Online Privacy Is Dead - What Now?
You know, it's interesting how the very same people who go on and on about protecting content producers' rights blithely accept that consumer rights are dead in the water. Even if these rights are protected by legislation (and it's not clear that they are), expectations of individual privacy and security are pointless on the internet. More...

Teen Cleared in Landmark DVD Case
A Norweigan court has decided unanimously that Jon Johansen, a programmer that developed the DeCSS software used to decrypt DVD codes, is not guilty of DVD piracy charges. More...

Any bright ideas? Originality in The Arts is Hard to Find In An Ironic, Postmodernist Age
You've probably read something like this before, an article that complains about how difficult it is to find (or create) an original work in the information age. True, genius does show in any age. More...

Kanari
Kanari is a peer-to-peer knowledge management and sharing tool designed for teachers and other knowledge workers. According to the website, it offers the "first total environment," integrating tools for knowledge reception, consultation, publication, storage and categorization. More...

Investigation into the Part-time work of Pupils in Britain and Germany
One of the reasons people tout online learning is the ability of flexible delivery to support students who have jobs. This survey looks at the types, impact and pay for working students in Britain and in Germany. More than half the students in both countries are working. More...

TMAGIC Bank
MAGIC stands for "Media Activities and Good Ideas by, with and for Children." Created by UNICEF, it is a resource bank where you can find media about a variety of topics, including rights, democracy, citizenship, and more. More...

Turning Schools Into Profit Centers
This article highlights some of the dangers of the 'pay for performance' model being adopted in the U.S. education system. In a nutshell, "schools operating in such 'corporatized' environments have, in due course, adopted some of the tricks of the Enrons and WorldComs, fudging the numbers and hiding the losses to inflate their performance." The article is also critical of short-term indicators of success, such as high stakes exams, suggesting instead that schools should be perhaps evaluated on the number of graduates who go on to college. More...

Down and Out in the Magic Kindgom
Cory Doctorow's book is available for free download at this site. And it has been downloaded a lot: 20,000 times. So what's it doing moving steadily up the Amazon sales rank chart? Proving that free does not mean commercial disaster. More...

Assessing Learning Management Systems
This article examines some key issues "critical to the function of any enterprise management system." They are: high availability, scalability, usability, interoperability, stability, and security. It's not a bad list, but it's not a great one. More...

Dismay as BBC Gets E-learning Go-ahead
No bias in this headline! The BBC has won the right to provide free digital educational resources to schools, as it should. The thought of making it illegal for a government to provide resources to its own schools is ridiculous. More...