Friday, December 26, 2003

Asia online. This article in Asia Times online is based on a new report on Asian online use by a New York-based market research firm called eMarketer.According to the report by the end of 2003, Internet use in China will have nearly doubled to 114 million people online. In two years time, 250 million Chinese are expected to be accessing the Internet.In India the cellular telephone industry is adding 120,000 subscribers a month.In South Korea, nearly 59 percent of the population is using the Internet.The article states that "among other topics, the report focuses on the numbers of people online across the region, the devices and technologies they use to get online, the demographic characteristics of the population and their most popular online activities." Asian Internet use takes off [Smart Mobs] 8:31:59 PM    comment []

FCC Alters Rules For School Fund, by Christopher Stern, Washington Post. 11:29:38 AM    comment []

Greatest hits: The top columns of 2003, by David Coursey, ZDNet Anchor Desk. Including: Red alert! It's the great printer refill rip-off Use Google? Here's how to hack it! What you can do to get rid of 'spyware' Why I wish Netscape had survived 10:29:29 AM    comment []

Technology to Fool Auditors: From Colored Pens to Computer Scanners. Let us pause to consider changes in the technology of fooling auditors with fraudulent documents. [New York Times: Technology] 9:37:48 AM    comment []

Half the Pupils in a New Jersey School Are Learning Knitting. At Seth Boyden Elementary School in Maplewood, N.J. more than 250 of the 535 pupils take part in a knitting program. By Maria Newman. [New York Times: Education] Great story. 9:32:22 AM    comment []

'Great human loss' feared in Iran quake. CNN via NewsIsFree: Popular Items. 9:30:42 AM    comment []

Doc draws our attention to a great resource in a post he calls Newsmark. Refdesk.com has links to every newspaper home page in the world. Very handy. A huge set of lists, though I'm already at least one missing paper: the Independent, in North Carolina. Still, a highly impressive list. 9:28:02 AM    comment []

New Year's Resolutions. Will the coverage of the presidential election reflect its seriousness? Toward that end, I hereby propose some rules for 2004 political reporting. By Paul Krugman. [New York Times: Opinion] 9:18:24 AM    comment []

Internet Law Program 2004 The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to offer the Internet Law Program at Harvard Law School on May 13-15, 2004. This dynamic, innovative three-day seminar will bring together the leading experts in the field with participants from all over the world to explore today's most pressing Internet issues and provoke new ways of thinking about the future of the Internet. The program kicks off with a distance learning component on April 14 to May 5. The outstanding team of educators includes Larry Lessig of Stanford, Yochai Benkler of Yale, and William Fisher, Charles Nesson and Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard. On the agenda: recent reforms in intellectual-property systems, privacy versus security on the Net, the changing shape and role of ICANN, "open" versus "proprietary" software systems, regulating pornography, jurisdictional problems, cybercrime, addressing the digital divide, and more. The program is intended for a broad audience, and no previous experience with Internet law is necessary. Past participants have included entrepreneurs, policymakers, educators, technology professionals, and journalists who write about technology. American lawyers in some states may be eligible for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. Register online beginning January 12 at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw . 8:29:00 AM    comment []

If I Had A Hammer: Why Logical Positivism Better Accounts for the Need for Gender and Cultural Studies, By Steven Gimbel. 4:27:32 AM    comment []

A contract law analysis of Sauron's offer to the Dwarves in The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. 2:27:13 AM    comment []