China Baidu.com Bravo! Hewlwtt-Packard, the world's top PC maker and Dell Inc. Said they wer not providing Green Dam with their PC's in China. DO NOT BUY Acer, Lenovo and Sony who are providing Green Dam Software and Minor Escort programs with computers sold in China on July 4th which coincides with America's Independence Day Celebration.

Education china, computers, filters, how to disable cybersitter green damn defeat censorship, chinese military front-company providing the Green Dam software, Jinhui Computer System Engineering Inc, copied blacklists and actual functional code from its software. The anti-Green Dam website, lssw365.org, launched on June 11.

What happened to the Voice of Free China? censorship skype

Censorship Great China Firewall Tiananmen Square

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A YouTube children’s grass mud horse song has become an icon of resistance to censorship in china.

[ECP]K-12 Newsletters - EDU - Preliminary results of a recent online survey of NSTA members show more than half use social media websites at school for professional development and to obtain classroom resources. However, more than 80% of respondents said their schools block internet access to at least some social media sites.

ICANN blows $4.6 million in the stock market. ICANN's been speculating in the stock market, and has lost $4.6 million, or to put it in concrete terms, the 20 cent fee from 23 million domain registrations.

The trial will be webcast live from SVT Direkt, starting Monday 16th February.

M-Lab will make available three network measurement tools that provide users the ability to test their network connection speed and diagnose network performance problems - including whether specific applications like BitTorrent are being blocked or adversely impacted by throttled bandwidth.

birth of the internet 1981 TV report KRON reporter: “This is only the first step in newspapers by computers. Engineers now predict the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer, but that’s a few years off.”

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Obama promises to build high-speed Internet connections as an engine of growth.

President-elect Barack Obama recently announced an ambitious plan to build up the nation’s Internet infrastructure as part of his proposed economic stimulus package. Upgrading the Internet is a particularly smart kind of stimulus, one that would spread knowledge, promote entrepreneurship and make this country more competitive globally.

two years later, they're rushing to set up the new TLD process, but there's no study.

In order to preserve free speech and protect children online, the next President and Congress should take specific steps, including the following:

Internet - What is Was, What it is, And What it will be.How it all works.

Honored Internet pioneer Paul Baran Age: 82 Education: Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University, 1949; master's degree in engineering from UCLA in 1959. Career highlights: Started a series of technology companies, including Metricom, which developed the Ricochet wireless service. Cofounded the Institute for the Future, based in Palo Alto.

A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRAM ASSESSMENT. The report will be released at a one-hour public briefing starting at 12:30 p.m. in the Lecture Room of the National Academy of Sciences building. Those who can't attend can listen live.

Full power non-commercial educational (NCE) FM radio station licenses. Aug. 21 2008 FM noncommercial Radio Applications released. These are not final decisions petitions can be filed within 30 days.

comcast new system should only impact some 14,000 customers tags: business · bandwidth · cable · Comcast

National Study of Real-Time Internet Connection Speeds Shows U.S. Falling Further Behind Other Advanced Nations at this rate it will take 100 years to catch up to Japan.

Kudos to the NJEA Review for this fabulous techie article that we can all understand. The Toolbox Featured in the January, 2008 issue of the NJEA REVIEW Web widgets increase student engagement by Patricia Bruder, EIRC

The future of the Internet

Goodby Google!! Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn’t disclose the size of their index, although they claim to know about a trillion unique web pages. It’s pronounced “cool.”

In order to ensure that domain name registrants can still be contacted, CIRA has also established a unique message delivery system. CIRA will allow the public to contact domain name registrants without access to their personal information by relaying the message through a Web-based submission form.

How does the delay work? Exactly as the AP and the EFF have claimed: TCP reset packets. These are generated from Comcast's network management hardware and tell the uploading computer that some sort of error has developed in the connection and that it needs to start over.

"Not content with current statutory damages, the RIAA is pushing for higher damages for infringement(1), damages that would total $1.5 million for copying a CD with ten songs. It's all part of debate over the proposed PRO-IP Act. William Patry, a lawyer who wrote the seminal seven-volume reference on US copyright law(2), called it the most 'outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.'"

"The Kickoff Webcast with Karen Ellis" webcast.

Internet Party: When Google's parents leave town...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgQMTLKmwrA


not to be watched during k-12 school hours warning

meta search engines and flicker, search quilt, read burner,

The list is intended to serve as a forum in which individuals of any and all interests can discuss Any and All issues relating to Online Social Networks, most notably their current and potential use by libraries/librarians and/or their current/potential use within institutions of higher learning.

Learn How Bit Torrent Works: Being tracked by anti-piracy organizations and receiving infringement notices on file-sharing networks is becoming more common. A security project manager has just released a short video showing how it’s done.

Fascinating, enlightening ... and appalling. WELL worth the time to read it! Video: How People Are Tracked Using BitTorrent

XO laptop, Give 1 Get 1, G1G1, One Laptop per child - Critics of the rollout have two key concerns.

Virtuoso hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang has posted a fantastic review of the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop, from a hardware engineer's perspective.

2007 Most searched for Google News, Presidential Campaigns, Lawsuits, RIP or Rumors of, TV shows, Movies, Lyrics, Ringtones, Recipes, Diets, Fitness, Who is, What is, How to.

This site is dedicated to the Preservation of the Legacy handed down to us by our forefathers! The Library is working to preserve this historic heritage whether in written, photographic, printed or hand-written form.

Sight See: Mummers Parade, Tradition and History in Philadelphia, PA. alive and well can still be seen every January 1ST. Learn more about the European-American masking traditions and community morality.

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amateur media production and its importance in life-long learning. Since 1988, it has been an annual, statewide event open to school-aged Texas residents.

XO laptop delivered today - see it fresh out of the box!

NCAA sets rules for credentialed reporters. And, as a private organization, the NCAA can set whatever rules it wants for handing out credentials.

Prior to joining Internet2, Rob was the Director of theConnecticut Education Network Advanced Services Center

CommitteeCaller.com is a site that allows one person to target an entire congressional committee over the phone.

Understand Rootkit and why Sony is a Cracker.

Consumers Union has set up shop in dozens of state capitals, has signed up more than half a million activists who send e-mail messages to lawmakers and corporations and has taken on causes like forcing drug companies to disclose the results of clinical trials.

Sight See: Fact check: GOP debate in Florida

Sight See: The new site, USASpending.gov, launched today, two weeks ahead of schedule.

A former Texas principal launched TeacherTube this year so educators could upload their students' videos and share creative lessons while developing an online community.

Comcast's Secret War on File-Sharing Packet Forgery By ISPs: A Report on the Comcast Affair Without telling customers, Comcast had begun a secret program to send automatic reset commands to customers'computers if they were using BitTorrent, Gnutella, or a few other programs. Comcast installed new software or equipment on its networks that began selectively interfering with some of Comcast's customers' TCP/IP connections

Minnesota bans mercury from mascara, eye liners and skin-lightening creams. No other state has specifically gone after mercury in cosmetics. Campaign for Safe Cosmetics in Berkeley, Calif. Mercury-added products used by schools are not subject to this ban. (4) (a) Except as provided in subsection (4)(b), beginning January 1, 2008. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Louisiana ban products containing more than low levels of mercury, with some exceptions. New York and Illinois prohibit consumer products with mercury, such as figurines, toys and jewelry. Many ingredients aren't listed on the labels

School officials say IDs will only be checked against sex-offender registries.Phone with sex-offender alerts: With GPS technology, linked to a national database of sex offenders.

cell phone, privacy, security - Download naughty or sexually explicit vidio or pics to the cell phone. Once they put it on the net it never comes off.

European Union leaders signed a new treaty on Thursday that would give the 27-nation bloc a long-term president and streamline its decision-making process.

K-12 First Grade Practice Skills - Literacy 100 Most Frequent Words in Books for Beginning Readers, pre-primer, early, and first grade readers. Reading Children's Books online, Audio Books to hear and read along, Teacher Recommended online reading activities, games and resources. The top 20 titles that created readers. Introduce children to writing.

sight see 2 cool new places on the net.

Sigmund Lubin pirated films and claimed them as his own. The program discusses Lubin's piracy and how it changed the world of film. He was brought into court by Thomas Edison and it is determined whether his piracy is considered legal or not.

Community radio supporters have fought for years to not just stop media consolidation, but to roll it back -- bringing new voices to cities and towns, large and small. Don't miss your chance to stand up for diverse and accountable media in the United States! Take a stand now. You can file a comment at the FCC here: http://tinyurl.com/2yswbr Technology, Internet, K-12 Newsletters, NetHappenings, Network Newsletters, Arts, Music

"Will privacy sell? Ask.com is betting it will.

"If the government had been more diligent in looking for workarounds instead of baring its teeth when Amazon balked, it's probable that this entire First Amendment showdown could have been avoided," he wrote.

This is probably the ugliest intrusion on privacy I've seen in this whole controversy. - Dave

Here Comes Another Bubble The Richter Scales

The Securing Adolescents from Exploitation-Online Act of 2007 (SAFE Act)

Starting immediately, AT&T (T) customers can ditch their AT&T phones and use any wireless phone, device and software application from any maker.

It's really about science and technology. Sight See HouseHold Hacker

Do you know your State Song? Jimmy Crack Corn, Jump Jim Crow, Folksongs, Funk Brothers and Motown, History of Chicago Blues by Buddy Guy, Negro Sheet Music, AACORN, Teach History through Music. African American Vernacular English, Creole speakers, Dialect and West Indian Creole.

NetHappenings Google's campaign to digitize the world's books. How to work with Google.

NetHappenings - Everybody must read Conversation between Schneier and Marcus Ranum will appear in Information Security Magazine this month. < - >

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Sight See: This Holiday think about buying products that are fairly traded and benefit the billions of people in our world that are in poverty.

The most secure version of DNS is considered djbdns.Author, Dr Dan J Bernstein, one of the most prominent voices for security over functionality in computer software

Perception 3.0 Biologists are interested in proteins, drugs, genes. Businesspeople are interested in customers, products, sales. We are all interested in friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintances.

Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. - Observations on Scholars' Use of Digitized Resources - Technology Standards for Students - Preventing Online Exam Cheating, Call for Papers on Academics in Virtual Environments - Recommended Reading: Book Review STUDIO THINKING: THE REAL BENEFITS OF VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION

2 New Schools Added to the K-12 Online Directory - Check their sites out. The Woods Academy Washington International School

Simply put, we're on the precipice of something groundbreaking that will change this industry forever. Whether it will be good or bad is unknown, but regardless of the long-term effect, Google has its sights firmly planted on this 700MHz spectrum and if you ask me, we won't even know what hit us.

INTERNET: WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL NETWORKING : INTERNET: ADVERTISING: A Computer Associates security researcher says that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than expected in tracking people's Web activities.

Sight See: My Friend Jim Carty blues radio host at WMFO in metro Boston Saturdays 1-3PM 91.5FM & www.wmfo.org

Life gives you clues that you can use. It sometimes makes the news... Performed by Judith Owen. Written and Directed by Harry Shearer

Sight See Utterz publish brief audio updates via your cell phone and Zotero helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Secure desktops not just for Vista. Al Gore's Web site hacked. Flaw leaves Microsoft looking like a turkey.

Domain name disputes and resolution faq's. Complainant accuses Respondents of "typosquatting," intentionally registering a domain name that is identical to its mark but for a simple typographical error.

IT'S ALL ABOUT INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE! Theodor Holm Nelson (born 1937) is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the term "hypertext" in 1963 and published it in 1965. He also is credited with first use of the words hypermedia, transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and teledildonics. The main thrust of his work has been to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people. His motto is: A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. Ted Nelson promotes four maxims: "most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong". (see Chapter II, 3rd paragraph, 3rd and 4th sentences, of: Wolf, G. "The Curse of Xanadu" [1]).

The district is so confident in its security, it has dared students and hackers to crack it, offering a free wireless router for anyone who could.

If I can read 100 blogs, which should I read to be most up to date?

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES - by and FOR WOMEN - MUSIC QUOTES - COMPUTER QUOTES - TEACHER QUOTES AND BUSINESS QUOTES

Badges? We ain't got no badges.

Sight See: SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES - Learn how to find and use the Invisible Web and Meta Search Engines at the Educational CyberPlayGround. Find a Guide to Online Research A visual mapping of Complex Networks and all the Free E-books you can eat.

Contains details of slave holders in Barbados and Antigua who received compensation under the terms of the 1833 slave emancipation act.

Interesting collection of images of earth from space.

sight see the unusual pie and chips, eat the press, get off the bus, freedom's watch, center for media and democracy falsie awards, and camtasia studio software free download for screencasting for pc users.

"To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence" "We've got a public culture which is almost entirely commercial- and novelty-driven," says NEA chairman Dana Gioia. "I think it's letting the nation down."

Linked in is the largest professional Networking site. Its biggest global competitor is Facebook.

Attention Teens and adults Sign up, to "legally download music" and avoid getting sued by the music industry, not true.

Get the Widget for your website - Education, News, Law, Security, Literacy, K - 12, Internet, NetHappenings, Technology, Music, Science, Literacy, Arts,Books,

Children And The Internet, Internet, Internet Governance Forum, Internet Security, Law Of The Internet, Breaking Media News, Media Literacy only about 1 billion, or 20% of the world's population have Net access

More than 150 friends?!

The Wall Street Journal's "numbers guy," Carl Bialik <http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119518271549595364.html>, zoomed in on that number - 150 - which many reporters have cited as the limit to the number of personal contacts any human being could possibly sustain. This is when they're writing stories about the lengthy friends lists some teens have amassed in social sites. The 150 comes from the research of Robin Dunbar at Oxford University, "extrapolating from social groups in nonhuman primates and then crediting people with greater capacity because of our larger neocortex, the part of the brain used for conscious thought and language." Ah, got it. So we definitely can sustain more friendships than primates. But, actually, Dunbar himself, Bialik reports, believes that social sites "could 'in principle' allow users to push past the limit." To the professor, the real question is "whether those who keep ties to hundreds of people do so to the detriment of their closest
relationships - defined by Prof. Dunbar as those formed with people you turn to when in severe distress." Bialik cites another recent UK survey that found - no huge surprise - friendships really start offline, but "less-close friendships and acquaintanceships, however, also die offline, while the Web can help sustain them" [read the article for examples].

Google buys and collects everything - it's frightening!

Over the past several years I've been playing with Linux to get an idea of what it's all about and how it can be used. It wasn't until recently that I felt comfortable telling my non-techie friends to jump in.

Comments, thoughts, and suggestions requested. Botnets (also called zombie armies or drone armies) are networks of compromised computers infected with viruses or malware to turn them into “zombies” or “robots” – computers that can be controlled without the owners’ knowledge. Criminals use the collective computing power and connected bandwidth of these externally-controlled networks for malicious purposes and criminal activities, including, inter alia, generation of spam e-mails, launching of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, alteration or destruction of data, and identity theft.

Brett Glass computer journalist and founder of LARIAT.NET a local Internet service provider based in Laramie, Wyoming. Founded in 1993 as a community network and relaunched as a private ISP in 2003, we were the world's first wireless broadband provider and have more than 15 years of wireless Internet experience -- more than anyone else!

The state of Pennsylvania is telling those who sell other people's stuff on eBay that it's time to get a state-issued auctioneer's license.

Award-winning correspondent, David Faber examines the rapid advance of technology which allows companies to monitor our every move and record our most private personal information. Driving habits are being recorded; employees are monitored; shoppers and diners are observed and analyzed; internet searches are saved and used as evidence in court. It is big business that collects most of the data about us. But increasingly, it is the government that’s using it. The documentary takes viewers inside the FBI, the Border Patrol, police departments and schools to see how they are using biometric technologies to establish identity. There is also a rare look inside a little-known division of AOL that works solely with law enforcement requests for information about AOL’s members.Faber also examines some of the downsides of the new surveillance society: a man whose cell phone records were stolen by his former employer; a women who lost her job due to mistaken identity; a man who discovered his rental car company was tracking his every move.BIG BROTHER, BIG BUSINESS takes an enlightening and sometimes disturbing look at how the growth of the information society may be eroding the freedoms many people take for granted.

Your right to have your own radio station. Protect your rights! "In recent weeks, the Federal Communications Commission, and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, have made strong public statements about supporting the low power FM radio service, and the vital work that it does nationwide. As the commission works at its November 27th meeting to make decisions about the future of LPFM, they must lay the groundwork to ensure that LPFM will not only be available in rural areas in the future. They must also protect the low power stations from losing their frequencies to full power stations that encroach upon their signals. No matter what happens in Congress, LPFM will only be available in America's cities if the FCC acts to make room for it. threaten to knock them off the air. NetHappenings

Educational CyberPlayGround - Music Culture - Internet Technology - Copyright vs. Copyleft, The Creative Commons Larry Lessig- How Creativity is being strangled by the law 3 stories - vocal chords of the millions will be lost. Music Deals, Music Contracts, Copyright Law, Music Downloads, Works for Hire, Agencies , Music Rights , License, Open Audio License, Open Source.

Top Ten Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Best for Enterprise Use and Congress Moves Forward With Required University Subsidies To Napster, Ruckus. MPAA Explains Why It's Okay To Tie Federal Funds To Blocking File Sharing.

NetHappenings Headlines and Resources - Internet + Happenings = NetHappenings going strong for 18 Years!

Video games are very effective teaching tools for teaching aggression.

Learn How to Handle CyberBullies. A 13 year old girl who was bullied at school struck up an online MySpace relationship with a 13 year old boy that went sour and turned to bullying. She committed suicide. It turns out that the 13 year old boy who taunted her was actually the mother of another 13 year old girl in the neighborhood.

K-12 Newsletters - Music Education and Dance Movement Education Resources for Music Teachers - Classroom Teachers - Phys. Ed Teachers

In a nutshell, this is what I think about and publish.

Live Search Maps are so INCREDIBLE if you haven't seen it you MUST.

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Apparently the Ohio Education Association has sent a memo discouraging teachers from using social networking sites. I think this is the wrong message. How about: "Never post anything online you would not want to see on the front page of your state's largest newspaper."

New Word Womenomics - Women 'Becoming Valued' by Businesses, Think Tank Says

The hack required little more than tools freely available on the internet, and Egerstad maintains he broke no laws. In fact, he is confident the email accounts he gained access to were already compromised by other hackers, so his efforts in fact prevented them from continuing their spying.

Experts have said 80 percent of successful intrusion into our government computer systems can be attributed to software errors or poor software quality. Many software products have poorly written or have poorly configured security features. Computers and networks without operating firewalls, up-to-date virus and password protection are invitations for disasters. DHS computers were subjected to penetration by Chinese hackers because we failed to install and monitor the necessary "intrusion-detection systems."

traveler anti-terror scan airport inquisition.

Check it out and read between the lines.

What Do You THINK? Please Leave Your Comments Every hear What happened to the CIO joke?

More about Student Use of Technology and How it Impacts the Classroom. It’s time that teachers wake up and realize that the only way to reach today’s student is to meet them on their own playing field. The fact is, that many of those working in education, in politics, in the civil service are the equivalent of modern day illiterates. Without understanding how to read and write on the web, there is no other way, really, to describe this state of being. This is why media literacy teaching and learning need to be the top of every school's literacy strategy. Reading and writing is about more than pen and paper these days.

Student Use of Technology and how it impacts the classroom. Let’s be clear about another thing. The episode in his classroom had been plotted and scripted ahead of time, with Neil Noland part of the charade all along. The phone was an extra of his mother’s, its service contract long expired.

Educational CyberPlayGround Directory was is the first one ever created. Is your K-12 School in the directory? It started in the U.S. circa 1993. Can you imagine that it's built by people like you? If you submit the neighborhood school or school district it will go in the directory. We build it! It's a national folklore project. And we get to see the what our schools can do - and what they aren't doing! If you've got it FLAUNT IT.

Washington post article reports unique threats women bloggers face. The article highlights the poor treatment of women on-line often happens offline. Women are being intimidated - they include ACADEMICS, PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS [emphasis added other women normally UNAFRAID to speak their minds.]

A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and publish links about nonprofit technology, educational technology, adoption challenges, information design, visual thinking, creativity, ICT in the developing world, and much more.

WAIT! I thought YOU were in charge of security!!!!!!!

Interruption is a major workplace concern today, especially for people engaged in information work, and computer technologies are widely viewed as exacerbating the problem. One reason for concern is the high incidence of interruptions.

What Parents, Teachers and Administrators need to know.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information. Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act. Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.

Should Folklorists study the interent? Objects and artifacts have long been Professor Turkle’s stock in trade. When she arrived at M.I.T. in the 1970s, fresh from Harvard, Paris and years of studying French philosophy and psychoanalytic thought, Professor Turkle brought a humanist’s eye to the device that her new colleagues had become enamored of: the computer.

Two laptops will be $399, $200 of which is tax-deductible One learning child. One connected child. One laptop at a time. toll-free 1-877-70-LAPTOP (1-877-705-2786). The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child. In order to accomplish our goal, we need people who believe in what we’re doing and want to help make education for the world’s children a priority, not a privilege. Between November 12 and November 26, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. During this time, you can donate the revolutionary XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, and also receive one for the child in your life in recognition of your contribution.

Clearly, the changes occurring between 1976 and 1988, when the PC and automation were becoming ubiquitous in libraries, had nothing on the changes we were to see in the last five, no the last 2 years! Retooling was essential for me. It is essential for the survival of the profession. We cannot expect to assume a leadership role in information technology and instruction, we cannot claim any credibility with students, faculty, or administrators if we do not recognize and thoughtfully exploit the information and communication paradigm shifts of the past two years. I attempted to chart the changes I've observed to help plan for the future. I invite you all to help me refine this chart.

Sources have differing opinions about the legal requirements and what they mean. But given the outcome, the incompatibility of the two organizations seems one thing that is beyond dispute.

"Give One Get One" is the only time we are making the revolutionary XO laptop available to the public. One Laptop per Child 1 Cambridge Center, 10th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142

The Educational CyperPlayGround Internet Tutorial For Beginners. Learn to Click and Scroll to rock and roll around the net.

We've had a few stories now about Verizon FiOS (its fiber optic broadband offering) installs that resulted in fires and damaged properties.

Internet2 has today announced that Verizon Business has joined Internet2 as a corporate member. The company plans to engage the consortium in several innovative ways, including collaboration with the Internet2 community on projects involving advanced optical networking as well as in important areas of next-generation content delivery and network security.

Cybersquatting Legislation Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) definition of cybersquatting

Artist Courtney Love issued a letter to the music industry explaining that until recently, Congress believed that the RIAA spoke for recording artists, and not a trade group that is paid for by record companies to represent their interests. Her letter calls for support over collective bargaining in negotiations with record companies because singers are served by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), and musicians are served by the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), and there is no single organization to negotiate health care and pension plans

Meet my friends The Funk Brothers ~ Karen Ellis MORE #1 HITS THAN The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and Elvis Combined HOW ALLAN SLUTSKY GET THE IDEA FOR THE MOVIE? This film is based on a book of the same title by Mr. Allan Slutsky that won the 1989 Rolling Stone/BMI Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Mr. Slutsky a New Jersey-based musician, author, and movie producer who worked for 14 years in putting together the movie, told me that after a theatrical run, the film will go to cable and then be released on tape and DVD. The documentary movie has already played in Los Angeles for a week in December 2001 in order to qualify for next year's Academy Awards, but that its official world premiere will be in Detroit in January or February of 2002. Produced by Paul Elliott and David Scott, Executive Producers Allan Slutsky, Paul Justman, Sandy Passman and Karen Ellis Founder and CEO of the Educational CyberPlayGround, Honorary Funk Sister

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FIOS' delivered Actiontec router Remember that 1394 failed. MoCA (Multimedia over Cable) is a communications path.

It’s a 4-story coral reef exhibit featuring over 150 species. It’s accessible directly from the NEA (with feeding times listed) or via this Earthcam page.

We invite individual, commercial, nonprofit, government, and all other Internet users and stakeholders (including ISPs) to participate in the Network Neutrality Squad.

Mobile phones based on Google’s software are not expected to be available until the second half of next year. They will be manufactured by a variety of handset companies, including HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung and be available in the United States through T-Mobile and Sprint.

I commend Verizon Wireless for taking a big step in the right direction by acknowledging that there's a specific threshold for "too much," to wit, 5GB in any billing period. In addition, I am glad that Verizon Wireless is now specifying the throttling speed, 200 Kbps, max. It is a Very Good Thing that Verizon Wireless is acknowledging the specific parameters it is actually using!

The Doig River First Nation, an Aboriginal Dane-zaa group from northeastern B.C., has officially launched their virtual exhibit Dane Wajich Dane-zaa Stories & Songs: Dreamers and the Land. The exhibit showcases Doig River First Nation oral traditions and teaches about Dane-zaa history and culture through an exciting mix of video and sound files, photographs, and text. This online exhibit was developed in partnership with the Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) at virtualmuseum.ca, an initiative of the Department of Canadian Heritage. The exhibit represents the work of many people over several years.

The Web changes constantly, and sometimes that page that had just the information you needed yesterday (or last month or two years ago) is not available today. At other times you may want to see how a page's content or design has changed. There are several sources for finding Web pages as they used to exist.

Screen performance data and new research indicate that users will scroll to find information and items below the fold. There are established design best practices to ensure that users recognize when a fold exists and that content extends below it.

He can profile you or your company and Google you and find out all kinds of things out about you -- especially scary banking information.

OpenSocial announcement <> Social Web: Positive side effect <> 2 new 'worlds' for kids 6+ <> Ultimate photo-sharing on phones <> New mobile 'social networks' <> How YouTube stardom works

Everyone knows that a significant number of file-sharers are teenagers and young adults and they get their share of press. But what about the true kids - the under 10’s ? TorrentFreak makes itself feel old trying to keep up with the agile mind of a 9 year old file-sharer.

db: There are sort of four properties and one key practice that are fundamentally different online. The key practice is that you have to write yourself into being. To a certain degree we do this offline as well, whereby you have a body that you're working with that you then accessorize to hell. Online you don't have a body, you don't have a presence, you don't have anything that sort of marks your existence. There are four functions that are sort of the key architecture of online publics and key structures of mediated environments that are generally not part of the offline world. And those are persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audiences. Persistence -- what you say sticks around. Searchability -- my mother would have loved the ability to sort of magically scream into the ether to figure out where I was when I'd gone off to hang out with my friends. She couldn?t, thank God. But today when kids are hanging out online because they've written [themselves] into being online, they become very searchable. Replicability -- you have a conversation with your friends, and this can be copied and pasted into your Live Journal and you get into a tiff. That creates an amazing amount of "uh ohs" when you add it to persistence. And finally, invisible audiences. In unmediated environment, you can look around and have an understanding of who can possibly overhear you. You adjust what you're saying to the reactions of those people. You figure out what is appropriate to say, you understand the social context. But when we're dealing with mediated environments, we have no way of gauging who might hear or see us, not only because we can't tell whose presence is lurking at the moment, but because of persistence and searchability.

Bob Lefsetz quotes Don Passman and author Richard Greenfield. The RIAA can b**ch. Songwriters in Nashville can ask how they're going to get paid. No one's paying attention anymore. They had EIGHT YEARS to make a move, to fix things, and they didn't accomplish a damn thing. Mainstream media is now with the public. The record companies f***** up. Music is free. Accept it and deal with it.

TIPS: Apple's upgrades have been flawless for so many years that I've grown to expect smooth sailing. Not this time.

Yesterday the NLR Board of Directors considered a motion to approve the proposed Definitive Agreement relative to the proposed merger with Internet2. For the second time the motion failed to pass, ending eight months of discussion.

'We're now in the middle of the pack of developed countries' says expert. The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them.

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Apple's day has finally come

Teachers and Professors are afraid of violating copyright, "teachers use less effective teaching techniques, teach and transmit erroneous copyright information, fail to share innovative instructional approaches, and do not take advantage of new digital platforms."

The software company reportedly bested Google in a bidding war, so Microsoft officials likely view the deal as a significant victory in the ir battle for IT supremacy.

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And where was the concomitant record industry investment in Napster? Oh yeah, that's right, Thomas Middelhoff, head of Bertelsmann, invested in the service, saw it as the industry's future, and his record company brethren SUED HIM FOR AIDING AND ABETTING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT! Where is the investment in Limewire? Where is the investment in anywhere the public HAS SHOWN AN INTEREST IN GOING! Stop living in the field of dreams, believing if you build it they will come, didn't work with PressPlay. Turns out the record industry's got no clue what people want. Just like Microsoft doesn't understand social networking. So they went where the FOOD WAS! Remember that old Sam Kinison routine? You shouldn't send FOOD to Africans, but SUITCASES! So they can go where the food is!

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