year, cellphone evangelists say,
will be the year of 3G in Europe. Of course, that's what they said
about 2002.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/30/technology/30TECH.html

Top Ten Trends 2003: Red Herring predicts the  business of emerging
technology for 2003 in its sixth annual list of top ten trends.
http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/12/10trends-intro121602.html

Sneak Peek 2003: Forbes editors and writers lift the lid on next
year's big trends and offer their wisdom.
http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/12/19/sp03_home.html

Ringing In The New Laws Of 2003: Dec. 30, 2002: Out with soaring jury
awards, potentially dangerous mercury thermometers and youngsters
motor-boating without training. In with insurance coverage for
substance abuse, donation limits for judges' election campaigns and
devices that prevent drivers from starting their car when they're
drunk. Along with resolutions, hangovers and hours of football games,
New Year's Day brings the start of hundreds of new laws on everything
from the minimum wage to efforts to combat terrorism.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/30/politics/main534633.shtml

A year of surprises: The past year, believe it or not, was
surprisingly good. How about 2003?: Dec 19th 2002
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1503590

8 Predictions and A Funeral: Loyd Case looks towards 2003, and makes
8 different prectictions that will reshape the PC landscape - and one
wishful hope of doom.
http://www.nyq.extremetech.com/article2/0,6085,796409,00.asp

Dawn of a Post-Digital Era In 2003?: Analyst Andreas Pfeiffer wonders
whether creative professionals are on the verge of moving past
technology. Pen and ink, anyone?
http://www.nyq.extremetech.com/article2/0,6085,795297,00.asp

Mike Langberg: Bold technology predictions for 2012: By Mike Langberg
Mercury News: Posted on Sat, Nov. 30, 2002
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/business/4635704.htm

Convergence, Wireless and 3D Catfights: Dave Salvator looks forward
to 2003, and sees more convergence more wireless, and a looming
deathmatch between ATI and nVidia. Alas, he's not optimisitic about
AMD.
http://www.nyq.extremetech.com/article2/0,6085,795049,00.asp

Dvorak Online: New Year's Resolutions: With 2003 coming right up, a
little house cleaning is in order.
http://www.nyq.pcmag.com/article2/0,6263,798187,00.asp

Tactix: Back to basics - e-learning in 2003
"...We have only just started to see the true potential for
information and communication technology in education and training
but that, by getting back to basics and doing the simple things well,
we can still expect to see powerful results in the short term."
http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/tactix/Features/basics.htm

Who's Next 2003
http://www.msnbc.com/news/nw-whosnext_front.asp?0cb=-e1d126161


GIFT GUIDES

Holiday wishes for headline-makers
Presenting my 2002 gift list. For those who deserve a present--or not.
http://www.redherring.com/columns/2002/tuesday/street122402.html

From PDAs to Digital  Cameras: Check out TechNews.com's holiday guide
to high- tech gifts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technology/ar
ticles/2002holidayguide.htm
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"THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND USEFUL ARTS":
WHY COPYRIGHT TODAY THREATENS INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
A Public Policy Report
http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/copyright.html
"Copyright law has become a rocky, treacherous field of
free-expression battles. It is at the core of today's controversies
in the arts, culture, and scholarship. New laws passed by Congress to
aid the companies that make up the "copyright industry" have
intensified the debates. These laws have badly upset the "difficult
balance" between rewarding creativity through the copyright system
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The Spiders (An eclectric sheep comic)
http://www.e-sheep.com/spiders/

This is a powerful site on many levels. First, for me, it reaffirms
the power of the comic strip/book as a storytelling telling device.
Second, Patrick Farley is a great writer and artist and this
particular subject matter is handled with the style and aplomb of a
master handling a venomous snake – dangerous work but beautiful
to watch.

I will warn you – this is not for the faint of heart. There are
some powerful views expressed here and some graphic (drawn) violence
– not anything out of context though.

Mark Oehlert, Editor
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Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002
by Lawrence Lessig: 08/15/2002. Here is the complete transcript of
Lawrence's keynote presentation made on July 24, 2002.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html
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http://www.house.gov/boucher/internet.htm
Friend to all who want to see the Internet/Web retain even some
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NEWS

**Gee, maybe Eisner will get fired and then he'll have to find
some other pulpit from which to spew his totalitarian copyright
views!!
Is the Magic Fading at Disney?
Company Struggles to Connect With Turbo-Charged Generation
By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 14, 2002; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52642-2002Dec13.html

FBI creates online training hub: Virtual Academy beefs up
crime-solving skills
BY Jennifer Jones: Dec. 9, 2002
The FBI last month unveiled its Virtual Academy, an online training
hub for cash- strapped local law enforcement agencies, which are
struggling now more than ever to provide staff with crucial
crime-solving skills.
http://fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1209/mgt-fbi-12-09-02.asp

Blue, Blue Xmas for Sims Fans?
By Noah Shachtman 02:00 AM Dec. 09, 2002 PT
The most hotly anticipated, breathlessly hyped game of the year may
not make it into gamers' stockings.
http://www.wired.com/news/holidays/0,1882,56718,00.html

2002 Holiday Gadget Guide: Just in time for holiday shopping, check
out TechNews.com's compilation of consumer electronics and personal
technology reviews, ranging from entry-level to high-end devices, and
more.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technology/ar
ticles/2002holidayguide.htm

Sports Rule!
In-your-face marketing. Extreme camera angles. Trash-talking
superstars. Sound like TV sports? Try sports videogames, where the
nastiest competition is the battle to take down the reigning champ,
EA Sports. By Evan Ratliff
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/

The Unreal Estate Boom
Welcome to online gaming paradise, where a carpenter can live in the
castle of his dreams - if he doesn't mind an 80-hour workweek
double-clicking pig iron and hoarding digital dung.
By Julian Dibbell
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/gaming.html

Google's new service, Froogle(still in beta version), allows Web
surfers to scan for goods in organized categories. Also included are
product descriptions and links to spots online where the items can be
purchased.
http://froogle.google.com/

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Game Theory: More Pace Plus Less Tedium Equals a Better Sequel
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/12/technology/circuits/12game.html

Keeping Track of John Poindexter
By Paul Boutin: Page 1of 1
02:00 AM Dec. 14, 2002 PT
The head of the government's Total Information Awareness project,
which aims to root out potential terrorists by aggregating
credit-card, travel, medical, school and other records of everyone in
the United States, has himself become a target of personal data
profiling.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56860,00.html

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The Wi-Fi Boom: By ADAM BAER: The wireless networking system called
Wi-Fi seems to be turning up everywhere, letting computer users go
online in parks and coffeehouses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/12/technology/circuits/12wifi.html

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Internet Filters Block Many Useful Sites, Study Finds
By JOHN SCHWARTZ: Teenagers who look to the Internet for health
information as part of their "wired generation" birthright are
blocked from many useful sites by antipornography filters that
federal law requires in school and library computers, a new study has
found.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/technology/11FILT.html


TRENDS SECTION

Pew Internet Project: American workers' moderate email lives
"Email is an integral part of American workers' lives. About 62%
of all employed Americans have Internet access and virtually all of
those (98%) use email on the job. That translates into more than 57
million American adults whom we will call "work emailers"
throughout this report. Most of them use email daily for work tasks.
But contrary to the perception that wired American workers are buried
in email, the large majority of those who use email at work say their
experience with email is manageable.
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=79

Beyond "Couch Potatoes": From Consumers to Designers and Active
Contributors by Gerhard Fischer: The fundamental challenge for
computational media is to contribute to the invention and design of
cultures in which humans can express themselves and engage in
personally meaningful activities. Cultures are substantially defined
by their media and tools for thinking, working, learning, and
collaborating. New media change (1) the structure and contents of our
interests; (2) the nature of our cognitive and collaborative tools;
and, (3) the social environment in which thoughts originate and
evolve, and mindsets develop.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_12/fischer/index.html

Africa's new tech warriors
Thursday, 5 December, 2002, 10:03 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2539327.stm

Clancy Ratliff: 11 December 2002
Electronic Publishing in the Academy: A Cultural Analysis
Research Questions:
What are academia's assumptions about electronic scholarly
publishing?
Who benefits as a result of the status quo of scholarly publishing?
What would be at stake and who would benefit if all scholarly
publishing were to go online?
Larger Questions, outside the scope of this paper:
How did scholarly publishing come to be understood in the way it is
currently understood?
Why is it this way?
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ratl0016/longopres.html

Schools' Tech Support: Students
By Katie Dean   02:00 AM Jun. 19, 2002 PT
SAN ANTONIO -- Teachers attending the National Educational
Computing Conference weren't surprised that, according to a study,
students are used to provide technical support in more than half the
school districts in the country.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,53278,00.html

The Age of Google
November 14, 2002 8:30 a.m.
It's even a verb. The other day I was reading a story on MSNBC
about a recent breakthrough in  pure mathematics. The precise nature
of the breakthrough is not important for my purposes here, and you
can read about it yourself if you feel inclined. The breakthrough was
made by one Professor Agrawal, a computer scientist in India. What
caught my eye was in this paragraph, about the path Prof. Agrawal
traveled to the solution he was seeking:
http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire111402.asp

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Movie Posters That Talk Back
By MICHEL MARRIOTT
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/12/technology/circuits/12post.html

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Helping Children Learn, but Not Forgetting the Fun
By ALICE KEIM
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/12/technology/circuits/12kids.html

The  Magazine (Sunday NY Times)
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2nd Annual Year in Ideas: Botox parties, no- feather chickens and
remote- controlled rats.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/index.html?8hpist

VIRTUAL LAB
A Brigham Young University faculty member has found a way for
students to get hands-on chemistry experience without actually
putting their hands on any chemicals. The students work with computer
software, called Virtual ChemLab, that can simulate various chemical
interactions -- and can even show on-screen explosions when the
interactions prove volatile. (12/10/2002)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/12/2002121001t.htm


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Total Remote by Griffin Technologyis a very innovative product that
REALLY enables your PocketPC to control nearly any device from up to
100 feet. If you are looking for a truly universal remote control
that is easy to program then look no further. Price $29.99.
http://www.pocketpcminds.com/reviews/totalremote.php

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Young Man, Would You  Like That in a Box?
By PHIL PATTON: Rather than being advertised as a means of
transportation, the 2003 Honda Element, which goes on sale Thursday,
was designed from the start as a sort of clubhouse for "active young
men."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/automobiles/15AUTO.html

SECURITY SECTION

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Free Christmas Game from Clickgamer
Posted by Jason Dunn@ 03:22 PM
"Clickgamer Technologies Ltd would like to announce the release of
SNOWED IN for the Pocket PC - a *FREE GAME FOR CHRISTMAS* (as a thank
you for all our customers, visitors and ppc users everywhere).
Collect as many presents as you can and stop the evil Grinch from
spoiling Christmas!"
http://www.clickgamer.com/reviews.htm?pid=2

Does skull prove that the first Americans came from Europe?
By Steve Connor Science Editor
03 December 2002
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medica
l/story.jsp?story=358001

Art Explores Cartoon as Commodity
By Kendra Mayfield  |  Also by this reporter
  02:00 AM Dec. 14, 2002 PT
SAN FRANCISCO -- She has wide buglike eyes, a small mouth and
virtually no psychological background, personal history, defining
characteristics, attitudes or abilities.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56762,00.html

Rejected Software from SomethingAwful.com (PG-13 Warning for Language)
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=443
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"There are seven sins in the world: wealth without work, pleasure
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morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and
politics without principle." Mahatma Gandhi

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Wow. Haven't been gone that long in a while. I never know where
to start after being gone so long. I do apologize for the downtime;
massive real-world responsibilities intruded there for a couple of
weeks but I think the pressure is lifting a bit now.  Still
continuing to work on building out a mobile computing lab here at ADL
and helping with out research into Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming
(MMOG). Finally getting paid to play games! Anyway, much is going on
at the nexus of technology and learning – my latest snapshot is
below.
Good to be back.
Mark Oehlert, Editor
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For you Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or other end-of-the year type
celebrations:
Circuits Holiday Issue
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2002/11/21/technolo
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The Ultimate Geek Gift Guide: 2002 WIRED/TOOLS
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/gift.html
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Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002
by Lawrence Lessig: 08/15/2002. Here is the complete transcript of
Lawrence's keynote presentation made on July 24, 2002.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html
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ADL release new implementation guide, conformance test suite almost
final version 1.3 of SCORM: Wilbert Kraan, CETIS staff: December 02,
2002
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20021202160428

Microsoft Warns of Windows, Explorer Security Hole
Reuters: Friday, November 22, 2002; 5:22 AM
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday issued a "critical"
security bulletin which said the company has discovered a security
hole in its software which would let cyber-attackers run programs on
Web servers and computers in homes and businesses.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24700-2002Nov22.html

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**Hard to imagine – students learning…
Students Learning to Evade Moves to Protect Media Files
November 27, 2002: By AMY HARMON
As colleges across the country seek to stem the torrent of
unauthorized digital media files flowing across their campus computer
networks, students are devising increasingly sophisticated
countermeasures to protect their free supply of copyrighted
entertainment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/27/technology/27SWAP.html

E-learning fails to make the grade
Monday, November 25 2002
by Matthew Clark
http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=8833507

How Will Technology Change Research Universities?
Friday, November 22, at 3 p.m., U.S. Eastern time
How dramatically will technology change research universities? How
should university officials prepare for these changes?
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2002/11/research/

Sexy e-learning doesn't work
By Rachel Fielding [25-11-2002]
Current projects are failing to deliver, says HR expert
E-learning projects are failing to deliver because companies are too
focused on 'sexy' content rather than improving the learning process.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137088

Recording Industry Plans to Accelerate
Complaints About Illegal File Sharing
Monday, December 2, 2002: By SCOTT CARLSON
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/12/2002120202t.htm

Innovation Now!
Conventional wisdom says to get back to basics.
Conventional wisdom says to cut costs.
Conventional wisdom is doomed.
The winners are the innovators who are making bold thinking an
everyday part of doing business. By Gary Hamel from FC issue 65, page
115
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/65/innovation.html

Hearing today in Kazaa suit
  Dec 2, 2002 4:56 AM PT
Lawyers for the music and movie industries gathered on Sunday ahead
of a hearing in a copyright infringement case against popular
file-sharing services, Kazaa, Grokster and Morpheus MusicCity, now
named Streamcast, industry trade group officials said. On Monday,
U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles will hear
summary judgment oral arguments in the case brought by the Recording
Industry Association of America, the Motion Picture Association of
America and the National Music Publishers' Association against the
music services. The suit was first filed in October 2001. –Reuters
http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1106-975670.html

Gerstner to Be Carlyle Group Chairman: Former IBM Chief Brings Long
List of Contacts to Private Equity Firm New chairman
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. has agreed to commit about 20 percent of his
time to Carlyle Group, the company said. (File Photo/AP)
By Greg Schneider, Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 22, 2002; Page E01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23277-2002Nov21.html

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Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet
By JOHN MARKOFF: A Pentagon research agency rejected tagging Internet
data to make anonymous use of some parts of the Internet impossible.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html

RIM stock sinks on U.S. patent verdict
Reuters, 11.22.02, 9:59 AM ET
OTTAWA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd. <RIM.TO> shares
took a sharp hit in early trade on Friday, dropping more than 13
percent after a U.S. jury ruled it must pay $23.1 million in a patent
infringement suit.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2002/11/22/rtr804000.html

Total Info System Totally Touchy: By Ryan Singel
02:00 AM Dec. 02, 2002 PT
Can a massive database of information on Americans really
preempt terrorist attacks? That's what industry experts are asking
about the Pentagon's proposed Total Information Awareness System,
which, according to the proposal, would aggregate on "an
unprecedented scale" credit card, medical, school and travel records.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56620,00.html

Dear Santa: You've Got E-Mail: By Steve Kettmann
02:00 AM Nov. 30, 2002 PT
BERLIN -- They pile up year-round at the North Pole post office:
letters to Santa from all over the world. But more and more kids are
opting to e-mail their Christmas wishes instead. "You see all the
different mail coming in here, and you wonder how," said Donna
Matthews, manager of the North Pole branch of the post office, on
Candy Cane Lane. This is where letters end up when you write "Santa,
North Pole" as the address -- some 500,000 a year.
http://www.wired.com/news/holidays/0,1882,56609,00.html

Sklyarov gets US visa -DMCA trial to kick off
By John Leyden
Posted: 28/11/2002 at 16:47 GMT
The first criminal prosecution under the controversial Digital
Millennium Copyright Act is to begin in San Jose next week after a
visa was finally granted to Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov and
Alex Katalov, the chief executive of his former employers ElcomSoft.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28352.html


TRENDS SECTION

Mobile Usage to Double by 2007:
3G Networks, gadget phones, and longer-lived batteries will lure
users, Ericsson exec says. Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service
Friday, November 29, 2002
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,107298,tk,dn112902X,00.asp

THE INTERNET DEBACLE - AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
Originally written for Performing Songwriter Magazine, May 2002
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html

From Weblog to Moblog
By Justin Hall, Nov 21 2002
UPDATED: What happens when weblogs go mobile? Searching reality for
friends and information.
http://www.thefeature.com/index.jsp?url=article.jsp?pageid=24815

In Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Howard Rheingold, author
of Tools for Thought and The Virtual Community, explains how advanced
wireless communication technologies are beginning to cause
fundamental shifts in the way we relate to others, and to the world
around us. Howard explores how devices like cellphones, PDAs, and
pagers support cooperative or "mob" action that can be either
beneficial or destructive.
Check out the conversation with Howard.
http://engaged.well.com/engaged/engaged.cgi?c=inkwell.vue&f=0&t=166

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What Would Dewey Do? Libraries Grapple
With Internet  By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
PHOENIX, Nov. 27 — In its six years of service, the central
Phoenix library has become a favorite destination for thousands of
residents who have no other access to computers and the Internet. On
any given day, separate areas for children, teenagers and adults
— with 65 computers in all — swarm with users, clicking away
at research, games, music, e-mail messages and chat rooms.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/02/national/02LIBR.html

Extended Faceted Taxonomies for Web Catalogs
by Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyratos, Panos Constantopoulos and
Anastasia Analyti
ERCIM News No. 51, October 2002
Which would be easier to remember: one thousand individual terms or
three facets of ten terms each?
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw51/tzitzikas.html

Faceted Metadata Search and Browse
http://www.searchtools.com/info/faceted-metadata.html

The Semantic Web lifts off: ERCIM News No. 51, October 2002
by Tim Berners-Lee and Eric Miller
Many researchers at ERCIM Institutes are aware that this is an
exciting time to be involved in work done at the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C). Scalable Vector Graphics, Web Services, and the
Semantic Web are but a few of the W3C Activities attracting media
attention. This article focuses on the W3C's Semantic Web Activity
and recent developments in the Semantic Web community. Although it is
difficult to predict the impact of such a far-reaching technology,
current implementation and signs of adoption are encouraging and
developments in future research areas are extremely promising.
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw51/berners-lee.html

The Making of a Policy Gadfly: Seeing crucial computer-science work
threatened, a Princeton professor takes on Congress
From the issue dated November 29, 2002: By ANDREA L. FOSTER
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i14/14a02701.htm

MIT's Open Window: Putting course materials online, the university
faces high Expectations: From the issue dated December 6, 2002
By FLORENCE OLSEN
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i15/15a03101.htm

Mike Langberg: Bold technology predictions for 2012
By Mike Langberg: Posted on Sat, Nov. 30, 2002
Mercury News
Smart devices that talk to each other without human intervention,
store merchandise that rings itself up for purchase and machines that
finally understand the spoken word are just some of the new
technologies awaiting us in the year 2012. On Monday I gave myself a
``B'' for my 1992 predictions of what life would be like in 2002.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/business/4635704.htm

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Video Games Make Big Leap to Small Phone
Screens By REUTERS Filed at 3:06 p.m. ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The next time your cell phone rings, it may
not
be simply an incoming call but a hot, new video game that has
finished downloading.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-telecoms-games.html

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The Video Games of 2002
November 21, 2002: By CHARLES HEROLD
THIS was the year three next-generation game consoles went head to
head. With Sony's PlayStation 2 easily holding first place,
Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's Xbox are battling it out for
second. Xbox has the most impressive technology, but the cheaper
GameCube is being given a push by the number of quality games
Nintendo is releasing this season. Regardless of platform, technology
is giving us games with gorgeously detailed graphics. They were just
as much fun to play 10 years ago, but now they're so much more fun to
look at.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/21/technology/circuits/21game.html

The Games Wal-Mart Doesn't Play
By Sandy Brundage : 02:00 AM Dec. 02, 2002 PT
Two years ago, a video game called Giants: Citizen Kabuto
underwent plastic surgery right before its release. The blood -- shed
liberally by characters in the action-strategy game -- was changed
from red to green, and a female character suddenly sported a bikini
top after appearing topless in pre-publication screenshots. These
changes were made to satisfy content restrictions imposed by
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest mass retailer of video games.
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,55955,00.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

What is NAND Memory, Like That of the New HP iPAQ h1910?
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/articles.php?id=52
27&sid=81edea4cb00893475890779e010b91f8&PHPSESSID=
0bc4fa81be9cd2d5478449ef56adefd3

Toshiba Launches Hopbit: Innovative Mobile Pocket Server Combines
Bluetooth(TM) Connectivity with High Capacity Data Storage
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2002_10/pr0902.htm

Welcome back, Ricochet: High-speed wireless network returning —
slowly
http://www.msnbc.com/news/840116.asp?0dm=N12LT&cp1=1


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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

David Skyrme authored this great piece, identifying 12 kinds of
Knowledge Workers: http://radio.weblogs.com/010784
6/categories/brainToBrain/2002/11/23.html

"The expert - you have expertise in a domain of knowledge or a
particular skill. You enjoy honing your knowledge and exercising your
core skills. You are the recognized "expert" and stay with your
choosen knowledge domain over many years.

Knowledge analyst - you love assimilating knowledge from many
sources. You have many of the attributes of the expert (but are
perhaps not as self-opinionated or self-promotionalist) and also of
the packager. Others respect your views and like your 'rational'
knowledge to support their arguments.

Knowledge leader - you have a broad area of knowledge and build
bridges between knowledge (and people) in different domains. You are
a generalist, not a specialist. You see the big picture
and how knowledge supports organizational objective. You're the
future CKO or CEO.

Knowledge networker - you are a knowledge broker and connector. You
connect people to people and people to knowledge. A hybrid of
expertise and leadership - you're scope is not too broad
and you have a large address book. You don't know all the answers
yourself, but you know a person who does.

Knowledge custodian - you like everything to be in its proper place.
You love classifying knowledge and organizing content into
taxonomies. You get upset if knowledge renegades upset the
system. You're probably the knowledge centre manager.

Knowledge creator - you're an ideas person. Always thinking of new
things to do, you never seem to have time to see them through to
implementation. Your thinking goes off in several
directions but you do come up with breakthrough ideas and innovative
approaches.

Knowledge entrepreneur - you may not have the best ideas yourself,
but you do recognize those that have potential. You are the bridge
between the creator and the packager. You have a
good story to tell and are committed to making a difference.

Knowledge packager - if you didn't do knowledge work you would
probably be an engineer or mechanic. You assemble all the knowledge
components to make something worthwhile. You help
knowledge creators realize their dreams.

Knowledge visualizer - you like pictures, so you get away from those
boring bulleted Powerpoint slide shows. You make your points in
images, diagrams and perhaps even cartoons and music.

Knowledge activist - you are committed to a cause and will marshal
the knowledge you need to support your case. You can also be a
knowledge maverick, questioning the status quo and

raising doubts in others about the efficacy of their hard-won
knowledge. Although an irritant to the powers that be, it is often
you who initiates change.

Knowledge seeker - ever curious, you are always asking "why" and
seeking new knowledge. Even after you retire, you will go on
knowledge delivery cruises to new exotic locations. The pursuit
of knowledge for your personal fulfilment is your key driver. You
couldn't care less if it's useful to others or not, but are always
willing to share it enthusiastically.

Storyteller - you cut into the bullshit and encapsulate knowledge
into highly memorable stories. You have a strong imagination and look
for analogies and metaphors. The fact that storytelling is
now a tool for corporate knowledge management means that you should
have a bright career ahead - even if you did get turned down for the
Edinburgh Festival fringe!"
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"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you oughtta go back
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Toyota Celica MicroSizer (Black 27mhz)
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Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002
by Lawrence Lessig: 08/15/2002. Here is the complete transcript of
Lawrence's keynote presentation made on July 24, 2002.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html
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OKI, IMS, ADL and SIF join up: Wilbert Kraan, CETIS staff
November 01, 2002: The four main US-based educational technology
specification bodies are to formalise their ties, set up coordinated
activities and provide joint support for developers.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20021101172421

Scale the e-learning curve/ Getting savvy
11/04/02; Vol. 17 No. 16: By Gail Repsher Emery
Mistakes and failures convince agencies to drive before they buy
http://washingtontechnology.com/news/17_16/cover-stories/19381-1.html

**Hey! This is us, I mean ADL!!
Scale the e-learning curve/ SCORMing the market
11/04/02; Vol. 17 No. 16: By Gail Repsher Emery
Industry, agencies line up behind emerging standard for e-
learning.
http://washingtontechnology.com/news/17_16/cover-stories/19382-1.html

The benefits of SCORM
11/04/02; Vol. 17 No. 16: By GAIL REPSHER EMERY
http://washingtontechnology.com/news/17_16/cover-stories/19380-1.html

Spell e-learning S-C-O-R-M
11/04/02; Vol. 17 No. 16: By Steve LeSueur
http://washingtontechnology.com/news/17_16/editors-notes/19383-1.html

Problems and Issues in Online Learning, October 2002
by Stephen Downes
http://education.qld.gov.au/staff/learning/courses/sdownesoct.html

Privacy group fights P2P crackdown: By  Lisa M. Bowman
Staff Writer , CNET News.com: November 7, 2002, 9:17 AM PT
The Electronic Privacy Information Center is launching a
counterattack against Hollywood's efforts to crack down on student
file-swapping. The privacy advocacy group is sending letters to
presidents of colleges across the country, asking them to think
before they install monitoring tools on university networks.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-964908.html?tag=fd_top

**People – this is a 1.2 GHz chip FOR PDAs!!!!
ARMing for War: Samsung unveils its own 1.2GHz ARM processor
By Jansen Ng: Monday 21 October 2002, 14:10
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Corp revealed details of what the
company claims is the first 1.2 GHz implementation of an ARM
processor core at the Microprocessor Forum last week.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5853

TRENDS SECTION

Everquest Or Evercrack?: NEW YORK, May 28, 2002
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/28/earlysho
w/living/caught/main510302.shtml

Here's where it all began...Before there was Doom, Ultima, Rogue, or
even Zork, there was... Adventure.
There were other text computer games before Adventure, such as
STARTREK and WUMPUS, but this was the first of its kind; the first
text "interactive fiction" game. It may seem outdated and quaint by
today's standards, sort of like seeing the Wright brothers' original
flyer parked next to a Boeing 747, but many of us remember it fondly.
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html

All CDs will be protected and you are a filthy pirate
By John Lettice
Posted: 08/11/2002 at 11:42 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/28009.html

The Next Frontier: "Intellectual Property" and Intellectual Freedom
Julie M. Boucher Memorial Lecture, Colorado Association of
Libraries, Oct. 18, 2002  By Marjorie Heins
http://www.fepproject.org/commentaries/coloradointellprop.html

**A little bit of history
START VOL. 3 NO. 6 / JANUARY 1989 / PAGE 41
The European Report: Robots, Games and a Pocket PC
by Andre Willey: START European Editor
http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n6/european_report.html

Playing to Learn: Blending Learning with Stories, Games, Toys, and
Simulations
By Amy Finn, Ph.D., Chief Learning Officer, Centra Software
If learning is about problem-solving and skills mastery, what greater
way to accomplish this than by using games, toys, and simulations to
help us teach and learn? It is the experiential and problem-based
nature of these diversions that renders them so powerful as learning
tools.
http://www.elearnmag.org/

Welcome to the KnowBetter Lending Library. If you are a patron, you
may simply log in and borrow eBooks. You will be able to read your
borrowed eBooks using the Mobipocket eBook reader on a PC, or on the
most popular handheld devices.
http://www.libwise.com/knowbetter/

from: elearnspace
Instructional Design in Elearning: George  Siemens
September 30, 2002
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/InstructionalDesign.htm

The Death Of The Internet: By Jeffrey Chester, AlterNet
November 4, 2002: The Internet's promise as a new medium -- where
text, audio, video and data can be freely exchanged -- is under
attack by the corporations that control the public's access to
the 'Net, as they see opportunities to monitor and charge for the
content people seek and send. The industry's vision is the online
equivalent of seizing the taxpayer-owned airways, as radio and
television conglomerates did over the course of the 20th century.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14454

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
The Development of Social Climate in Virtual Learning Discussion
Groups  (April, 2002) ISSN: 1492-3831
Avigail Oren, Tel-Aviv University, School of Education, David Mioduser
Tel-Aviv University, School of Education, Rafi Nachmias, Tel-Aviv
University, School of Education
http://www.irrodl.org/content/v3.1/mioduser.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Nokia unveils games for mobiles
From correspondents in Helskinki
November 05, 2002
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,54
26678%255E1702,00.html

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Trying to Shift Shape of PC Screens: By BOB TEDESCHI
INTERNET retailers and media companies have long warmed the hope that
consumers would spend more online if only computers were a little
more user-friendly. Web shoppers, for example, might much prefer
curling up on the couch with something more like a catalog to
planting themselves at their desktop computers to shop. Laptops and
hand-held computers offer portability, but usually with the
compromise of inferior screens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/04/technology/04ECOM.html

AMD strongarms into low-power handhelds: By Andrew Orlowski in San
Francisco: Posted: 04/11/2002 at 09:55 GMT: Updated Intel isn't alone
in integrated wireless technologies into mobile chipsets with its
forthcoming Banias processor. AMD says the first fruits of its
Alchemy acquisition are now sampling, tieing 802.11 wireless to a
low-power, MIPS core. Alchemy was founded by Rich Witek, the brains
behind the StrongARMs and one of the designers of DEC's Alpha
processor.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/27901.html

Simputer Linux handheld for developing world finds builder
By ComputerWire: Posted: 31/10/2002 at 09:40 GMT
India-based PicoPeta Simputer Private Ltd has struck a
manufacturing deal for its Simputer mass market computing device, and
expects to have the 1,000 first batch to come off the production line
next month.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27863.html

A Cultural Ecology of Nanotechnology: Bonnie A. Nardi
Agilent Laboratories: Agilent Technologies: Palo Alto, California
bonnie_nardi@...
http://www.darrouzet-nardi.net/bonnie/nanosciencestatement.html

Why arcade games are running scared
[29/10/2002: 15:14]
How did the arcade industry fall from its heady days of Pac-Man and
Street Fighter II? Edge delves into the coin-op world to discover
what went wrong...
http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/features/default.asp?p
age=1&subsectionid=200&pagetype=2&searchstring=&articleid=64489

IBM sprinkles more Pixie Dust on HDDs: By Drew Cullen
Posted: 06/11/2002 at 11:43 GMT: IBM boffins have squeezed more areal
density from its latest mobile hard drive, thanks to a liberal extra
coating of Pixie Dust.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/63/27961.html

IBM unveils "pixie dust" hard drives:By John G. Spooner
Special to ZDNet News:November 6, 2002, 10:48 AM PT
IBM is using an extra dash of pixie dust to add gigabytes of storage
to its notebook hard drives.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-964711.html

XScale vs. StrongARM PDA:November 7, 2002
Harald Thon & Uli Ries
Users have yet to see any uptick in speed from the XScale application
processor's faster clock. The problem lies in the dearth of optimized
applications. At the moment, the main thing in favor of the XScale
devices is that they are future-proof. However, the balance may tilt
in favor of the XScale products in the next several months, once
Intel's Software Optimization Initiative takes hold.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/02q4/021107/index.html


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HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Spider-Man breaks DVD records: Monday, 4 November, 2002, 11:10 GMT
Film blockbuster Spider-Man has broken the record for DVD sales,
taking more money in its first three days on sale than the movie took
in box office receipts when it was released in cinemas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2397297.stm

Weapons of mass instruction
"Koyaanisqatsi" director Godfrey Reggio invented a film genre,
prefiguring the campus classic "Baraka." There are no words in his
latest -- just one cutting image after another.
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2002/11/05/qatsi/index.html

The dictionary is intended for use by novice MUD players or as
reference material for experienced users who would like to use a
common terminology with the users of other MUDs. Provides information
specific to MUDs: on the root of command actions common to many
games, slang, and technical terms.
http://www.iowa-mug.net/muddic/dic/help.html
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"We move through this moment of architecture of innovation to, once
again, embrace an architecture of control -– without noticing,
without resistance, without so much as a question. Those threatened
by this technology of freedom have learned how to turn the technology
off. The switch is now being thrown. We are doing nothing about it."
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TechLearn 2002 Report

So I am finally back from TechLearn 2002 – I should be fully
caught up on email by somewhere in 2004!  TechLearn was great as
always – highlights included the Raspyini Brothers – a
hysterical juggling/comedy team – a keynote session with Peter
Senge – standing room only sessions for SCORM - and of course,
Elliott's own wit and wisdom – not to mention unlimited ice
cream at Disney! There was also a great session with Jay Cross and
Lance Dublin on "why elearning isn't important." Catch a version of
that here: http://www.meta-time.com/Learning/presentations/eL
earning-not-important.html

There was also a "visual journalist" who recorded visual minutes from
selected meetings - I've got some pictures but haven't run them
through Photoshop yet so they're HUGE, but let me know if you're
interested and I'll see what I can do. I also participated in the
e-Learning World Congress facilitated by Wayne Hodgins. The three
sessions here hit on the architecture, business and compellingness of
content in e-learning (ABC, get it?);-)

A draft version of the 2002 Trip Report is already online but wait
probably one more day till we finish the final – but be sure to
check out the URL below as Elliott and his crew upload audio and PPT
from all the sessions.
http://www.techlearn.net/2002/

--Mark Oehlert, Editor
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Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002
by Lawrence Lessig: 08/15/2002. Here is the complete transcript of
Lawrence's keynote presentation made on July 24, 2002.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html
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**This makes me sick to my stomach. I was one of those whitebread,
suburban kids who got their first glimpse of something beyond our
communities through the work of rap pioneers like Jay. Run DMC was a
group with a conscious, a positive force and this is just a shame.
Right up with (no kidding) Lennon for a lot of people.
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D.J. for Run-DMC Is Shot to Death in Queens
By ANDY NEWMAN
Jam Master Jay, the D.J. who provided beats and scratches to the rap
group Run-DMC's groundbreaking records, was shot and killed last
night at a recording studio in Jamaica, Queens, the authorities said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/nyregion/31RAP.html

E-Learning Sector Regroups After Years of
Uncertainty by Sandra I. Erwin (National Defense magazine)
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/article.cfm?Id=969

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The New Leader of I.B.M. Explains His Strategic Course: By STEVE LOHR
WITH a speech in New York yesterday at the start of a costly and
quirky marketing campaign, Samuel J. Palmisano, I.B.M.'s chief
executive, declared his company was making a $10-billion bet on a
strategic shift toward what it calls "on-demand computing."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/business/media/31ADCO.html

New Alliance for webcasters:  By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 10/30/2002 at 12:55 EST: Webcasters have a new forum this
week, with the launch of the Webcaster Alliance. Many of the founding
members dissented against the attempted compromise Small Webcasters
Amendment Act, or HR.5469.
http://www.theregus.com/content/6/26824.html

Winners and Finalists: Pocket PC magazine's
Best Software Awards 2002: From over 1,400 pieces of software listed
in Pocket PC magazine's Encyclopedia of Software and Accessories, we
nominated 436 for the magazine's Best Software Awards 2002. From
these nominees, 158 finalists were selected with 57 of them voted as
winners in their respective categories
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/jan03/winners.asp

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A Lack of Money Forces Computer Initiative to Close: By JOHN SCHWARTZ
When Stephen M. Case, then the chairman of America Online, and many
other high-technology executives announced an initiative called
PowerUP less than three years ago, they said that their donated
millions would help bridge the "digital divide" between rich and poor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/technology/30POWE.html

Open Source is good for America - US military advised
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco: Posted: 10/29/2002 at 03:30 EST
A report commissioned by the US military concludes that open
source and free software should play a greater part in the
infrastructure of the world's remaining superpower.
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26796.html

**Yea!!
RIAA chief Rosen loses Oxford debate on P2P: By John Lettice
Posted: 10/27/2002 at 11:13 EST: RIAA chairmam* and CEO Hilary Rosen
suffered a heavy defeat at the Oxford Union last week, when the
motion she was proposing, "This House believes that the free music
mentality is a threat to the future of music," was rejected by 256
votes to 72. The Oxford Union, you may recall, is the debating club
that produces top politicians, and where once upon a time toffs voted
against fighting for King and Country. So Hilary and her camp (Jay
Berman of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries,
and Chris Wright of Chrysalis) may have incorrectly anticipated the
audience being rich enough to disdain P2P.
http://www.theregus.com/content/6/26777.html

Digital copyright law on trial: By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com: October 30, 2002, 3:39 PM PT
A security researcher asked a federal judge Wednesday to let a
challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act continue.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963975.html?tag=fd_top

The 5th Annual Webby Awards and People's Voice Winners
http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webcast/winners.html


TRENDS SECTION

GROWING UP DIGITAL: How the Web Changes Work, Education, and the Ways
People Learn: John Seely Brown
http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/FEB02_Issue/article01.html

*If this link gets broken, try the front page of the Chronicle's
section on DL for a link to the transcript.
(http://chronicle.com/distance/)
The Phoenix Agenda for Distance Education
Thursday, October 31, at 1 p.m., U.S. Eastern time
How has the University of Phoenix grown so quickly in online
education? How will the Phoenix approach change other institutions'
online offerings?
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2002/10/phoenix/

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B's, Not Need, Are Enough for Some State Scholarships
By GREG WINTER: ATHENS, Ga., Oct. 29 — Kelly Ryan has made good
use of her college trust fund. It has bought a trusty Honda, trips to
Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, some painful lessons about picking her
own stocks and, if all goes well, maybe even her first piece of real
estate after graduation. About the only thing it is has not paid for
is, well, college.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/education/31MERI.html

Attack of the Mod Squads: By Mark Rasch, SecurityFocus Online
Posted: 10/30/2002 at 02:58 EST: On September 16, 2002, Microsoft,
Sony and Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Hong Kong distributor Lik
Sang International Ltd, in the High Court of Hong Kong, alleging that
the company had infringed copyrights associated with their various
gaming systems.
http://www.theregus.com/content/54/26809.html

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To the Liberal Arts, He Adds Computer Science: By STEVE LOHR
PRINCETON, N.J. -- TALL and slender with a flowing beard, dressed in
a gray sweater and jeans, Brian Kernighan works his audience with a
fast patter and a ready smile. The challenge he has set for himself
is to demystify computing for a classroom full of liberal arts
undergraduates at Princeton.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/technology/circuits/31prof.html

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Network Tries to Foil Ad Skipping: By BERNARD STAMLER
TELEVISION networks, dreading a future in which digital devices hand
viewers the power to skip commercials automatically, have responded
by increasingly integrating ads into the programs themselves. Now, a
new cable network has elevated the practice beyond the occasional,
building such anti-ad-zapping efforts directly into its business
model.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/29/business/media/29ADCO.html

Transitioning Technical Instructors to the Web: By Paula Moreira
You're not the only one making the shift to live instruction on
the Web. Here's how New Horizons Computer Learning Centers made the
transition. For New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, headquartered
in Anaheim, California, making the transition to live instruction on
the Web was a calculated risk that paid off. With over 250
independent brick and mortar classrooms around the world delivering
more than 3 million student days of classroom training, adding online
courses had major organizational impacts--culturally and
operationally, from instructor to sales person.
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/oct2002/moreira.html

Published on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 by the Toronto Globe & Mail
For-Profit U.S. Schools Sell Off Their Textbooks: by Doug Saunders
Students already have to worry about exams, essay deadlines and
staying awake through math class. In Philadelphia, they have a new
worry: What if your school becomes a victim of the stock market
meltdown?
http://commondreams.org/headlines02/1030-02.htm

A retreat from foreign languages?: By Patrik Jonsson | Special to The
Christian Science Monitor
ATHENS, GA. – Like many of his friends, Matthew Moye wasn't big
on learning a foreign language back in high school. Despite his two
years of basic Spanish, he doubts he'd be able to order a plate of
nachos were he to find himself in Mexico City.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1029/p20s01-lepr.html

Russia: Dial 'H' for Hostage By Sergey Kuznetsov: 02:00 AM Oct. 30,
2002 PST
MOSCOW -- Mark Rankov, one of 750 hostages held by Chechen extremists
inside a theater here last week, had a message for the Russian people
while he was a captive: "Your TV is lying."
Rankov, 28, wanted his countrymen to know that it wasn't just his
Chechen captors who favored holding a rally on the Moscow streets to
end the war in Chechnya, as Russian television had reported. So did a
number of the hostages. The question was, how to get that message
out? Rankov contacted his friend, Olga Brukovsky, on a cell phone
while the standoff was in progress. She took down his words and
published them online at LiveJournal.com, a website that has become
increasingly popular among Russians in recent years.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56073,00.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

Searches Done by Sphere Factor
By Leslie Walker: Thursday, October 31, 2002; Page E01
Oh, for the good old days when money flowed like wine, unleashing the
creativity of entrepreneurs who mixed idea cocktails by the hour
during their mad race to colonize the Web.
These days, innovation is as scarce as money in dot-com land. So it
was a pleasant surprise the other day when representatives from a
start-up called Groxis dropped by my office to show off a new visual
search tool dubbed Grokker.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43337-2002Oct30.html

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From Inside, Palm Makes a New Start: By DAVID POGUE
THERE may come a time in every corporation's life when it must stand
tall, swallow hard and abandon the very technology that made it
successful. Hewlett-Packard sold off its scientific-instruments
division. Apple jettisoned an aging Mac operating system and
conceived a new one. DOS is no longer the heart of Microsoft Windows.
In Silicon Valley, you could get rich selling "If you love something,
let it go" T-shirts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/technology/circuits/31stat.html

New PDA Apps Accompany Palm OS 5 Debut : File utilities, network
tools, even a fold-up keyboard launch to support latest handhelds.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,106491,tk,cx103002a,00.asp

Dell will swing PDAs to PocketPC, says Dataquest: By ComputerWire
Posted: 10/29/2002 at 05:59 EST: Dell Computer Corp's entry into the
PDA market could lead to a considerable market shakeup, according to
a report from Gartner Dataquest, despite Dell's own limited
short-term ambitions for the technology.
http://www.theregus.com/content/54/26798.html

Simputer Linux handheld for developing world finds builder By
ComputerWire
Posted: 10/31/2002 at 04:40 EST: India-based PicoPeta Simputer
Private Ltd has struck a
manufacturing deal for its Simputer mass market computing device, and
expects to have the 1,000 first batch to come off the production line
next month.
http://www.theregus.com/content/54/26833.html

MS Tablet suits Corridor Warriors, PowerPoint pugilists: By Andrew
Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 10/30/2002 at 16:26 EST: Microsoft today identifies a key
demographic for its TabletPC
initiative, and it isn't pretty.
http://www.theregus.com/content/54/26826.html

MGIF publishes m-gaming standard: By electricnews.net
Posted: 10/23/2002 at 06:38 EST
The Mobile Games Interoperability Forum released its new
specifications this week, giving mobile gamers another reason to
prepare for an industry explosion.
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26739.html

X-Forge 3D Game Engine for Mobile Devices is available commercially
2002-10-30
While X-Forge supports Symbian OS, Microsoft Pocket PC and Smartphone
2002, Mobile Linux and other popular mobile operating systems, the
initial release focuses on Symbian OS support including Nokia Series
60 [Nokia 7650, 3650, etc] and the Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphone.
http://www.wirelesssoftware.info/show1news.php/659.html


SECURITY SECTION

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Pop-Up 'Alerts': Spam in Sheep's Clothing: By J.D. BIERSDORFER
Q. An alert box popped up on my screen the other day, and I assumed
that it indicated a serious Windows XP error. Then I read closely and
realized that it was an advertisement. How can advertisers take over
my computer's dialogue boxes like this, and how can I prevent it?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/technology/circuits/31askk.html

TCPA and Palladium technical analysis (Technology): By wintah
Mon Oct 28th, 2002 at 11:27:44 AM EST: This article tries to be an
objective technical analysis on the TCPA hardware system and the
Palladium operating system. It covers the most important technical
details on TCPA and the (dis)information Microsoft has given about
Palladium.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/10/27/16622/530


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

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Fighting Zombies: All in a Night's Work: By CHARLES HEROLD
IMAGINE the action game BloodRayne being created by a couple of
fellows drinking beer while watching a monster movie marathon on
Halloween.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/technology/circuits/31game.html

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A New Gadget to Give You Hindsight? Just Kidding
By STEVE LOHR: Bagotronics? It is the ungainly name of a company
that, according to a full-page advertisement in The New York Times
yesterday, sells a "business time machine" that gives its user "the
power to go back in time and erase all your costly business blunders."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/technology/30BLUE.html
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*Long time readers know that the `Cool Site" used to be a
regular
feature – it has somewhat passed into the netherworld but makes a
definite resurgence in this issue as I clean out my mental attic of
some wonderful sites that I have been jealously hording. Enjoy the
bounty!

BMWFilms.com
www.bmwfilms.com
This stuff is amazing! Yes, we all know, its major thrust is to sell
BMWs but so what!? Any time a company wants to hire people like
Ridley Scott, John Woo and first-rate actors to star in thrilling
action shorts with amazing chase sequences – they can go right
ahead. My favorite so far is "The Hostage."

Game Studies
www.gamestudies.org
From their site: "Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal
dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year at
www.gamestudies.org. Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and
communicative aspects of computer games." Folks, I will tell you
that the use of games/sims/MMOGs, whatever you'd like to call
them in education, training and performance support is growing FAST.
This site provides a very accessible into some the issues therein.

O'Reilly's P2P
http://www.openp2p.com/
Think peer-to-peer computing died with Napster? Think again. Check
here for some of the latest & greatest in this field.

SixDegrees
http://www.creo.com/sixdegrees/index.asp
From the site: "Six Degrees is timefreeing technology designed so
you can complete projects faster, without changing the way you work.
It automatically connects the related messages, files and people on
your desktop so that you can quickly navigate through projects in a
powerful new way." Alright, I've been a bit loath to load up
my bright, shiny new laptop with all manner of new products but I
think I'll give this one a shot. The promise is that it will
create a related web across your emails, documents, etc. Hmmm,
we'll see how they do with 2GBs of email, 5 GBs of music and
30GBs of data.
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by Lawrence Lessig: 08/15/2002. Here is the complete transcript of
Lawrence's keynote presentation made on July 24, 2002.
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**What amazing psychic skills!! Especially when WIRED did that
article back in August! http://www.wired.com/wired
/archive/10.08/korea.html
What's the future of gaming? Here's what I think
David Coursey, Executive Editor, AnchorDesk
Friday, October 25, 2002: As part of my Next Big Thing project, I've
talked to a bunch of gaming analysts and vendors. My conclusion: In
the not-too-distant future, we'll tune in to watch gamers do their
thing online the same way we watch the World Series today.
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2895749,00.html

**Microsoft and Disney together…why does this NOT give me a warm
fuzzy?
New MSN Aimed at AOL Users: By David A. Vise
Washington Post Staff Writer: Friday, October 25, 2002; Page E01
Microsoft Corp. yesterday unleashed a high- powered, $350 million
campaign to persuade America Online's 35 million customers to switch
to its MSN service, whose newest software includes updated e-mail and
anti- spam features, parental controls, and exclusive content through
a new partnership with Walt Disney Co.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13845-2002Oct24.html

Copyright law and roasted pig: Lawrence Lessig on Eldred v. Ascroft
By Lawrence Lessig: October 22, 2002
In 1930, 10,027 books were published. Today, 174 of those books are
still in print. What would it take to put the remaining 9,853
out-of-print books onto the Internet?
http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/10/roast-pi
g-copyright-102202.html

Letter: Free Software Hurts U.S.: By Robert McMillan  02:00 AM Oct.
25, 2002 PDT: An attack on the software license behind the Linux
operating system has stirred up a free software controversy in
Washington. Earlier this week, three members of the House of
Representatives, Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Ron Kind (D-Wis.) and Jim
Davis (D-Fla.), sent a note to 74 Democrats in Congress attacking
Linux's GNU General Public License (GPL) as a threat to America's
"innovation and security."
http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,55989,00.html

*On Same topic
Congressman Criticized For Attacking Free Software Movement Oct. 24,
2002 Washington Rep. Adam Smith, whose biggest contributor is
Microsoft, is blasted by head of a House technology committee. By
Aaron Ricadela
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021024S0001

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For Big Game Maker, Online Play Is a Big Gamble By MATT RICHTEL
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/21/technology/21PLAC.html

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Robotic Dogs and Singing Fish in Cross Hairs By DAVID F. GALLAGHER
When Senator Ernest F. Hollings set out to fight digital piracy,
chances were he was not seeking to regulate the inner workings of
digital hearing aids, robotic dogs or Shop With Me Barbie cash
registers. But a bill that Mr. Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina,
introduced last spring would do just that, according to Edward W.
Felten, an associate professor of computer science at Princeton.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/21/technology/21FRIT.html

A Bookworm's Battle: Eric Eldred, inspired by the Internet, takes a
copyright case to the Supreme Court: By ANDREA L. FOSTER
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i09/09a03501.htm

Content Village
http://www.content-village.com/articles.asp?id=147
"The Content Village is designed to provide a valuable
information, communication, knowledge sharing and collaboration
platform dedicated to thematic areas and latest developments which
are of particular interest to eContent target groups. It is a
non-profit initiative funded by the European Community eContent
programme which is managed by the European Commission, DG Information
Society."

DMCA critics get chance to object: By John Leyden
Posted: 10/14/2002 at 12:31 EST: The US Copyright Office has opened
the door to exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by
inviting comments on the controversial law.
Story: http://www.theregus.com/content/6/26632.html
Copyright Site: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/comment_forms/

*From US News
Special Report: E-Learning 10/28/02: E-learning Today
As an industry shakes out, the survivors offer no-frills education
for grown-ups BY RACHEL HARTIGAN SHEA
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/elearning/articles/02phoenix.htm

*Thank goodness!! Another near-miss for someone attempting to sell
their own stuff – without paying royalties to a media company!
The horror!
Band Can't Sell Own Music on EBay By Brad King: 02:00 AM Oct. 24,
2002 PDT George Ziemann didn't have delusions of grandeur when it
came to selling his band's CD. He just wanted to promote the album --
and hopefully sell a few copies -- on a higher-traffic site than his
own. So he turned to eBay, the Net's largest marketplace. But the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law meant to limit people
from distributing content illegally over the Internet, foiled him.
The reason? He used recordable CDs (CD-Rs) to distribute his albums.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,55926,00.html

TRENDS SECTION

E-Learning: The Second Wave: By Craig R. Taylor
Even if you wiped out on the first wave, a second one is coming.
Catch the ride.
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/oct2002/taylor.html

The Best of the Best—From a Distance: A Report on the MIT
Conference on Distance Education and Training Strategies: Lessons
From Best Practices By Ed Arnold, e-learning consultant: Over a dozen
expert panelists from higher education, industry, and government
sectors shared their experiences at the MIT Conference on Distance
Education and Training Strategies: Lessons From Best Practices
conference held on September 24th at the Tang Center at MIT. This
all-day conference attracted about 150 learning professionals from
the Boston area and beyond, including a panelist who presented
virtually from his office in Nairobi, Kenya.
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?arti
cle_pk=5802&page_number_nb=2&title=FEATURE%20STORY

The Future Is … Then: A FEDERAL REPORT THAT TAKES A PAGE FROM
1930s SCIENCE FICTION: Who needs science fiction? Federal tech and
science wonks this summer went wild in a 400-page assessment of what
nano, bio, info, and cogno might do for humanity. Converging
Technologies for Improving Human Performance — a joint effort by
the Commerce Department and the National Science Foundation —
looks forward to a new age in federal science procurement.
Consciously or not, the report echoes classic science fiction from 70
years ago at almost every turn. Too bad the prose isn't as good.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/start.html?pg=13

**Isn't it scary that I DIDN'T put this in the Humor section?
Watch your step: If you've ever exercised your cat by having it chase
the reflected spot of a laser pointer, you and kitty may be in
violation of a bona fide U.S. patent. 02:00 AM Oct. 21, 2002 PDT
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55831,00.html

Some truth about copyright: By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 10/18/2002 at 05:08 EST
http://www.theregus.com/content/6/26700.html

Last Bell Tolls for Online School: By John Gartner  02:00 AM Oct. 25,
2002 PDT MORRISVILLE, Pennsylvania -- Embattled cyberschool Einstein
Academy is slated to go offline for good.  On Wednesday the
Morrisville school board voted overwhelmingly to revoke Einstein's
charter, potentially pulling the plug on a controversial academy
whose launch ignited a firestorm of political debate over virtual
education.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,56002,00.html


Online Facilitation: Elearning  Course (from eLearnSpace)
October 21, 2002: "The following is a summary of "content
created" as a result of Week 5 of discussions using a non-traditional
approach to learning (participants of "elearning noncourse"). This
article is best understood as a collage of thoughts, rather than a
cohesive essay. Contributors to the discussion: Jennifer Cowley,
Sharon Chanley, Stephen Downes, Lisa Holstrom, Dawn Ressel, George
Siemens, Mitchell Weisburgh"
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/onlinefacilitation.htm

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Your Mentor in Cyberspace Is Standing By Now: By JENNIFER MEDINA
Rck Goldstein doesn't remember exactly what the sixth grade history
project was about, but he remembers logging on to America Online's
Ask a Teacher service for help completing it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/23/technology/23TUTO.html


Teacher Training in Technology: The Web-based Education Commission's
Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice
(December 2000) contains possibly the most trenchant statement on the
issue to date: "Professional development for preK-12 teachers ... and
school administrators is the critical ingredient for effective use of
technology in the classroom. However, not enough is being done to
assure that today's educators have the skills and knowledge
http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/teachertraining.htm

A Taxonomy Primer: Taxonomies…thesauri…classification
systems…synonym rings. We've heard all of these terms in the
context of the Web. As Web sites expand, the task of organizing them
has become increasingly problematic and complex.
http://www.lexonomy.com/publications/aTaxonomyPrimer.html

Kapor's open source 'spreadsheet for the mind': By Andrew Orlowski in
San Francisco: Posted: 10/21/2002 at 02:44 EST
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26717.html

CAMDEN, Maine -- Creating new communities in cyberspace can help kids
learn history in their own, real-world community. That was the
message from Amy Bruckman at the annual PopTech conference this
weekend. Bruckman, an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of
Technology, created an online project that pairs kids with seniors
who participated in the Civil Rights movement. 02:00 AM Oct. 20, 2002
PDT
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,55765,00.html

Distance Education Attracts Older Women With Families and Jobs, a New
Study Finds Monday, October 21, 2002 By DAN CARNEVALE
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002102102t.htm

Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic
Journal Collections A First Step Towards a Comprehensive Analysis:
Carol Hansen Montgomery, Ph.D. Dean of Libraries, Drexel University:
Donald W. King, Research Professor, University of Pittsburgh: D-Lib
Magazine: October 2002: Volume 8 Number 10: ISSN 1082-9873
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/montgomery/10montgomery.html

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The Remote Controllers By MARSHALL SELLA
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/magazine/20INTERACTIVE.html

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A Boon for Nonprofits With Software Needs By LAURIE J. FLYNN
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20 — If these are lean times for corporate
information technology purchasers, what is the situation for
nonprofit groups that need new hardware or software? Surprisingly
good, as it turns out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/21/technology/21DISC.html

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Web Tool Combines Junk Mail, Pop – Ups By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 5:51 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- As if junk e-mail and pop-up
ads weren't annoying enough on their own, now there's pop-up junk
e-mail.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Pop-Up-Spam.html

The duality of knowledge: Paul M. Hildreth, K-Now-International
Chris Kimble, MIS Group, Dept. of Computer Science
http://informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper142.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

The Other Wireless: After years of empty promises, Bluetooth finally
delivers. Kiss those ugly computer cables goodbye: By N'Gai Croal:
NEWSWEEK
http://www.msnbc.com/news/823395.asp?cp1=1

Beyond the spider: the accidental thesaurus.(robotic crawlers search
the Web)Author/s: Richard Wiggins Oct, 2002
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0DPC/9_10/92457462/print.jhtml

Tablet PC rivalry sets in: By  Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com: October 24, 2002, 4:00 AM PT
A start-up formed by a group of Dell Computer visionaries has
high-end aspirations for tablet PCs. On Nov. 7, Austin, Texas-based
Motion Computing plans to unveil its tablet-style computer that will
offer more deluxe features than competing machines, according to CEO
Scott Eckert.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-963131.html?tag=fd_top

Airlines set to install inflight e-mail: Mile-high Web access could
help airlines boost revenues: By Ron Lieber and J. Lynn Lunsford: THE
WALL STREET JOURNAL: Oct. 24 — Airplane flights, perhaps the
final refuge for travelers who want a break from their e- mails, are
about to get connected.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/825345.asp?0si=-&cp1=1

PDA for Blind: Cost Out of Sight? : By Elisa Batista  02:00 AM Oct.
24, 2002 PDT When David Engebretson goes on a job interview, he
either takes notes on an antiquated Braille machine or attempts to
retain everything by memory. Engebretson, an engineer, is blind --
job applications and business cards are useless for him.
http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,55915,00.html


SECURITY SECTION

Hmmm….anxiety anyone?
Date:Friday, Oct 18, 2002
Time:10:30 a.m.- 12:00 noon:
Palladium: >Speaker:  Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Corp.
Ron Rivest and Hal Abelson:
>Abstract: This talk will present a technical overview of the
Microsoft "Palladium" Initiative.  The "Palladium" code name refers
to a set of hardware and software security features currently under
development for a future version of the Windows operating system.
"Palladium" adds four categories of security services to today's PCs:
http://cryptome.org/palladium-mit.htm

*Same topic…
Can you trust your computer?: Monday October 21, 2002 - [ 04:14 PM
GMT ] Topic – Advocacy: -By Richard Stallman - Who should your
computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers
should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call
"trusted computing," large media corporations (including the movie
companies and record companies), together with computer companies
such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your computer obey
them instead of you. Proprietary programs have included malicious
features before, but this plan would make it universal.
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/21/1449250.shtml?tid=19


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

Book Review: Copy Fights. Edited by Adam Thierer and Wayne Crews.
Washington: Cato Institute, 2002, 295 pp. $19.95.
Who Owns Ideas? The War Over Global Intellectual Property
by David S. Evans From Foreign Affairs, November/December 2002
David S. Evans is Senior Vice President at NERA Economic Consulting,
Inc.
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20021101fareviewessa
y10001/david-s-evans/who-owns-ideas-the-war-over-g
lobal-intellectual-property.html
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