Da Vinci's Notebooks
This genuinely is the beauty of the web - an RSS feed showing one page of Da Vinci's Notebooks per day - a project that will take a little more than four years to complete. More...

CanCore Update
I have about an hour to go before the hockey game, and there is no good reason to exclude any of this from today's newsletter, so I am just going to forward Nom's email en masse. I'll read this stuff on the plane tomorrow; you can get a jump on me and read it tonight. More...

Reuters RSS
I mentioned a while ago that Reuters withdrew content from Yahoo! in order to become a stand-alone news service. The next step in this happened today as it launched a set of RSS feeds covering general news and specific areas, such as business and health. More...

Why Use DRM If It Doesn't Work?
OK, I've felt like a pretty lonely voice with this argument, but somebody agrees with me: DRM isn't about the money, "it's all about the control." That's why, according to this author, DRM works for companies even if it doesn't succeed it protecting content - it provides the legimacy and support for a network in which content producers maintain legal control over the use of the material produced. More...

The Internet's Wilder Side
Inter-Relay Chat, or IRC, is one of the internet's older services. At any given time, according to this article, about 500,000 people may be using it to exchange ideas or, in some cases, software, MP3s and video files. More...

Analyst: Expect a 64-Bit Desktop by 2006
Every once in a while I write about 64-bit computing, a development that is taking much longer to roll out than I expected (my prediction in my 1998 paper was 'a few years' and I have since predicted 2004 or 2005). More...

Beyond Band: Music Technology Inspires Students
When I was in high school, I decided I wanted to be in the school band. Not being especially musical, I chose to play drums. The day came for band practice, and I was given a kettle drum and some sticks, put in the 'Drum Room' and told to practice, which I did, all by myself for a couple of hours. My tenure with the school band lasted through three days of this. More...

File-swapping Gets Supercharged on Student Network
File sharing too dangerous - or too slow - on the internet? Then join the crowd at the next new file sharing venue: Internet2. More...

Album Gets Ringtone Only Release
There are two really interesting aspects to this story, which describes a German lable's plan to release an album only in the form of cell-phone ring-tones. More...

DS106 Assignment Bank Theme: Now With Syndication Options
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, February 27, 2014

Everything is better with RSS syndication - even assignment banks. "The work yesterday was to redesign the options for setting up syndication to bring examples for an assignment into the site. More...