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Oct 1997 Life of Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne [shndyxxx.xxx]1079
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Oct 1997 Samuel, by Jack London [Jack London #18] [sstrgxxx.xxx]1075
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The Dream of Debs, by Jack London [London #16]
The Enemy of All the World, by Jack London [#15]
The Unparalleled Invasion, by Jack London [#14]
South of the Slot, by Jack London [London #13]
The Strength of the Strong, by Jack London [#12]
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Oct 1997 The Death of Olivier Becaille, by Emile Zola [#4] [1zolaxxx.xxx]1073
Oct 1997 The Miller's Daughter, by Emile Zola [Zola #3] [1zolaxxx.xxx]1072
Oct 1997 Captain Burle, by Emile Zola [Emile Zola #2] [1zolaxxx.xxx]1071
Oct 1997 Nana, by Emile Zola [Emile Zola #1] [See note] [1zolaxxx.xxx]1070
Oct 1997 1st PG Collection of Emile Zola [Emile Zola #1] [1zolaxxx.xxx]1069
Oct 1997 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [US President] V2 [2musgxxx.xxx]1068
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Oct 1997 The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe[Poe#5][1epoexxx.xxx]1065
Oct 1997 The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe[#4][1epoexxx.xxx]1064
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Oct 1997 1st PG Collection of Edgar Allan Poe[E. A. Poe #2][1epoexxx.xxx]1062
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Sep 1997 Within The Tides, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #14] [wthntxxx.xxx]1053
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Sep 1997 The New Machiavelli, by H. G. Wells [Wells #11] [nmchvxxx.xxx]1047
Sep 1997 God The Invisible King, by H. G. Wells [Wells#10] [godikxxx.xxx]1046
Sep 1997 Venus and Adonis, by William Shakespeare[Shakes#3][wsvnsxxx.xxx]1045
Sep 1997 Captain Stormfield's Visit, by Mark Twain [MT#11][cptsfxxx.xxx]1044
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Sep 1997 The Story of Evolution, by Joseph McCabe [tsoevxxx.xxx]1043
Sep 1997 A Reading of Life, Other Poems, by George Meredith[rdlifxxx.xxx]1042
Sep 1997 Shakespeare's Sonnets, by William Shakespeare [#2][wssntxxx.xxx]1041
Sep 1997 The Three Taverns, by Edwin Arlington Robinson[#3][3tavsxxx.xxx]1040
Sep 1997 Missionary Travels in South Africa, by Livingstone[mtravxxx.xxx]1039
Sep 1997 Style, by Walter Raleigh [Walter Raleigh eBook #2][stylexxx.xxx]1038
Sep 1997 The Life of John Bunyan, by Edmund Venables [lfbynxxx.xxx]1037
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JOBS: 'WE BELIEVE IN THE FUTURE OF MUSIC'
Apple Computer launched its iTunes Music Store on Monday in a move that CEO
Steve Jobs called "a major milestone in the evolution of the real digital
music age. We believe in the future of music." iTunes offers 200,000
downloadable songs for 99 cents apiece and is the first industry-endorsed
online music service to forgo subscription fees in favor of a
"pay-per-download" business model. Jobs said the real draw for music fans
will be the easy-to-use interface and high-quality files available at the
iTunes Music Store. "Using current piracy services is very frustrating. It
takes you 15 minutes to find and download a song of reasonable quality that
doesn't have the last four seconds cut off or a break in the middle. We
offer super-fast, high-quality downloads with pristine encoding. You
certainly can't get that on any other service -- pirate or legal." (Los
Angeles Times 29 Apr 2003)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-apple29apr29,1,6913408.story?coll=la%2Dh
eadlines%2Dtechnology
A BOUNTY ON THE HEADS OF SPAMMERS
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren plans to introduce legislation drafted by
Stanford law professor Larry Lessig that would require unsolicited
commercial e-mails ("spam") to be identified as advertising and would put
a bounty on anyone who breaks that law, by offering rewards of thousands of
dollars or more to the person who is first to provide the government with
proof and the identity of offending spammers. Lessig is so confident his
war on spam will be effective that he's promising to quit his Stanford job
if the bill becomes law and "does not substantially reduce the level of spam."
(San Jose Mercury News 26 Apr 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5725404.htm
ISP HEAVYWEIGHTS TACKLE SPAM
America Online, Microsoft and Yahoo are joining together in an effort to
vanquish spam, and are calling for technical changes in the way that e-mail
is routed through cyberspace to make it easier to identify the true sender
and content of messages. "We are talking about working on ways to change
the dynamics of the e-mail system to make it easier to determine what is
fraudulent," says MSN VP Brian Arbogast. The companies say they haven't yet
discussed exactly what the standards should be, but have agreed they want
to include other competitors in their discussions. "Working together, we
will have better information about who are the kingpins that are sending
the largest volume of spam to our users," says an AOL spokesman. (New York
Times 28 Apr 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/technology/28AOL.html
[GROKSTER AND STREAMCAST: THEY DIDN'T DO IT]
GROKSTER AND STREAMCAST: WE DIDN'T DO IT
A federal judge has ruled that two Internet music services that offer
peer-to-peer software used by millions of people to share copyrighted music
illegally are not themselves guilty of copyright infringement. The judge's
reasoning was that, since the technology is also used for many perfectly
legal purposes, the two services should not be held responsible in those
cases when it happens to be used for illegal purposes. The ruling will be
appealed. The music industry insists that the two services, Grokster and
StreamCast, are overwhelmingly used by people to exchange copyrighted
material, and that legal uses are insignificant. Many industry analysts
predict that the industry will soon have to change fundamentally and begin
providing inexpensive, easy-to-access music over the Internet. (New York
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which included news that while funding was being cut to universities,
money was being set aside to give to returning veterans from Iraq.]
WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET CUTS AFFECT IT PROGRAMS
As in many other states, institutions of higher education in Washington
State are facing severe cuts in state funding. Some higher education
officials have expressed concern that, because technology programs are
among the most costly, they will be some of the most significantly
affected by proposed budget cuts. Some administrators and business
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economic problems that have led to the cuts in the first place.
Washington State, they said, lacks adequate numbers of graduates with
high-tech training, and restricting the capacity of technology programs
will hamper efforts to fill the high-tech jobs in the state. Ken Myer,
president of the Technology Alliance, a consortium of state businesses
and institutions, said what the state needs is to expand, not contract,
those programs, which will ultimately benefit the state's economy.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 24 April 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003042401t.htm
SALES OF HANDHELD DEVICES DROP SHARPLY
A report from International Data Corp. shows a sharp decline in the
numbers of handheld computing devices shipped in the first quarter of
the year. Shipments were down 21 percent from the same quarter last
year and 27 percent from the fourth quarter of 2002. According to the
data, Palm held the largest portion of the handheld market, with 36
percent, followed by Hewlett-Packard and Sony. Dell moved into fourth
place with 6.5 percent of the market. Kevin Burden of IDC said, "The
handheld market is a victim of its own early success." He said the
target audience has not changed much, and large numbers are choosing
not to upgrade to newer devices. The data do not include devices that
combine handheld computing with cellular phones.
Wall Street Journal, 23 April 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB10511221451575700,00.html
FEARING PROSECUTION, STUDENT MOVES RESEARCH TO NETHERLANDS
Fearing prosecution under a new Michigan law, a graduate student at the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has relocated his research to a Web
server in the Netherlands. Niels Provos, a German citizen, is
conducting doctoral research in steganography, which involves
developing software that can find concealed messages in image files and
prevent messages from being detected. The law, which Provos says is
extremely broad, prohibits technology that can "conceal the existence
or place of origin or destination of any telecommunications service."
Visitors to Provos's site are now asked if they are residents of the
United States. Unless they answer No, they are not admitted. Provos
said the law should be changed to allow researchers to work without
risking prosecution. In the meantime, he said, he will do what is
necessary to comply with the law.
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Jan 2005 Carta da Companhia, by St. Joseph Anchieta [8cartxxx.xxx]7384
[Anchieta is considered the first Brazilian author, d.1597]
[Language: Portuguese]
We have posted the following in new formats as indicated:
Jan 2005 Species and Varieties, by Hugo DeVries [spvrtxxx.xxx]7234
[Posted in etext05: spvrt10h.zip - zipped only]
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Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Complete[BL#141][b141wxxx.xxx]7714
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7702-7713]
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 12 [BL#140][b140wxxx.xxx]7713
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 11 [BL#139][b139wxxx.xxx]7712
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 10 [BL#138][b138wxxx.xxx]7711
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 9 [BL#137][b137wxxx.xxx]7710
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 8 [BL#136][b136wxxx.xxx]7709
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 7 [BL#135][b135wxxx.xxx]7708
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Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 2 [BL#130][b130wxxx.xxx]7703
Mar 2005 My Novel, by E. B. Lytton, Book 1 [BL#129][b129wxxx.xxx]7702
Sep 2002 The Koran/The Q'uran, by Mohammed/Mohammad [koranxxb.xxx]7440
[Subtitle: aka The Q'uran and other transliterations] [Tr.: George Sale]
[See also eBooks #3434 and 2800.]
{NOTE: Version 09 being posted pending further formatting.)
[Plain text in koran09b.txt/.zip, RTF in koran09br.zip]
Feb 2005 Engish Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed [?eftlxxx.xxx]7439
Feb 2005 Friends in Council (First Series),Sir Arthur Helps[frccxxxx.xxx]7438
[Editor: Henry Morley]
[Text in frcc10.txt/.zip, XHTML in frcc10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2005 A Peep Behind the Scenes, by Mrs. O. F. Walton [bescnxxx.xxx]7437
Feb 2005 Religious Liberty in Connecticut, by M. L. Greene [?rconxxx.xxx]7436
[Full title: The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut]
[Full author: M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.]
Feb 2005 Springhaven, by R. D. Blackmore [#4][sphavxxx.xxx]7435
Feb 2005 The Adventures of Joel Pepper, by Margaret Sidney [jopepxxx.xxx]7434
[Also posted in illustrated HTML - jopep10h.zip and jopep10h.htm]
Feb 2005 The Awkward Age, by Henry James [#47][akagexxx.xxx]7433
Feb 2005 On Nothing & Kindred Subjects, Hilaire Belloc [#4][?nothxxx.xxx]7432
Feb 2005 Confessions and Criticisms,by Julian Hawthorne[#8][?jhccxxx.xxx]7431
Feb 2005 Familiar Spanish Travels, by W. D. Howells [sptrvxxx.xxx]7430
[Also posted an illustrated HTMLversion - sptrv10h.zip]
Feb 2005 Trials and Triumphs of Faith, by Mary Cole [trtrfxxx.xxx]7429
Feb 2005 The Consumer Viewpoint, by Mildred Maddocks [cnsvpxxx.xxx]7428
[Also posted HTML - cnsvp10h.zip and cnsvp10h.htm]
Feb 2005 Toasts, by William Pittenger [?tostxxx.xxx]7427
Feb 2005 Chicot the Jester, by Alexandre Dumas [#33][?chicxxx.xxx]7426
Feb 2005 The Louisa Alcott Reader, by Louisa M. Alcott [?louixxx.xxx]7425
[Also in HTML in 8loui10h.htm and in illustrated HTML in 8loui10h.zip]
Feb 2005 The Wishing-Ring Man, by Margaret Widdemer [?wishxxx.xxx]7424
[Also posted HTML - 8wish10h.zip and 8wish10h.htm]
Feb 2005 Mike, by P. G. Wodehouse [#25][mikewxxx.xxx]7423
(Note: based on original 1909 edition, which was later split into two
(separate books, published as "Mike at Wrykin" and "Mike and Psmith".)
[Also posted HTML as mikew10h.zip - zipped only]
Feb 2005 Roman Holidays and Others, by W. D. Howells [whromxxx.xxx]7422
[Also posted HTML - whrom10h.zip and whrom10h.htm]
Feb 2005 Poems of Optimism, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox [pmopxxxx.xxx]7421
[Text in pmop10.txt/.zip, XHTML in pmop10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2005 You meng yin, Complete, by Zhang chao [#3][?you3xxx.xxx]7420
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 You meng yin, Part 2., by Zhang chao [#2][?you2xxx.xxx]7419
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 You meng yin, Part 1., by Zhang chao [#1][?you1xxx.xxx]7418
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 The Resources of Quinola, by Honore de Balzac [thrsrxxx.xxx]7417
Feb 2005 The Thirteen, by Honore de Balzac [thrtnxxx.xxx]7416
[Intro. by George Saintsbury]
Contents:
Ferragus (see also #1649)
The Duchesse de Langeais (see also #469)
La Fille aux Yeux d'Or (see also #1659)
Feb 2005 A Shepherd's Life, by W. H. Hudson [shlifxxx.xxx]7415
[Subtitle: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs]
[HTML version in shlif10h.htm and shlif10h.zip]
Feb 2005 Poor White, by Sherwood Anderson [#4][pwhitxxx.xxx]7414
Feb 2005 Egyptian Tales, V2, by W. M. Flinders Petrie [egpt2xxx.xxx]7413
[Full title: Egyptian Tales, Second Series]
[Also posted HTML - egpt210h.zip and egpt210h.htm]
Feb 2005 Coningsby, by Benjamin Disraeli [?cngbxxx.xxx]7412
[Subtitle: The New Generation]
[Plain text in 7cngb10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8cngb10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2005 Art-Lovers guide to the Exposition, Shelden Cheney[atexpxxx.xxx]7411
Feb 2005 The Minister's Charge, by William D. Howells [?michxxx.xxx]7410
[Subtitle: The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker]
[Plain text in 7mich10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8mich10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2005 An Essay on Criticism, by Alexander Pope [esycrxxx.xxx]7409
[Also posted HTML - esycr10h.zip and esycr10h.htm]
Feb 2005 Shen jian, by xun yue [?xysjxxx.xxx]7408
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 Qi jing, by zhang ni [?qijixxx.xxx]7407
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 Cha jing (A.D.733--A.D.804), by lu yu [?jingxxx.xxx]7406
[Language: Chinese]
Feb 2005 The Real Dope, by Ring Lardner [rldpexxx.xxx]7405
[Also posted HTML as rldpe10h.zip - zipped only]
Feb 2005 John James Audubon, by John Burroughs [?jjauxxx.xxx]7404
[Plain text in 7jjau10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8jjau10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8jjau10h.htm and 8jjau10h.zip]
Feb 2005 Letters of Catherine Benincasa,Catherine Benincasa[?ltcbxxx.xxx]7403
[Subtitle: Saint Catherine of Siena as Seen in Her Letters]
[Editor: Vida D. Scudder] [Tr.: Vida D. Scudder]
[Plain text in 7ltcb10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8ltcb10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2005 De Bello Catilinario et Jurgthino, by Sallustius [debcjxxx.xxx]7402
[Author: C. Sallustii Crispi; AKA Caius Sallustii Crispi (Sallust)]
[From: Classical Series. Edited By Drs. Schmitz And Zumpt]
[Language: Latin with notes in English]
Feb 2005 A Crystal Age, by W. H. Hudson [crystxxx.xxx]7401
[Also posted HTML - cryst10h.zip and cryst10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Grisly Grisell, by Charlotte M. Yonge [grgrxxxx.xxx]7387
[Subtitle: or the Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses]
[Text in grgr10.txt/.zip, XHTML in grgr10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Egyptian Tales, V1, ed. by W. M. Flinders Petrie [egpt1xxx.xxx]7386
[Full title: Egyptian Tales, First Series]
[Also posted HTML - egpt110h.zip and egpt110h.htm]
Jan 2005 Old Calabria, by Norman Douglas [?ocalxxx.xxx]7385
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7ocal10.txt and 7ocal10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8ocal10.txt and 8ocal10.zip]
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Jan 2005 Shang zi, by yang shang [?shzixxx.xxx]7383
[Language: Chinese]
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The Australian WED 30 APR 2003, Page 012
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The Little Prince
From: Col Choat
This week we are posting Le Petit Prince by Saint-Exupery, in French. It is
our first ebook in a language other than English. It is a html with the
beautiful original illustrations drawn by the author.
A volunteer was working on an English translation, but seems to have given
up, as I have not heard from her for some time and she does not answer my
email. Unfortunately I lent here my copy of the French version of the book
to translate from and haven't seen it again either. C'est la vie.
If someone in a "plus fifty" country is interested in translating "The
Little Prince" into English and then giving Project Gutenberg of Australia
permission to use it, it would be appreciated. PG in the USA has done this
on a number of occasions, including a translation into English of Hermann
Hess's Siddartha, a book I heartily recommend.
Col Choat
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{Bit of a theme this week. Ed}
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Literary Dates of Interest this week
Birthdays this week:
April
30th Alice B Toklas, Jaroslav Hasek
May
1st Joseph Heller*, Giovanni Guareschi
2nd Novalis
3rd Juhani Siljo, Yehuda Amichai, Nick Joaquin, Niccolo Macciavelli
4th Elvi Sinervo, Tauno Yliruusi
5th Soren Kierkegaard, Henry Sienkiewicz, Amos Tutuola, Miklos Radnoti
6th Sigmund Freud(1), Gaston Leroux, Inoue Yasushi, Harry Martinson
Deaths
1708 Simon de Vries
1891 Sherlock Holmes**
1943 Beatrice Potter Webb
1956 Charles R Gallas
1968 Harold G Nicolson
1972 Hugo Hartung
1984 Piet van Aken
1994 Louis Calaferte
* Catch-22 Good book, great film, if a little confusing! I am not a
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** Yes, I know it's poetic license, but I'm in charge!
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MICROSOFT SETTLES FLORIDA CLASS ACTION SUIT
Microsoft has settled a class action lawsuit that claimed that the company
violated a Florida state law against unfair trade practices in the manner
it sold operating system and applications software. Under the terms of the
agreement, Microsoft will provide vouchers worth up to $202 million for
people to buy computers and related products from any manufacturer.
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needy public schools and the other half will revert to Microsoft.
(AP 16 Apr 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030416/D7QELFCG0.html
CNN DEFENDS ITSELF AGAINST NEWS-FILTERING CHARGES
In a memo to his staff, CNN top news executive Eason Jordan has denied that
his motive for failing over a 12-year period to report horrors of the
Saddam Hussein regime was to keep the CNN Baghdad bureau open. "A number of
people have told me CNN should have closed its Baghdad bureau, helped
everyone who told me the horror stories flee Iraq, with me thereafter
telling those stories publicly long before now. While that is a noble
thought, doing so was not a viable option." He says that such victims would
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and featured many interviews with Iraqi defectors who described the
regime's brutality in graphic detail. When an Iraqi official, Abbas
al-Janabi, defected after his teeth were yanked out with pliers by Uday
Hussein's henchmen, I worked to ensure the defector gave his first TV
interview to CNN. He did." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 16 Apr 2003)
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0403/16jordan.html
COMPUTER MAKERS TARGET RECYCLING-FRIENDLY DESIGN
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regulations," says Smith. For instance, NEC introduced a PC last year that
has a completely recyclable case and whose circuit boards are entirely
lead-free. Meanwhile, HP has a working prototype of an inkjet printer that
features a biodegradable plastic shell made from corn rather than
petroleum. And Dell has revamped its assembly process to make it easier to
take the machines apart at the end. The average desktop can now be
disassembled in two minutes; more complicated workstations take about twice
that long. (CNet News.com 22 Apr 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1041-997755.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed
ASK JEEVES GETS A MAKEOVER
In a bid to stay in the game in the fiercely competitive search engine
market, Ask Jeeves has revamped its consumer search engine tool, following
the lead of Yahoo and Google. Ask Jeeves Web properties president Steve
Berkowitz calls the upgrade "the beginning of a new direction for Ask
Jeeves" and a significant improvement on search in general. "Search is
imperfect because we are asking technology to respond to human input, which
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of science and art." Although the new search engine relies heavily on
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responses. The company says its new service will make it easier to find
pictures and news headlines, and will include its popular clarification
tools (for refining a search) and automated spell checker feature. "The
battle right now is focused on the user experience," says a Forrester
Research analyst, who notes that while the top five companies are sparring
over the consumer market, the enterprise market is still wide open and is
slated to become an important part of the overall search business.
(E-Commerce Times 21 Apr 2003)
BIGGER ONLINE ADS SQUEEZE WEB CONTENT
Several top online publishers, including New York Times Digital, Forbes.com
and CBSMarketwatch.com, have adopted new online ad formats that give
marketers a full half-page to tout their products and services. Others,
such as USAToday.com, are expected to follow suit. "The goal is to make it
easier on the traditional advertiser and to speak their language -- a
half-page ad is something they're used to in print," says Dan Silmore,
director of marketing for CBSMarketwatch.com. The new format is part of the
industry's shift away from banner ads and Web publishers hope the new
dimensions will be approved as a standard size by the Interactive
Advertising Bureau. Michael Zimbalist, executive director of the Online
Publishers Association, says that the industry hasn't "nailed a final set
of online ad units," but is still experimenting to see which formats
advertisers find most attractive. "The banner wasn't a great medium for
either creative or information-rich advertising. This is part of an
increasing trend to have fewer but bigger ad units." But Web design expert
Jakob Nielsen says the half-page units are a move in the wrong direction.
"Ironically, the one type of ads that really work on the Web are the small,
text-only ads on search engines. I would advise other sites to take what works
and make it better rather than take what doesn't work and make it bigger."
(CNet News.com 21 Apr 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1024-997687.html?tag=lh
AT&T TRIES TO COLLECT FROM VICTIMS OF PHONE VANDALS
AT&T has been trying to get reimbursement for long-distance phone calls
made by fraudulently hacking into the voicemail systems of the victims and
re-routing international collect calls placed as part of the scheme. The
calls were typically placed when the businesses were closed, and were
received by voicemail systems reprogrammed by the vandals to respond with
the answer "yes" to the automated AT&T query about whether the customer
agrees to accept charges for the call. Linda Sherry of Consumer Action
calls AT&T's demand that the victims of the fraud pay for the fraudulently
placed calls "outrageous." (New York Times 21 Apr 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/technology/21SCAM.html
CNN GLITCH REVEALS PREMATURE OBITS
A glitch on the CNN.com Web site accidentally made available draft
obituaries written in advance for Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro,
Pope John Paul II and Nelson Mandela. "The design mockups were on a
development site intended for internal review only," says a CNN
spokeswoman. "The development site was temporarily publicly available
because of human error." The pages were yanked about 20 minutes after being
exposed. (CNet News.com 17 Apr 2003)
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Funding from the U.S. military for the OpenBSD project has reportedly
been cancelled after the leader of the project made anti-war comments,
which were printed in a Canadian newspaper. Theo de Raadt, who is a
resident of Canada, expressed his opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq
and said he feels uneasy taking money from the U.S. military. He said
he tries to convince himself, however, that "our grant means a half of
a cruise missile doesn't get built." The funding comes from the U.S.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the project is
handled through the University of Pennsylvania. According to de Raadt,
Jonathan Smith, a computer science professor at the university and head
of the project there, called last week to say that DARPA had pulled the
funding. A spokeswoman from DARPA denied that funding had been cut off.
She said the agency is simply conducting a review of the project and
will announce results when the review is complete.
IDG, 18 April 2003
http://www.idg.net/ic_1308816_9677_1-5043.html
FTC CRACKS DOWN ON PORN SPAMMER
The Federal Trade Commission asked the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, to bar Ballwin (a
suburb of St. Louis) resident Brian Westby from sending e-mail
containing deceptive subject lines, false reply information, and
pornographic material designed to steer recipients to an adult Web
site. The FTC claimed that the pornographic spam operation has grossed
more than $1 million in commissions and prompted almost 50,000 consumer
complaints in response to a recent bulk e-mail campaign. The suit is
the first to target deceptive subject lines and the second on
"spoofing," which is e-mail that uses false reply-to or from
information that leads recipients to assume an innocent third party
sent the message.
ZDNet, 17 April 2003
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-997329.html
SURVEY FINDS ONE-QUARTER OF AMERICANS ARE OFFLINE
A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that almost
25 percent of Americans do not use the Internet. The number of people
dropping offline equals the number of new users, leading the
researchers to conclude that the 60 percent use of the Internet
measured in October 2001 is likely to persist. About 42 percent of
Americans say they do not use the Internet, but half have either used
it in the past or access it through other family members. Only 17
percent are classified as actual net dropouts, but this is an increase
from the 13 percent identified in a similar 2000 survey.
BBC, 17 April 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2956315.stm
AOL GOES AFTER SPAMMERS
As part of a multilayered approach to fighting spam, America Online
(AOL) has filed five lawsuits in Virginia against several companies and
individuals for violations of the Virginia Computer Crimes Act, the
Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the Washington Commercial
Electronic Mail Act. AOL is seeking at least $10 million in damages
from the defendants for sending approximately one billion unsolicited
e-mails to its customers, more than eight million of whom have filed
complaints with AOL. AOL is also fighting spam by supporting federal
anti-spam legislation, including the recently introduced CAN-SPAM Act,
and by taking technological steps to limit spam. According to an AOL
spokesman, the company has been blocking mail servers associated with
certain residential IP addresses that have been identified as sending spam.
IDG, 15 April 2003
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MICROSOFT SETTLES FLORIDA SUIT
Microsoft has settled a class-action lawsuit with residents of Florida.
According to the suit, Microsoft violated trade practices in the way it
sold software, and consumers who purchased certain of the company's
products between late 1995 and the end of 2002 will be eligible for
vouchers totaling $202 million. The vouchers will be good for hardware
and software from any manufacturer. Details were not released about
when the vouchers will expire, but the settlement stipulates that half
of unclaimed vouchers will be donated to public schools. One public
school official called that part of the settlement "great news for
schools all across Florida," saying that "the timing is particularly
helpful" in the current budgetary situation.
Nando Times, 15 April 2003
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2) A small feature on Shakespeare
English poet, dramatist, and actor, considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare became the first to appeal and to meet with the full approval of a broad and mixed public embracing almost all levels of society. He possessed a large vocabulary for his day, having used 29,066 different words in his plays. Today the average English-speaking person uses something like 2,000 words in everyday speech.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. He was the eldest son of Mary Arden, the daughter of a local landowner, and her husband John Shakespeare (c. 1530-1601), a glover and wood dealer. In 1568 John Shakespeare was made a mayor of Stratford and a justice of peace. His wool business failed in the 1570s, but the family's position was restored in the 1590s by earnings of William Shakespeare, and in 1596 he was awarded a coat of arms.
Shakespeare is assumed to have been educated at Stratford Grammar School, and he may have spent the years 1580-82 as a teacher for the Roman Catholic Houghton family in Lancashire. At the age of 18, he married a local girl, Anne Hathaway (died 1623), who was eight years older. Their first child, Susannah, was born within six months, and twins Hamnet and Judith were born in 1585. Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son, died in 1896, at the age of 11.
According to a legend, he left Stratford for London to avoid a charge of poaching. After 1582 Shakespeare probably joined as an actor one or several companies of players. By 1584 he emerged as a rising playwright in London, and became soon a central figure in London's leading theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain's Company, renamed later as the King's Men.
Shakespeare was known in his day as a very rapid writer, his publishers Heminges and Condell reported, "and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." Despite all the praise, some writer's were not enthusiastic about his plays. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) called A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM "the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life."
About 1610 Shakespeare returned to his birthplace and lived as a country gentleman. A number of his plays were published during his lifetime, but none of the original dramatic manuscripts have survived. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616.
On Shakespeare's gravestone are four lines of verse.
Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare
To digg the dust enclosed here!
Blest be ye man that spares thes stones
And curst be he that moues my bones.
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From: Tonya Allen
My favorite plays, in approximate order: The Tempest; Hamlet; Julius Caesar;
Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice. But one of my favorite speeches comes from
Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra's speech upon the death of Antony):
Noblest of men, woo't die?
Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide
In this dull world, which in thy absence is
No better than a sty?--O, see, my women,
[Antony dies.]
The crown o' the earth doth melt.--My lord!--
O, wither'd is the garland of the war,
The soldier's pole is fallen: young boys and girls
Are level now with men: the odds is gone,
And there is nothing left remarkable
Beneath the visiting moon.
--Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, SCENE XV
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3) This week in history
Literary Dates of Interest this week
Birthdays this week:
April
23rd Ngaio Marsh, Vladimir Nabokov, Halldor Laxness, William
Shakespeare(189)
24th R M Ballantyne(1), Daniel Defoe(9), Anthony Trollope(39), Carl Spiteller,
Robert Penn Warren
25th Walter de la Mare
26th Vicente Aleixandre, Anne Fried, Morris West, Akseli
Gallen-Kallela
27th Cecil Day-Lewis
28th Johan Borgen, Alistair Maclean, L. Onerva, Harper Lee
29th Pedro Antonio, Correia Garcao
Deaths
1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of Don Quixote, aged 69
1616 William Shakespeare, renowned playwright, and hated by UK
schoolchildren, aged 52
1740 Thomas Tickell, poet
1910 Bjornstjerne Bjornson, aged 77
1915 Rupert Brooke, poet, aged 27
1926 Joseph Pennell
1929 Rudolf W Nilsen, author, aged 28
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The Nobel Prize for Literature
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The Nobel Prize for Literature was first awarded in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme.
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1907 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
1913 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
1923 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
1925 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
1930 Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
1932 John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
1936 Eugene O'Neill (188-1953)
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Mar 1999 At the Sign of the Cat & Racket, by Balzac[Hdb#58][ctrktxxx.xxx]1680
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May 1997 To Be Read At Dusk, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#28][rddskxxx.xxx] 924
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Mar 1993 Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Traditional [aladxxxx.xxx] 57
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Sep 2004 Himalayan Journals (Complete), by J. D. Hooker [hmjncxxx.xxx]6478
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Jul 2003 Abbeychurch, by Charlotte M Yonge [abchrxxx.xxx]4267
Feb 2001 The Sorrows of Young Werther, by J.W. Goethe [#31][sywerxxx.xxx]2527
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Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 6 [BL#118][b118wxxx.xxx]7690
Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 5 [BL#117][b117wxxx.xxx]7689
Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 4 [BL#116][b116wxxx.xxx]7688
Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 3 [BL#115][b115wxxx.xxx]7687
Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 2 [BL#114][b114wxxx.xxx]7686
Mar 2005 Lucretia, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 1 [BL#113][b113wxxx.xxx]7685
Feb 2005 Images from Malot's Conscience, by David Widger [dw64wxxh.zip]7580
Feb 2005 Images from Loti's Crysantheme, by David Widger [dw63wxxh.zip]7579
Feb 2005 Images from Halevey's Abbe Constantin, by Widger [dw62wxxh.zip]7578
Feb 2005 Images from France's The Red Lily, by David Widger[dw61wxxh.zip]7577
Feb 2005 Images from Feuillet's, Monsieur de Camors, Widger[dw60wxxh.zip]7576
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Jan 2005 Studies in the Life of the Christian,Henry T. Sell[sinlcxxx.xxx]7338
[Subtitle: His Faith and His Service]
Jan 2005 Lau-zi dao de jing, by Lau-zi [?laujxxx.xxx]7337
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Home Lyrics, by Hannah. S.Battersby [?lyrcxxx.xxx]7336
Jan 2005 Harkaway and His Son's Escape, Bracebridge Hemyng [?harkxxx.xxx]7335
[Full title: Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece]
Jan 2005 With Buller in Natal, by G. A. Henty [#14][?bullxxx.xxx]7334
Jan 2005 Sidelights on Relativity, by Albert Einstein [#2][slrtvxxx.xxx]7333
[Also posted: HTML as slrtv10h.zip - zipped only]
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Complete, by Liuxiang [#6][?shouxxx.xxx]7332
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Vol. 17-20, by Liuxiang [#5][?sh17xxx.xxx]7331
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Vol. 13-16, by Liuxiang [#4][?sh13xxx.xxx]7330
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Vol. 9-12, by Liuxiang [#3][?sh09xxx.xxx]7329
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Vol. 5-8, by Liuxiang [#2][?sh05xxx.xxx]7328
Jan 2005 Shouyuan, Vol. 1-4, by Liuxiang [#1][?sh01xxx.xxx]7327
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 The Yeoman Adventurer, by George W. Gough [yeoadxxx.xxx]7326
[HTML version in yeoad10h.htm and yeoad10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Dreams and Days, by George Parsons Lathrop [#4][drmdaxxx.xxx]7325
[HTM version also -- drmda10h.htm and drmda10h.zip]
Jan 2005 Tropic Days, by E. J. Banfield [#3][?tdayxxx.xxx]7324
Jan 2005 Konigs Richard des zweyten, by Shakespeare [#15][?gs15xxx.xxx]7323
[Full title: Leben und Tod Konigs Richard des zweyten (Richard II.)]
[Full author: William Shakespeare] [Language: German]
Jan 2005 Our Hundred Days in Europe, Oliver Wendell Holmes [?hundxxx.xxx]7322
[Also posted HTML - 8hund10h.zip and 8hund10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Nibelungendlied, by trans. by George Henry Needler[niebnxxx.xxx]7321
[Also posted HTML - niebn10h.zip and niebn10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Afghanistan-Anglo-Russian Dispute by Rodenbough [aaardxxx.xxx]7320
[Full title: Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute]
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Jan 2005 Good Sense, by Baron D'Holbach [gsensxxx.xxx]7319
Jan 2005 The Bravest of the Brave, by G. A. Henty [brotbxxx.xxx]7318
[Also posted HTML - brotb10h.zip and brotb10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Complete, by Gua Shen [#6][mnxbtxxx.xxx]7317
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Vol. 22-26, by Gua Shen [#5][mng22xxx.xxx]7316
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Vol. 17-21, by Gua Shen [#4][mng17xxx.xxx]7315
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Vol. 11-16, by Gua Shen [#3][mng11xxx.xxx]7314
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Vol. 7-10, by Gua Shen [#2][mng07xxx.xxx]7313
Jan 2005 Meng Xi Bi Tan, Vol. 1-6, by Gua Shen [#1][mng01xxx.xxx]7312
[Full title: Meng Xi Bi Tan (1031-1095 A.D.)]
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 The Leatherwood God, by William Dean Howells [lthwdxxx.xxx]7311
Jan 2005 Mr. Pim Passes By, by A. A. Milne [mrppbxxx.xxx]7310
[Subtitle: A Comedy in Three Acts] [Author AKA: Alan Alexander Milne]
[Also posted HTML version in mrppb10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Business Correspondence, by Anonymous [buscrxxx.xxx]7309
Jan 2005 The History of Mr. Polly, by H. G. Wells [?hmrpxxx.xxx]7308
[Plain text in 7hmrp10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8hmrp10.txt/.zip]
[HTML version with accented characters in 8hmrp10h.htm and 8hmrp10h.zip]
Jan 2005 The Precipice, by Ivan Goncharov [Tr: Unknown] [?prpcxxx.xxx]7307
[Plain text in 7prpc10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8prpc10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Autobiographical Sketches, by Thomas de Quincy [?tdqaxxx.xxx]7306
Jan 2005 Letters Francis Newman, by Giberne Sieveking [?mlfnxxx.xxx]7305
[Full title: Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman]
Jan 2005 Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, by Ernest Scott [flindxxx.xxx]7304
Jan 2005 Equality, by Edward Bellamy [equalxxx.xxx]7303
[Also posted HTML - equal10h.zip and equal10h.htm]
Jan 2005 My Friends at Brook Farm,by John Van Der Zee Sears[brfrmxxx.xxx]7302
[Also posted HTM- brfrm10h.zip (with illustrations) and brfrm10h.htm]
Jan 2005 Nathaniel Hawthorne, by George E. Woodberry [?nhwtxxx.xxx]7301
[Plain text in in 7nhwt10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8nhwt10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Woman and the Republic, by Helen Kendrick Johnson [?womsxxx.xxx]7300
Jan 2005 Obiter Dicta, by Augustine Birrell [?obitxxx.xxx]7299
Jan 2005 Leben und Tod des Koenigs Johann, Shakespeare[#14][?gs14xxx.xxx]7292
[Language: German] [Translator: Christoph Martin Wieland]
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Jun 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 3 [#3] [3spnexxx.xxx] 948
Jun 1997 The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson, by Robert Southey[hnlsnxxx.xxx] 947
Jun 1997 Lady Susan, by Jane Austen [Jane Austen #6] [lsusnxxx.xxx] 946
Jun 1997 Dust, by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius [dsthjxxx.xxx] 945
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Jun 1997 Songs of a Savoyard by W. S. Gilbert [Gilbert #5] [svyrdxxx.xxx] 934
Jun 1997 More Bab Ballads, by W. S. Gilbert [Gilbert #4] [3babbxxx.xxx] 933
Jun 1997 Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe [#1][usherxxx.xxx] 932
Jun 1997 The Bab Ballads, by W. S. Gilbert [Gilbert #3] [2babbxxx.xxx] 931
Jun 1997 The Cook's Decameron, by Mrs. W. G. Water [ckdecxxx.xxx] 930
Jun 1997 The Cyberpunk Fakebook, by St. Jude & R.U. Sirius [fakebxxx.xxx] 929C
May 1997 Alice In Wonderland, HTML Version of 30th Edition [alicexxh.xxx] 928
May 1997 The Lamplighter, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #29] [lmpltxxx.xxx] 927
May 1997 10,000 Dreams Interpreted, Gustavus Hindman Miller[drmntxxx.xxx] 926
May 1997 United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches [uspisxxx.xxx] 925
May 1997 To Be Read At Dusk, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#28][rddskxxx.xxx] 924
May 1997 Life of Francis Marion #3, by William Dobein James[jjmarxxx.xxx] 923
May 1997 Sunday Under Three Heads by Charles Dickens[CD#27][suthsxxx.xxx] 922
May 1997 De Profundis, by Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #13] [dprofxxx.xxx] 921
May 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 2 [#2] [2spnexxx.xxx] 920
May 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 1 [#1] [1spnexxx.xxx] 919
May 1997 Sketches of Young Gentlemen, by Dickens [CD #26] [skygmxxx.xxx] 918
May 1997 Barnaby Rudge, 80's Riots, by Charles Dickens[#25][rudgexxx.xxx] 917
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year of 2002 and began the production year of 2003.
With 7,666 eBooks online as of April 16, 2003 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.30 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 $1.97 when we had 5077 eBooks A Year Ago
Can you imagine 7,000 books each costing $.67 less a year later???
Or. . .would this say it better?
Can you imagine 7,000 books each costing 1/3 less a year later???
At 7666 eBooks in 31 3/4 Years We Averaged
242 Per Year [About how many we do per month these days!]
20 Per Month
.7 Per Day
At 923 eBooks Done In 2003 We Averaged
9 Per Day
61 Per Week
264 Per Month
***Headline News***
[My Comments In Brackets]
AOL SUES SPAMMERS
AOL has filed five federal lawsuits against alleged distributors of mass
junk-mail, seeking damages of more than $10 million plus an end to the
messages. The case comes in response to about 8 million individual spam
complaints registered by AOL subscribers, most of whom used a "Spam Report"
feature introduced on the Web site last fall. Most of the defendants are
referred to as "John Doe," meaning that AOL could not determine their true
identities, but the suits also name Michael Levesque of Issaquah, Wash.,
and George A. Moore Jr. of Linthicum, Md., both of whom had listed false
phone numbers in their domain name registrations. By filing the lawsuits,
AOL gains additional authority to subpoena Internet service providers and
others trying to track down the other spammers. Meanwhile, AOL has also
begun targeting spammers who use residential broadband services such as
Comcast and RoadRunner, which is owned by AOL Time Warner. (AP 15 Apr 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030415/D7QDV6A00.html
GOOGLE'S JUGGLING ACT
Google's aggressive move into revenue-generating ventures over the past two
years is changing the way it presents information and could tarnish its
reputation as one of the more untainted search engines, say critics. In
addition to devising new schemes for advertisers, Google has gotten its
foot in the door in the corporate market, peddling a combined hardware and
software approach to corporate searching. And while that's a fairly limited
market, Google could use its corporate search product as a launch pad into
the wider realms of information retrieval and knowledge management, says
Forrester analyst Laura Ramos, where there is an increasingly significant
demand by businesses for search tools that work across different
applications, such as Web content management, customer support, e-mail and
databases. "I think (corporate search is) potentially lucrative because of
Google's brand and reputation." But critics are grumbling that Google could
begin to lose its credibility if too much of its business becomes ad-driven
rather than search-related and say they fear that Google could use its
dominant position to manipulate Web searchers without their knowledge.
"Google has discovered there's a ton of money to be made, and they're going
for the gold. The only purpose for Google to crawl the rest of the
(noncommercial) Web is to legitimize themselves as a search engine," says
David Brandt, president of Public Information Research, which publishes
theGoogle-watch.org Web site. (E-Commerce Times 15 Apr 2003)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/21267.html
EXPEDIA COMMISSION LOWERED IN ITS NEW DEAL WITH HILTON HOTELS
The Hilton Hotel chain has struck what it is calling "the best deal in the
industry" by making a deal with online travel site Expedia that will reduce
Expedia commissions by about one-third. The online travel business is
thriving, and already accounts for 10% of all travel bookings, a figure
expected to increase to 20% in 2005. In contrast, the travel industry is
stagnant, and burdened by the fees for online bookings -- fees that may
account for about 35% of what customers pay for a room. Online travel
company executive Eric Christenson notes, "That is a hell of a lot of money
for an electronic reservation." As a result, the travel industry is
pressuring online travel sites to reduce their service charges.
(Reuters/USA Today 15 Apr 2003)
APPLE TO LAUNCH ITS OWN MUSIC SERVICE
Apple Computer is launching its own music service in the next few weeks,
offering users songs from all five major record labels. The new music
service will be integrated with Apple's iTunes music software, which is
used to organize and play MP3 files on Macs. Rather than following the
subscription-based model adopted by the record-label-backed pressplay and
MusicNet services and others, Apple plans to sell its songs individually
for about 99 cents a track. And while the service is rumored to be more
consumer-friendly than many of the other legitimate online music services,
it's available only to Mac users -- a group that comprises about 5% of the
global market. (Wall Street Journal 14 Apr 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105027555531211100.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
RISE OF LINUX IS CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE
The growing appeal of Linux as an alternative to rival operating systems
such as Microsoft's Windows and Sun Microsystems' Solaris is changing the
dynamics of the computer software business. Although currently relegated to
"back-office" operations that handle e-mail, Web pages, file-sharing and
printing, Linux is primed to begin making inroads into the higher echelons
of business computing, such as telecom billing and airline reservation
systems. A recent Garner report says that "businesses are coming to regard
Linux as a worthy alternative to Unix and Windows." That trend has proven a
boon for IBM, which embraced Linux in 1999 and now offers it across its
entire product range, from lowly PCs to mighty mainframes. Also benefiting
are Hewlett-Packard and Dell, both of which have been successful selling
Linux servers. But the blossoming of Linux could prove toxic to Sun, which
has seen some of its high-end Solaris server customers migrate to
inexpensive Linux-run machines. Sun has compensated by offering its own
cheap boxes running Linux alongside its more powerful Solaris-based ones,
but many in the industry predict the dual strategy is "doomed." (The
Economist 10 Apr 2003)
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1699434
TIVO REACHES OUT TO THE INTERNET
TiVo Series2 recorders can now be given a software update to allow the
device to record not only TV programs but also Internet-downloadable music,
video, and graphics files. A software update will cost $99, and will also
allow a viewer with multiple Series2 TiVos to record on one machine while
watching on another after transferring the recording over the network. (USA
Today 11 Apr 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/2003-04-11-tivo_x.htm
NEWS FILTERS AT CNN: EXEC FELT 'AWFUL' ABOUT SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH
In a confessional mood, top CNN news executive Eason Jordan has admitted in
a New York Times op/ed piece that over a dozen-year period CNN deliberately
withheld news that would have exposed to the world the horrors of the
Saddam Hussein regime. His examples of those horrors include the
electroshock torture of a CNN cameraman and the beatings and execution of a
31-year-old woman charged with talking to a CNN reporter. ("They beat her
daily for two months, forcing her father to watch. In January 1991, on the
eve of the American-led offensive, they smashed her skull and tore her body
apart limb by limb. A plastic bag containing her body parts was left on the
doorstep of her family's home.") During the course of 13 trips he made to
Baghdad to ensure that CNN's bureau there could remain open, Jordan "came
to know several Iraqi officials well enough that they confided in me that
Saddam Hussein was a maniac who had to be removed." But CNN chose not to
share any of this information with its U.S. or worldwide audiences. Now
Jordan says: "I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me. Now
that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, I suspect we will hear many, many
more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment. At last,
these stories can be told freely." (New York Times 11 Apr 2003)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11JORD.html
[40% of all email is spam!]
[Would email run nearly twice as fast without spam?]
SENATORS INTRODUCE ANTI-SPAM BILL
Senators Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) have introduced
legislation that seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by requiring Internet
marketers to provide legitimate return addresses on their e-mail and to
honor consumers' requests to be taken off e-mail distribution lists. "This
bill will help to keep legitimate Internet traffic and e-commerce flowing
by going after those unscrupulous individuals who use e-mail in annoying
and misleading ways," said Wyden in a statement. The bill would not allow
individuals to sue spammers directly, but would require that state
attorneys general sue on their behalf. The Federal Trade Commission could
also fine violators, and ISPs could block spammers from their networks. The
average U.S. Internet user received more than 2,200 spam messages last
year, according to Jupiter Research, and the UK government said last month
that spam now accounts for 40% of global e-mail traffic. A similar bill
sponsored by Burns and Wyden cleared the Commerce Committee last year, but
was not taken up for a vote in the Senate. "Now it's time to move forward.
This legislation has been on hold for too long," says Burns.
(Reuters 10 Apr 2003) http://
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=581&ncid=581&e=4&u=/nm/20030410
[More Google Faux Pas News]
GOOGLE SEEKS TO DIFFERENTIATE PR, NEWS
Google is changing the way its Google News pages handle press releases,
after some releases appeared in its news listings without being tagged as
such. The search engine company started including press releases two months
ago. A company spokesman said that the listing of unmarked press releases
was "not intentional" and that Google was working to ensure that all press
releases were marked. "Google includes press releases in Google News
because we believe they are an additional resource that offers our users a
valuable perspective on the genesis of a story," he said. (AP 10 Apr 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030410/D7QARTG02.html
[More Apple Music News]
APPLE -- THE COMPUTER AND RECORD COMPANY
Apple has been holding secret talks with Vivendi Universal exploring the
possibility of Apple's acquisition, for about $6 billion, of Vivendi's
Universal Music Group, which is the largest record company in the world.
Although no Apple or Vivendi managers have commented on the talks, it is
known that the investment bank Morgan Stanley is now conducting due
diligence to set the stage for the purchase. Apple has been working to
develop a new service that would make downloading and purchasing music
from the Internet as easy as buying a book from Amazon.com.
(Los Angeles Times/San Jose Mercury News 11 Apr 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5611142.htm
PREVENTING TINY (OR LARGE) UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Experts have told the House Science Committee that a portion of the
proposed $2.1 billion government funding for nanotechnology research should
be earmarked for research on the societal and ethical implications of such
research. Ray Kurzweil, a leader in artificial intelligence research, said
that because the technology is so tiny that it can "get in our tissues, our
bloodstream, our brains," it poses "a new type of safety concern" since it
could be used by bioterrorists. (Gannett/USA Today 10 Apr 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-04-10-nanotech_x.htm
WIRELESS CARRIERS PROPOSE NEW 'NUMBER PORTABILITY' PLAN
For years, U.S. wireless operators have opposed efforts to force them to
allow customers to keep their cell phone number when they switch to another
carrier. But the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association is now
pushing a new plan -- one that would comply with Federal Communications
Commission rules on cell phone number portability, but would also require
land-line carriers to allow customers to switch their traditional phone
numbers to cell phones. The new proposal, if adopted, could accelerate the
trend of people dropping their land-line service in favor of going
completely wireless. Wireless operators have fought number portability over
the years because they fear a dramatic increase in "churn," as they
eliminate one inhibition to switching carriers. That could increase costs
and likely would spark another round of price wars. "It's basically the
nightmare before Christmas," says Roger Entner, an analyst with Yankee
Group, who predicts that escalating churn following the Nov. 24 deadline
set by the FCC could cost the industry $3 billion in the fourth quarter
this year and the first quarter next year in increased commissions, phone
subsidies and other sales-related expenditures. By including traditional
phone providers in the number portability plan, wireless carriers hope to
compensate for loss of cell phone customers with a new influx of former
land-line subscribers. "The opportunity to take the wire-line phone and
port it to wireless is an opportunity that the wireless industry wants to
have happen," says Michael Altschul, general counsel to the CTIA. FCC
chairman Michael Powell plans to rule on the CTIA proposal before the Nov.
24 deadline. (Wall Street Journal 10 Apr 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB104993000328997700.djm,00.html
INTERNET FRAUD COMPLAINTS TRIPLE
Complaints about fraudulent schemes perpetrated over the Internet tripled
in 2002 from the previous year, with the most common grievance being
auction fraud, followed by non-delivery of promised merchandise, credit
card fraud and fake investments. According to a report from the Internet
Fraud Complaint Center, which is run by the FBI and the National White
Collar Crime Center, the 48,252 complaints referred for prosecution in 2002
represent only a fraction of the crimes authorities believe are occurring.
The center also received almost 37,000 other complaints that did not
constitute fraud, but involved such things as spam, illegal child
pornography and computer intrusions. The report says 80% of known fraud
perpetrators and about 71% of complainants are male. Fraud complaints
originated in all parts of the country, with a third coming from
California, Florida, Texas and New York. One of the most persistent scams
described in the report is the infamous "Nigerian letter," which urges
victims to pay an upfront fee (characterized as a bribe to the government)
in order to receive non-existent funds from the "Government of Nigeria."
There were 16,000 complaints related to that scam in 2002, up from 2,600 in
2001. (AP 9 Apr 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030409/D7QA6UFO0.html
[Copyrights Ruled More Important Than Constitutional Free Speech]
[More Under Edupage]
JUDGE DISMISSES CHALLENGE TO DIGITAL COPYRIGHT ACT
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns has dismissed a lawsuit by the American
Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a Harvard student who sought proprietary
information from software company N2H2 so that he could reverse-engineer
its software filtering product. The student and the ACLU had argued that
software filters violate constitutional free speech protections because
such filters unintentionally block far more than just pornography, and
thereby deny people access to information to which they have a right. But
Judge Stearns ruled that "there is no plausible protected constitutional
interest that Edelman can assert that outweighs N2H2's right to protect its
copyrighted material from an invasive and destructive trespass."
(AP/USA Today 9 Apr 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-04-09-filter-suit_x.htm
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GERMANY EXPANDS ACADEMIC USE OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
The German Parliament has passed a law allowing academics to distribute
copyrighted works digitally to students and other academics. The
copyright exemptions allowed by the new law cover "small parts" of
copyrighted works distributed to small groups of people, such as the
students in a class. The law also stipulates that access must be
controlled by passwords or a similar mechanism, and Parliament must
re-approve the law in 2006 for it to remain in place. Academics cheered
the new legislation, saying it explicitly gives them the same freedom
with electronic materials that they already have with printed ones.
Publishers and some authors of copyrighted material strongly opposed
the law, saying it would kill the academic publishing industry. Many
academics dismissed that argument, saying publishers must work with
academic interests to "develop ... new ways to organize and distribute
digital material."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 April 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003041407n.htm
MICHIGAN TECH RESPONDS TO RIAA LAWSUITS
The president of Michigan Technological University (MTU) responded
angrily to four lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) against students--including one at MTU--for illegal file
swapping. In a letter to the RIAA, Curtis Tompkins accused the
association of acting in bad faith in pursuing prosecution against
students. Despite his school's cooperation with the RIAA in stopping
illegal peer-to-peer networks, according to Tompkins, the RIAA has not
shown reciprocity in working with the university. Tompkins said the
RIAA had clearly known for some time about the MTU student named in the
suit but that the RIAA never contacted MTU. Had the RIAA done that, he
said, "we would have shut off the student and not allowed the problem
to grow to the size and scope that it is today."
Internet News, 9 April 2003
http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/2179281
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SUES AOL OVER INVESTMENT LOSSES
The University of California has filed suit against AOL Time Warner,
alleging that the company misrepresented its financial situation,
thereby costing the university $450 million. During the past year, AOL
has restated its earnings, eliminating about $600 million from
previously reported revenues. Those revelations caused the company's
stock to plummet, resulting in the losses. Amalgamated Bank, the
university's co-plaintiff in the case, said that because of the
alleged misrepresentation and ensuing drop in stock price, its AOL
stock lost almost $56 million. The plaintiffs argued that AOL's new
earnings statements may be "too conservative" and that AOL may have
overstated earnings by close to $1 billion. The suit also charges that
AOL executives knew about the restatements and sold hundreds of
millions of dollars in stock before the announcements were made.
Wall Street Journal, 14 April 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105032911672076100,00.html
[WHERE'S THE ART???!!! Apparently there isn't any, just policy/politics]
PRINCETON LAUNCHES ARTS ARCHIVE
Princeton University has unveiled what it calls "the world's first
fully interactive, Web-accessible digital archive of policy-relevant
data on culture and the arts." Visitors to the Cultural Policy and the
Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA), a project of the Princeton
University Library and the university's Center for Arts and Cultural
Policy Studies, can access both current and past research findings,
such as public opinion, city-specific data, and statistics dealing with
the arts. Resources available are currently broken down into four categories:
artists, audiences, organizations, and support for the arts.
Information Today, 14 April 2003
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/wnd030414.shtml
["The list of Web sites their filters block" is copyrighted/copyrightable?!]
["You will be allowed to speak, they will not be allowed to listen."
At the execution of Sir Thomas More by King Henry VIII, about royal divorces.]
JUDGE DISMISSES ANTI-DMCA SUIT
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Harvard University
law school student to test the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Benjamin Edelman asked the court to prevent Internet-filtering company
N2H2 from suing him if he circumvented the company's encryption to see
the list of Web sites their filters block. The DMCA forbids such
circumvention, and opponents of the law have argued that it impedes
research into encryption and other technologies. Federal Judge Richard
G. Stearns disagreed that Edelman's research interests outweigh
N2H2's right to protect its copyrighted property. The judge said, "The
court has no inkling of the exact dimension of the research that
Edelman proposes to undertake and doubts that Edelman does either."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 April 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003041001t.htm
FORMER OPPONENTS AGREE TO E-PUBLISHING DEAL
Two years ago Random House and RosettaBooks were involved in a legal
battle over the right to publish books electronically. RosettaBooks had
made deals with Random House authors, arguing that rights to digital
media were not covered by the original contracts with Random House.
Random House disagreed and sued RosettaBooks. Although the key point of
that suit--what happens when e-rights are not specified--was left
unresolved by a settlement the two companies reached, they have entered
into an agreement for RosettaBooks to publish 51 e-books of Random
House authors, including Margaret Atwood and John Updike. The list does
not include books from Random House's top-selling authors, such as
John Grisham or Anne Rice, but, according to Arthur Klebanoff, CEO of
RosettaBooks, "We're bringing some terrific books and terrific authors
into the electronic format." A spokesman for Random House called the
agreement with RosettaBooks "mutually advantageous," saying Random
House is focusing on audio and print books while RosettaBooks is
focusing on e-books.
Associated Press, 9 April 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/847467p-5948492c.html
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