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"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.

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Bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the Intergovernmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders.On November 15, the non-partisan National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) released results of the 2007 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA), which provides comparable data on fourth- and eighth-grade reading and mathematics achievement in 11 of the nation's urban school districts.

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].

A massive security breach involving the personal information of "virtually every child in Britain" has occurred in the United Kingdom. This is a clear illustration of risky it would be to have a national database of children's personal information in the US, which is what would be required in order to establish children's age verification online.

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.

* Japan is now fingerprinting all foreigners. Fingerprinted foreigners now will have the distinction of having the same status as former Korean slaves.

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.

Bunhill Cemetery is just down the road from my flat in London. It’s a handsome old boneyard, a former plague pit (“Bone hill” -- as in, there are so many bones under there that the ground is actually kind of humped up into a hill). There are plenty of luminaries buried there -- John “Pilgrim’s Progress” Bunyan, William Blake, Daniel Defoe, and assorted Cromwells. But my favorite tomb is that of Thomas Bayes, the 18th-century statistician for whom Bayesian filtering is named.

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Last month, I resigned as a five-year veteran teacher of Broward County schools. Letter to the editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Fort Lauderdale, Florida. FCAT equals Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.

Try to imagine a person engaged in any activity. Now list the objects that are included in this scene. There are always things. The clothes we wear, the surfaces we touch, what we can see, our own body, the smells, the sounds. Even in philosophies that try to keep to only the bare essentials, let us say for example Zen Buddhism, a great concern with objects, in Zen the simplicity and crudeness of artifacts used for tea ceremony, has taken much attention and work. Material culture is everywhere, but not enough in academic work, say the authors of the volume reviewed here.

Teaching Intelligent Design vs Evolution in the classroom. Is intelligent design religion or science? The appearance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the agenda of the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting gives a kind of scholarly imprimatur to a phenomenon that first emerged in 2005, during the debate in Kansas over whether intelligent design should be taught in public school sciences classes.

Steven Van Zandt starts Middle School and High School Music Education Curriculum.T hat's guitarist/singer Steve Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band -- a.k.a. Little Stevie, a.k.a. Miami Steve, a.k.a. Silvio Dante, Tony Soprano's consigliere -- at a sit down in the Capitol yesterday with Sens. Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg.

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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.