This is not about free trade at all. This is an entertainment industry-written bill designed to recreate the Internet in its image — as a broadcasting platform, rather than one used for user-generated content and communication. ~ Mike Masnick

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[ECP} Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Newsletter The Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media For Good is a free, one-day "un-conference" co-hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media click to apply.

IP Intellectual property, ACTA sucks Protect the commons and your rights from corporations' corrupt copyright controls standards of practice. International treaties used to hijack your Fair Use rights.

Speakers will include Hall of Fame player Ernie Banks, All-Star pitcher, broadcaster, and manager Larry Dierker, baseball language expert Paul Dickson, and Negro Leagues pitcher Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, among many others.

Privacy / China / USA / somebody ought to sue someone. The audit showed that several DOD organizations did not follow disposalpolicies, did not properly train personnel or did not develop and implement on-site procedures for the authorized release of IT equipment.

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In fact, there are but two essential reasons we maintain these increased controls on behalf of our community: to protect our participants so that images that violate their privacy are not displayed, and to prevent companies from using Burning Man to sell products.

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As The Times' Dawn C. Chmielewski reported Friday, emissaries of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. recently approached the owners of this newspaper, the New York Times, the Washington Post and Hearst Corp. about joining a consortium that would charge for online news content.

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Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors.

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Walter Cronkite passed away. He was the first one to get the term news anchorman applied to him. He was the only TV news person I trusted until John Stewart.

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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.

In Today’s Global Economy, only a Handful of States Score Favorable ‘Letter Grades’ on International Benchmarks. The report, issued today by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), based on international performance benchmarks in math for 4th and 8th grade students concluded that only 4th graders in a handful of states – among them Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Kansas and Vermont – are learning at B or B- levels when compared with students internationally. “The highest achieving countries are so far ahead of us, we will never catch up if we run at the current pace,” said Phillips. “Our states and school districts should no longer be comparing themselves to their neighbors. They will be competing for jobs and innovations with students around the globe.”

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Education is free to children in China up to the age of 15 at the end of middle school then it comes to an end. Parents must pay if they want their child to continue through High School. Most cannot afford it. Then they must take the exam and compete to get into a college.

I want to know how music is licensed for legal distribution over the internet, what are the terms of said license and how dose the record labels make there money.

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Media conglomerates have poor business model; economically rationalized “culture industry” is actively hostile to vital aspects of humane culture.

Aniaso was born around 1792 as a member of the Igbo tribe in West Africa. The main character was born in Africa but, at a young age, was transported to Jamaica, where he remained until his death. As a member of the Moravian mission he had a third identity: he was part of a global brother- and sisterhood of fellow Moravians of different ethnic backgrounds. Because of the interest his fellow Moravians took in his life, his biography was recorded, translated, and published in various Moravian periodicals, and finally preserved in their archives.

Better use of data, transforming high schools among ED's key priorities. Podesta said he believes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) can help spur needed changes. Duncan agreed,#k12newsletters

The Dan Crowley Award, offered by the Storytelling Section of the American Folklore Society, is a $200 prize for a graduate or undergraduate student essay dealing with some aspect of storytelling performance in formal or informal settings.

the ALA's comments on the Settlement include this pathetic line: "The Library Associations do not oppose approval of the Settlement." By now this ALA document may be too little, too late. Privacy

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Lessig has announced that Warner Music issued a DMCA takedown on one of Lessig's own presentations, in which his use is almost certainly fair use. Lessig, of course, is a lawyer, and a big supporter of fair use, so it's no surprise that he's also said he's going to be fighting this.copyright, dmca, fair use, larry lessig, takedown,Companies:warner music group

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Where Native Languages Live: In the Circle, and in our classrooms. Those of us in the generations following those who endured the trauma of boarding schools and were shamed for speaking Native languages, still have much to learn and must put in our language-learning time now. We will. We are. We know what's at stake.

One of the great ironies of the information age is that, while the late twentieth century will undoubtedly have recorded more data than any other period in history, it will also almost certainly have lost more information than any previous era.

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Among the LGA's most unpalatable phrases are "best practice" (the best way of doing something), "benchmarking" (measuring), "slippage" (delay) and "democratic legitimacy" (voted in).

an online how-to guide for protecting your private data against government spying. EFF created the site with the help of the Open Society Institute in order to educate Americans about the law and technology of communications surveillance and computer searches and seizures, and to provide the information and tools necessary to keep their private data out of the government's hands.

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The purpose of this website is to inform you of a proposed Settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, claiming that Google has violated their copyrights and those of other Rightsholders of Books and Inserts

ALA, ARL, ACRL To File Amicus Brief pending Google Book Search settlement

Intercosmos Media Group d/b/a directNIC.com creates link farms out of parked domain names. WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center returns www.ironmountaininc.com back to owner. Iron Mountain stores everyone's data. Of course it was registered with Intercosmos Media Group d/b/a directNIC.com who is causing all these problems and took 1 year to get resolved!!

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Some of the robust differences in child vocabulary development at 54 months are likely to come from parents in higher-income groups using gesture to communicate more different meanings when their children were 14 months, the paper said.

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The Digital Reference Section (DRS) conducts a free, one-hour orientation monthly, on the second Wednesday at 11 a.m. - noon, Eastern time, via Web conference. Throughout the program, DRS staff provide opportunities to ask questions, learn strategies for online access of the materials, and sample the collections and resources provided to facilitate your research.

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China Folklore Since 1998, legislation work in the field of folklore protection has entered a new phase. The Committee on Education, Science, Culture and Public Health of the National People’s Congress has conducted a widespread and in-depth survey across the country, and the Ministry of Culture has also included in its agenda the formulation of the Law on the Protection of National Folklore.

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China - China offers free education to teachers of the future. Reform for teachers' pay system. More highly qualified teachers attracted to work in China's rural areas. China's college teachers to be graded on results.

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"Consumers are getting more astute about" privacy, said Fran Maier, the CEO of TRUSTe, which evaluates online privacy practices.

We were once People of the Book but now we are becoming People of Screen. But to complete this transformation in full we need a set of tools which will allow us to manipulate, create, and process moving images with the same ease we have for words.

"All of our forensic investigators felt it was a complete miscarriage. It was clear she was absolutely innocent,'' he said. "The mistakes and misinformation that occurred in that courtroom were astounding."

There is NO liability for schools if they choose not to set it to block an area and something "inappropriate" happens to appear on that site. The CIPA regulations mentioned the understanding that filtering is not perfect. EVERY librarian and ed tech specialist in the schools should have the authority to override the filter and provide access to a site that has been inappropriately blocked - based on the educational determination of its content!

How will schools provide students with the necessary instruction for future employment, as well as responsible consumption (information credibility), without opening the door to Web 2.0 instructional technologies?

Looking back, abundant data exist from states like Connecticut and Massachusetts to show that by 1840 the incidence of complex literacy in the United States was between 93 and 100 percent wherever such a thing mattered. Yet in 1818 we were a small-farm nation without colleges or universities to speak of. Could those simple folk have had more complex minds than our own?

Twenty years after its first publication, H. David Brumble III offers a revised American Indian Autobiography. He does this in light of two criticisms. First, critics have challenged his assertion that "it is possible to separate Indian from editor/amanuensis" in early preliterate as-told-to autobiographies (vi). Second, Brumble was accused of not giving enough credence to the preferences of American Indians in regards to the material they chose to present.

Writing a book subtitled "Southern Folk Culture" is an ambitious undertaking. Fortunately, John Burrison recognized the wide scope of the topic and narrowed his focus to a study of specific folk traditions found throughout the South in general by providing a specific focus on his own research on Georgia's traditional culture. Burrison's book is an interesting presentation of variations on the theme that folklife is a vibrant resource that profoundly shapes and expresses southern culture. Roots of a Region is not an exhaustive treatment of these topics. It is an accessible introduction to the study of southern folklore, written in an accessible style that presents academic research to readers with a non-specialized interest in folk culture.

Folk Tales from a Persian Tribe: Forty-Five Tales from Sisakht in Luri and English.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., is teaming up with Carnegie Mellon University to support the continuing development of Alice, the university’s innovative, Java technology-based computer programming environment that teaches students to program Java software while having fun creating 3D animations, stories and video games.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,KIPP schools, NOLA charter schools, Milwaukee voucher program, The top 70 percent of US public high schools, Pittsburgh merit pay $7.4 million performance bonuses to principals districtwide,teaching workforce dominated by generalists who, studies show, are vastly under-prepared in math, Corruption in Texas Early Education Model TEEM Texas’s State Center for Early Childhood Development administrators make money by selling out to vendors and publishers.

The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a method for using specific standards to enable automated vulnerability management, measurement, and policy compliance evaluation (e.g., FISMA compliance). NVD is the U.S. government content repository for ISAP and SCAP.

My teacher Armand Mednick told us the real story behind The Secret Seder which is about a young boy who would grow up to become a beloved art teacher written and by Doreen Rappaport a Caldecott book award winner.

K-12 students are being specifically asked on this year’s survey how they would improve schools if they were the President.

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Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education journal's can be seen online. For librarians and teachers who give instruction in media literacy.

BUSH SIGNS RIAA-BACKED INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY LAW President George Bush (R) on Monday signed into law an intellectual-property enforcement bill that would consolidate federal efforts to combat copyright infringement under a new White House cabinet position. Report on DMCA Law's Unintended Consequences. The Ten-Year Legacy of Harm to Fair Use, Free Speech.

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Oldie but goodie Listen to Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explain why he voted against the amendment and gave an amazing primer on how the internet works.

The study, conducted with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, found that states—which were already struggling with shrinking budgets—were constrained to design their NCLB support systems around what they thought they could accomplish.

(U.S. and Canada) for Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook (publisher: American Library Association) Articles by practicing academic, public, school, special librarians sharing their experiences on how U.S. librarians are not tied to computers inside libraries: how librarians partner, outreach, and market libraries in their communities. Librarians with ethnic backgrounds serving diverse cultures are encouraged.

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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

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.”

Screw the DMCA: The chorus of voices criticizing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) has just gotten a bit louder with the addition of a new and authoritative voice: The Library of Congress.

Creole Dialect Speakers and Creole Culture. Learn about stigmatized varieties and much more. Administrators, Educators, Reporters, and the Public are invited to learn about the following topics from Academic Experts. Creole, Pidgin, Patois, Dialect AAVE, African American Venacular English, Ebonics Irish American Vernacular English.

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Since Care2.com is classroom-appropriate and kid-friendly, it’s also a great place to do some technology and writing lessons with ecards.

Letters, prose, poems, drawings mailed by soldiers and other servicemen and women during world war two.

hese Trends represent general directions regarding computing in libraries — short-term future directions where, from my perspective, things are or could be going.

McCain's security detail, police arrested Carol Kreck,a 61 year old librarian in Denver, for carrying a sign on public property.

Welcomes submission of manuscripts dealing with all aspects of librarianship as practiced on the World Wide Web, including both existing and emerging roles and activities of information professionals in the Web environment. New authors are welcome!

three-dimensional navigational browsers through which students can take a virtual tour of the human body over an Internet2 connection.

It is somewhat discouraging to see that publishers have to check the articles submitted by academics and researchers for possible plagiarism.

Georgia State University fired back this week at its accusers, three academic publishers that say the institution invites students to illegally download and print readings from thousands of works. The university asserts that its online distribution of course material is permitted under copyright law's fair-use exemption."

It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.

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Indian Folklore Research Journal publishes original and unpublished research papers, book reviews, resource reviews and announcements in the discipline of Folklore. Indian Folklore Research Journal is published annually by India's National Folklore Support Centre.