WSIS Compromise on ICANN. EurActiv.com News: “After an intensive round of negotiations over the weekend, the negotiators were able to reach a compromise over the three outstanding controversial issues, clearing the way for the actual Summit:…(2) internet governance: the question of who should run the internet (the American semi-private body ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned […]

Government benefits: screwing the young. Screwing the young. American government benefits will give a typical man reaching age 65 today a net windfall of more than $70,000 beyond what he paid in. A luckless 25-year-old, by contrast, can count on paying $322,000 more in payroll taxes than he will ever get back in benefits. [MetaFilter] […]

Who would have EVER imagined this would happen Schwarzenegger retreats on key campaign vows Retreating from two central campaign promises that helped make him governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday dropped his personal “guarantee” that cities and counties would be compensated for billions in lost car-tax revenue and reversed his pledge to safeguard spending for public […]

Flash snowman-builder. Build your own snowman using Chris Guy's snowman-builder. [MetaFilter] ——- yup, play with it for a few minutes.

Open Textbook Project. Open Textbook Projecthttp://otp.inlimine.org/ The mission of the open textbook project is to develop openly copyrighted (copylefted) textbooks using the free software development model. The books, developed collaboratively, would be freely available to download, modify, print and distribute. Not only are textbooks unavailable to a great number of students in the US and […]

The Word on Text Mining. The Word on Text Mining by Seth Grimeshttp://www.intelligententerprise.com/031210/619decision1_1.shtml Text analytics provide concept discovery, automated classification, and innovative displays for volumes of unstructured documents. This article written by Seth Grimes for Intelligent Enterprise gives the latest and most current happenings on text mining on the Internet. [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. […]

IBM values the text analytics market to $10 billion in five years. According to Bob Carlson the enterprise text analytics market is growing from $400 million today to $10 billion in five years (excluding search). Bob Carlson is a VP and the program director for the IBM WebFountain initiative that we have… [unstruct.org – Unstructured […]

W$I$. Veni Markovski: Tomorrow I will go to the UN and will send a strong message to the organizers that this is supposed to be the WSIS, not the W$I$.” [Lextext]

We are everywhere: The irresistible rise of global anticapitalism <This new book> tells the tale of what is commonly known as “the anti-globalization movement.” Except that most Westerners get that term wrong. The antiglobalizers aren't just a handful of white American union members, treehuggers and black-clad radicals. Most of the movement is action by people […]

The fastest way to get published: All machine needs is a manuscript. Churns out books while you wait. By Ho Anderson, Toronto Star. Prospective authors provide an InstaBook operator with a disk containing their manuscript; then the disk is fed into a machine and a fully bound and printed book pops out six minutes later. […]