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In this issue: avoiding spam
Web site recommendations: IT/misc

The Center for Democracy and Technology did a nice study on how email
addresses end up on spam lists (in other words, why you end up getting
unwanted junk email).
http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml
The main finding: posting email addresses on Web sites is a major source
of spam. Even if you post your address without a mailto link, spam robots
will harvest your address. The report offers some alternatives, among
them: posting your address in a human readable format, e.g.
eszter~at~eszter~dot~com. See some more relevant links on this blog
entry: http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000251.html

And yes, I handed in another dissertation chapter draft, thus the new
issue. (No, I don't write them this quickly, I'm working off of existing
material which in some cases is just in need of some editing.)

And now on to some links. Also, lots of additional links - especially
related to war coverage - are available on my various blog entries from
the past week. http://www.esztersblog.com

The SSRC Information Technology and International Cooperation program is
seeking scholars and activists to participate in two research networks it
is currently organizing
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/researchnetworkrfp.page

How Google Grows... and Grows... and Grows
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/69/google.html

Connected to the Future: A Report on Children's Internet Use
http://www.cpb.org/ed/resources/connected/

References: Research on ICTs in the Home
http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/ICTRefs.html

Detailed article about Larry Lessig
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/lessig.html

Appellate Court Rules Media Can Legally Lie
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/02/28/arpubmg022803.htm

With 6 Degrees of Separation, Computers Stay in Sync
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/technology/circuits/27next.html
&
my comment about an aspect of the story the author did not address
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000228.html

Things helpful to think about when taking your laptop abroad
http://www.walkabouttravelgear.com/modem.htm

Harvard Professor Proposes Alternative Economics Class
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/business/04HARV.html

Bank glitch gives Princeton student access to univ accounts of $9.9million
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/06/offbeat.banking.error.ap/

A Medium Meets Its War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56322-2003Mar19

Technology Providing War Insights
http://news.com.com/1200-1025-993560.html

CNN Expelled from Baghdad by Iraqi Government
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=597&ncid=772&e=1&u=/nm/20030321\
/tv_nm/iraq_cnn_dc

Halliburton Makes a Killing on Iraq War
Cheney's Former Company Profits from Supporting Troops
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6008

A reminder: What is in the Saudi peace initiative?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1844214.stm

A Life Lost, A Family In Jeopardy: The Story of the Hasan's
http://holt.house.gov/display2.cfm?id=4037&type=Home

A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/

Disability Links for people of All Abilities
http://www.allabilities.com/

All sorts of interactive online games for kids to learn about safe use of
roads
http://www.walkingbus.com/kidszone1.htm

The Mirror Project - Adventure in Reflective Surfaces
http://www.mirrorproject.com/

For cow fans: cow memory game - great alternative to Solitaire
http://www.crazyforcows.com/concentration/smallboard.html

Today's quote:
"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that
do?" -- Pablo Picasso

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
Paper: The Changing Online Landscape
Great study on spam - careful with email addresses on Web sites!
More sources on Iraq
More on Iraq
Firsthand account from Iraq
A different petition
Violence forgotten
Blog added: Brad DeLong
Where do you get your news?
$1,250/word
Documenting domestic violence
Public Knowledge
Gender and self-assessed skills - some puzzles
See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: $1,250/word [3/19/03]
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000243.html for underlying
links or to comment

Larry Lessig shares a story about reprinting permissions. MIT Press is
publishing a book in which the author plans to cite a line from a dozen
pop songs. The Press wanted to get permission for the lines.
Representatives of the Kinks demanded $10,000 for a line made up of eight
words help me, help me, help me sail away (I guess you could also see the
price as $2,500/word since it's really just four different words).
Amazing. So much for fair use.

I guess in the blogworld we can be less paranoid because if the lawyers
were to come after us we could just close our entries and make the
whoa-so-offensively-unfair-and-detrimental-to-creativity use dissappear?