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Initially his main objective was to do games on these cell
phones mainly as a hobby. After a few weeks playing on his
new toy John landed on the Guterberg site. His jaw fell in
amazement when he saw the big catalogue of eBooks that can
be downloaded and read on a PC, and he immediately got The
White Knight, by George Alfred Henty, as his first choice.
After the few hours reading the eBook on his computer John
realized there must be a better way to read eBooks without
wasting huge amounts of printer ink and paper, or breaking
his back in front of a computer.
Within a few weeks John developed his earliest prototyping
efforts to the point of being able to read these eBooks on
his cheap cell phone. He also began experimenting on ways
to deliver these eBooks to the cheap cell phones in a very
simple way without having to be a computer hacker.
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Gutenberg eBooks to work on the cheap java enabled phones.
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Gutenberg eBooks from some 1,000 authors. These eBooks can
be delivered to your cheap cell phone by typing
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The WAP cost do download an ebook to your cell phone is an
unusually low price of just a few cents, as the eBooks are
compressed to further reduce the download costs.
Once downloaded there is no more cost you click on a phone
listing of your eBook and away you go.
John says it usually takes around 15 minutes for people to
to get used to the idea of reading from your cell phone.
Even though the screens seem small, it is amazing how much
text you can fit on them. You can change the font size and
background color and uses the phone numeric pad for simple
navigation through the ebooks. You can leave bookmarks for
future reference for yourself or for friends. You can also
search for text in the eBooks and all this on cheap phones
that are available all over the world. No need to buy very
expensive PDAs so you can read eBooks. A cheap java phone,
price varies greatly, will do the job. So when waiting for
nearly anything, travelling, attending boring conferences,
and even during the darkest pitch black nights, John reads
these eBooks at a level of great convenience.
John has contributed a number of these "cell phone eBooks"
to project Gutenberg and is planning to contribute more.
The main website is at http://www.mobilebooks.org
FREE INTERNET REFERENCE SITE
LivingInternet.com provides a 700-odd page reference about the Internet
"to provide living context and perspective to this most technological
of human inventions", and has received input from many people that helped
build the Internet. It currently receives about 3 thousand visitors a day,
many from educational institutions. Now in its 7th year of operation.
http://www.livinginternet.com/
TEXT TO SPEECH
Dolphin Producer is a new software package which will convert a text
document into a fully synchronized text and audio DTB at the push of a
single button. The DTB can then be played back using Dolphin's
EaseReader software player - which is included in Dolphin Producer.
The DTB can also be played back on any other DAISY DTB software or
hardware player, as well as any MP3 player - The choice is yours.
http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk or http://www.dolphinusa.com
*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
MTV ENTERS ONLINE MUSIC MARKET
In what some see as a conspicuously late entry into the online music
market, MTV is set to launch URGE, an online service both for music and
videos. URGE will reportedly have more than two million tracks
available when it debuts, and, similar to competing services from
companies such as Apple and RealNetworks, consumers will be able to buy
a subscription for unlimited downloads or pay for individuals tracks.
Analysts noted that MTV's brand recognition should boost the appeal of
the URGE service. URGE will be the featured music source for
Microsoft's media player, and URGE songs are compatible with a wide
range of portable devices. The exception, however, is the hugely
popular iPod, of which Apple has sold more than 50 million since 2001.
Steve Gordon, entertainment attorney, said, "Whether the consumer
really wants a service that's only compatible with non-iPod players is
going to be the big issue." Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks
Music Group, pointed out that the online music industry remains new and
said that URGE is not "about selling a million singles."
San Jose Mercury News, 15 May 2006
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14581158.htm
STATE SCHOOLS SEE BENEFITS OF ONLINE EDUCATION
Online higher education programs are booming, and many state colleges
and universities are seeing significant benefits from the online
programs they offer. At the University of Massachusetts, for example,
enrollment in online programs has quadrupled since 2001, and enrollment
in Pennsylvania State University's online program rose 18 percent last
year. A greater number of public schools offer online programs than do
private, nonprofit colleges, which have had mixed success online. An
online initiative of Oxford University, Stanford University, and Yale
University recently closed its doors, and a number of other elite
schools have stayed away from online education, fearing it would
tarnish their reputations. Although many state schools charge more per
credit for online courses than on-campus learning, the costs are often
still lower than, for example, tuition at the University of Phoenix,
the leading for-profit online institution. Applicants to most online
programs are held to similar, if not identical, standards as on-campus
students, and most agree that the quality of online education in many
cases approaches that of on-campus learning.
Wall Street Journal, 9 May 2006
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114713782174047386.html
CHINESE STUDENTS POLICE INTERNET
In China, a government initiative known as "Let the Winds of a
Civilized Internet Blow" aims to ensure that online content conforms
to government expectations. Students at some Chinese universities are a
key part of the effort. At Shanghai Normal University, 500 students
serve as Internet monitors, participating in online discussions and
trying to steer conversations away from topics considered
objectionable. Unknown to most of the other students on campus, the
monitors also report some content to campus officials, who delete it.
One student monitor said, "Our job consists of guidance, not control."
Critics argue that the practice amounts to nothing more than the
censorship common to other areas of Chinese life. Chinese officials
acknowledged that more than two million images and 600 online forums
have been deleted for being "unhealthy." Some students dismissed the
efforts, saying that with the Internet, you can always go elsewhere
to share your opinions. "It's easy to bypass the firewalls," said one
student, "and anybody who spends a little time researching it can
figure it out." New York Times, 9 May 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/world/asia/09internet.html
BITTORRENT AND WARNER BROS. PARTNER ON DELIVERY
A new deal between BitTorrent and Warner Bros. represents a convergence
of content providers and online distribution tools. Under terms of
the deal, Warner Bros. will sell movies and TV programs to BitTorrent,
which will sell them to consumers for download. Until last November,
BitTorrent was seen by many as part of the peer-to-peer wave that
entertainment companies blame for rampant piracy, which movie studios
value at $6.1 billion. At that time, BitTorrent said it would cooperate
with the Motion Picture Association of America in trying to limit the
trade of protected content. Now, according to Ashwin Navin, cofounder
of BitTorrent, "We have just been embraced by the largest movie
studio." The deal also represents another step by a major studio toward
online distribution of its content, a step most studios have been
hesitant to take. Pricing for the content on BitTorrent has not been
announced, and Navin said he is in talks with other providers to
offer more content.
Wired News, 9 May 2006
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70852-0.html
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.
Remember, the subject is not the article's subject,
the subject is the manipulation of the world news.]
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Everything the NSA does is within the law.
*QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Senator David Vitter of Louisana reported that of all the millions
of dollars spent on roof repairs from hurricane damages, that only
2% of this money was actually paid to the people doing the repairs
and the other 98% went to the 8 layers of contractors through sub-
contract after subcontract, with each layer taking an average of a
1/3 of the money they received for themselves before passing on an
emaciated remaing 2/3 on to the next sub-contractor in the line to
leave only 2% for the final contractor actually doing the work.
Charlie Rose, PBS, May 16, 2006
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
People will react negatively when their old television won't work.
*STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
15 million videos have already been downloaded from iTunes in
addition to the over 1 billion music tracks.
iPod sales were up 61% over 1st quarter of 2005.
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By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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The Small House at Allington, by Anthony Trollope 4599
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[Files: 4599.txt; 4599-8.txt; 4599-h.htm]
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay, by Watkin Tench 3535
[Updated edition of: etext02/tetbb10.txt]
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[Files: 3535.txt; 3535-h.htm]
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, by Watkin Tench 3534
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The San Francisco Calamity, by Various 1560
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[Updated edition of: etext98/sfclm10.txt]
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 1484
[Translator: Charlotte Brewster Jordan]
[Updated edition of: etext98/4hrsm10.txt]
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The Ruins, by C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney 1397
[Updated edition of: etext98/ruins10.txt]
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Russia, by Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1349
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Autobiography and Selected Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley 1315
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[Files: 1315.txt; 1315-h.htm]
Selected Stories, by Bret Harte 1312
[Contents]
[Introduction]
[The Luck Of Roaring Camp]
[The Outcasts Of Poker Flat]
[Miggles]
[Tennessee's Partner]
[The Idyl Of Red Gulch]
[Brown Of Calaveras]
[High-Water Mark]
[A Lonely Ride]
[The Man Of No Account]
[Mliss]
[The Right Eye Of The Commander]
[Notes By Flood And Field]
[An Episode Of Fiddletown]
[Barker's Luck]
[A Yellow Dog]
[A Mother Of Five]
[Bulger's Reputation]
[In The Tules]
[A Convert Of The Mission]
[The Indiscretion Of Elsbeth]
[The Devotion Of Enriquez]
[Updated edition of: etext98/harte10.txt]
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The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, by Frank L. Packard 1218
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[Files: 1218.txt; 1218-h.htm]
The Iron Heel, by Jack London 1164
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Nana and Other Stories, by Emile Zola 1069
[Title: Nana, The Miller's Daughter; Captain Burle; Death of
Olivier Becaille]
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God The Invisible King, by Herbert George Wells 1046
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 102
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My War Experiences in Two Continents, by Sarah Macnaughtan 18364
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[Files: 18364.txt; 18364-8.txt; 18364-h.htm; ]
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases, by Greenville Kleiser 18362
[Subtitle: A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking
Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms,
For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of
The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/6/18362 ]
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Operation: Outer Space, by William Fitzgerald Jenkins 18361
[Author AKA: Murray Leinster]
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The Farmer's Boy, by Randolph Caldecott 18360
[Subtitle: One of R. Caldecott's picture books]
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[Files: 18360.txt; 18360-h.htm]
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, by John Muir 18359
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Madame Chrysantheme, by Pierre Loti 18358
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A Jacobite Exile, by G. A. Henty 18357
[Subtitle: Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service
of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/5/18357 ]
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Orange and Green, by G. A. Henty 18356
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick]
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Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul, Scofield 18355
[Author: Anna Bishop Scofield (AKA: Ammyeetis)]
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Sevillan parturi eli Turha varovaisuus, by Pierre de Beaumarchais 18354
[Subtitle: Komedia neljassa naytoksessa]
[Translator: K. Cronstedt]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/3/5/18354 ]
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La petite roque, by Guy de Maupassant 18353
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
[Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format]
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Feb 1998 South Sea Tales, by Jack London [London #41-48][sosetxxx.xxx] 1208
Contents:
The Seed of McCoy, by Jack London [London #48]
The Inevitable White Man, by Jack London [JL #47]
The Terrible Solomons, by Jack London [London #46]
The Heathen, by Jack London [Jack London #45]
"Yah! Yah! Yah!", by Jack London [Jack London #44]
Mauki, by Jack London [Jack London #43]
The Whale Tooth, by Jack London [Jack London #42]
The House of Mapuhi, by Jack London [London #41]
Feb 1998 Nada the Lily, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #2] [ndllyxxx.xxx] 1207
Feb 1998 The Flying U Ranch, by B. M. Bower [Bower #5] [flurnxxx.xxx] 1206
The Colour of Life, by Alice Meynell 1205
[Subtitle: And Other Essays on Things Seen and Heard]
Feb 1998 Cabin Fever, by B. M. Bower [B. M. Bower #4] [cabfvxxx.xxx] 1204
Feb 1998 Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope [Anthony Hope #4] [dlydlxxx.xxx] 1203
Tales of Unrest, by Joseph Conrad 1202
Contents:
Karain: A Memory
The Idiots
An Outpost Of Progress
The Return
The Lagoon
Feb 1998 Essay on the Trial By Jury, by Lysander Spooner[1][tbjryxxx.xxx] 1201
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete, by Francois Rabelais 1200
[From: Five Books Of The Lives, Heroic Deeds And Sayings Of Gargantua
And His Son Pantagruel]
[Illustrated by Gustave Dore]
[Tr.: Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux]
Feb 1998 An Anthology of Australian Verse, Bertram Stevens [ozvrsxxx.xxx] 1199
Feb 1998 Robbery Under Arms, by Rolf Boldrewood[T.A.Browne][robryxxx.xxx] 1198
Feb 1998 Taras Bulba, et. al, by Nikolai Gogol [Gogol #2-7][tarasxxx.xxx] 1197
[Author: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol][Variant spelling: Nicolay Gogol]
Contents:
Tara Bulba [#2]
St John's Eve [#3]
The Cloak [#4]
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled [#5]
The Mysterious Portrait [#6]
The Calash [#7]
The Purse, by Honore de Balzac 1196
[Translated by Clara Bell] [Followed by the rest of this edition of Shakespeare]
Glasses, by Henry James 1195
Feb 1998 Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, by de Rougemont [advlrxxx.xxx] 1194
Feb 1998 The Coxon Fund, by Henry James [Henry James #18][coxonxxx.xxx] 1193
Feb 1998 The Old Bachelor, by William Congreve [Congreve#2][oldbaxxx.xxx] 1192
Feb 1998 The Double-Dealer, by William Congreve[Congreve#1][dbdlrxxx.xxx] 1191
The Jolly Corner, by Henry James 1190
The Message, by Honore de Balzac 1189
[Translator: Ellen Marriage]
The Lair of the White Worm, by Bram Stoker 1188
Feb 1998 War of the Classes, by Jack London[Jack London#40][wrclsxxx.xxx] 1187
Poems, by Alice Meynell 1186
Feb 1998 Conflict Between Religion and Science, by Draper [hcbrsxxx.xxx] 1185
[Title: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science]
[Author: John William Draper]
Jan 1998 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas[Pere][crstoxxx.xxx] 1184
Jan 1998 The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer[Rohmer4][rfumnxxx.xxx] 1183
Jan 1998 Dope, by Sax Rohmer [Sax Rohmer #3] [dopexxxx.xxx] 1182
Jan 1998 The Symposium by Xenophon, trans. by Dakyns [#13][sympmxxx.xxx] 1181
Jan 1998 The Sportsman, by Xenophon trans. by Dakyns [#12][sportxxx.xxx] 1180
Jan 1998 On Revenues by Xenophon, translated by Dakyns[#11][rvnuexxx.xxx] 1179
Jan 1998 Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians, Xenophon[#10][pltisxxx.xxx] 1178
Jan 1998 The Memorabilia by Xenophon, trans. by Dakyns [#9][mmrbixxx.xxx] 1177
Jan 1998 On Horsemanship by Xenophon, trans. by Dakyns [#8][hrsmnxxx.xxx] 1176
Jan 1998 Hiero, by Xenophon, translation by H.G. Dakyns[#7][hieroxxx.xxx] 1175
Jan 1998 Hellenica, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#6][hllncxxx.xxx] 1174
Jan 1998 The Economist, by Xenophon, Dakyns translation[#5][econmxxx.xxx] 1173
Jan 1998 The Cavalry General by Xenophon, trans. Dakyns[#4][cvlryxxx.xxx] 1172
Jan 1998 The Apology by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns[#3][aplgyxxx.xxx] 1171
Jan 1998 Anabasis, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#2][anbssxxx.xxx] 1170
Jan 1998 Agesilaus, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#1][agslsxxx.xxx] 1169
Jan 1998 The Pool in the Desert, Sara Jeannette Duncan [pldstxxx.xxx] 1168
[Author AKA: Mrs. Everard Cotes]
Jan 1998 A Strange Disappearance, by Anna Katharine Green [sdsprxxx.xxx] 1167
Jan 1998 The Second Book of Modern Verse, Ed. Rittenhouse [sbkmvxxx.xxx] 1166
Jan 1998 The Little Book of Modern Verse, Ed. Rittenhouse [lbkmvxxx.xxx] 1165
Jan 1998 The Iron Heel, by Jack London [Jack London #39] [irnhlxxx.xxx] 1164
Adventure, by Jack London 1163
The Jacket (The Star-Rover), by Jack London 1162
Jerry of the Islands, by Jack London 1161
The Game, by Jack London 1160
Jan 1998 Fire-Tongue, by Sax Rohmer [Sax Rohmer #2] [firtgxxx.xxx] 1159
Jan 1998 Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington [Tarkington #6][pnrdsxxx.xxx] 1158
Jan 1998 Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair from "Les Avaries"[dmgdsxxx.xxx] 1157
Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis 1156
Jan 1998 Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie [Christie #2][secadxxx.xxx] 1155
Jan 1998 Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting [Lofting2][vdrdlxxx.xxx] 1154
Jan 1998 The Chessman of Mars, Edgar R. Burroughs [Mars #5][cmarsxxx.xxx] 1153
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districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
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JOURNAL PUBLISHERS CRINGE AT ACCESS BILL
A bill introduced by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John Cornyn
(R-Tex.) has prompted an outcry by publishers of scholarly journals,
who argue that their publications would suffer under the bill. The
Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 would require scholars who
publish articles based on federally funded research to place those
articles on free Web sites within six months of being published in an
academic journal. The sponsors of the bill said it would ensure broad
access to research funded with taxpayer money. A spokesperson for
Lieberman said the bill would "foster information sharing, prevent
duplication of research efforts, and generate new lines of scientific
inquiry." Some scholarly publishers expressed concerns, however, that
the business model of academic journals--both in terms of subscriptions
and of ad revenues--would falter if so much of the content were free
online. The National Institutes of Health last year began encouraging
researchers working on NIH grants to submit their articles to a public
database, but so far fewer than 4 percent have done so.
New York Times, 8 May 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/08/business/media/08journal.html
PARENTS, CITY COUNCIL CALL FOR END TO CELL-PHONE BAN
Framing it as a "safety issue," City Councilwoman Letitia James has
called on administrators in New York City to lift a ban on cell phones
in public schools. Opponents of the ban, including most students,
many parents, and a small number of city officials, pointed to incidents
such as the September 11, 2001, attacks, saying that cell phones can be
an invaluable lifeline in times of crisis. They said rules requiring
students to turn cell phones off in school are acceptable but that the
technology should be available in an emergency. Administrators
reiterated their belief that phones in school represent nothing so much
as a source of distractions and of mischief, including cheating and
taking photos in restrooms or locker rooms. Joel Klein, chancellor of
schools, said that alternate solutions to the problems of cell phones
are either too expensive or impractical. Mayor Michael Bloomberg also
expressed his support for the continuation of the ban.
Wired News, 6 May 2006
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,70834-0.html
OCLC AND RLG ANNOUNCE MERGER
The OCLC Online Computer Library Center and the Research Libraries
Group (RLG) have announced plans to merge. If approved, the merger
would combine the two largest resource catalogs for libraries--RLG's
Union Catalog and OCLC's WorldCat. Clifford Lynch, executive director
of the Coalition for Networked Information, welcomed the merger, saying
it will put OCLC's resources "much more in the direct service of
research libraries." Pamela Snelson, president-elect of the Association
of College and Research Libraries and the librarian at Franklin and
Marshall College, agreed that the merger would be good for users.
"One larger database will help the average person be able to find
information in a more effective and timely manner," she said.
The plan must still be approved by two-thirds of RLG's 150 members.
Under the terms of the merger, RLG would become a division of OCLC.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 May 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/05/2006050402t.htm
PHILADELPHIA WI-FI NEARS APPROVAL
[But they had to sell out all the rest of Pennsylvania to get it!]
Philadelphia's long-debated citywide wireless network is on the verge
of having final approval, after which implementation of the network is
expected to begin within a few weeks. The network has raised a range of
objections since it was initially proposed, and supporters of the
effort have had to make a number of changes and concessions. A city
council committee, which was the last step before a vote by the full
city council, demanded that language be added to ensure EarthLink will
use contractors who work with minorities, women, and people with
disabilities. In addition, Wireless Philadelphia, the nonprofit that
will oversee the network, will have a larger board than originally
planned, with broader representation from the city council and from
various municipal offices. The full city council is expected to approve
the deal, at which time EarthLink will begin installing wireless
transmitters on 4,000 utility poles owned by the city. The network,
which will charge a lower rate to poor users, is expected to be
finished in 18 months.
CNET, 3 May 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-6068350.html
BUSINESS GROUPS URGE CAUTION IN WTO TALKS WITH RUSSIA
U.S. businesses urged the Office of the United States Trade
Representative to demand more efforts from Russia in addressing
intellectual property crimes before granting approval for the country
to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). Russia, with one of the
largest global economies not represented in the WTO, is in bilateral
talks with the United States over admission to the group. Industry
organizations point to Russia as one of the worst offenders for piracy
of copyrighted music, movies, and software and called on U.S. officials
to take a tough stance. Eric Schwartz, vice president of the
International Intellectual Property Alliance, said, "Enforcement at
present is very, very weak." Businesses calling for renewed pressure on
Russia pointed to proposed legislation in the country that would
actually weaken protections for copyright owners. Christin Baker, a
spokeswoman for the U.S. Trade Representative's office, said, "We made
it very clear to Russia that improvements...are necessary for them to
enter the WTO."
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*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
See Statistics section below.
*QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The most important decision we make is whether we
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Albert Einstein
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
The political fallout is just beginning.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
New Orleans' local garbage removers want $15/cubic yard to get
the wreckage from Katrina off the streets, while Florida sites
want over $30/cubic yard.
Guess who got the 1/2 billion dollar contract, $100 million of
it as pure profit?
Let's see, is there any connection between Florida politicians
and those who somehow managed to avoid knowing about Katrina's
imminent landfall?
[I'm sure the Democrats will make just as many snafu's when in
office. . .if they ever get back in office. . .hee hee!
Google search says it is even worse:
News: "new orleans" "cubic yard" yields:
"'Profit motive,' Halliburton, government gaffes taint Katrina ..."
Frost Illustrated, IN - 17 hours ago
"Nagin said even debris cleanup is big business, with contracts being
let for $43 per cubic yard and contracted several levels below, with
the actual workers earning only $7 per cubic yard.
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By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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