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1)
"Mary Hodder, chief executive of Dabble, which helps users search and
organize online videos, estimated that 200,000 videos are uploaded
onto the Web every day." She said video uploads to PhotoBucket,
Metacafe, and AOL add up to 25,000-30,000 videos a day. Dabble wants
to help users get to the content that matches their interests. Another
new service, Jumpcut, helps users create their own video playlists. As
for online video growth, MediaPost
<http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showA
rticleHomePage&art_aid=50891> cites new findings by traffic measurer
Hitwise showing that between March and this past September, visits to
YouTube grew 249%; to MySpace Video 253%; to Google Video 170%; to
Metacafe 133%; and to Yahoo Video 13%.

Web 2.0 Collaborative Class Tools
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2)
Harris Interactive  reported in Media Life
<http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/article_8292.asp>:
75% of teens and 43% of tweens have an online profile in a
social-networking or community site, and teens have, on average, 75
friends on their friends lists in such sites.

Social Networking Rules for Children Explained
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/socialnetwork.html

3)
MICROSOFT PAYS ROYALTIES TO UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP
Microsoft has agreed to pay royalties based on sales of its Zune
portable media player to the Universal Music Group, a unit of Vivendi.
Under the deal, Universal will receive a percentage of both download
revenue and digital player sales. In exhange, Universal Music will
license its musical recordings for Microsoft's digital music service.
Universal said it will pay half of what it receives in royalties to its
artists.
New York Times, 9 November 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/technology/09music.html

Who's the pirate here?  Is it the public acquiring music in new ways
that Universal won't monetize or is it this ancient man running around
behind the scenes trying to hold up technologists for cash?
If your future model is based on being paid by the HARDWARE
manufacturer, then why don't food companies get a slice of stove
sales?  Better yet, why don't television producers get a slice of TV
sales?  Why don't content producers get a slice of every playback
device known to man?  BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WHERE THE MONEY IS!
Meanwhile,
Apparently in an effort to make sure all the major record labels
are represented in Zune's online music store, Microsoft signed
an unusual deal with Universal Music Group in which Universal gets
"a payment for every Zune player sold" in return for more access to
artists and music rights for Zune.
This is like some bizarre Mafia movie.  Wherein the producer of the
product, in this case Microsoft, has to pay to function, even though
what they're doing is COMPLETELY LEGAL!
Microsoft wants in.  So they pay protection.  They could go to the
police, say they've got the right to do what they want, but the system
is ineffective, and it takes a long time to get results. Anyway Zune
is going to fail. ~Lefsetz
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musiclaw3.html

4)
Brock N Meeks
"Trapped in the War on Terror" by Ian Lustick
When I was covering homeland security I distinctly remember one of
the early bin Laden tapes talked about how one of the goals of 9/11
was to bleed the U.S. dry (my phrase) economically.  It was, to me at
the time, a bracing revelation.

5)
Forget no-fly lists. If Uncle Sam gets its way, beginning on Jan. 14,
2007, we'll all be on no-fly lists, unless the government gives us
permission to leave-or re-enter-the United States.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (HSA) has proposed that all
airlines, cruise lines-even fishing boats-be required to obtain
clearance for each passenger they propose taking into or out of the
United States.
NPRM by Dept of Homeland Security PDF here for easy access:
http://stettner.net/DHS_NPRM_20060714

NPRM:
http://hasbrouck.org/documents/USCBP-2005-0003-0003.pdf

Regulatory Assessment:
http://hasbrouck.org/documents/USCBP-2005-0003-0005.pdf

(if you don''t believe it's for real, you can also check the Federal
Register by the date and page, online or in a law library.)

The precise language at issue in the NPRM is, "A carrier must not board
any passenger subject to a 'not-cleared' instruction, or any other
passenger, or their baggage, unless cleared by CBP."
Note that for "any other passenger", the default is "must not board."

6)
Amnesty International Says Google is Evil After All
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/20/amnesty_china_campaign/
Amnesty International on Yahoo, Google
Amnesty calls for action on China By John Oates
Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Nortel, Sun and Yahoo! named and shamed
Amnesty International is calling on internet users to join its campaign
to reclaim the web as a place of freedom.
The lobby group names Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, Sun and
Yahoo! as companies who have co-operated to censor the internet or to
help track down individuals.
Amnesty wants users of these services to complain directly - by email or
on support forums - about these companies support of repression in China
and elsewhere. The group also wants the companies to "come clean" on
their policies - they want the companies named to make public all
agreements with the Chinese government and publish a list of words
excluded from web and blog searches. Amnesty also wants the companies to
publicly call for the release of "cyber-dissidents" currently
imprisoned.
Amnesty accuses the firms of hypocrisy
Kate Allen, Amnesty's UK director, said: "There is a huge gulf between
the companies stated values and their actions. Yahoo!, Microsoft and
Google need to stop denying their culpability, acknowledge where their
responsibilities lie, and begin to focus on solutions in China."
Yahoo! handed over confidential information which led to the
imprisonment of two journalists - Shi Tao and Li Zhi - who have both
been adopted as Amnesty Prisoners of Conscience.
Microsoft shut down a blog run by a New York Times researcher Zhao Jing
following a request from the Chinese government.
Google is offering a censored version of its search engine for China.
Microsoft gave Israeli authorities the Hotmail account of Mordechai
Vanunu - the man who blew the whistle on Israel's nuclear weapon
programme. He is out of prison but banned from contacting the foreign
media.
The online pledge has already been signed by almost 25,000 people. Go
here to sign up or go here to learn more about the irrepressible
campaign.
Also see:
Journalists' union calls for boycott of Yahoo!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/05/nuj_calls_yahoo_boycott/
Yahoo! on NSA Surveillance: No Comment
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/10/yahoo-on-nsa-surveilla
nce-no-comment.html
Google Watch
http://www.google-watch.org/

How to work with google
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Isn't it time for civil society to pull the plug on Google?
One newly minted Google millionaire was touring a mansion
for sale in Los Gatos. After climbing a hill in the yard and
enjoying the view, he asked the real estate agent an
unusual question: Could he build a Ferris wheel on the property?
At one point, he declared that he wanted more land.
When told that would mean living near Half Moon Bay,
he said he could always commute to work in a helicopter.
A few minutes later, the client turned his interest to
Treasure Island, declaring that he might be able to buy
some land there. "It would be cool," Marcus recalled him
saying, "to take a speed boat to work every day."
­  San Francisco Chronicle, August 14, 2005, p.B-1



7)
Police Break Phone Sex Hacking Ring
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2006111063288
Employers of phone sex companies have been arrested on charges of taking
the personal information of 8,420,000 customers from rival companies and
sending about 100 million lascivious text messages to them.
The Cyber Terror Response Center of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency
arrested phone sex company officials, including Nam (38, female), and a
hacker, Lee (33), and indicted four others without detention. They are
charged with taking the personal information of customers (a violation
of the Information and Communications Law) such as security numbers and
cell phone numbers from other phone sex companies by hiring a
professional hacker.
According to police, Nam and Kang (33), president of another firm, let
Lee, who is a professional programmer, break into servers for clients of
their 67 competitors and steal 8.42 million personal information items.
The suspects used Daepo phones established in other names, such as those
of homeless people whose resident registrations have expired and credit
delinquents, and duplicated cell phones in order to send text messages.
As a result, they have yet to pay the fees for sending the text
messages, which come out to 30 won for one message and approximately
three billion won for the 100 million messages in total.


8)
 Former Federal Reserve head riffs on Sarbanes-Oxley
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/09/HNfrbripssarbox_1.html
"What can you expect when you get virtual unanimity in both houses [of
government]?" Greenspan asked. "Any bill that gets that can't be good."
He believes that the vast majority of the members of the Senate and the
House of Representatives failed to actually read the bill, which passed
largely uncontested in 2002.
Greenspan is hopeful that changes to Section 404 are likely, praising
the efforts of Democrats Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank seeking a
re-evaluation of the legislation. Schumer, New York's senior U.S.
senator, was particularly concerned about New York City's status as a
financial center. "He was seeing IPOs [initial public offerings] going
to London," Greenspan said.
Tackling the age-old question of how IT impacts productivity, Greenspan
noted that computer technology has radically changed some parts of the
economy. In particular, companies have used IT to better track and
manage inventory, he said. But he doubts that computerization can raise
productivity at a faster level than previous technological
breakthroughs. The limiting factor isn't technology, but human
intelligence. "The obvious answer is we're not smart enough," he said.

9)
ISPs 'should be responsible' for hacker attacks
http://tinyurl.com/y7y6s5
Internet service providers (ISPs) should be made legally liable for the
damage caused by "denial of service" (DoS) attacks carried out via their
networks, a leading internet lawyer says.
At a conference called Blocking Denial of Service Attacks on the
Internet, to be held in London on 13 September, Lilian Edwards, an
internet lawyer based at the University of Southampton, UK, will argue
that legal measures must be taken if these attacks are to be stemmed.
Edwards notes that ISPs currently have no legal obligation to check data
relayed to and from internet users. She thinks, however, that
governments could require them to do so.

10)
Senior academic officers oppose US public access legislation
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=2826&pi
ckUpBatch=471#2826
Senior academic officers from 10 institutions in the US have expressed
their concern on the provisions of a new legislation, called the
?Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006.? These institutions,
which collectively make nearly $3 billion in annual research
investments, have stated that mandating a six-month public release of
journal articles would negatively impact the academic community and
the publishers that disseminate their work.

11)
Analysis of data on scholarly journals publishing.
UK Scholarly Journals 2006 Baseline Report
http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-scholarly-journals
The UK science base is one of the most productive and influential in
the world. The Government?s ambition is to build on this success, and
effective communication of the results of research is of fundamental
importance in realising that aim. Scholarly journals have come to play
a critical role in the scholarly communications process.
The fundamentals of how the business operates, and the roles that the
key players perform, has changed little since 1665.  But the internet
has brought new ways of communication, and challenged assumptions
about the roles of researchers, funders, publishers, librarians and
others ­ about how they can most effectively perform their roles, and
indeed about the key purposes they are seeking to fulfil.


12)
Archive of the Now
http://www.archiveofthenow.com/
The Archive of the Now is an online and print repository of
recordings, printed texts and manuscripts, focussing on innovative
contemporary poetry being written or performed in Britain. It is part
of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing, at Brunel University in
west London, UK.

13)
Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://dlese.org/library/index.jsp
?Like your local library, DLESE is made up of a wide variety of
resources, collections, and services. DLESE's educational resources
include lesson plans, scientific data, visualizations, interactive
computer models, and virtual field trips?in short, any web-accessible
teaching or learning material.?

14)
Carcinogenic chemicals are being used as Tattoo Pigments.
http://tinyurl.com/y3e7h6
Two chemists Ronald Petruso and Jani Ingram concluded that
carcinogenic chemicals are being used as tattoo pigments, which might
be dangerous.
?The number of people with tattoos is growing and still we don?t see
much aired in the media about possible dangers outside of AIDS and hepatitis.?
The pigments they make are used by auto manufactures for making
paint,? Petruso said.
The possibility of contracting AIDS or hepatitis from a dirty needle
is the first precaution taken while inking but they forget about the
harmfulness of the pigments used to color. The ink is toxic and is
being used as drugs.
?There are so many tattoo parlors out there that you don?t have any
idea where they?re buying their supplies. People come in knowing about
hepatitis and AIDS, and tattoo artists are careful about ensuring that
the needles are sterile. But they don?t expect to see [dangerous]
chemicals present in those pigments, and that?s the situation that
needs to be addressed,?
Petruso, I wish you all a save tattooing and hope this information
will alert you to check the ink used by the artist rather than only
sterilized needles.

15)
Encyclopedia of Earth
http://www.eoearth.org/
?The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles
written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who
collaborate and review each other's work.?

16)
geology.com
http://geology.com/
Includes a geology dictionary, geologist job listing, geologic time
scale, geology news, etc.
They have recently completed two collections of online reference maps
and Landsat images. The first is a collection of 250 U.S. State maps
which include a raised relief map, elevation map, rivers map,
political map and roads/cities map. These link to their state and city
satellite images, waterfalls map, state high points map and more. See:
US State Map Collections
They also have a growing collection of over 100 country maps paired
with Landsat images. See: World Country Maps: Country Satellite Images

17)
Information Technologies and International Development: ITID
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/copyleft.html
Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) has
become the first journal published by The MIT Press to participate in
the open access initiative. Now you can retrieve peer-reviewed full
text PDF articles from the journal?s website, free of charge.

18)
Telephone Excise Tax Refund
The tax, which began in 1898 as a way to finance the Spanish American
War, has been on the books ever since and cost American taxpayers $6
billion last year. The tax was originally designed to be a luxury tax
on Americans who owned telephones at the turn of the century.
The federal government Thursday said it is ending what Treasury
Secretary John Snow called an "ancient" tax on long distance phone service.
The Treasury Department said in a statement that it will no longer
pursue a legal dispute about the federal excise tax on long distance
service and taxpayers will receive a tax refund on the taxes they've
paid in the last three years. The refund will be part of the 2006 tax
forms that are due on April 15, 2007. The tax adds about three percent
to phone bills.
How to get a refund
http://www.enter.net/~arthurlf/phone/ptrefund.htm
of the three percent federal Communications Excise Tax amounts on your
local and long distance telephone service.  Since the author resides
in Pennsylvania, the first procedure described is for that state.
Vonage customers may obtain their billing history by logging onto
their web account. Log onto the Vonage.com homepage, click on Billing,
then Billing History, and you will have access to your monthly
statements, along with information on the Federal Excise Taxes you paid.
http://www.vonage-forum.com/article2826.html

19)
How many wireless vulnerabilities are really out there?
http://tinyurl.com/y2fn6y
The Wireless Vulnerabilities and Exploits group has been cataloging
security vulnerabilities on wireless networks, primarily Bluetooth and
the various flavors of 802.11, for nearly a year. Started by Network
Chemistry, it now has 134 wireless vulnerabilities documented on its Web
site.


20)
KU University's first computer found
Computer purchased in 1957
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/history_internet.html
The machine, an IBM 650, was an important part of the development of
computing in the United States. Schweppe called it the first mass-produced
computer in the world, with about 2,000 made.
Discounts offered by IBM expanded its use on college campuses.
?Just about every major university in the country had one,? Schweppe said.

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