Board's Vote Starts Plan for Privatization
I guess there's no real debate about the divide between public and private schools if the whole system is privatized. That's what's on the verge of happening in Philadelphia as the School Reform Commission took the first step yesterday toward putting the city's public schools into private hands, appointing a series of consulting firms to handle different components of the transition. 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...
Thumbs are the New Fingers for the GameBoy Generation
People make fun of my two finger typing (actually, two fingers and two thumbs). But this interesting article that shows how young people - who grew up using new technologies - have adapted physically to their new environment. More...
Bleak Future Looms if You Don't Take a Stand
It's a bit of a manifesto, but tech writer Dan Gillmor's stand on copyright and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act echoes my own. In a nutshell: "Here's my message to the record industry and its allies: I'm not a thief. I'm a customer. 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...
LivingInternet.com Web Site Template
The Living Internet template is an HTML and Javascript based template for creating easy to maintain web sites. Users can build web sites organized into chapters, sections, and subsections, navigation bars for forward and back movement through the site, and site search capabilities. More...
Weathering the Commercial Storm: Why Everyone Should Steer Clear of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act
Important but technical article advising people to "steer clear" of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), an act governing software and information licensing and intended to set a uniform national standard for such transactions. More...
Church v. Google: How the Church of Scientology is Forcing Google to Censor its Critics
The recent use by the Church of Scientology to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) for force Google to remove sites critical of the Church has caused a furor in the information community. More...
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