Cyberpiracy North of the Border
By 'north of the border' the myopic headline writer means 'Canada'. No matter. This interesting interview with Michael Geist, the Canada research chair in Internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa. More...
Marketing Science, Marketing Ourselves
The point of this article: "We need to ask whether we really want or need to proceed further down the market-driven path. Is some implacable economic mechanism forcing us to do so - is the deck stacked?" Enthusiasm for the pre-Cold War model of noncommercial academia, writes the author, stems from the idea that the academic has a committment to open enquiry, separated from personal or national prejudices. More...
AAUP–ARL Statement on Scholarly Communication
Statement by the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) and Association for Research Libraries (ARL) that mostly preserves the status quo, with a slight nod toward open access. More...
Students Fight E-Vote Firm
I have linked to the story about the Diebold electronic voting controversy frequently in NewsTrolls (see the research here) but this is the first time the issue has intruded into academia. More...
National Occupational Classification
Some discussion in the DEOS list on competencies is producing some interesting links. This one, for example, is the result of Human Resources Development Canada's (HRDC's) efforts in 2001 to describe all occupations in Canada (for fun - select the first link on each page, and be treated to the description for 'cabinet minister'). More...
Why We Must Stand On Guard Over Copyright
This brief article outlines why many nations - including Canada - are reluctant to adopt the strong copyright protections demanded by the U.S., and describes some of the tactics being employed to widen this regime despite these nations' reluctance. More...
Spam: How It Is Hurting Email and Degrading Life on the Internet
This new candidate for the Ig Noble Awards investigates and concludes: "Spam is beginning to undermine the integrity of email and degrade life online." No, really. More...
Search Inside the Book
Amazon.com's new 'search inside the book' service provides a granularity of search that the designers of learning object technology have so far only dreamed of. More...
How to Hate Microsoft
This is one of those articles where the comments are much, much more interesting that the item itself. More...
Open Source Course Management Systems
Via George, here is a very nice list of open source CMS software compiled by Scott Leslie. More...
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