ReadMe
Created by graduate and undergraduate students at New York University's Department of Journalism, ReadMe is an online magazine devoted to media and media culture. More...

SBC Survey Looks At World Wide Web's Past, Present And Future On 10-Year Anniversary
Communications services company SBC finds in a survey that the internet will play an increasingly important role in our lives. Of note is the list of ways the internet will improve society. More...

The MS DRM Patent and Freedom to Speak and Think
A strongly worded statement tracing the implications of the recently awarded patent to Microsoft for a Digital Rights Management Operating System. I am in agreement with the main points of this argument. More...

Linotype Gets Heavy Over Free ATM Font Downloads
Do you use the letters of the alphabet on your website or in your online course? If so, you may be in violation of copyright. This absurdity comes courtesy of a company called LinoType. They company has started asserting its ownership over a number of popular fonts, including Cascade, Flora, Frutiger, Helvetica, Isadora, Linotext, Linoscript, Optima, Palatino, Peignot, Present, Shelley and Univers. More...

It's Official: E-Mail Supplants the Printed Letter at the U. of Colorado at Boulder
It was bound to happen. Email has officially replaced printed documents at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Students are required to have a university email account (but they can autoforward their mail to HotMail or whatever, so access isn't really a problem). More...

Selecting IA Components
This post was written with information architects in mind, but it results in an excellent set of guidelines for designers generally. The focus is essentially on the set of attributes to consider when selecting components for an online website or service. More...

The Case for Online Communities
Commentators have in recent months become increasingly sceptical of online communities, citing the number of dot com collapses as evidence for their conclusions. But the evidence belies their scepticism, as this article illustrates. Supported with some telling research, the authors show that community features increase sales and increase customer loyalty in an e-commerce site. More...

Researchers Test Small-Dish Satellite Links for Distance Education
Satellites are a good way to provide internet connectivity to less populated regions of the world. They may also provide access where a telecommunications infastructure is not available. Researchers with the Internet 2 project in Ohio are looking at their use to provide distance learning to these regions. More...

Harvard Business School Publishing Chooses XanEdu To Distribute Education Content Worldwide
The Harvard School of Business has decided to distribute its case studies library online through Bell & Howell's XanEdu service. The deal also includes the distribution of articles from the Harvard Business Review. More...

MyEurope Chats
A good example of using the internet to develop a wider learning community, myEurope Chats connect students in Europe to talk about such topical issues as racism, unemployment, school uniforms and religion. More...