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June 8, 2006: “The Internet Caucus Advisory Committee (ICAC) hosted a discussion focusing on the legislative proposals percolating in Congress on so-called Network Neutrality. No fewer than six House and Senate bills are circulating in Congress that in some way address this amorphous policy question.” [Link] “…the ICAC has requested of all its 200 member …
Fragile digital data in danger of fading past history’s reach, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (6-7-06) “Many of the records that once allowed historians to study a society’s history — from personal correspondence to government documents — may be slipping, irretrievably, into the digital ether…compared to the sturdy format of paper and books, digital information is extremely …
WSJ free feature: Why Getting the User To Create Web Content Isn’t Always Progress
AP reports Google plans to release a beta spreadsheet program on June 6, via the Google Labs site. “Google Spreadsheets allows you to create, store and share spreadsheets on the web. For those of you who already struggle to organize multiple versions of spreadsheets and other data and lists, Google Spreadsheets is a great solution…” …
Department of State Fact Sheet: “The Iraqi Virtual Science Library (IVSL), launched on May 3, 2006, is a digital portal that provides Iraqi universities and research institutes with access to an outstanding collection of millions of full text articles from over 17,000 premier scientific and engineering journals and their archives, in addition to technical content …
Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (March/April 2006): 3244.
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The Condition of Education 20002006: “This website is an integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 20002006.”
60 Sites in 60 Minutes 2006 [via Lawsites]
“This web site provides information in four topic areas regarding the Inventory and Evaluation of Clinical Research Networks (IECRN) project. The four primary objectives of the IECRN project are as follows: To develop an inventory and database of clinical research networks; To describe organizational and operational characteristics of a sample of networks in several key …
“Irrepressible.org will harnass the power of the internet to mobilise people all over the world to take a stand against repression.” [Link] “…Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information. The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments with …
Refereed technical papers from 11 research areas are available from the WWW2006 Conference, May 23-26, 2006. Topic areas include: business success, next wave, education and science, security and health.
