The Envelope, Please: WebCT Opens Nominations for e-Learning's 'Oscars(R)'
What are the chances that a course designed in Blackboard will win an award offered and judged by WebCT staff or appointees? Yeah, that's about what I thought. More...
Elsevier's Vanishing Act
Who made Elsevier the arbiter of history and law? That's what appears to be happening as the publisher is quietly removing articles from its database: no notice, no explanation, no appeal. It used to be, if Elsevier found an article plagiarized a previous source, say, a noticewould be published and, if you didn't believe them, you could check for yourself. No more. More...
Hackers Take on MS on Copyright Protection for eBooks
A British programmer is walking on dangerous grounds having posted on his website the source code to a program that cracks the highest level of Microsoft's eBook DRM scheme. His objective, however, is benign: he would like to be able to read eBooks he has leagally purchased on his older Win CE device. More...
Columbia's Internet Concern Will Soon Go Out of Business
Fathom.com, the commercial company created by Columbia University to provide courses and other material over the Internet, will be folded in April. More...
Bruce Perens' Open Source Series, with Prentice Hall PTR Publishers
The people at Slashdot are all over this, of course, as Prentice Hall will publish a series of books under an open source license. More...
Making Copyright Ambidextrous: An Expose of Copyleft
An interesting discussion of open source licensing which argues that the success of the movement is based on the possibility of using legal sanctions to enforce its terms. More...
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...
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