Deena Larsen and Gavin Inglis just brought this interesting bit of hypertext to my attention. It is well worth going through a few times to see what happens, there are several different ends that i've seen….

Results of ICANN meeting in Tunisia. last Friday (31 October), ICANN finished a week of meetings in Carthage, Tunisia. The results were announced on their website, along with the agenda and some of the conference presentations. Among the decisions reached: A timetable for introducing domain names… [InternetPolicy.net] —— Vint and Alejandro, both standard bearers and […]

More on the Million Book Project. The slides and audio of Gloriana St. Clair's public lecture on The Million Book Project (OCLC, October 24) are now online. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) [Open Access News]

Where is the real security problem?. Ian Grigg: Ladies and Gentlemen, there you have it. The Internet Threat Model (ITM), in a nutshell. It's a strong model: the end nodes are secure and the middle is not. It's clean, it's simple, and we just happen to have a solution for it. Problem is, it's also […]

Free WiFi in “Austin Wireless City”. The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman published a front-page story today on the proliferation of WiFi hotspots locally. The same issue includes a map of 51 local hotspots. The article focuses on Austin Wireless City, a community wireless project. led by Richard MacKinnon of Less Networks. While an industry analyst is […]

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More on the Digital Promise Project. The October 15 issue of RLG DigiNews has an interview with Anne Murphy of the DDP. Excerpt, quoting Anny Murphy: “As a result of our studies, we propose that one of the main objectives of the Digital Opportunity [Investment] Trust [DO IT] be to assist in the digitization of […]

From Monolithic to Grid. 3 Nov 2003: How did we get from there to here? The history of computing is marked by ages. In each age, the basic design of how we work with computers changes. Many people probably think we're in the brave new Internet age at this time, but considering the nature of […]

Course Development Wars: A Content Expert's Cry for Help. “You’ve changed the entire meaning and intent of my course!” I blurted out the words and then regreted it as Kendra, the instructional designer looked at me in shock [Xplana] —— hyperspecialization, the redisciplinization of higher-education, fordism, and post-fordism, the fascism of informationalism, all of that […]

Research Writing. “In teaching research writing, I begin with a bibliographic essay – a narratio of the chain of thought that a student must later insert their critique. I require that they avoid having a thesis until they understand the evidence. Then, as a thesis emerges into an argumentative paper, they must attract the attention […]