Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings News and Resources 10/19/06

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1)

Pilot Project for the Citizendium to Launch This Week
http://citizendium.org/release_001.html
A major new encyclopedia project will soon attempt to unseat Wikipedia
as the go-to destination for general information online.  Like
Wikipedia, the Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), or "the Citizen's
Compendium," will be a wiki project open to public collaboration.
But, unlike Wikipedia, the community will be guided by expert editors,
and contributors will be expected to use their own names, not
anonymous pseudonyms.
The initiative is being spearheaded by Wikipedia's co-founder, Larry
Sanger, who, after leaving the well-known wiki project, became one of
its more vocal critics.  Sanger first announced the effort on
September 15 at the Wizards of OS conference in Berlin.  Sanger, who
holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University, has taken
a leave of absence from the Digital Universe Foundation in order to
lead the new project.
This week, the fledgling Citizendium Foundation will launch a six-week
pilot project open to potential contributors by invitation
http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html
"Not only enormous and free, but reliable"
"Wikipedia has accomplished great things, but the world can do even
better," said Sanger.  "By engaging expert editors, eliminating
anonymous contribution, and launching a more mature community under a
new charter, a much broader and more influential group of people and
institutions will be able to improve upon Wikipedia's extremely
useful, but often uneven work.  The result will be not only enormous
and free, but reliable."


2)
Rob Frieden
Pioneers Chair and Professor of Telecommunications
 http://www.psu.edu/dept/comm/faculty/frieden.html
[...In the United States the FCC officially defines
broadband as 200 kbps or higher.  Better yet the FCC examines
broadband penetration by zip code and attributes penetration if any
single occupant within a zip code can access a particular service.
With that standard, a satellite or terrestrial wireless footprint
evidences market penetration even though wireless services typically
cost well in excess of $100 a month as opposed to wired options at
$50 or less. In other words the level of broadband access in the U.S.
is substantially overstated based on the zip code metric.]



3)
Privacy Rules for Government Employment.
http://tinyurl.com/yxghl9
GWU law professor (and former Supreme Court clerk) Orin Kerr wrote
about the important differences between public and private sector
employers here in a piece critical of a 9th circuit ruling.
Unfortunately, as Professor Kerr's article title suggests, private
sector employees generally have little to no 4th Amendment protection
in their emails.


4)
Qualcomm pulls the plug on Eudora
Old-time e-mail software peaked in the early to mid-1990s
SAN DIEGO - The Eudora e-mail software has been around nearly 20
years, long before the Internet became a household word. Now, with its
glory days behind, its owner is calling it quits.
Qualcomm Inc., the company best known as a pioneer of the CDMA
technology that powers many of the world's mobile phones, says the
latest Eudora release will be its last commercial version, available
at a cut-rate price of $19.95 with six months technical support.
Beginning next year, Eudora will evolve and incorporate code from
Thunderbird, the free, open-source e-mail program from Mozilla Corp.
New versions will be based entirely on Thunderbird code, and the
software will be given away free.

5)
Apple shipped iPods carrying computer virus
http://tinyurl.com/yc77cp
Some video devices contain RavMonE.exe affecting Windows computers

Microsoft blames Apple's "quality checks" for iPod virus
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/News/engadget.htm


6)
MySpace Preditor Caught by Code
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/News/wired.htm


7)
File Sharing News
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/News/fileshare.htm

Canada on Copyright Reform Different points of views collide.

Exetel and BitTorrent Traffic Is the sky falling on customers of
Australian ISP...

RIAA asks AllofMP3 to Come Clea?and AllofMP3 says no.

IFPI Launches New Round of Legal Actions Over 8,000 users targeted in
17 countries.

AllofMP3: Ready to RumbleThe infamous Russian music site prepares to...

Canadian Standing Committee on Copyright Reform Different points of
views collide

Eight Ways to Revitalize P2P File-sharing is making a comeback. Here?s
how we...


8)
Nobel Prizes 2006
http://tinyurl.com/yxbh4v
This Los Angeles Times article highlights some of the inequities in
our educational system, noting that in the American sweep of the
science Nobel prizes this year, there's still many students in the USA
who don't get the same sort of chance.

9)
The Real Education Gap
http://tinyurl.com/q6wyg
There's always a lot of talk about gaps in education, but one gap
isn't talked about enough: the gap in teacher quality between poor and
rich schools.
States have two weeks to comply with the latest requirement of the
federal No Child Left Behind Act and come up with a solution to what
U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings calls teaching's ?dirty
little secret?:

The disparity in teacher quality between poor, largely minority
schools and their more affluent, white counterparts.
http://tinyurl.com/y4jxua

What Really Matters and What Doesn't
http://tinyurl.com/y8zdny
because you can be a Ph.D. and have taught in for years but the school
system won't say you are qualified unless you pay thousands of dollars
and 2 years to pass their qualification standard.


10)
Information Literacy
WHAT ARE 21ST CENTURY INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS?
http://tinyurl.com/y7gp96
Skills needed to retrieve, analyze, and communicate information that
is available online. According to the preliminary
report, Educational Testing Service says  only 13 percent of the
college student test-takers were information
literate.

11)
Sun Microsystems unveils data center
http://tinyurl.com/ym6jzu
Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. has
a novel twist on the data center: a portable version of the hulking
outposts that house nothing but computers and equipment needed to store
and process raw data.
The concept project dubbed Project Blackbox is a "data center in a box"
with all the necessary servers, storage and networking equipment packed
into a cushioned and cooled 20-foot-long cargo shipping container. Sun
was unveiling the system Tuesday.
Only two prototypes have been produced so far, but the company hopes to
begin full-scale production by next summer. The price hasn't been
determined.


12)
Feds Often Clueless After Data Losses
http://tinyurl.com/us2r9
Federal agencies not only regularly lose personal identity data, but
don't even always know what they've lost or how many Americans are
affected, a recently-released House report claimed.

13)
Steal my ID, steal my fingers - the public gets nervous
http://tinyurl.com/y2krdy
The public fears losing their fingers to ruthless biometric ID thieves
in the fingerprint-controlled future, apparently. Or at least, so says
Frost & Sullivan analyst Sapna Capoor, who argued unconvincingly that "A
dead finger is no good to a thief."
If you have a fingerprint scanner protecting your family jewels, your
data might be safe, but what about your fingers?

14)
School Associated Violent Deaths
http://tinyurl.com/ykootu
Fact sheet about school shootings and school-related violence.


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