Wednesday, April 02, 2003

Immanuel Kant had a problem. How can you fail to fall in love with that lede? Spend some time with the Atlantic Magazine Roundtable on Copyright from the fall of 1998. Featuring Charles C. Mann, John Perry Barlow, Lawrence Lessig, and Mark Stefik. 1:38:26 PM    comment []

Distance Learning: Promise or Threat? Andrew Feenberg's Adventures in Distance Learning. (late 1990's) 12:38:18 PM    comment []

Perspectives on Privacy in Campus IT, by Thomas Warger, in ACM Ubiquity. 3:36:29 AM    comment []

>From CDT in 1997 -- Internet Family Empowerment White Paper: How Filtering Tools Enable Responsible Parents to Protect Their Children Online 3:36:26 AM    comment []

Daylight Time (two years ago on t'other blog): In Cyberuniversities, a Place for South Korea's Women infoDev is a global grant program managed by the World Bank to promote innovative projects on the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for economic and social development, with a special emphasis on the needs of the poor in developing countries. The World Computer Exchange, a nonprofit group based in Hull, Mass.,is collecting Used PCs for schools in developing countries, including Africa, Asia and Latin America While the debate in the music industry has focused on how recording companies should deal with the public online, the controversy has also reheated long- simmering tensions between musicians and executives. A handful of recording artists will be in Washington on Tuesday for Senate hearings on intellectual property rights in the online era Twelve teachers became part of a national pilot program to integrate art into a regular classroom using a digital database as one resource. . . . . The true success of this project lies in our collaboration, a library media specialist and third grade teacher working together to make sure we "leave no child behind." 3:36:22 AM    comment []

South Africa: Youth IT Programme Creates Jobs, by Lesley Stones, Business Day (Johannesburg). 2:36:12 AM    comment []