[Of course, Project Gutenberg, perhaps the largest literacy project, was not contacted about this.]
The Literacy Project, a portal to connect literacy organizations around the world, was announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany. It was created in a collaboration among Google, the Frankfurt Book Fair literacy campaign, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.
Google's new online service lets teachers, organizations, and people interested in literacy use the Internet to search for and share relevant information through blogs, videos, and groups. Searchers can also locate literacy organizations using a zoomable world map.
[Of course this is only about risk to management, not to those who might have a medical risk, or who could be located by terrorists via their RFIDs]
A draft report from the National Institute for Standards and technology (NIST) covers some of the security and privacy risks of using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Agencies must decide how much information to include on the RFID tags and how to protect it. If the tag is tied to a back-end database, for example, an intruder could use an RFID reader as a back door to the database unless it has been properly secured with access controls, password protection, and cryptography. According to the report, "When practitioners adhere to sound security engineering principles, RFID technology can help a wide range of organizations and individuals realize substantial productivity gains and efficiencies." The report's guidance is intended to help current and future RFID users understand the risks and the best-known safeguards.
We are seeking as much information as possible on the various approaches to Machine Translation. Any brand names or contact information would be greatly appreciated.
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.
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.
which now indexes 24,000 books available free online, including all
PG(US) & PG(Aus)’s books, along with some basic date information
about them and their authors where you can find more.
Plus many books not available on line, a good place to search
for books by specific authors who you are interested in.
While nearly every media outlet is once again filled with press releases from Google and YouTube, you probably have not heard much about the fact that Google tried competing with YouTube and never really got their program running — hence the $1.65 billion takeover of YouTube.
It would appear that Google has been sucked into the Brave New World of "Infotainment."
"If you can't beat them, buy them!"
Wasn't that once the motto of MicroSoft???
Or was it the motto of CBS when they bought Katie Couric?
Do you think the new merger will be called:
Yougle ???
or
GooTube ???
Google's eBook projects seem to be working about as well, even with a large handful of billion dollar libraries to help them with something they don't know anything about.
Do you think I should sell Project Gutenberg to Google?
Last Thurs might have been the first day on the CME where there were more commodities traded via electronic trading than on the actual floor of the exchange. CME = Chicago Mercantile Exchange [Various single commodities had done this before, not sure if a grand total of all trade had been a majority electronic before]