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>TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, MAY 09, 2005
> Moving Beyond Lists for Searching the Web
> U.K. Schools Look to Open Source to Cut Costs
> Antispam Blacklist Targets 900,000
> Student Shuts Down Blog After Threat from Singapore
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>MOVING BEYOND LISTS FOR SEARCHING THE WEB
>Supporters of non-text-based representations of Web search results got
>a boost this week as Groxis, the makers of Grokker, released a version
>of the software that runs as a Java plug-in for browsers. Previously,
>the software, which returns search results in a circular "map," was
>only available as a separate, $49 application. The company will now
>depend on revenue from advertisements placed next to search results by
>search engine Yahoo. For the past nine months, 2,000 students and
>faculty of Stanford University have been testing the Grokker software,
>which has earned a strong following there. Michael A. Keller,
>Stanford's head librarian and an adviser to Groxis, said the
>application allows users to find appropriate information more quickly.
>Another company, Vivisimo, is developing a search engine that, while
>still text-based, displays groups of folders next to ranked lists of
>results. The folders give users another method of sifting through
>search results for useful resources.
>New York Times, 9 May 2005 (registration req'd)
>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/technology/09yahoo.html
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>U.K. SCHOOLS LOOK TO OPEN SOURCE TO CUT COSTS
>An upcoming report from the British Information and Communication
>Technology agency is expected to endorse open source technologies for
>the country's schools as a way to significantly cut costs. The British
>Educational Communications and Technology Association--the organization
>that carried out the research on which the agency's report is
>based--reportedly found that primary schools in the United Kingdom
>could trim their computer budgets by almost half by switching from
>proprietary to open source software. Microsoft, which provides much of
>the software used in British schools, currently has a deal with the
>U.K. Department of Education and Skills allowing it to sponsor
>individual schools for up to $28,250. Some have suggested that this
>arrangement has left administrators at those schools reluctant to enter
>into open source projects for fear of losing sponsorship.
>CNET, 9 May 2005
>http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5700321.html
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>ANTISPAM BLACKLIST TARGETS 900,000
>Officials at the Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) have
>placed e-mail addresses of 900,000 Telewest customers on its blacklist,
>saying that computers using those addresses may have been hijacked and
>used for sending spam. Many organizations use the SPEWS blacklists as
>e-mail filters--anything coming from an address on the list is blocked.
>Telewest acknowledged that some subscribers of its Blueyonder broadband
>service have had their computers compromised by computer viruses and
>turned into e-mail zombies. Company officials said they are working to
>contact those users with suspiciously high volumes of e-mail traffic to
>help them clean their machines. "As you can imagine," said a statement
>from the company, "[it] is a time-consuming task." Matt Peachey of
>antispam software firm Ironport said he doubts all of the blocked
>computers have in fact been turned into spam zombies by hackers.
>Peachey accused SPEWS of casting too wide a net in its blacklisting.
>BBC, 9 May 2005
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4528927.stm
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>STUDENT SHUTS DOWN BLOG AFTER THREAT FROM SINGAPORE
>Chen Jiahao, a graduate student in chemical physics at the University
>of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has shut down his personal blog and
>issued two apologies after an agency of the government in Singapore
>threatened to sue Chen for defamation. A*Star, the agency in Singapore
>dealing with science and research, accused Chen, who is from Singapore,
>of libelous statements that "went way beyond fair comment." The agency
>demanded a public apology but said Chen's first apology was insincere
>and insisted on another. A*Star said it welcomes various opinions and
>perspectives, but many in the journalism community rejected that claim.
>Singapore has long had a reputation for using tactics including
>lawsuits to silence critics. Organizations including the Committee to
>Protect Journalists and Reporters without Borders have decried
>Singapore's threats to Chen and journalists. "Chen criticized some of
>A*Star's policies," said Julien Pain, head of Reporters without
>Borders' Internet freedom desk, "but there was nothing defamatory in
>what he wrote."
>Reuters, 9 May 2005
>http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8422422
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