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Subpoenas Sent to File-Sharers Prompt Anger and Remorse
By AMY HARMON, NY Times, July 28, 2003
The whole article is at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/technology/28TUNE.html?pagewanted=1.
From the article:
“A blizzard of subpoenas from the recording industry seeking the identities of people suspected of illegally swapping music is provoking fear, anger and professions of remorse as the targets of the antipiracy dragnet learn [...]
An article in the NY Times today about changing the way equity figures into financial aid. The entire article is available on line (subscription is free but requires registration) at
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/national/27COLL.html?th
“Eager to bring some uniformity to the otherwise unruly field of financial aid, more than two dozen of the nation’s most selective universities have started looking [...]
Pain in the butt. I was working on my Toshiba Satellite laptop, in MS Outlook, and all of a sudden it froze. I couldn’t even get back to the safe mode menu (WinXP Pro) to go back to the last successful configuration. So, it is off to laptop hospital. Working on my work computer now, [...]
I am conintually amazed at the Born Magazine art work.
The messages contained in many of the works are cryptic and probably need to be revisited many times to understand – if ever. But I’m not sure understanding is important with this art. I believe that the experience is at the root of the art.
Experience it [...]
Born Magazine presents a whole new idea of aesthetics (at least it’s new for me). The work displayed in a combination of technology, music, poetry, art, and so much more. If you have about 10 minutes, please click on the link below. The following is a story, but it is so much more. After you [...]
A village in northern Thailand is preparing to make the leap to cyberspace. Members of the Lahu tribe are designing a virtual museum to showcase the region’s minority ethnic communities. The plan is to have an Internet link in a village building, dependent upon solar power until the village gets electricity. The museum will chronicle [...]
Posted on Wed, Jul. 09, 2003
Former FCC chairman’s plan: broadband in every home
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist
HUNDT-ING BROADBAND: A former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is pitching a plan to wire American homes with true broadband data connections, and he wants taxpayers to subsidize the project directly, while ditching another federal mandate that [...]
I had a voice mail on my cell this morning. The caller, a young woman, left a detailed message about how she really wasn’t dating some guy who was supposed to be someone else’s boyfriend. It was a wrong number because it wasn’t me that she wanted to talk to.
Have you ever wondered what happens [...]
A good article about a few McDonald’s in Chicago and how they are helping to bridge the divide.
2 franchisees here already in cyberspace
July 9, 2003
BY CHERYL JACKSON Advertisement
While McDonald’s Corp. plots the offering of Internet access in a couple dozen San Franciso restaurants, two Chicago franchisees have already moved the Golden Arches into cyberspace
Full article [...]
Very interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education by an English teacher who is working in the University of Virginia’s admission office. The dilemma that she faces is what I face when trying to counsel students about competitive college admissions. I think she leaves the issue as unclear as it was when she [...]
