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With 6,403 eBooks online as of November 27, 2002 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.56 from each book, for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000 [One Trillion Dollars] in books. 100,000,000 readers is only about 1.59 percent of the world's population! This "cost" is down from about $2.41 when we had 4006 Etexts A Year Ago Can you imagine 6,000 books each costing $.82 less a year later??? Or. . .would this say it better? Can you imagine 6,000 books each costing 1/3 less a year later??? At 6403 eBooks in 31 1/3 Years We Averaged At 2111 eBooks Done In 2002 We Averaged ***Headline News*** [My Comments In Brackets] [Not sure of the source of this one, sorry.] LIBRARY FILTERS BAN THE LIBRARY An Ohio library found itself blocked on its own system after it installed net filtering software. The Flesh Public Library had its own site blocked after the program blocked sites with the word "flesh". Rather than considering the implications of the software, the library simply changed its name. http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/daily/1122flesh.html Headlines From Newsscan [This site done with $4.4 million in NSF grants, etc] [Anyone willing to help write grant proposals for PG?!] CHILDREN'S BOOKS FREE ON THE NET A new Web site, designed by the University of Maryland and the nonprofit Internet Archive are creating the International Children's Digital Library -- a site that eventually will hold about 10,000 children's books from 100 different cultures and make them available free for downloading. "There are places in the world where you're going to find a computer way before you find a library or a book store," says project director Jane White. The site's goal is to stimulate children's reading and learning skills while exposing them to a variety of other cultures. It features kid-friendly graphics that enable a user to click on an icon and view thumbnail-sized pages of a book that unwind or unfold like the panels of a comic book. The site, www.icdlbooks.org, officially debuted Wednesday, offering 200 titles from more than 27 cultures in 15 different languages. Many of the titles, such as "Alice in Wonderland," are no longer under copyright restriction, but some publishers, including Random House, Scholastic and HarperCollins, have contributed a few newer works as well. Currently, users must have a broadband Internet connection to access the site, but the site will be available for dialup modem users by next summer. (AP 20 Nov 2002) http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021121/D7NE3TI00.html [Finally, a speed limit on bandwidth hogs, who slow things down for all] HIGH-SPEED ISPs CONSIDER PUTTING ON THE BRAKES Many of the largest high-speed ISPs are considering capping the amount of bandwidth that their subscribers can use each month in an effort to put the brakes on rampant file-swapping. "Every major broadband provider is seriously weighing pros and cons of bandwidth consumption caps," says Michael Harris, president of research firm Kinetic Strategies. Leading the way is Bell Canada, whose DSL service has already instituted caps on bandwidth use, charging subscribers about 80 cents for each extra 100 requires ISPs to set up a traffic-monitoring system for each account and it forces the subscriber to self-ration bandwidth -- a foreign concept to people accustomed to an all-you-can-eat approach to Internet use. Critics note that unwanted content, such as pop-up ads and pornographic spam, could waste subscribers' bandwidth, but Bell Canada says its policy has been a success so far. The company offers tiered levels of service allowing 2GB, 10GB and 20GB of monthly traffic, and the percentage of customers exceeding their allotment in any given month is small -- between 6% and 8%. Cable companies are eyeing the Bell Canada experiment with interest, as their subscribers in particular are adversely affected by "bandwidth hogs." Meanwhile, the president of file-swapping company Grokster dismisses the efforts, saying, "They only thing they're going to accomplish is to make their customers angry." (CNet News.com 26 Nov 2002) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-975320.html?tag=fd_nbs_emed ANTIVIRUS TOOL THROTTLES DOWN ON INFECTION RATE Matthew Williamson, a researcher at the Hewlett-Packard labs in the UK, has developed a new approach to battling computer viruses. It slows down the infection rate significantly by limiting the number of connections at any one time by an infected computer. "The major problem with computer viruses is that because they spread so quickly and our response is so slow, they cause so much damage," says Williamson. "We are tackling the fundamental nature of a virus^E When your machine gets an e-mail virus, it sends lots and lots of e-mail messages at a much higher rate than you would normally send them. So if I put a limit on the rate of e-mail messages that you can send in every 10 minutes, then a virus trying to send 100 or 200 messages will very quickly get delayed." Williamson found that using the "throttle" technique has a negligible impact on the day-to-day performance of his computer. (BBC News 26 Nov 2002) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2511961.stm COMPUTERS RANK TOPS AMONG DIGITAL APPLIANCES Half of the respondents in a recent Harris Interactive survey said their computer was the most important electronic device in their household, beating out CD players, cell phones and DVD players (the study did not ask [Of course, most of their televisions would not be in "digital" categories] people about their television use, however). The 2002 International Digital Lifestyle poll targeted people in Europe and the U.S. who own a computer and at least one other digital device -- a prime target for consumer electronics manufacturers. "We're seeing a lifestyle shift from almost exclusive television use to a higher percentage of people's lives spent on a computer," says Dell marketing director Mike Oldani (the Harris study was backed by Dell and Microsoft). When asked about what they did with their computers, the younger crowd (18- to 34-year-olds) used theirs for listening to music; people in the 35 to 49 range cited job-related tasks; and the over-50 group enjoyed e-mail the most. (CNet News.com 24 Nov 2002) http://news.com.com/2100-1040-971060.html?tag=fd_top TECH FIRMS, HOLLYWOOD HEADED TO NEGOTIATING TABLE About 20 lobbyists representing technology and entertainment companies are headed for a closed-door meeting today to try to hammer out some of their differences in the long-running squabble over digital copyright. Companies Verizon, the Business Software Alliance, AOL Time Warner, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Fox Entertainment Group. "We're pleased that so many people who are important players in this debate are willing to sit down with us to discuss the consumer perspective on digital copyright," says Alan Davidson, deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which is sponsoring the series of meetings. "We don't know what the outcome will be, but we're hopeful that we can make progress in representing what has been an underrepresented voice -- consumers." Political tension between the two groups has increased significantly in the last year, which has resulted in an impasse. (CNet News.com 21 Nov 2002) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-966833.html?tag=fd_nbs_emed [I wonder if anyone is really there for the "underrepresented voice -- consumers?"] WEB SITES LEAK AFTER-HOLIDAY SALE PRICES Users of several shopping Web sites, including FatWallet.com and DealofDay.com, were treated to a sneak peek of post-Thanksgiving sale prices for items ranging from Kodak digital cameras to the "8 Mile" movie soundtrack -- prices retailers had no intention of revealing until after the holiday. Now, shoppers in the market for an HP printer may as well wait until the price drops to $200 after Thanksgiving -- 33% off the current price on the OfficeMax Web site. And Best Buy's price on a digital camera will drop to $99.99 from its current $149.99 listing. "Someone, somewhere is getting information they shouldn't be," says an OfficeMax spokesman. Target, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us and others have demanded that the Web sites take the information down. Most have complied, but in many cases readers have already copied the data and posted it elsewhere on the Web. Retailers are stumped over how the information got out, but promise to take action as soon as we discover how the information got on the site and who posted it," says a spokesman for OfficeMax. (Wall Street Journal 21 Nov 2002) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1037818929298686028.djm,00.html (sub req'd) MICROSOFT IS NO. 1 IN ONLINE BRANDS Microsoft ranks as the leading online brand, just slightly ahead of AOL Time Warner, according to a Digital Media Universe survey conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings. Yahoo, the U.S. government and Google occupy the remaining slots in the Top Five brands. In order to calculate the rankings, DMU tracking "combines Web-based traffic with Internet applications and browser channel audience data, including measurement of AOL proprietary channels, instant messaging applications, media players, ISP applications (non-browsing), wireless content systems, Web phones, news and information toolbars, connected games, weather applications, auction assistants and shopping assistants." Rounding out the Top Ten online brands were Terra Lycos, About-Primedia, RealNetworks, Amazon and eBay.(EuropeMedia 22 Nov 2002) http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=13818 1. Microsoft 2. AOL Time Warner 3. Yahoo 4. U.S. Government 5. Google 6. Terra-Lycos 7. About-Primedia 8. RealNetworks 9. Amazon 10. eBay You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. 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BBC, 22 November 2002 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2502399.stm GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN PUBSCIENCE The United States Department of Energy shut down PubScience, an Internet site that catalogued government and academic science research, in response to corporate complaints that it competed with commercial services. Searching on PubScience was free, with the service linking either to free full texts or to payment systems for information that was for sale. Two commercial equivalents also offer free searching, with academic literature available for a fee. Researchers worry that commercial companies will control access to and charge fees for information and research that was created with public money. Closing PubScience will save the government $200,000 a year. Washington Post, 21 November 2002 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17568-2002Nov20.html JUDGE WARNS OF EXPANSION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW Speaking at a lecture organized by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner warned of an "enormous expansion" of intellectual-property law. Posner criticized a 1998 law extending the duration of U.S. copyrights and attacked the Patent and Trademark Office for granting what he called "very questionable" business method patents. Posner is known for applying economic analysis to the law and for mediating settlement talks in the Microsoft antitrust case. 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