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AP: “An engineering marvel at the time but instantly recognizable today, the compact disc turns 25 years old on Friday. But in an age of iPods and MP3 players, the CD’s future is increasingly in doubt. Those first CDs contained the Alpine symphony by Strauss and would sound equally sharp if played today, according to …
From Wired: “Wikipedia Scanner — the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith — offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.” Related news: …
Freedom and Information: Assessing Publicly Available Data Regarding U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Security, August 8, 2007: “This report concerns the feasibility of obtaining information relevant to planning terrorist attacks from publicly available sources. To the extent that such information is available, it is particularly valuable to terrorist planners in that it can generally be obtained at …
The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites, Nicole B. Ellison, Charles Steinfield, Cliff Lampe – Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University – Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4), article 1. “This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social …
UK House of Lords, Science and Technology Committee, 5th Report of Session 2006-2007: Personal Internet Security, August 10, 2007 (121 pages, PDF) “e-crime and the internet – Lords Science and Technology Committee calls for incentives, regulation and investment to tackle internet crime: The Internet is a powerful force for good: within 20 years it has …
Memorandum and Decision Order in SCO v. Novell, Civil Case No. 2:04CV139DAK, Dale A. Kimball, United States District Judge, U.S. Distrcit Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, August 10, 2007. (102 pages, PDF – via Groklaw] BACKGROUND – “The SCO Group, Inc. (“SCO”) began this action in state court asserting a single cause …
Five simple ways to save electricity with your computer by Darren Yates. See also the Climate Savers Computing Initiative: “Intel Corporation and Google Inc. joined with Dell, EDS, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, PG&E, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and more than 25 additional organizations [June 12, 2007] announced the Climate Savers …
Electronic 2007 Law Librarian Survey from ALM Research – Survey Says Librarians Like Their Jobs but Are Displeased With Vendors – “Electronic research was supposed to replace books and lower costs, but it’s done neither — and librarians aren’t happy about it.” THE CHARTS The Librarian’s Expanding Role Finances Resources Staffing Electronic Research
Via PCWorld.com, Sending Large Files Via the Internet: “A number of services capitalize on free-falling storage prices and cheap bandwidth to allow users to send large files instantly through the Internet.”
“W3C’s most popular service just got better, prettier, faster, and smarter. The W3C Markup Validator has a new user interface and a validation engine with improved accuracy and performance. Among new features are an automatic cleanup option using HTML Tidy, and checking of HTML fragments. Driven by W3C as an open-source software project, the markup …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: Views of Press Values and Performance: 1985-2007 “The American public continues to fault news organizations for a number of perceived failures, with solid majorities criticizing them for political bias, inaccuracy and failing to acknowledge mistakes. But some of the harshest indictments of the press now come …
Press release: “New Millennium Research Council Analysis report finds growing Internet traffic, driven by online video, requires ongoing investment in new capacity and intelligent networks.” The Never Ending Rush Hour – Internet Traffic Growth Requires Continual Investment in Capacity and Innovation in Network Management, August 9, 2007 (21 pages, PDF)
