======== Subject: [gweekly] Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> To: "Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter" <gweekly@listserv.unc.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:33:43 -0500 (CDT) The Project Gutenberg *Weekly* Newsletter for Wednesday, June 13, 2001 Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet [Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy *Check out our Websites at promo.net, and ask me for our FTP servers.* If you have sent in Etexts to be posted, but are not sure they have been, or have sent in copyright research, please let me know [hart@pobox.com]. If our catalog on gutenberg.net [promo.net/pg] misses them, please let Alev, our Chief Cataloguer know Alev Akman <alevwho@mediaone.net>. 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(Albert Einstein) *** Here are the 17 new Etexts and 4 improved Dumas Musketeers Etexts [17 Etexts per week would yield 884 per year] Jan 2003 John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw#18[jbullxxx.xxx]3612 Jan 2003 Second Shetland Truck System Report, Angus Johnson[truckxxx.xxx]3611 [Truck is a term similar to barter, I would also index under barter] Jan 2003 The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Yonge[tdcoaxxx.xxx]3610 Jan 2003 To-morrow? by Victoria Cross [Also: Tomorrow?] [tmrrwxxx.xxx]3609 Jan 2003 Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Rob't Tressell[rggdpxxx.xxx]3608 [Full Listing: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell] Jan 2003 Ismailia, by Samuel W. Baker[Samuel White Baker#5][ismlaxxx.xxx]3607 Jan 2003 Antonina, by Wilkie Collins [Wilkie Collins #24][ntnnaxxx.xxx]3606 05 Jan 2003 On The Firing Line, by A. C. Ray and H. B. Fuller [frnglxxx.xxx]3605 [Authors' Full Names: Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller] Jan 2003 Jailed for Freedom, by Doris Stevens [j4frexxx.xxx]3604 Jan 2003 Quotations From Guy de Maupassant, by David Widger[dwqgmxxx.xxx]3603 !!!!!!!Please note the above files are in our new /etext03 directory!!!!!!! ****Please note that the entire 2002 catalogue is now filled or reserved*** Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V15, 1877, Cotton [MN#15][mn15vxxx.xxx]3595 Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V14, 1877, Cotton [MN#14][mn14vxxx.xxx]3594 Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V13, 1877, Cotton [MN#13][mn13vxxx.xxx]3593 Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V12, 1877, Cotton [MN#12][mn12vxxx.xxx]3592 Dec 2002 The Essays of Montaigne, V11, 1877, Cotton [MN#11][mn11vxxx.xxx]3591 Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V4, by Richard Burton[41001xxx.xxx]3438 [These are in 7 and 8 bit unaccented and accented versions] [Filenames are x1001xx7.txt and .zip and x1001xx8.txt and .zip] [X will be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f and g] [Full Title: The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night, Volumes 1 - 16] [Also listed under: The Arabian Nights A Thousand and One Nights. . .and. . .A Thousand and One Arabian Nights] Jan 2002 Project Gutenberg Dumas Commentary, by John Bursey[vbcomxxx.xxx]3010 [The following are now available in significantly improved 11th editions as both xxxxx11.txt or xxxxx11.zip and xxxxx11h.htm or xxxxx11h.zip Etexts] Aug 2001 The Man in the Iron Mask[The Novel]Dumas, Pere #28[nmaskxxx.xxx]2759 [This is the novel entitled The Man in the Iron Mask. The essay is #2751] Jul 2001 Louise de la Valliere, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere #9[luisexxx.xxx]2710 Jun 2001 Ten Years Later, by Alexandre Dumas[Dumas Pere #8][tenyrxxx.xxx]2681 Apr 2001 The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, Pere[vicomxxx.xxx]2609 [We are releasing these as BOTH xxxxx10.txt AND xxxxx10h.htm and in zip files] Please see the introduction which describes the various books of this title, and how the various editions were published, and how they have been named, and what in what order to read them. Also see: Mar 1998 Ten Years Later, by Alexandre Dumas[Dumas Pere #3][2muskxxx.xxx]1258 and We discovered a duplication in filenames we thought we had fixed long ago: Apr 1997 Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis #2[ironmxxx.xxx] 876 These ironm10.txt and ironm10.zip files are now liron10.txt and liron10.zip] Apr 1997 Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis #2[lironxxx.xxx] 876 The novel The Man In The Iron Mask by Dumas stays ironm10.txt & ironm10.zip] [It was easier this way because this file has four times as many versions] For the moment I am leaving BOTH ironm10.* files AND the liron10.* files, until enough time has passed for the indexes and catalogs to be updated] *** COLOMBIA'S '.CO' SET TO CHALLENGE '.COM' Colombia's La Universidad de Los Andes, which has managed the country's ".co" country code since 1991, is inviting bids from companies that would market the name internationally as a convenient substitute for ".com." The proceeds would be used for scholarships and investments. "This thing has the potential to be much larger than '.biz,'" says the president of DomainRegistry.com. "It really means that everybody that has a '.com' name has to lock up a '.co' name. It really is kind of holding a gun to the head of registrants." The ".co" name has already made its debut in cyberspace as part of ".co.uk," a domain name launched in the UK as an alternative to ".com." Unlike Tuvalu and Cocos Islands, which sold the rights to their ".tv" and ".cc" suffixes, the university is not selling the name, just opening it up to other users. (Reuters 11 Jun 2001) http://news.excite.com/news/r/010611/13/net-tech-internet-colombia-dc INTERNET BY THE NUMBERS Here's a snapshot of current Internet activity. According to recent studies by Media Metrix, Yahoo and MSN are each getting 12 million or more unique daily visitors, in comparison to Passport (6.2 million), Hotmail (6.1 million), AOL (5.0 million), Netscape (3.2 million), eBay (2.8 million), iwon (2.7 million), Microsoft.com (2.7 million), and Excite (2.6 million). Sites in the portal, services, and entertainment categories get the most visitors, with 58.9, 50.0, and 40.0 million unique daily visitors respectively, followed by retail sites with 36.3 million and "corporate presence" sites with 34.2 million. (Business 2.0 26 Jun 2001) http://www.business2.com [and who warned about "Information Overload" first? Perhaps it was this:] "There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." (Arthur Conan Doyle) WINDOWS XP FEATURE CAN RE-EDIT OTHERS' SITES Microsoft has added another controversial feature to its new Windows XP product. The "Smart Tags" utility in Internet Explorer adds hyperlinks to Web pages. The links take users to sites owned or endorsed by Microsoft. Although the beta XP version in which the utility was found may be changed before XP's release this fall, observers say the existence of such a utility is disturbing. Microsoft officials say the Smart Tags are meant to help users find information on "under-linked" sites, and note that the tags would be set to "off" in default mode. The company also says the new Internet Explorer would work with other Smart Tag programs developed by other vendors, although those of other vendors would not be built into the system in the same way Microsoft's product is. (Wall Street Journal, 7 June 2001) You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage@educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** MICROSOFT "HIGHLY UNLIKELY" TO BECOME NETWORK CARRIER Microsoft's new version of Windows XP, to be released this fall, will include high-quality phone and directory features. The new system will offer such features as the ability to follow a person anywhere the person can be reached (desktop to home to cell phone, etc.), and will create the possibility of important new revenue streams for Microsoft for subscription services such as Caller ID and voice mail. Former Bell Labs researcher David Isenberg predicts that "Microsoft is going to suck the value out of telecommunications companies," but Microsoft senior vice president Craig Mundie demurs: "I think it's highly unlikely that we will become a network carrier. To the extent that we can add a cool capability, maybe it's possible that we can make it a subscription service." Investment manager Andrew J. Kessler sums up the situation this way: "The phone companies should be increasingly worried." (New York Times 12 Jun 2001) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/12/technology/12SOFT.html NETSCAPE CEDES BROWSER WAR, WANTS TO BE A HUB "The browser is the crown jewel," says Netscape president Jim Bankoff. "However, six months from now you won't consider Netscape to be a browser company." Instead, the new strategy calls for Netscape to function as a hub for Time Warner media properties, including Fortune and Time magazines and 24-hour cable news network CNN. So far, about 18 Time Warner publication and programming sites have been embedded in the toolbar that runs along the top of the Netscape media site. Netscape is also broadening its reach beyond the PC and has also recently struck deals for its browser to be used in Sony's PlayStation2 and in Gateway's Touchpad. (Reuters 6 Jun 2001) http://news.excite.com/news/r/010606/01/net-tech-netscape-dc NETZERO, JUNO TO MERGE NetZero and Juno Online Services, the two biggest providers of free Internet access, will merge in an all-stock $71-million deal that is expected to create the nation's second-largest Internet connection company. The merged entity, called United Online, will have 7 million subscribers, making it second behind AOL, which has about 30 million subscribers. EarthLink claims 4.8 million users. Under the terms of the deal, NetZero will own 61.5% of the new company with Juno owning the rest. (Financial Times 8 Jun 2001) http://news.ft.com/news/industries/media NEW CORPORATE SOFTWARE SEARCHES EVERYWHERE -- EVEN PERSONAL HARD DRIVES New productivity software from AltaVista will allow companies to collect data from anywhere in the organization: including not only corporate networks but also individual e-mail accounts and employee PCs. The software is able to search through more than 200 different computer applications and recognize 30 different languages. Privacy advocates are worried. Attorney Gregg Williams says: "This could open a real Pandora's Box. There are some private things on office computers that you really don't want to know about." And Richard Smith of the Privacy Foundation says the software is "really dangerous" and warns that it "would hurt both companies and their employees by damaging morale." 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