Breaking the silence. Breaking the silence Last night ITV1 in the UK ran a documentary that is unlikely to be shown in the USA. It is by a respected journalist called John Pilger and amongst other tidbits it shows Colin Powell saying in 1991 that Iraq poses no threat and also Condoleeza Rice confirming the […]

Tim Berners-Lee Royal Society Webcast. Bronwyn Stuckey from StageStruck Online said in Yahoo! com-prac just now: Tim Berners-Lee Royal Society Webcast Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, presents The Future of the World Wide Web atthe Royal Society in London, UK on Monday, 22 September. The keynote will beWebcast live at 18:00 GMT (7pm British Summer Time). […]

The Day Internet Governance Mattered, by Michael Geist, in the Tornoto Star, on the VeriSign Site Finder service and ICANN's ''intervention.'' [A blog doesn't need a clever name] ——- this is also well covered on cavebear blog.

Stateless Transnationals. [via Reuben]Business Week writes: [A] new breed of high-tech companies is defying conventional wisdom about how corporations ought to operate. While most large companies have extensive worldwide operations, these companies go much further — aiming to transcend nationality altogether. C.K. Prahalad, a professor at the University of Michigan Business School, calls this the […]

from Ralph, on the seweb list: The “Semantic Technologies for E-Government” Conference was held at the White House Conference Centeron September 8th. This was a very successful event with over 130 attendees. Among many agencies represented were Army, Census Bureau, CIA, DIA, DOE, EPA, GSA, IRS, Navy, NARA, NASA, NSA, NSF, SSA, USDA and US […]

today Tim gave me back my draft for significant revisions, as usual, i apparently was going to do too much, which is a perpetual problem with dissertations and he wants me to focus it down a good bit. in focussing it down, i also have to provide more support for my basic positions to show […]

Monkey Business. Monkeys down tools . – Demand fair pay for a fair day's work. “ Researchers taught brown capuchin monkeys to swap tokens for food. Usually they were happy to exchange this “money” for cucumber. But if they saw another monkey getting a grape – a more-liked food – they took offence. Some refused […]

COLLEGE OF THE FUTURE. Arnold Kling thinks higher ed is essentially a “holding pen” and needs to transform to survive: Education is at the center of the information age,… [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY]

Technorati getinfo. Sifry has just added a new API call to Technorati called getinfo. It lets you get information that a blogger has made available about themselves on their blog like a link to their FOAF file, LOAF file or their GeoURL. The great thing about this is if you've claimed your blog, this is […]

there are some photos over on chaosmint of the new G5 cluster here at Virginia Tech and more http://www.macminute.com/2003/09/20/g5cluster http://computing.vt.edu/research_computing/terascale/images/