Brain Power: New High-tech Networks are Helping Make Canada a 21st Century Force in Advanced Research
What is important and useful about this article is that it goes beyond a description of Canada's CA*Net4, a high speed backbone network linking universities across the country. The article is chock full of descriptions of the way the network is helping with Canadian research from genetic sequencing to nanotechnology to investment analysis. More...

Digital Rights Management and Digital Repositories
This article is a set of PowerPoint slides encoded in PDF format - probably the worst way to present information there is: it's both needlessly bulky and hard to read. Normally I wouldn't even bother linking to such a travesty of presentation but in this case you should at least skim the content. More...

SyncStream 1.3
Seton Hall University is distributing free software that helps faculty produce multimedia presentations. Called SyncStream, the software allows users to synchronize an online slide show with a RealVideo streaming video format. More...

The Father of Modern Spam Speaks
This link is probably more of a personal interest to me because I remember the day Canter and Siegel's "Green Card Lottery" messages flooded the Usenet system. More...

High School Student Helps Launch Internet Telescope Network
This is pretty cool. Students can create a (free) account and book time to use the Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope in New Mexico over the internet. The service, provided by the Student Telescope Network, allows students to manipulate the telescope and take actual pictures. More...

Moving Slowly Toward Light-Speed Technology
This is the sort of article that gets me thinking. For example, if you had a room completely composed of perfectly reflective mirrors (walls, ceiling, floor) and you flicked a light off and on, would the room ever get dark again? Somewhere, I'm sure, somebody has tried this. More...

Super Synchronous SMEs: Subject Matter Experts as Synchronous Trainers
The author, an experience hand in the field, provides some background and sound advice for subject matter experts (SMEs) working as online trainers in a synchronous environment (such as a webcasting or conferencing environment). One of the most valuable tips: use a producer. More...

Cirrus Advances 802.11e for the Home
If you thought it was bad enough deciding between 802.11a and 802.11b, there is a whole alphabet soup waiting to pounce on you in the field of wireless local area networks (wireless LANs). This article introduces you to Cirrus's Whitecap product, which incorporates the 802.11e standard. More...

Google Takes on Supercomputing
You can't try it yet (unless you're one of the select few), but Google is testing a new service using its tool bar to broker distributed computing applications. The service, called Folding@home, would allow computer users to sign up for a distributed computing project, allowing their computer's unused processing cycles (and some storage) to contribute to a distributed computing project - such as figuring out how genetic information is converted into proteins. More...

Instruction and Feedback Models for Software Training
This article discusses software training but I think it has a wider applicability. The ostensive purpose of the article is to provide a common vocabulary for different levels of software training - show modules, teach modules, and try modules - and of feedback mechanisms. More...