LinuxSecurity.com Weekly Newsletter February 1st, 2008 Volume 9, Number 5 |

Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2008-5

NetHappenings Headlines and Education Resources feb.4

"Answer Your Cellphone. The Taxman Is Calling."
A recent tough stance by the Internal Revenue Service on
employees' use of cellphones is forcing some colleges to rethink
whether and under what conditions they should continue to provide
the devices to administrators and staff members. The federal tax
agency has been reminding employers that cellphones they provide
employees should be treated as taxable income, unless employees
can document that their phones are used only for business. Of
course most employees who get cellphones from their employers,
including those at colleges, use them a lot for personal calls.
So Ohio State University, among others, has decided to treat
cellphones as an employee benefit and report the cellphones as
income on employees' W-2 forms. Oakland University is providing
its employees with a cellphone stipend ranging from $45 to $90 a
month. Baylor University is giving employees the option of
accepting the cellphone as an employee benefit or otherwise
signing a statement that says they use the cellphone only for
business.

HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY, free clip art.

The beginning of Spring. Irish Goddess "Brigit's Day" Imbolc "in the belly" (of the mother) when plants start to grow. Kildare Ireland, priestess, druids, groundhog, candlemas, feb. 2, festival of lights.

TL INFOBITS - Technology and Higher Education's Future - 2008 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies - Technology and Emerging Issues in Academic Libraries - Bookmarking Tool for Scholars - Overview of Institutional Repositories - Recommended Reading -

Librarians at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor threw themselves a party on Friday to celebrate a milestone in their ambitious effort to scan every single book in the collection. They scanned the one millionth book, leaving just 6.5-million to go.

What Hippies THINK - BETTER THAN FREE - The Value of Music / Technology Wants To BE FREE and Microsoft Can't Compete with Google

K-12 first national conference for Educational Web Professionals professionals working in K-12 education.

glassbooth connects you to the 2008 presidential candidate that represents your beliefs the best.

The Full Frontal Scrutiny site is debuting today with an investigation of front group activity on Wikipedia. The information includes a guide to help consumers get the most out of that site and other information sources on the Web, and with a history of front groups and their nefarious activities. Full Frontal Scrutiny will also publish selected content from WebWatch and from the CMD's SourceWatch site, as well as aggregating news about front groups from other reliable sources.

False Pretenses Following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his administration waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Network Tools

The Educational Outreach Division of the Library of Congress is seeking applications from secondary teachers for a Teacher-in-Residence position during the 2008/09 school year.

In Cyberspace, Everyone Can Hear You Scream T he kid knows no boundaries. But neither does the adult. The high school senior is so lost in a hyper-public, YouTube world that he thinks nothing of forwarding a private phone call to the entire planet. The wife of the Fairfax County schools administrator the kid called at home is understandably miffed about the invasion into her private sphere, yet she returns fire with a shockingly disproportionate blast of rage.

NATIVE VILLAGE YOUTH AND EDUCATION NEWS

ED Review (02/01/08)

a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface.

List of Songs about rain.

“Using a tool like CiteULike, researchers (who are finding 99 percent of their journal papers online, probably bypassing the library) can now reach directly into the bookshelves of other researchers in their field (or any other field), anywhere the world, knowing nothing about them other than what they have bookmarked, and see what they are reading right now,” he said.

we need to establish a new copyright regime that reflects the age-old normative consensus about what's fair and what isn't at the small-scale, hand-to-hand end of copying, display, performance and adaptation.

NASA AND THE BEATLES CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARIES BY BEAMING SONG 'ACROSS THE UNIVERSE' INTO DEEP SPACE WASHINGTON -- For the first time ever, NASA will beam a song -- The Beatles' "Across the Universe" -- directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4.

"Our friends at The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) will be representing the mechanical right interests of songwriters and music publishers in this hearing. They will be fighting vigorously to protect those mechanical right interests to ensure that musical compositions are compensated fairly," Bergman wrote. "On the other side of this fight stands the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Digital Media Association (DiMA). Both the RIAA and DiMA have proposed significant reductions in mechanical royalty rates that would be disastrous for songwriters and music publishers."

NetHappenings Newsletter - Headlines and Resources 2/1/08